The kids want to make a movie

My kids want to make a short mystery movie and I would like to get some "mystery sounds" like they have in the movies of the 40's and 50's. Where can I get sounds? If I have an old movie (DVD) can I capture sounds from it and bring it into FCE?

You can certainly capture sounds from a commercial DVD,
but that would be a violation of copyright laws.
Here's another method that is not only legal; it's super easy!
Go to this site:
http://www.freesound.org/
and enter "Halloween" in the search field.

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The film looks choppy, no flow, since it alternates horizontally and vertically.
I can import the vertical clips two ways: "Full-Original Size", or "Large 960x540." But the vertical clips have very short, fat people.
This didn't happen with my Flip HD; the movies are smooth and terrific. My heart is breaking.....please, how can I make the videos match?

Yes, I'd like to use all the video I shot, put it together with music, titles, etc. and make it consistant. when it goes from full screen to this vertical, narrow clip, it's very awkward.....and it's so narrow, it's hard to see what I'm looking at; my eyes don't make the adjustment quickly.

I own a MacBook Pro. Can someone advise me the easiest way to make a movie with existing photos on my laptop?

I own a MacBook Pro. Can someone advise me the easiest way to make a movie with existing photos on my laptop? I have made some movies on this laptop but find it too cumbersome. Thanks.

Hi sato gato,
The page linked below serves as a good starting point for creating slideshows in iPhoto.
iPhoto Help - Make a slideshow
http://help.apple.com/iphoto/mac/9.6/#/pht5470fe9b
Regards,
Allen

Loaded photo into iPhoto and wanted to make a movie

I have 40 images, one song and wanted to make a quicktime movie and post for friends
Made the movie, 128 mb looks nice. (480x640) now I want to share it with friends. I tried to load it to my .mac public it get to the end uploading and locks up the computer. notthing is running, cant delete it it says its in use.. I did the same thing with Small size 240x180 its still 35mb
How can I make a movie with a song and share it
I cant run iDvd or iMovie I'm still on G4 with 1.2 ghz
myspace has a limit of 100mb and NO option for .mov (quicktime movie)
help please

There are a couple of things you can do. One is to resize it during export from iPhoto to 320 x 240, a common size used for posting. Another is to use a video editor like VisualHub to reduce the size down to something more manageable. Possibly reducing the frame rate to 15 from 29 if it's at 29. Quicktime Pro can also resize movie files.
If you visit the iMovie or Quicktime forum you should find some more knowledgeable users in this area.
Do you Twango?
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've created an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. It's compatible with iPhoto 08 libraries and Leopard. iPhoto does not have to be closed to run the application, just idle. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.

In FCPX can I stack clips of multiple angles on top of each other and choose what parts I want to make my movie out of?

Hi there
I'm debating whether to purchase FInal Cut Pro X or not and I'm new(ish) to video editing.
What I have done so far is produce a music video mimed to audio and shot at about 20 different angles. Each angle is the length of the ENTIRE song, not just snipets.
What I want to be able to do is have those 20 videos sitting stacked up on top of each other (completely synced to the audio) and be able to choose what parts of what video I make my final video out of.
So I want to be able to tell the system to start at angle 1, then at a specific time move to angle 6, then angle 19, then back to angle 1, then angle 16 etc etc etc.
But I dont want to cut up the parts of each camera angle first, I want to be able to select a specific part to play from each ENTIRE camera angle.
Is this possible please? And also what is the correct terminology for this process?
I apologise for not using the correct terminology here, as I dont know the correct words for what I am trying to explain.
Thanks

FCPX mulitcam editing is the most advanced of any NLE on the market at the moment.
Read the user manual here to learn how Multiclips work.
http://help.apple.com/finalcutpro/mac/10.0.6/#ver23c76439
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http://help.apple.com/finalcutpro/mac/10.0.6/#verc1fab5f6
Here is my article on audio channels in Multiclips.
http://www.macprovideo.com/hub/final-cut/final-cut-pro-multiclip-audio-channel-e diting-1006

Error -049 again while trying to publish / end the project... make a .mov file

Facts:
Lion, Internal 1TB Hard disk, over 600 gigs free, all data on the HD internal.
45min video, about 20gb of data, music included from itunes and i photo.
When clicking on ending project it takes 15 hours and the error 49 occurs. Can not publish the video ?!?
I just want my video saved in one file in hd (as it was shoot) for burning on dvd and watching on my tv.
What is this error... I am not the only one.. Can they fix it please...?

If you are going to burn a DVD, which plays back at a size smaller than HD, you probably want to output to the Large size. Try this:
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I want to make my movie previews in Finder like they are in iTunes??

Ok so this is short and simple. When you have a movie in iTunes, the preview of the movie (usually the dvd cover) is displayed very nicely. In finder, it just shows a pic of whatever is at the beginning of the movie. I tried to change the previews of my movies in finder by clicking "get info" on a selected movie and dragging a movie poster into the "preview" section, but that does not change anything. Is there any way to do what i'm talking about?

If I'm understanding you correctly, You want the icon of the movie to change to whatever you'd like it?
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I need a slideshow to display my comic pages. I tried the one that comes with muse, but what if the user wants to make the comic page bigger? How could that be done please?

also I like the look of the lightbox but don't want the thumbnails. why, in this mode, is the thumbnail box uncheckable to make it go off?

1. Use menu "File/AddFiles for Upload" to upload an image of whatever size.
2. Place a smaller version of this Image or an icon of your choice on your page.
3. Use the hyperlink command in the upper command strip to link the small image to the uploaded file ("Link to file …")
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I want to make a movie from two images

I have two images (.jpg) that I wnat to put together so they flop back and forth (one then the other) creating a movie lasting about 10 seconds.
How might I go about this using iMovie. I've tried about everthing I can think of. But I'm very new using iMove.
Thanks in advance for any help offered.

You can't "improve" the audio quality of an .mp3 file by converting it to AIFF. At ten MB's a minute they would have a 300 MB file but still the quality of the source.
I would use QuickTime Player Pro to make the "movie" of the .mp3 audio track. Here's how:
Create an all black image file (one bit .jpeg format) in any image editor. Use very small dimensions (just a few pixels to keep the file size down).
Open QuickTime Player Pro and then this new .jpeg file. Command-a (Select All) and Command-c (Copy).
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Adjust the video track dimensions from the very small size of the source to whatever works best to fit the intended display. 640X480 would probably be best.
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What is the simplest way to make a movie from BufferedImages?

I have a 3d rendered animation from which I can grab BufferedImages of each frame. What is the simplest way I can create a movie from these images?
I've seen the JpegImagesToMovie.java file and not only is it suprisingly overcomplicated, it requires me to change the code so that I can get images from memory rather than from files.
Is there some simple way of creating a movie which requires a few statements? I'm also prepared to use QuickTime for Java. I don't care about the format, since I can just use any video converter to convert it to my desired video format.

I recently came up with a simplified JpegImagesToMovie program. It generates QuickTime movies with a single video track output as a file. Input is a series of jpegs (currently as a list of file names, but easily modified to a take any form of jpeg data.) Since the compression used by the movie is JPEG, if you have an uncompressed image buffer, you'll need to convert that into jpeg data bytes with some quality setting. (Since its a movie file, go with something low if you have a lot of similar images.) This will even run without a full install of jmf--no native code is called (as far as I could tell..)
Here is the source code, sorry about the formatting!
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.RandomAccessFile;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.Vector;
import javax.media.Buffer;
import javax.media.Format;
import javax.media.MediaLocator;
import javax.media.format.VideoFormat;
import javax.media.protocol.ContentDescriptor;
import javax.media.protocol.FileTypeDescriptor;
import com.sun.media.multiplexer.video.QuicktimeMux;
* This program takes a list of JPEG image files and converts them into a
* QuickTime movie.
* This was based on Sun's JMF Sample Code JpegImagesToMovie.java 1.3 01/03/13
* This code is an attempt to reduce the complexity to demonstrate a very basic
* JPEG file list to movie generator. It does not use a Manager or Processor
* class, so it doesn't need to implement any event listening classes. One
* advantage of this simplified class is that you can just link it with the
* jvm.jar file. (you might also need to track down the com.ms.security library
* stubs, use google. You'll need PermissionID.java and PolicyEngine.java.)
* I tried to get it to generate AVI files without success.
* These output files are could use further compression.
* A Vector of jpeg image paths was one way to do this--the appropriate
* methods can be overwritten to grab images from another source
* --zip file, http, etc.
* - Brad Lowe; Custom7; NuSpectra; 2/10/2005
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public class SimpleMovie
Vector images; // jpeg image file path list
VideoFormat format; // format of movie to be created..
// Sample code.
public static void main(String args[])
try
// change imageDir to the location of a directory
// of images to convert to a movie;
String imageDir = "images";
File d = new File(imageDir);
SimpleMovie imageToMovie = new SimpleMovie();
// change width, height, and framerate!
// Excercise: Read width and height of first image and use that.
imageToMovie.init(320, 240, 10.0f);
imageToMovie.setFiles(d);
File dest = new File("simple.mov");
imageToMovie.createMovie(dest);
System.err.println("Created movie " + dest.getAbsolutePath() + " "
+ dest.length() + " bytes.");
} catch (Exception e)
System.out.println(e.toString());
e.printStackTrace();
// return jpeg image bytes of image zIndex (zero-based index)
public byte[] getImageBytes(int zIndex) throws IOException
if (images == null)
return null;
if (zIndex >= images.size())
return null;
String imageFile = (String) images.elementAt(zIndex);
// Open a random access file for the next image.
RandomAccessFile raFile = new RandomAccessFile(imageFile, "r");
byte data[] = new byte[(int) raFile.length()];
raFile.readFully(data);
raFile.close();
return data;
// Call this before converting a movie;
// Use movie width, height;
public void init(int width, int height, float frameRate)
format = new VideoFormat(VideoFormat.JPEG,
new Dimension(width, height), Format.NOT_SPECIFIED,
Format.byteArray, frameRate);
// Set up the files to process
public void setFiles(Vector inFiles)
images = inFiles;
// point converter to jpeg directory. Only does one level,
// but could recurse, but then sorting would be interesting..
public void setFiles(File dir) throws Exception
if (dir.isDirectory())
if (images == null)
images = new Vector();
String l[] = dir.list();
for (int x = 0; x < l.length; x++)
if (l[x].toLowerCase().endsWith(".jpg"))
File f = new File(dir, l[x]);
images.addElement(f.getAbsolutePath());
// Crank out the movie file.
public void createMovie(File out) throws Exception
if (format == null)
throw new Exception("Call init() first.");
String name = out.getAbsolutePath();
QuicktimeMux mux = null; // AVI not working, otherwise would use
// BasicMux
if (out.getPath().endsWith(".mov"))
mux = new QuicktimeMux();
mux.setContentDescriptor(new ContentDescriptor(
FileTypeDescriptor.QUICKTIME));
} else
throw new Exception(
"bad movie file extension. Only .mov supported.");
// create dest file media locator.
// This sample assumes writing a QT movie to a file.
MediaLocator ml = new MediaLocator(new URL("file:"
+ out.getAbsolutePath()));
com.sun.media.datasink.file.Handler dataSink = new com.sun.media.datasink.file.Handler();
dataSink.setSource(mux.getDataOutput()); // associate file with mux
dataSink.setOutputLocator(ml);
dataSink.open();
dataSink.start();
// video only in this sample.
mux.setNumTracks(1);
// JPEGFormat was the only kind I got working.
mux.setInputFormat(format, 0);
mux.open();
// Each jpeg goes in a Buffer.
// When done, buffer must contain EOM flag (and zero length data?).
Buffer buffer = new Buffer();
for (int x = 0;; x++)
read(x, buffer); // read in next file. x is zero index
mux.doProcess(buffer, 0);
if (buffer.isEOM())
break;
mux.close();
// close it up
dataSink.close();
// Read jpeg image into Buffer
// id is zero based index of file to get.
// Always starts at zero and increments by 1
// Buffer is a jmf structure
public void read(int id, Buffer buf) throws IOException
byte b[] = getImageBytes(id);
if (b == null)
System.err.println("Done reading all images.");
// We are done. Set EndOfMedia.
buf.setEOM(true);
buf.setOffset(0);
buf.setLength(0);
} else
buf.setData(b);
buf.setOffset(0);
buf.setLength(b.length);
buf.setFormat(format);
buf.setFlags(buf.getFlags() | Buffer.FLAG_KEY_FRAME);
}

Can I use imovie to make a movie by first making a soundtrack and then adding video clips to illustrate the sound track?

I want to make a movie using imovie 11.
I want to import still photos taken from the inet and import video clips of myself over the stills. I also want this movei to illustrate a soundtrack of my singing with a karaoke file.
Is this possible?
How would I get my voice singing with the itune song so my singing and the itune become one track?
Then could I use that soundtrack to build the movie, rather than start with video an add soundtrack?
This is an ambitions project.
HELP!

Hi
This is a No and Yes question.
No You can not add Audio first in any iMovie from iMovie'08 (version 7.0.x) and onwards. You need to use FinalCut Pro X to do this - Where it's rather straight forward.
Yes - it is a bit tedious but can be faked in iMovie - by first creating a Black .jpg photo. Add this to TimeLine in iMovie as many times (and at max duration) to reserve the time the movie will use. Then add Your Audo track. Then add Your photo and videosequences. There are a function in iMovie that let's You replace the original video with the one You want to insert - "Cutaway" - Then continue till all Black parts are replaced. Movie done !
But really - take a look at FinalCut where this is much easier.
Yours Bengt W

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i have imported a clip from my camera.
i want to make two movies. one is pretty much the entire clip, but one is only a portion of it. how do i retain the integrity of the complete clip while making edits?

you should copy the clip (edit>copy) from the project that has the clip as its whole, save and close that project, then make the new one that needs to be only a portion of your clip, paste the clip (edit>paste), and edit it. this is either the answer to your questoin, or i dont understand your questoin.

How to make a movie from an audio file and 1 static image?

Hi,
I want to make a movie that it is basically an 8 minutes audio file and I want to have a background picture that is static and stays there during the whole 8 minutes of my audio.
How can I do that?
I'm able to add the audio and the picture, however I can't stretch the picture to 8 minutes.
My iMovie version is 5.0.2
Thanks,
Martin

Hi mcanovas - Simply duplicate the picture as many times as needed. In the Photos pane you can extend the pic to 30 seconds, so duplicate that 16 times and there you go!
I hope the audience will stay focused

"Finder wants to make changes" Why is password required to delete a file?

If I drag an image from my browser to my desktop and later try to delete it, a notice comes up which reads, "The finder wants to make changes" and then asks for my password.
This is very annoying and is new. Whats up?
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Neil,
just found your post on how to keep the "finder wants to make changes.type your pass to allow" box from coming up.
i know typing the wront code in the terminal can cause big issues and i'm not that savey when it comes to code. not sure if this is the case here?
what exactly am i typing in the appscript editor?
am i typing:     "chown "   with quotes and hitting run?
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my trash folder already has admin priv.
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It then deletes the file bypassing the Trash basket.

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