Sunday, February 18, 2007

Custom Speed Effects for Movie Maker (XP & Vista)

Preview Speed EffectsMovie Maker comes with a couple standard effects to speed up or slow down your video. If you find that you need more control over the speed, you can download these custom Speed Effects with different incremental speeds.

Note: These effects have been designed to work with either WMM 2.1 (XP) or WMM 6.0 (Vista) version of Movie Maker.

There are two installers depending on whether you are running on a 32-bit or 64-bit version of Windows. The installer will put the necessary files into, C:\Program Files\Movie Maker\Shared.
Blaine's Custom Speed Effects (32-bit)
Blaine's Custom Speed Effects (64-bit)
After installing, you'll have new custom speed effects for
  • Slow Down in increments of 25%, 50%, 66%, x3, x4, x6, x8

  • Speed Up in increments of 25%, 50%, 66%, x3, x4, x6, x8
  • Thursday, February 15, 2007

    Custom TV Ratings Titles updated for WMM 6.0

    Preview TV RatingsAre you using Windows Movie Maker to edit your home videos? Have you ever wanted to add the TV Ratings to the top of your home videos? I created a set of custom titles that can be used in Windows Movie Maker to overlay the various TV Ratings (Y, Y7, G, PG, 14, MA) to the top left corner of your video.

    Note: These titles have been designed to work with either WMM 2.1 (XP) or WMM 6.0 version.

    There are two installers depending on whether you are running on a 32-bit or 64-bit version of Windows. The installer will put the necessary files into C:\Program Files\Movie Maker\Shared.
    Blaine's TV Ratings Titles (32-bit)
    Blaine's TV Ratings Titles (64-bit)
    To use the new titles, go to 'Tools' > 'Titles and Credits' > 'Title on the selected clip' > 'change the title animation'. Under your list of one line titles should be 6 new ones called:
  • TV Rating (Y)

  • TV Rating (Y7)

  • TV Rating (G)

  • TV Rating (PG)

  • TV Rating (14)

  • TV Rating (MA)


  • If you want an additional subtitle, type it into the text fields, otherwise just type a single space. Click 'Done'.