Overlaying text on an MPG movie....help requested

[Fanum]

Anyone have any tips on how to overlay a title on an .mpg movie?

It's a long series of the best photos from a lot of Moroccan trips set to music and produced using a variety of movie maker type progs. The pics zoom in and then fade out and there are some title slides in there as well to introduce certain sections and do the credits etc.....

I can easily put text on any of the individual slides, but I want to put two small lines of text, fixed in place throughout the whole thing apart from the opening and closing slides IYSWIM....so effectively I need to overlay the text on the .mpg movie.

(If I put the same text on each slide it'll fade in and out and be affected by any other transitions I do- I want the title showing in a corner all the way through over the top of the other effects)

I know there are several people here who could do this professionally but this is very much a work in progress- I'm going to produce several different versions for different applications (for example as something a BMW dealer could run showing only bimmers on the trips, a mixed marque on and some branded up specifically for a single dealer) so it's something I need to be able to do here myself-

Anyone know of a freebie prog or any of the SOHO orientated video packages that will do what I need please?

Thank you

 

[Loiq]

I'll try that again

1. convert everything to a common format AVI, QT or MPEG if your using different programs there's a chance it may not work! as most have wrappers (bits of propriatorial code) some MPEG4 has odd compression which stops it being used so convert to a common format
2. choose a package cheap and easy is Premier / Premier Pro
3. Build register of assets film bins titled as to what they are

a/ sunset
b/ 2 shot BMW
c/ 2 shot Honda
(the more you sort it the better the chances of using it this process is also called grading simple enough Good stuff and bad stuff)
4. take one image switch on "title safe" it's in add title section and build your text template (this is important it'll mean all titles will fall into the safe image area and you can make them the same size gives a nicer look
5. Built the time lines with the right titles and music as individual projects so you can add to each as you go along
6. add the clips from your bins to each time line product specific, trip specific client or skill level specific
7. dynamic riding (fast and furious) cut late into shot and leave early better to have it all action and short than slow and boring
8. All packages even cheap version such as MSN movie maker can do title overlay but it's better to use an industry standard version. premier, FCP or better depends on depth of pockets.
9. Know your subject and you'll choose the right clips
10 Retrospective editing is a nightmare and will take ages setting up the clip bins it's the most complex things it's about order and structure without it it's a nightmare cos you want the same program but with specific aims.
11. figure out what your clients are going to show your footage on and render files out to that, not much point making a nice fim nobody can watch or the quality is toilet!

best of luck

 

[Pauly S]

pmd ya mate.

as it says on the tin....

 

[Loiq]

this site seems to have lots of info and there's a free converter not sure if any good but the amount of info and coding on the site seems worth a look

http://www.w3schools.com/media/media_videoformats.asp

http://www.avs4you.com/AVS-Video-Converter.aspx?type=GoogleImageAds&gclid=CKvP44mqmpgCFQEpGgod_jeUnA