video editing tools

On Dec 27, 3:07*am, Frank wrote:
I'm working on some soaring videos to illustrate the use of Condor for
training, and I'm having trouble finding something that will do simple
text overlays a' la Bruno's nice videos of the Logan area. *Windows
Movie Maker doesn't do a very good job of this (or at at least I can't
seem to make it do what I want).

Any recommendations?

Hi Frank,

You can do text overlays using Windows Movie Maker. It is one of the
options in Add titles. What exactly do you want to achieve?

Derek C

On Dec 27, 12:46*pm, Derek C wrote:
On Dec 27, 3:07*am, Frank wrote: I'm working on some soaring videos to illustrate the use of Condor for
training, and I'm having trouble finding something that will do simple
text overlays a' la Bruno's nice videos of the Logan area. *Windows
Movie Maker doesn't do a very good job of this (or at at least I can't
seem to make it do what I want).

Any recommendations?

Hi Frank,

You can do text overlays using Windows Movie Maker. It is one of the
options in Add titles. What exactly do you want to achieve?

Derek C

Derek,

Yes, I know WMM can do text overlays, but only very primitive titles,
credits, etc. I want to do 'postit note' type callouts on the screen,
similar to what you see on many YouTube instructional videos. These
are small rectangular callout boxes with a pointer. Also, some simple
arrowhead callouts would be nice. If you watch B4's Logan videos
you'll see what I mean

Regards,

TA

Yes, I know WMM can do text overlays, but only very primitive titles,
credits, etc. *I want to do 'postit note' type callouts on the screen,
similar to what you see on many YouTube instructional videos. *These
are small rectangular callout boxes with a pointer. *Also, some simple
arrowhead callouts would be nice. *If you watch B4's Logan videos
you'll see what I mean

Regards,

TA

Hi Frank,
Thanks for the kind words. I really enjoy making and sharing soaring
videos and hope for some more interesting ones next season. Good
news. The callout boxes overlay is actually a part of youtube and not
made during editing the videos. Once you have uploaded your video to
youtube and it has finished processing, go back into the annotations
editor and you will be able to add the text callouts there. Hope this
helps.

BTW, I am using Adobe Premiere Pro and the learning curve is amazingly
steep and I have really struggled even doing simple editing but
eventually once figured out it should help make for better videos.

Bruno - B4
http://www.youtube.com/user/bviv