The Doctor's Custom Titles for Windows Movie Maker

THE DOCTOR'S CUSTOM TITLES - Part 1

Here are some titles I worked on with the help of the gurus at the MovieMaker forum

A sample clip is on the right and the image can be saved from the left [it is actually 640 x 480] - Normal deal to copy paste .xml code [below] to NotePad and the custom title should appear in MM2 once you restart. By "normal deal" I mean please refer to Papa John's or other Tutorials for more specific details if you have not done this before.

For all these, except the Clapboard Title at the end, the sequence is as follows to make the title in your movie [in fact it is 2 titles in one]

1. Make a title [Title #1] using this [drivein etc] options with blank space [ie advance Space Bar one space] on BOTH lines for "no text". So MM will put this in front of your first clip, so you drag it down to "overlays" and make sure it is aligned at zero. It is 8 secs as default and I have left it as that in the examples [but you can drag it to what you choose]. The "mechanics" of Title #1 are copied directly from the Newspaper Tile, ie the spin and final zoom, albeit I needed to play around in both cases to position the image in the correct [non Newspaper] location in making the custom .xlm file.

2. Then do the same again [Title #2] but this time select the one-line "basic" title in MM and this time leave it in front of the first clip. I think it is default 4 seconds but I have stretched it to 10 seconds in the examples [which is why you still get 2 secs of title after the other one has zoomed to full screen]

Finally then the initial movie clip is "ramped" back over Title #2, to the 2 sec mark [which is why the content is showing through already once the initial spin effect is over], and of course the user can vary that also

This is my version of drive in movie


<TransitionsAndEffects Version="1.0"> 
<Titles> 
<TitleDLL guid="{353359C1-39E1-491b-9951-464FD8AB071C}"> 
<Title name="drivein" iconid="13" > 
<Param name="InternalName" value="TitleMultiTitles"/> 
<Param name="Description" value="Spins and zooms in (overlay)"/> 
<Param name="OptimalDurationMultiplier" value="2.0"/> 
<Param name="LogoBitmapFilename" value="drivein.jpg"/> 
<Param name="LogoRect" value="0.075 0.075 0.85 0.85"/> 
<Param name="EntranceVideoRect" value="0.33 0.13 0.35 0.35"/> 
<Param name="MainVideoRect" value="0.33 0.13 0.35 0.35"/> 
<Param name="ExitVideoRect" value="0.0 0.0 1.0 1.0"/> 
<Param name="EntranceDuration" value="1.5"/> 
<Param name="EntranceEffect" value="EffectRotate"/> 
<Param name="EntranceZoom" value="0.01 0.01"/> 
<Param name="MainZoom" value="1.0 1.0"/> 
<Param name="ExitDuration" value="1.0"/> 
<Param name="ForceFrontColor1" value="#FFFF00"/> 
<Paragraph> 
<Param name="Font" value="Arial"/> 
<Param name="IsOneLine" value="true"/> 
<Param name="BoundingRect" value="0.1 0.50 0.8 0.15"/> 
<Param name="MaxCharacterCount" value="32"/> 
</Paragraph> 
<Paragraph> 
<Param name="Font" value="Arial"/> 
<Param name="IsOneLine" value="true"/> 
<Param name="BoundingRect" value="0.1 0.65 0.8 0.15"/> 
<Param name="MaxCharacterCount" value="32"/> 
</Paragraph> 
</Title> 
</TitleDLL> 
</Titles> 
</TransitionsAndEffects>

I then simply applied same idea to a theatre


<TransitionsAndEffects Version="1.0"> 
<Titles> 
<TitleDLL guid="{353359C1-39E1-491b-9951-464FD8AB071C}"> 
<Title name="stage" iconid="13" > 
<Param name="InternalName" value="TitleMultiTitles"/> 
<Param name="Description" value="Spins and zooms in (overlay)"/> 
<Param name="OptimalDurationMultiplier" value="2.0"/> 
<Param name="LogoBitmapFilename" value="stage1.jpg"/> 
<Param name="LogoRect" value="0.075 0.075 0.85 0.85"/> 
<Param name="EntranceVideoRect" value="0.33 0.31 0.35 0.35"/> 
<Param name="MainVideoRect" value="0.33 0.31 0.35 0.35"/> 
<Param name="ExitVideoRect" value="0.0 0.0 1.0 1.0"/> 
<Param name="EntranceDuration" value="1.5"/> 
<Param name="EntranceEffect" value="EffectRotate"/> 
<Param name="EntranceZoom" value="0.01 0.01"/> 
<Param name="MainZoom" value="1.0 1.0"/> 
<Param name="ExitDuration" value="1.0"/> 
<Param name="ForceFrontColor1" value="#FFFF00"/> 
<Paragraph> 
<Param name="Font" value="Arial"/> 
<Param name="IsOneLine" value="true"/> 
<Param name="BoundingRect" value="0.1 0.50 0.8 0.15"/> 
<Param name="MaxCharacterCount" value="32"/> 
</Paragraph> 
<Paragraph> 
<Param name="Font" value="Arial"/> 
<Param name="IsOneLine" value="true"/> 
<Param name="BoundingRect" value="0.1 0.65 0.8 0.15"/> 
<Param name="MaxCharacterCount" value="32"/> 
</Paragraph> 
</Title> 
</TitleDLL> 
</Titles> 
</TransitionsAndEffects>

I then found an old style TV


<TransitionsAndEffects Version="1.0"> 
<Titles> 
<TitleDLL guid="{353359C1-39E1-491b-9951-464FD8AB071C}"> 
<Title name="TV" iconid="13" > 
<Param name="InternalName" value="TitleMultiTitles"/> 
<Param name="Description" value="Spins and zooms in (overlay)"/> 
<Param name="OptimalDurationMultiplier" value="2.0"/> 
<Param name="LogoBitmapFilename" value="tv.jpg"/> 
<Param name="LogoRect" value="0.075 0.075 0.85 0.85"/> 
<Param name="EntranceVideoRect" value="0.35 0.34 0.285 0.285"/> 
<Param name="MainVideoRect" value="0.35 0.34 0.285 0.285"/> 
<Param name="ExitVideoRect" value="0.0 0.0 1.0 1.0"/> 
<Param name="EntranceDuration" value="1.5"/> 
<Param name="EntranceEffect" value="EffectRotate"/> 
<Param name="EntranceZoom" value="0.01 0.01"/> 
<Param name="MainZoom" value="1.0 1.0"/> 
<Param name="ExitDuration" value="1.0"/> 
<Param name="ForceFrontColor1" value="#FFFF00"/> 
<Paragraph> 
<Param name="Font" value="Arial"/> 
<Param name="IsOneLine" value="true"/> 
<Param name="BoundingRect" value="0.1 0.50 0.8 0.15"/> 
<Param name="MaxCharacterCount" value="32"/> 
</Paragraph> 
<Paragraph> 
<Param name="Font" value="Arial"/> 
<Param name="IsOneLine" value="true"/> 
<Param name="BoundingRect" value="0.1 0.65 0.8 0.15"/> 
<Param name="MaxCharacterCount" value="32"/> 
</Paragraph> 
</Title> 
</TitleDLL> 
</Titles> 
</TransitionsAndEffects>

But I think this widescreen TV is far better. Notice that the movie starts in the TV as widescreen and expands out to 4:3


<TransitionsAndEffects Version="1.0"> 
<Titles> 
<TitleDLL guid="{353359C1-39E1-491b-9951-464FD8AB071C}"> 
<Title name="TVwider" iconid="13" > 
<Param name="InternalName" value="TitleMultiTitles"/> 
<Param name="Description" value="Spins and zooms in (overlay)"/> 
<Param name="OptimalDurationMultiplier" value="2.0"/> 
<Param name="LogoBitmapFilename" value="tv.jpg"/> 
<Param name="LogoRect" value="0.075 0.075 0.85 0.85"/> 
<Param name="EntranceVideoRect" value="0.215 0.19 0.572 0.43"/> 
<Param name="MainVideoRect" value="0.215 0.19 0.572 0.43"/> 
<Param name="ExitVideoRect" value="0.0 0.0 1.0 1.0"/> 
<Param name="EntranceDuration" value="1.5"/> 
<Param name="EntranceEffect" value="EffectRotate"/> 
<Param name="EntranceZoom" value="0.01 0.01"/> 
<Param name="MainZoom" value="1.0 1.0"/> 
<Param name="ExitDuration" value="1.0"/> 
<Param name="ForceFrontColor1" value="#FFFF00"/> 
<Paragraph> 
<Param name="Font" value="Arial"/> 
<Param name="IsOneLine" value="true"/> 
<Param name="BoundingRect" value="0.1 0.50 0.8 0.15"/> 
<Param name="MaxCharacterCount" value="32"/> 
</Paragraph> 
<Paragraph> 
<Param name="Font" value="Arial"/> 
<Param name="IsOneLine" value="true"/> 
<Param name="BoundingRect" value="0.1 0.65 0.8 0.15"/> 
<Param name="MaxCharacterCount" value="32"/> 
</Paragraph> 
</Title> 
</TitleDLL> 
</Titles> 
</TransitionsAndEffects>

And the latest is a painter's easel - in this one I increased overlap from 2 to 3 seconds, so initial spin has completed before you see/hear any video


<TransitionsAndEffects Version="1.0"> 
<Titles> 
<TitleDLL guid="{353359C1-39E1-491b-9951-464FD8AB071C}"> 
<Title name="easel" iconid="13" > 
<Param name="InternalName" value="TitleMultiTitles"/> 
<Param name="Description" value="Spins and zooms in (overlay)"/> 
<Param name="OptimalDurationMultiplier" value="2.0"/> 
<Param name="LogoBitmapFilename" value="easel.jpg"/> 
<Param name="LogoRect" value="0.075 0.075 0.85 0.85"/> 
<Param name="EntranceVideoRect" value="0.32 0.28 0.37 0.37"/> 
<Param name="MainVideoRect" value="0.32 0.28 0.37 0.37"/> 
<Param name="ExitVideoRect" value="0.0 0.0 1.0 1.0"/> 
<Param name="EntranceDuration" value="1.5"/> 
<Param name="EntranceEffect" value="EffectRotate"/> 
<Param name="EntranceZoom" value="0.01 0.01"/> 
<Param name="MainZoom" value="1.0 1.0"/> 
<Param name="ExitDuration" value="1.0"/> 
<Param name="ForceFrontColor1" value="#FFFF00"/> 
<Paragraph> 
<Param name="Font" value="Arial"/> 
<Param name="IsOneLine" value="true"/> 
<Param name="BoundingRect" value="0.1 0.50 0.8 0.15"/> 
<Param name="MaxCharacterCount" value="32"/> 
</Paragraph> 
<Paragraph> 
<Param name="Font" value="Arial"/> 
<Param name="IsOneLine" value="true"/> 
<Param name="BoundingRect" value="0.1 0.65 0.8 0.15"/> 
<Param name="MaxCharacterCount" value="32"/> 
</Paragraph> 
</Title> 
</TitleDLL> 
</Titles> 
</TransitionsAndEffects>