Movie software

[vaibhav24in]

Hi, Somebody have idea with which software I can write some text on the movie clip like the date on which it was prouduced. Or can fade the text that was already written on the video?!?
Regards
Vaibhav

[killerchutney]

I personally use Sony Vegas to edit video, but for a free program, Windows Movie Maker should do the first thing you asked, but I think the second is impossible, unless you had a source file.

[vaibhav24in]

Windows Movie Maker should do the first thing
How to do that.. Please give me little bit idea. I have used windows movie maker many times but I didn't see any option like that but I think the second is impossible,
unless you had a source file
Source file??!!?? what does it mean? Sorry I didn't get
Regards
Vaibhav

[killerchutney]

have you used the 'make titles or credits' on windows movie maker?

and a source file would be a .MSWMM on windows movie maker, a .psd on photoshop, a .fla on flash, a .vg on sony vegas...

[djr33]

The titles should be easy. Just use the default "add titles" thing, wherever that is. I haven't used movie maker much, but I'm sure I've seen that there. It's a VERY basic program, but it's designed to be user friendly and does allow for titles. Easy.

As for the second thing, here's the reasoning for why that can't happen. (I do video editing and FX, so take my word on this.)

Videos are just a series of frames, so we'll for the moment just take the example of one image.

If an image has a large X across the center (as many do for watermarks), or any other text, then there's no way to get rid of that without recreating the lost pixels. If those pixels are currently white, then no where is the original data stored within that image. If you have access to the original clip, then that's better. A "source file" as said could help, but that's not really the point here.
What you need to be able to fade between the two is 1. the original and 2. the version with text.
Since the element you are trying to have fade is the text itself, the rest should remain unchanged, so you need two identical clips except for the text itself. As such, you need the original without text fading to the same clip with text to end up with the effect of the text fading on.

However, you could just as easily add new text to the original if you had the original. If you do, you can do this. If not, no luck. Sorry. The ONLY way around it would be digitally recreating the lost pixels which is a huge pain, unless you happen to have a very easy clip to work with in which case it would still be a lot of work, but might be just a bit less than "a lot of work", though it would still be way above your level of video editing if you're still getting used to titles. That's the kind of thing that Hollywood FX artists would cringe at.

So... I hope that answers your question.

The source file could help in that it would allow you, most likely, layers, so that you could use the original (the bottom layer) then fade in the top layer (the text), assuming, as would be expected, that is how it is arranged.
However, once you have thhe source file, you have the original anyway, so it's not worth too much consideration, and you can just go about it the way I described above.

The "source file" is like html for a webpage, though "project file" would be a better name, mostly likely. Once you take a screen capture of your webpage, you'll find it impossible to just change text or layout on that page, though it started as html, since it is now existing just as a series of pixels. The way, then, to change that text is to go BACK to the html and change it there, then retake the screen capture. The same applies in this case.

[thetestingsite]

I think nero also has a program that can accomplish this with ease. I don't remember the name of it though. If I find it, I'll post it here.

[djr33]

Which? Adding titles? Quite possible, but there are many many solutions for that.
If the latter (removing titles from a video clip) I VERY highly doubt it.