Title poistion in Movie Maker -- need help

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I'm new to Movie Maker 2.x. I'm making a slide show type movie out of
a bunch of still shots taken on vacation. I'm putting titles right on
the pictures but sometimes they're hard to read. Say, for example, I
have a picture of a dark house against a bright sky. Movie Maker
centres the title vertically so part is against the roof of the house
and part is against the sky. If I make the text white, the part on
the sky is hard to read, but if I make the text black or someother
dark colour, the part against the roof can't be read.

What I'd like to do is have control of the vertical position so I
could use black text and place it at the top where all of it is
against the sky.

Can this be done? How?
 
Hi all

I'm new to Movie Maker 2.x. I'm making a slide show type movie out of
a bunch of still shots taken on vacation. I'm putting titles right on
the pictures but sometimes they're hard to read. Say, for example, I
have a picture of a dark house against a bright sky. Movie Maker
centres the title vertically so part is against the roof of the house
and part is against the sky. If I make the text white, the part on
the sky is hard to read, but if I make the text black or someother
dark colour, the part against the roof can't be read.

What I'd like to do is have control of the vertical position so I
could use black text and place it at the top where all of it is
against the sky.

Can this be done? How?
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Would placing the title at the bottom be acceptable?

Click...'Change the title animation'...choose: Subtitle.

FWIW...for still images it may be worth your time to
try PhotoStory 3...it makes adding text a little easier.
And it was actually developed for still images.

PhotoStory 3 For Windows
http://tinyurl.com/4f869


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Would placing the title at the bottom be acceptable?

Click...'Change the title animation'...choose: Subtitle.

FWIW...for still images it may be worth your time to
try PhotoStory 3...it makes adding text a little easier.
And it was actually developed for still images.

PhotoStory 3 For Windows
http://tinyurl.com/4f869
Click to expand...

Re: Subtitle -- the actual title I'm using on one frame, for example,
is "Happy to be on terra firma: across from King's Cross station in
London.

A title that long, displayed as a subtitle still starts near the
middle of the frame (but is, I agree, an improvement; so thanks for
that idea).

Actually the "ticker tape" worked better.

Re: PhotoStory -- I downloaded PhotoStory yesterday, based on
something I read on PapaJohn's site. I haven'y had a chance to check
it out yet.

Am I correct that the idea would be to use PS to edit a sequence of
pictures that required titling, then save the group in some format
that I can then import into the timeline of Movie Maker? If so, what
format does PS save files in that I could use in MM?
 
yes... Photo Story only saves to one file type... WMV (with a different
codec than movies).... it works as a source file in Movie Maker
 
yes... Photo Story only saves to one file type... WMV (with a different
codec than movies).... it works as a source file in Movie Maker
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Great. Thanks for the advice (both of you). I'll give it a try.
 
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What I'd like to do is have control of the vertical position so I
could use black text and place it at the top where all of it is
against the sky.

Can this be done? How?
Click to expand...

I don't think so!

Here is a suggestion.

Make titles or credits>Add title to selected clip>More options - Change
title animation>Sports scoreboard.

Doing the above will at least give you clear readable text per image.
You may like this idea, or not.
 
I don't think so!

Here is a suggestion.

Make titles or credits>Add title to selected clip>More options - Change
title animation>Sports scoreboard.

Doing the above will at least give you clear readable text per image.
You may like this idea, or not.
Click to expand...

Actually, Mike, I took the suggestion of others and used Photo Story 3
do the titling on difficult pictures. Worked a charm.

Thanks for answering.
 
Actually, Mike, I took the suggestion of others and used Photo Story 3
do the titling on difficult pictures. Worked a charm.

Thanks for answering.
Click to expand...

Glad you got it sorted satisfactory.
 
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