Still Images

This category includes digital photographs, scanned images, and computer generated 2D and 3D graphics. You'll find the ones that come with Vlog It! in the Pictures Library.

Vlog It! supports the following graphic file formats:

Adjusting the Color of a Video Clip

To tweak the appearance of the currently selected video clip, click the Adjust Color button at the bottom of the Actions Tab. This opens a dialog with standard image editing controls such as brightness, hue, contrast, and color levels. The RGB offset sliders add or subtract the associated colors across the board whereas the basic RGB sliders affect only pixels that contain some of the given color.

Tips for Creating Your Own Graphics

When you're creating your own graphics for use in a vlog, there are only a few rules to keep in mind:

Better to Scale Up than Down:

Make the resolution at least as large 320 pixels x 240 pixels, which is the size of the published output.

Avoid Stretching. Use 4:3 Aspect Ratio:

For we humans, stretching can be a very good thing. For images, it rarely is. If the aspect ratio of image used in Vlog It! is not 4:3, the program will stretch it to that aspect ratio, thereby distorting the image. To avoid this, you have two options:

32-bit Images are Treated as Titles:

If you use a 32-bit .png or .tga image, Vlog It! will preserve the transparency and automatically treat the image like a transparent title slate. To learn what exactly that means, please consult the section about titles, lower thirds, and other text.


Using PowerPoint Slides in Your Vlog: You can include PowerPoint Slides in a show by saving them out of PowerPoint as .bmp or .jpg files and then adding them as you would any image. If you later revise a PowerPoint slide, simply save it out again by the same name and to the same folder; Vlog It! will use the new file without requiring you to re-drop it.