Pinnacle Studio Plus 12

This is the other movie maker that I can use for my movie trailer when I come to produce it. In this post I am going to be talking about the features that this programme offers.

This is the toolbar that is on the side of the programme which allows you to do many things to the videos or pictures that you have imported into the programme. The first icon is where you import a movie that you have already done or a movie that you are still finishing off doing and editing. The second icon which is of a lightning bolt is where you can add as many tranisitions as you want to, to the picture or movie that you have imported. The third icon is where you can add a montage theme onto the pictures or movie that you have put into the clip. This is where it shows one picture then shows the whole screen of pictures and goes into another. I dont think that this is a very good tool to use when you are doing a movie trailer because it doesnt make it look scary which means it doesnt run with the genre of the film. The "T" is where you add titles onto the movie or pictures. This allows you to add writing on the picture, before the picture or at the end of the picture.
This is a screenshot of the kind of texts that you can put at the beginning of your movie trailer. This is my logo that I am using for my movie trailer and I feel that this is a good and bold logo for the production company e.g. me to use for my movie trailer. I will put this at the front of my movie trailer to show the target audience who has made the movie. I think that this is a big bold logog that will catch people's eye because the colours stand out and work well together. I have also found that the main colours that people use for logos are blue and black. I like the writing that I have picked on the text because it is bold and stands out from the bold black background.

The camera on the toolbar is where you insert pictures into the programme which allows you to be able to add pictures into the movie. The pictures are shown in a thumbnail view which allows you to see the picture clearly. I like that the pictures are shown like this because i can see what is on the picture clearly without having to click on them. But if i want to click on them then they come on bigger on the right hand side of the programme which shows the whole detail of the picture. When you have put a picture into the movie then the picture will be ticked off. This is a screenshot showing this.

The sixth icon on the tool bar is where you can add a title menu at the beginning of the movie but this doesnt really occur to me as I think that this feature should only be used when you are making a DVD style video.

The speaker icon on the toolbar is where you add sound effects onto the picture or video. I think that this could work well if you are using any animal sounds in your video. I will be using one of the animal sounds when I do a clip of the owl because I dont think that I will be able to get an owl to make a sound because I would probably scare it off when filming.

The final icon is where you add a proper soundtrack to run all the way through the movie if you want it to. This is the icon which allows you import the music into the programme. I will be using this quite a lot of times as I will be putting many different soundtracks on the trailer to show all the different emotions the characters are feeling.

This is a screenshot of the screen that plays the movie whenever you want it to and I think that this is good because it has a timer at the bottom of ti which allows you to see the exact time that everything is happening and whether it works well or not. There is also a volume button on the screen which means that you dont have to use the computer volume. Finally you can make the screen a lot bigger if you want it to go full screen so that you can see the full detail of the pictures and the video of what is going on.

This is the timeline that is at the bottom of the programme which allows you to see everything that you have imported into the movie meaning the soundtracks, sound effects, pictures and movies, transitions and the titles. You can make the timeline bigger or smaller by using the zoom in and out button. Also the orange line at the top of the pictures is the time of which all the pictures and how long it lasts in total. This can turn green when you add a tranisition or text into the video to show you that it will take some time to add into the movie and to take place. When it turns orange again then that is when you know it is complete and is ready to play.

Finally these are the tabs at the top of the screen which tells you what order to do the movie in going from step 1 to 3. The fist tab is where you import the footage that you have collected or the photos that you have taken. On this tab you can also take footage on the programme if you have got a webcam. The second tab is where I have just explained where all the features are as this is where you edit the footage and filming that you have collected throughout the days/hours you have been filming for. Finally the third tab is where you produce the footage into a movie to make it professional and work on other computers. This means that you have completed the movie trailer all together. For my movie trailer I think that I am going to use Pinnacle studio plus 12 because I think that it holds more features and is a lot better than windows movie maker. This will make my movie trailer look more professional then doing it in windows movie maker.