Corel PHOTO-PAINT offers powerful movie-editing and creation tools, which can be used to create customized screen savers or to liven up a World Wide Web page.

In this workshop, you will use these tools to create and edit a simple movie.

Click here to open the background image.

Go to next page. To create a background for your movie, you must convert an image to a movie file format (e.g., AVI, GIF-M, MPEG), then add some frames.

  1. Click Movie menu, Create From Document.
  2. Click Movie menu, Insert Frame.
  3. Type 19 in the Insert Frames box.
  4. Enable the Before Frame button.
  5. Enable the Copy The Current Frame button, and click OK.

Note

The images that you use to create a movie cannot be 32-bit, or 24-bit Lab Color images.

Go to next page. You will now add a fish to your background image. When the movie is complete, the fish appears to swim across the scene.

Click here to open the fish image.

  1. Select the fish object with the Object Picker tool.
  2. Click Edit menu, Copy.
  3. Click Window menu, ATLANTIS.CPT.
  4. Click Edit menu, Paste, As New Object.
  5. Drag the fish to the left side of the background image. This is the starting point for the fish in the movie.
  6. Click Object menu, Combine, Combine Objects With Background.

Go to next page. Now you will make the fish "swim" across the background.

  1. Click Movie menu, Control, Step Forward One Frame.
  2. Click Edit menu, Paste, As New Object.
  3. Click Movie menu, Overlay Frame.
  4. Enable the Previous Frame Overlay button. This allows you to partially see the previous frame by overlaying a semi transparent copy of the previous frame over the current frame.
  5. Drag the fish slightly ahead of its position in the previous frame.
  6. Click Object menu, Combine Objects With Background.
  7. Repeat steps 1 to 5 until the fish moves off the right side of the background image.

Go to next page. To make your underwater movie a little more interesting, you can add some waves.

  1. Click Movie menu, Go To Frame.
  2. Type 9 in the Frame box, and click OK.
  3. Click Effects menu, 3D Effects, Mesh Warp.
  4. Type 10 in the No. Gridlines box.
  5. Use the following graphic as a guide to setup your mesh warp "wave":
  6. Click Save.
  7. Type Midwave in the File Name box, and click OK.
  8. Click OK to apply the mesh warp "wave".
  9. Click Movie menu, Control, Step Forward One Frame.

Go to next page.

To make the "wave" appear to move, you can apply two more waves.

  1. Click Effects menu, 3D Effects, Mesh Warp.
  2. Choose Midwave from the Saved Styles list box.
  3. Using the following graphic as a guide, increase the amplitude of each "wave":
  4. Click OK to apply the mesh warp "wave".
  5. Click Movie menu, Control, Step Forward One Frame.
  6. Click Effects menu, 3D Effects, Mesh Warp.
  7. Choose Midwave from the Saved Styles list box, and click OK.

Go to next page.

Your movie is finished.

Corel PHOTO-PAINT offers easy access to the controls for your movie through the Movie toolbar.

  1. To open the Movie toolbar, click View menu, Toolbars.
  2. Enable the Movie toolbar box, and click OK.

You have now learned how to create a movie using a background and an object, and how to add interesting effects to any movie.

Go to next page.

Using the Movie toolbar to navigate through your movie is simple and easy to do.

To play or stop your movie

Click the Play Movie button, or the Stop Movie button, on the Movie toolbar.

To go to the first or last frame of your movie

Click the Rewind Movie button, or the Forward to End button, on the Movie toolbar.

To go forward or back one frame

Click the Step Forward button, or the Step Back button, on the Movie toolbar.

To select a specific frame

Drag the Active Movie Frame slider to the desired frame or type the frame number in the Active Movie Frame box. Both controls are found on the Movie toolbar.

More advanced controls for movies, such as inserting from a file, and moving or deleting frames, are also found on the Movie toolbar.

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