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".

Super DVD Video Editor - freeware

Super DVD Video Editor is a free complete program for video editing that includes:

• video capturing
• video editing
• video effects
• DVD authoring
• DVD burning

With this program you can make your video editing easily, like what you can do with commercial program like Ulead Video Studio, or Pinnacle Studio. It covers all the basic functions you need for video editing. You can add some transitions to your video clips, trim them and join them together into a new clip. You can also add text effect or subtitles to your clips. Audio and voice are also enabled (with fade function). Then you can burn the final video to a DVD and play it with a DVD player.
And what really makes it worth to download is that it's free.

Virtual Dub - free program for simple linear video editing

Virtual Dub is a program for simple video editing. Since it can edit video files, you can of course use it to play your video files (act as a video player). You can use it to process avi files or mpeg files. It has the ability to extract the audio of a video files and save it into wav format. It is under General Public Licence. You can freely use this program and distribute it, but you can't change or alter it.

This program is quite easy to use for general purpose. But it can't replace the position or the importance of some famous video editing like Ulead Video Studio, Adobe Premiere or Cyberlink Power Director. Therefore you can use it for the main purpose of extracting audio or trimming video. You can also apply some simple video filter to your video files. And most of all, it's free. Click here to download the program.