6. Title: Make a title for the beginning of the movie, and add credits for the end.
7. Finish: When all is said and done, the software will have to render the new video, to add and complete all changes. This can take up to an hour depending on how fast the computer is.
When it's done, most people have their friends take a look, then make changes based on viewer reaction. Did the person laugh when you put in a funny clip? Cry at a sad scene? If not, then the script or order of clips might need some work.
The hardware needed to make a movie includes a video camera, preferably digital, and a personal computer with at least an Intel Pentium III running at 700MHz, and around 512 Megabits of RAM memory. (For users of any recent-model Macintosh, iMovie video-editing software comes pre-installed and idiot-froof.) Weber believes the more power the better when it comes to video editing, that's why he bought an Intel Pentium 4, that runs at 1.8 GHz, and added 1 Gig of RAM memory as well.
To burn the final movie onto a CD, people will also need a CD burner or DVD burner, and right now, the less expensive is still CD, for both the recorder/player as well as the actual discs.
Ideas for movies and videos are limitless as well. Ulead provides some ideas on its Web site, www.ulead.com, as well as contests for amateur movie producers. The company has already made a baby video project as a guide to video tapinging newborns, and wedding video projects, vacation projects and school project guides are all in the works.
Ulead even has teachers in for video-editing training from time to time and showed one class project titled, The Amazing Adventures of Banana Man, made by kids who wrote the script, directed the filming and acting, edited and then finished the video. Afterwards, the teacher burned CDs for everyone to take home to their parents.
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