Making a preview to put before main movie...

[vcd4me]

Hi I want to make a preview to put on my vcds that will say something like.....

Welcome To Ed's Home Theater.

I have a few questions:
1. Is there any progams that I can do this with?
2. Can I make an avi out of a picture (jpeg) that I have? Basically so a picture will loop for say around 20 seconds or so.
3. Is there any simple to use software that I can make animated video's with? like a dancing box of popcorn or something.

Thanks any help would be greatly appreciated

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VCD4ME

[Marco33]

You are probably better off saving the space for quality but, MGI video wav will do that. You can take a bunch of picture and make a movie.

[vcd4me]

Thanks Marco33

My other Idea is to put it on a seprate disc so I can show it before the movie. I am pllanning on buying a 5 disc carosel dvd player. so I don't have to get my lazy ass off the couch.

The mgi video is it easy to use.
Where can i get that is it freeware.

Thanks in advance
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VCD4ME

P.S. I don't know how this post got put edditing and cutting I never look in that section and as a matter of fact I was posting in this forum right before I posted this one . I am sorry though- maybe I screwed up?

[housepig]

MGI VideoWave isn't freeware, but it's not super expensive.

Another option might be Magix Audio/Video - it's a video and audio editor that was aimed at office people for presentations, I got the deluxe version in an Office Depot store for $9 because it had been discontinued! You might be able to find it cheap from a reseller.

Otherwise, there's got to be a freeware tool to convert an image file to a short video - you might have to go from .jpg to .bmp, then from .bmp to .avi, then from .avi to .mpg, but I know I've seen freeware that will compile stills into movies.

hope this helps. good luck.

- housepig