Picasa SIG

March 25, 2010

The Projects Collection 2 - Captures

Goals: a) Making Movies b) video captures c)Screen Captures

 

A. Create a movie from your camera - . wmv .avi .mpg .asf (Tools > Options > File Types)

Files of this type created with your camera will download same way as photos

 

 

B. Making a Movie (like slideshow but different file type)

Select photos. Click Movie button

 

MOVIE TAB - Make settings

 

Add Audio Track

Choose Transition Style

Select duration of each slide

Select % overlap of slides

Select slide size (pixels)

Check show captions

Check full frame crop (or not)

 

Preview Movie

Drag & drop slides to reorder

 

Create Movie

YouTube creates movie and sends to YouTube

Close (discards movie)

 

 

SLIDE TAB (position cursor)

 

Change text on opening slide

Create transition slide with text Add text choose font size, style,color, background

Preview text slide

 

 

 

 

 

CLIPS TAB(Add/Remove)

 

Select a photo in Clips

Press + to add to movie

 

Select a photo in movie

Press to remove from movie

 

Drag slides to correct order

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

C. Edit Mode (Double Click Movie)

 

UPLOAD TO YOUTUBE

(self explanatory)

 

 

 

TAKE SNAPSHOT Creating a jpg photo from a frame of a movie

 

Play movie until at desired slide

Press > (forward) or <(backward) to stop movie and progress frame by frame to desired frame

Press Take Snapshot

 

EXPORT CLIP

 

Clip and remove frames from beginning or end of movie or both.

Play Movie. Press Start and Stop button (right of timeline) to mark new beginning and end of movie

 

Preview new movie

May be undone.

 

 

SCREEN CAPTURE

Open Picasa. Minimize

Any point at which you press PrtSc key on keyboard, Picasa will save the screen display as a jpg file. Capture displays on eBay or Power Point shows or application windows. Similar to SnipIt but this is a quick capture of entire screen display which may not wait for Snipit.