Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Custom Letterbox Effects for Vista Movie Maker

Download Blaine's Letterbox EffectsThere have been lots of requests on the forums for a letterbox/widescreen effect which adds black bars to the top and bottom of your video. Well, I went one step farther and added a couple more effects that let you have the bars appear and disappear. Here's a sample video of the moving letterbox effect.

Note: These effects take advantage of the new effects architecture of Vista Movie Maker and therefore will not work in XP. It is a Vista-only effect. There are other solutions for XP such as a letterbox title.

Click on the icon above which will download the custom letterbox effects. Run the installer and it will install the custom code you'll need for Vista Movie Maker.
After installing, you'll have new effects called:
  • Letterbox

  • Letterbox (In)

  • Letterbox (Out)
  • 12 comments:

    Cgullzcry said...

    You are awesome! Thank you so much for all your hard work on making custom effects and making them available to the public.

    Derek said...

    BLAINE! You are incredible!

    Now I can finally finish this project I was working on. Thank you so much!

    -Derek

    Justin said...

    I agree with the other comments. Thanks for working so hard.

    Viv said...

    AHHH thank you thank you THANK YOU! I cannot even begin to imagine all the hard work you put into your effects. Your site is seriously my WMM dream come true!

    Mateo Becerra-Boudreault said...

    hi blaine
    thanks for the effects. i downloaded and eveerything its ok but when i mix with a transition like FADE, the image shake. sorry for my english but it,s my third language. i hope you can understand my problem and thanks again. don,t give up. your job is really cool!

    Mateo Becerra-Boudreault said...

    sorry, the effect is the letterbox
    thanks

    Blaine said...

    Sometimes the computer can't keep up with the effect in order to preview it in realtime. However, when you publish it as a movie it should be clear.

    Palsa said...

    Thank you very much, this has helped me a lot! ^_^
    I was just wondering, is there anyway to have the letterbox show the upper or lower half of the picture?
    If you don't understand the question, here's a picture of what I'm talking about: http://www.thebenevolent.net/imghost/files/rf5cze7qd6m2nl5zbq0z.png

    Palsa said...

    Thank you very much, this has helped me a lot! ^_^
    I was just wondering, is there anyway to have the letterbox show the upper or lower half of the picture?
    If you don't understand the question, here's a picture of what I'm talking about: http://www.thebenevolent.net/imghost/files/rf5cze7qd6m2nl5zbq0z.png

    Jelly said...

    Thank you so much for this effect!
    It's helping me greatly ^.^

    I just have one small request...is there any way to adjust the letterbox height?

    Is it possible if you can provide a small adjusted download?
    Example of height:
    http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/3848/widescreenedmw1.jpg

    Thanks so much!

    soids3939 said...

    omg man ty ty so much its so awsome cause i realy realy needed this i just wanted to know if theres one that could make the letter boxes more in cause i need to cover somethings or any possible way to make it a little more in but thx man if there isnt i just gata live with it THX ANYWAYS

    Blaine said...

    You are in luck:

    Read the following forum post on changing the letterbox height.