How Do You Make a Collage when using Movie Maker?

Dale Walker · Guest

I know how to use the program very well, but what I a trying to do is make a
collage using the program or another program that is capable of being played
in the movie maker program itself. Eg: Family tree where 1 picture appears,
another picture appears so on and so fourth but on one frame. Is this
possible?

Thanks Dale

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Dale Walker wrote:

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PapaJohn · Guest

here's a 30 second snippet showing the 'Brady Bunch' process... for my
latest newsletter...

http://www.papajohn.org/Newsletters/179-Sample.wmv

If that's the kind of thing you mean, I use Avisynth with a script, then
VirtualDub, and Movie Maker....

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Sweeper · Guest

=?Utf-8?B?RGFsZSBXYWxrZXI=?= <Dale Walker@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote in news:A5B6DDA0-BCB5-4D17-898D-68502C49E820@microsoft.com:

I did a project similar to what your trying to create. I Find PhotoShop
with Movie Maker to be a perfect match. What I wanted was to have a photo
appear in a haphazard fashion, as if you had a Polaroid photo and you
tossed it on a table, then another would appear, then another, then
another and so on. This example will have four photos appear.

NOTE: I would create my photos the same size as my produced video. If
video is to be 640x480, so would be my photos, this prevents movie maker
from resizing and thus losing photo quality. I'll assume you know
Photoshop’s basic features and procedures and will not go into too much
detail.

The steps for a 640 x 480 video
1. Create new photo with background color of choice at 640x480.
2. Create new layer named PHOTO1, then paste you first photo into this
layer.
3. Resize your pasted photo to your choice, rotate it to choice, and
position it to choice, and add a drop shadow for effect.
4. Create a another layer named PHOTO2 and repeat step 3 with your second
photo.
5. Repeat above steps until you have four layers with four different
photos.

Saving the layers as .jpg
1. Deselect all layers and save the background as P1.JPG (or with name of
your choice) All you will be saving is the background color.
2. Reselect PHOTO1 layer and save as P2.JPG
P2.JPG shows background + First photo.
3. Reselect PHOTO2 layer, keeping previous layers selected as well, and
save as P2.JPG
4. Repeat procedure for remaining layers.

Now to Movie maker
1. Import your 5 new photos and drag them to the story board in order by
filename.
2. Switch to timeline view to drag each photo into the other a tad for a
nice fade effect.

THAT’S IT

First you see the background, then photo1 appears, then another photo on
top, then another on top
and so on.

AFTER THOUGHTS:
The use of Photoshop with Moviemaker for still images is endless and is
limited only by your imagination. Though Movie maker can create titles
which overlay a photo, at times I prefer to load a copy of that photo in
photoshop and create my own title layer where text effects are endless.
Simply drag the original photo into timeline, followed by the new version
with text, add some fade and Volla!!

Have Fun & Happy Holidays
-Sweeper