It was recently brought to my attention that the "Wow!" title animation in Windows Movie Maker will randomly choose the angle of the words. After a bit of snooping, I discovered there is a parameter to control this angle. As a result I decided to create this pack of Wow! Title variations so you can decide the angle (even upside down!)Note: These titles will work in WMM 2.1 (XP) and WMM 6.0 (Vista/Win7). I've provided XML for both versions in the installers.
Here's a sample video to help you visualize the titles.
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 Wow Titles (32-bit)There are 4 different variations, but feel free to examine to XML to make your own variants. To use one of the new titles:
Blaine's Wow Titles (64-bit)
Go to 'Tools' > 'Titles and Credits' > 'Title on the selected clip'.
Type your text in the first box.
Click on 'change the title animation'.
Under your list of one line titles, pick the desired variant:
As with other titles, you can change the font, background color and other styling attributes. Finally, click 'Done'.
Adjust the title duration by shrinking/stretching the rectangle on the Title Overlay track.
Wow! ;P
ReplyDeleteThanks for doing this. I'll have to play with these.
Great job !
ReplyDeleteDo you know if there is a way to control the perspective angle in Scroll Perspective title effect, to make it closer to a "Star Wars" opening crawl ?
Unfortunately the angle is not configurable. It is hard-coded by Microsoft into the title animation. In WMM 2.x (XP) it was steeper, more like Star Wars but in WMM 6.0 (Vista) they made it much less severe; I wish they hadn't changed it.
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