How to create "pick up a car effect" with Adobe After Effect?

Have you ever watched super heroes movies that show the super heroes doing impossible things for human beings, like picking up a car, hitting an airplane? Well, all these things are possible in movies with movie special effects. One of the most common action is to pick up the car as seen on movies. And this can be done with program like Adobe After Effects. Here's a tutorial video on how to pick up a car using Adobe After Effects.

Cloning effect with Microsoft Movie Maker

Have you ever watch "Twin Dragons", one of Jackie Chan's famous movie? You can see two Jackie Chan's on the movie. He himself plays the role of two people. This movie has given me inspiration of writing this post. I'll try to give you simple way to create clone video of yourself or you can call it video of Twin.

Indeed, movie editing is a fun thing especially the video editing effect. Normally to create a video of cloning or twin effect, you need to use green or blue screen background. Then, you use Chroma Key effect on the video with green or blue screen. A bit complicated if you are a real beginner in video editing.

The most commonly used video editing software for Windows is the Windows Movie Maker. This program enables you to create movie from video clips with lots of transition effects. It's also very easy to use. You can trim your video, audio and even add text to the video.

If you have ever used Windows Movie Maker and know how to apply transition effect to the video, you can then create "twin video effect" using SPLIT transition and video positioning. Here's a video that gives you tutorial about simple clone effect. No need CHROMA KEY effect. You don't even need "green screen" or "blue screen".

Windows Movie Maker is missing in Windows 7. Where can I get it?

By default when you install Windows 7, you won't get Windows Movie Maker. Microsoft has excluded this video editing program since Windows 7. Therefore, you can still download it and installed it on your Windows 7 computer.

Windows Movie Maker is a simple and great program that you can use to create or edit videos. The most common task is to create photo slide show or presentation. You may also edit your favorite videos after putting them into timeline or storyboard. You may then apply some transitions or titles that describe the photos or videos. You may also add music into the videos. Then you can create a video file for burning into a disc. You need select the video profile for playback before creating the video file. It's a very easy-to-use program. Even children can use it at ease.

So, where can you download this program? Just click here to download the Windows Live Movie Maker installer.

How to make a movie

Well, this is a post about making movie. The step for making a movie, starts from:
Pre-production - Production - Post Production - and Distribution

If you are interested in movie making, but don't know how to start, I suggest you visit Adobe Digital Kids Club. Don't look down on the word: "Kids Club". You will find a lot of tips and tricks on making movie.

If you are a teacher who wishes to teach your student how to make a movie, you should visit this site. It covers many movie making tips. It gives introduction and tutorial on movie making.

BUT you can also click the links on the page to get more tutorials. This is the link:

http://www.adobe.com/education/digkids/intro_video/making_of_movie.html