Movie Maker and Photo Story - Online Video
As the popularity of Movie Maker and Photo Story grows, there will be more online galleries, video samples, video hosting services, and exhibitions.
PapaJohn's Products and Services
Video Doodle...
Between more serious tasks, I often doodle in video, using Movie Maker and Photo Story. Here's a link to my latest one... it's playing, not serious, not meant to be anything more than experientially exploring and learning.
My Latest Video Doodle - mix of story and movie clips
It's easier to do some neat things in Photo Story 3 than in Movie Maker.... but Movie Maker is where you put all the pieces together. In this doodle I'm playing with a window theme, a simplistic one made in IrfanView and Paint.
Galleries and Contests
Film Your Issue - Contest - view contest winners and runner-ups for inspiration.
Neptune Mediashare's Public Gallery - Neptune hosts for Movie Maker, Ulead, Roxio, Adobe, and others… about 5% of users choose to put their videos in the public galleries... this link is to the Movie Maker gallery.
Video Samples
The 4 Hero chapters in the Zero to Hero book are examples of videos. The chapters describe the process of making them, and the downloads link at the Friends of Ed website provides some of the files used.
Microsoft's sample movies illustrate some of the results you can easily achieve by editing video, with a heavy use of text effects in these samples.
The flight simulator videos at Kyle-Scott.com are made with Movie Maker 2.
Jonathan at Digital Toast provides an assortment of fun videos, all made with Movie Maker 2.
Everyone loves countdown clips and I'm no exception. Instead of looking for them from elsewhere, I bought 75 watch faces, took pictures of them, and am using them to make my own countdown clocks. I'll share them with you as I make them (they are usually 640x480), with perhaps something on them to personalize them. Click on a picture to view it. Right click and select 'Save Target as' to download a copy:
• 12 second countdown. A single watch face with a green background that has my URL on it.
• 12 Second Countdown. 3 watch faces, accented with the cover of the 'Do Amazing Things' book.
• 12 Second Countdown. A watch face wrapped around a sphere, a weird one.
• 12 Second Countdown. Green background with cuckoo audio.... with the Do Amazing Things book cover and www.papajohn.org URL.
• 12 Second Countdown. Made from an iTunes visualization and a cell phone ring.
Video Hosting Services
See Microsoft's "How To: Be an Expert" tutorial for some information about online hosting services. There's a link to it on the Onlone... Tutorials page.
Neptune - “Share your digital home movies and photos online with friends and family, instantly! Upload videos to your Neptune site directly from WMM Send-to-Web feature (listed under Finish Movie), select Neptune Mediashare. Free 3 day trial. Pro accounts start at $59 per year. Online storage ranges from 150MBs to 10GBs. Neptune.com started its online photo and video sharing service in 1999, and is committed to providing the best possible experience for you and your online visitors.”
mydeo is another option in your MM2 menu... a fee-based service that hosts movies and stories for streaming rather than downloading. Click the logo
Unified Web Media - Windows Media 9 Series Hosting - An optimized Windows Media Hosting environment using Windows Server 2003 and Windows Media 9 Series. Eliminate buffer delays and slow connection times with intelligent routing technology from InterNAP.
Full support for 9 Series features (Fast Start, Fast Cache, and Fast Reconnect) from your own private publishing point. Link your content from any web site and prevent unauthorized reuse of your streaming media assets. Plans start at just $29.95/month for 50 meg of storage and 10 gigabytes of data transfer.
WMMDownloadCenter - A website host for Movie Maker 2 users. Some guidelines from their website:
Please try your best and keep your movies proper
Upload limit is at 20 MB, but you have unlimited disk space
If at any time Bandwidth exceeds on the server, all movies and sites will be down until the end of the month. (movie hosting does take up a lot of space and time).
If at any point we close the site to keep bandwidth at a good level, Subscribed users still have full access to their movies and files.
We have 40 gigs of bandwidth, but it may be possible we run out.
Don't forget, you have unlimited space for your movies.
It does cost money to keep up these servers, so don't forget to donate when/if possible :-)
YOU MUST BE REGISTERED AND LOGGED IN TO POST MOVIES
Website Exhibitions - Personal and Professional
Links to those willing to share their online videos: Be the next to offer.
• Post links to your productions, or view what others have posted on the Share Your Movie Forum... at Windows Movie Makers.
