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Microsoft Windows Movie Maker 2: Visual Quickstart Guide
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Microsoft Windows Movie Maker 2: Visual Quickstart Guide

by Jan Ozer
May 2004
Beginner
400 pages
10h 25m
English
Peachpit Press
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Chapter 13. Designing Titles and Credits

Titles and credits are text-based screens that appear solo on the Timeline or superimposed over video or still images. Although titles and credits are generally used differently—titles are used throughout a movie, while credits are employed at the end—you build both using the same tool in Windows Movie Maker. For the sake of simplicity, I focus primarily on titles in this chapter, but the process is identical for both.

Movie Maker titles have two basic components: the inserted text and the title animation scheme used to display the text. Title animations in Movie Maker not only animate the text, but also insert different backgrounds, banners, and special effects. This makes your choice of animation scheme ...

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