Custom Letterbox Effects for Vista Movie Maker

There 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)

Custom Bubble Warp Effect for Vista Movie Maker

I was playing around with Vista Movie Maker and came up with this custom "Bubble Warp" effect. It's rather subtle and looks best when applied to pictures with short durations. If you apply it to video or to longer duration photos, you may not even notice the effect.

Note: This effect takes advantage of the new effects architecture of Vista Movie Maker and therefore will not work in XP. It is a Vista-only effect.

Click on the icon above which will download the custom bubble warp effect. Run the installer and it will install the custom code you'll need for Vista Movie Maker.

After installing, you'll have a new effect called "Blaine's Bubble Warp". Enjoy!