Chapter 1: Movie Editing Tools

Learning Outcomes:

• Understand the concept of Movie Editing Tool

• Get familiarized with multiple Movie Editing Tools
• Get depth knowledge of window movie maker tool
• Get familiarized with Interface Components
• Can perform splitting and combining of various Clips
• Can add titles and publish movie in Window Movie Maker

Que 1. What do you mean by Movie Editing?

Ans 1. Movie editing is the process of manipulating and rearranging

video footage to create a cohesive and compelling story. It involves
various tasks such as trimming, cutting, merging, adding effects,
transitions, and audio synchronization.

Que 2. What are Movie Editing Tools?

Ans 2. Movie Editing tools are editing software or application software
which handles the post – Production video editing of digital video
sequences on a computer non-linear editing system (NLE).

Que 3. Explain the Various Movie Editing Tools?

Ans 3. Types of movie editing tools:

1. Windows Movie Maker:- Movie Maker is an excellent, full-featured

option for the average home user. It is use to post produced movie
editing with effects.

2. Virtual Dub :- VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for 32-

bit and 64-bit Windows platforms. It has batch-processing capabilities
for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-
party video filters. VirtualDub is mainly geared toward processing AVI
files, although it can read (not write) 3 MPEG-1 and also handle sets
of BMP images.

3. Wax :- Wax is a high performance and flexible video compositing

and special effects software. The idea for Wax is to be very general
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purpose and flexible in video compositing and effects, so that you can
compose your dream video sequence with ease every time.

4. Blender:- Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite,

available for all major operating systems under the GNU General
Public License. It is one of the powerful, multiuse editing/compositing
and modeling tool. This tool allows you to edit, create 3D graphics,
sound effects, add special effects and much more.

5. MovieStorm :- Moviestorm is the complete 3D movie making

software application for all abilities. Whether your movie interest is
cartoons, crime, music, horror etc., you can create awesome
animation effects using this software.

6. VideoSpin :- VideoSpin, free editor based on Studio, does a pretty

darn Visit Us at www.studykeeda.in good job compared with most free
video tools. It doesn’t match the qualities of paid software's but
perform basic editing and output movies pretty easily.

8. DVD Knife:- DVD Knife is a simple tool for extracting DVD clips
from your DVD’s. The clips will be stored in VOB format only. This is
the simplest and fastest tool in its category which has ability to extract
long VOB clips in few seconds.

9. AVI Trimmer:- The AVI Trimmer is a free video editor for fast and
lossless AVI editing. This freeware AVI editor is small, smart, easy to
use and involves no encoding/decoding processes. No video / audio
degradation and out of sync problem arises after editing.

10. Cinefx Jashaka:- Cinefx is an offline playback, editing, encoding,

animation and visual effects tool based on the Jahshaka technology
that allows you to create professional digital media on your desktop.
Use the tools that hollywood uses to create blockbuster films and
special effects.

Que 5. Differentiate between the features of virtual dub, wax, movica

and moviestorm.

Ans 5.
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A. Virtual Dub :- VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for 32-
bit and 64-bit Windows platforms. It has batch-processing
capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be
extended with third-party video filters. VirtualDub is mainly geared
toward processing AVI files, although it can read (not write) 3
MPEG-1 and also handle sets of BMP images.
B. Wax :- Wax is a high performance and flexible video compositing
and special effects software. The idea for Wax is to be very general
purpose and flexible in video compositing and effects, so that you
can compose your dream video sequence with ease every time.

C. MovieStorm :- Moviestorm is the complete 3D movie making

software application for all abilities. Whether your movie interest is
cartoons, crime, music, horror etc., you can create awesome
animation effects using this software.

D. Movica : It is just a graphical user interface that uses some fine

programs to edit movie files. Keyboard shortcuts make the job of
editing easier. Movica will work on .wmv, .flv, .rm and .mpg files.

Que 6. Explain the non linear editing tool which does horizontal
layering.

Ans. Mewa Film: It is a non-linear editing tool, where video files are
shown as a sequence of images layed off horizontally. The video files
can then be assembled and cutted using intuitive actions as “drag and
drop” and “rubber band selection”.

Que 7. Which tool should be used for .avi files?

Ans. AVIedit , AVI Trimmer

Que 8. Explain two non destructive and non linear tools for video
editing .

Ans.

A) Zwei-Stien Video Editor: Zwei-Stein 3.01 is a freeware. It is

non-linear, non-destructive video compositing and editing
system. It offers many advanced features unavailable
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elsewhere. With Zwei-Stein you can edit up to 256 video, audio
and still image clips, each with up to 64 effects chained serially
B) AVITricks Video Editor: AviTricks is a non-linear, non-
destructive AVI video editor with real-time preview. It makes
cutting and joining footage easy and includes a wide range of
built-in adjustable effects that can be used separately or in
combination.

. Que9. Which is the default view in movie maker?

Ans. Storyboard. The storyboard is the default view in Windows

Movie Maker. We can use the storyboard to look at the sequence or
ordering of the clips in your project and easily rearrange them, if
necessary. This view also let us see any video effects or video
transitions that have been added.

. Que 10. What are the functions of various movie panes of the
windows movie maker?

Ans. Windows Movie Maker provides several different panes that are:
1. The Tasks pane lists the common tasks that may be needed to
perform while making a movie, including importing files, editing,
and publishing your movie.

2. The Collections pane displays our collection folders, which

contain clips.

3. The Contents pane shows clips, effects, or transitions that are

working with while creating our movie, depending on the view
being worked with.

Que11. What is Timeline view?

Ans. Timeline: The timeline view provides a more detailed view of

our movie project and allows us to make finer edits. Using this
timeline view, we can: -

. 1) Trim video clips, adjust the duration of transitions between clips,

and view the audio track.

. 2) Review or modify the timing of clips in your project. Use the

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timeline buttons to switch to storyboard view, zoom in or out on
details of your project, narrate the timeline, or adjust the audio
levels.

. Que 12. What does .mp2 and .mp3 stand for?

. Ans.

. MP2 usually mean Video data using MPEG-2 video

. MP3 usually mean MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3
.
Que 13. What are the commonly used file extensions for images?
Ans. bmp, .dib, .emf, .gif, .jfif, .jpe, .jpeg, .jpg, .png, .tif, .tiff, and .wmf
.

Que 14. Can we import more than one clip at a time?

Ans. Yes, for consecutive clips, click the first video clip in the list,
press and hold down the SHIFT key, and then click the last clip in the
list. For video clips that are not consecutive, press and hold down the
CTRL key, and then click each clip that you want to import into
Windows Movie Maker.

Que15. What does .jpeg stand for?

Ans. JPEG (often seen with its file extension . jpg or . jpeg) stands
for "Joint Photographic Experts Group", which is the name of the
group who created the JPEG standard
.

Que16. What are contiguous clips?

Ans. "Contiguous" means that the start time of the second clip
immediately follows the end time of the first clip. For example, if we
have a video or audio file that was divided into clips when it was
imported into Windows Movie Maker, and the clips are named Clip 1,
Clip 2, and Clip 3, in that order, we could combine Clip 1 and Clip 2,
or Clip 2 and Clip 3, but we cannot combine Clip 1 and Clip 3.

Q17. How is a clip split?

Ans. Split: - We can manually split video and audio clips into smaller
clips to make your clips easier to work with.
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Steps to Split a Clip:

1) In the Contents pane or on the storyboard/timeline, click the

video or audio clip that need to be split.

2) Under the preview monitor, click the Play button.

3) When the clip reaches a point near the place you want to
split the clip, click Pause.
4) Under the preview monitor, use the playback controls to find
the point where we want to split the clip.

5) Under the preview monitor, click the Split button.

Q18. What do you mean by trimming a clip?

Ans. When a clip is to be trimmed, a new start and/or end trim point is
made. The start trim point determines when the clip will begin to play,
and the end trim point determines when the clip will stop playing in our
project and final movie.

Steps to trim a video clip:

1) While in the storyboard view, click View, and then click Timeline.
2) On the timeline, click the clip that wished to be trim.
3) Use the playback controls under the preview monitor to find the
point where you want to trim the clip.
Do the following:
A) When the playback indicator is at the point where we want
the selected video or audio clip to start playing back, click Clip,
and then click Trim Beginning.
B) When the playback indicator is at the point where we want
the selected video or audio clip to stop playing back, click Clip,
and then click Trim End.

Que 19. Can you undo the trimming changes?

Ans. To Undo a Trimmed Clip

1) While being in storyboard view, click View, and then click

Timeline.

2) Click the trimmed clip on the timeline, click Clip, and then
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click Clear Trim Points.

Que 20. Explain the Steps needed to Change the Title Duration of
your video.

Ans. Steps to Change title duration: -

1) To make sure that you are in timeline view, click the View menu,
and then click Timeline.

2) Select the title whose duration you want to change.

3) Do the following:

A) To extend the playback duration of the title, drag the end

trim handle toward the end of the timeline.

B) To reduce the playback duration of the title, drag the end

trim handle toward the beginning of the timeline.

Que21. How can you burn your movie into a CD?

Ans. Steps to burn your movie into CD :

1. Insert a blank recordable CD or a rewriteable CD into your CD

burner.

2. Click File, and then click Publish Movie.

3. Click Recordable CD, and then click Next.

4. In the File name box, type a name for your movie.

5. In the CD Name box, type a name for the CD, and then click
Next.

6. Choose the settings to be used to publish the movie, and then

click Publish.

7. To publish and burn the movie to another recordable CD, select

the Publish this movie to another recordable CD check box, and then
click Next.

Que22. How can the title be removed from the video?

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Ans. Steps to Remove a Title:

1) On the storyboard/timeline, click the title that need to be

removed.

2) Click Edit, and then click Remove.

Que23. Explain the various Steps to save and publish the video
generated.

Ans. After finishing working on a project, we can publish the project as

a movie. A movie is a Windows Media file with a .wmv file name
extension or an Audio-Video Interleaved (AVI) file with an .avi file
name extension.

Steps to Publish a Movie to your Computer

. 1) Click File, click Publish Movie.

. 2) Click This computer, and then click Next.

. 3) In the File name box, type a name for your movie.

. 4) In the Publish to box, choose where ever want to save the movie
once it's published, and then click Next.

. 5) Choose the settings to be used to publish the movie, and then

click Publish.

. 6) To watch the movie after it has been published, select the Play
movie after clicking Finish check box.

. 7) Click Finish

Que24. Explain the information which the Published movie should not
contain.

Ans. Information such as the title, author, copyright, rating, and

comments in your published movie files shouldn’t be included so that
our name and other metadata information is not displayed when
someone else plays back our movie in a media player.