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Picasa is very popular as a top-notch integrated image organizer, photo editor and enhancer, with fantastic online galleries. In addition to its capable photo editing and organizing tools, the latest version, Picasa 3, now lets you do basic video editing and make your own movie as well. As a Google product, Picasa 3 is a beta, and is intended for everyone to use.
Not only does the program lets you create your own movie with the movie maker, it also allows you to do some basic editing to your video clips before you go to the movie maker.
Here are some movie editing functions of Picasa 3:
Movie Editing Interface
When you play a video file in Picasa 3, it opens the video editing interface. Basically it has two areas: on the left is a window with button functions to upload to YouTube, Take a Snapshot, Export Clip and reset buttons for the In/Out cutting tool. The larger area on the right is the preview window for the video/movie clip and below it are 4 rows of buttons and icons for various edits and functions.
Just below the preview window is the first horizontal tasks bar that consists of a Play/Pause button on the left. On the right of the timeline are the In/Out buttons, audio volume slider and a Play Full Screen button.
* In and Out buttons
The "In "and "Out" buttons are located in the lower-right corner. They are very important tools as they allow you to cut or trim away unwanted footage from a video clip. Anything within these two buttons is the footage you want to show to others.
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You can reset the Start and End points by using the buttons located in the task window to the left of your screen.
You can use the "." and "," keys on your keyboard to step the video frame-by-frame. This is very useful to mark the exact spot where you want to trim your video clip, and to select the exact frame to take a snapshot.
* Volume Slider
Glide the slider left or right to lower or raise the volume of your video clip.
* Play Full Screen
You can use the Play full screen button to watch the large version of your video clip.
The second horizontal bar has a Show/Hide Caption icon that looks like a page on the left, the caption is in the middle and on the far right is the trash-can icon where you can delete the caption.
The third horizontal task bar has a few more buttons that you use to edit your video clips.
* Add/Remove a Star
You can rate your videos with stars and view only the videos with a certain rating. This makes it easy to tell by thumbnail which videos you are looking for.
* Rotate counter-clockwise or Clockwise,
Picasa 3 is the only free video-editing software that I know which allows you to rotate clockwise or counter-clockwise your video clip using the Rotate buttons in the Photo Tray. This function is very useful if you want to correct a vertical video clip that you took holding the videocam sideways.
* Tag photos with words for searching
Previous versions allowed you to add only one-word tags. Now, Picasa 3 adds multiword tag support. This is a hugh improvement for quick search.
* Geo-Tag
Geotagging now integrates with Google Earth, letting you tag using that program or automatically fly to a video's location on its global display.
* Zoom Slider
You can use the zoom slider to adjust the size of the video in the Picasa editing window.
* Display Photo In Actual Size
Clicking on this button allows you to view your video in its actual size.
On the left side of your screen is a task window comprising six buttons with the following functions:
* Upload to YouTube
When you are satisfied with your edited video clip, you can upload it directly to YouTube. Just fill in the necessary editorial details, log in to YouTube with your credentials and hit the Upload button.
Using Picasa, you can also Upload videos to Picasa Web Albums. Videos uploaded must not be larger than 100 MB in size. You can upload videos to Picasa Web Albums using the the Upload button with the green upward-pointing arrow located at the right of the Photo Tray.
* Take Snapshot
You can also take a snapshot from any point in the video by hitting the Print Screen key. A screen capture tool takes a a single frame of the video of what's on your screen, and auto saves it as captured videos.
* Export Clip
By default, the edited video stays where it is in the Picasa gallery, unless you decide to export a file with the edits. Just click the Export Clip to output a newly trimmed or rotated video as a compressed wmv file.
* Reset Start and End
* Undo Start Point, and
* Redo
These three buttons located at the bottom of the window are used together with the In/Out buttons to cut or trim your video to a shorter clip.
* Movie
When you are satisfied with the video clip you have just edited and decide to make a movie, just click the large Movie button in the Photo Tray. You can now create a movie presentation with your selected video.
Picasa is very popular as a top-notch integrated image organizer, photo editor and enhancer, with fantastic online galleries. In addition to its capable photo editing and organizing tools, the latest version, Picasa 3, now lets you do basic video editing and make your own movie as well. As a Google product, Picasa 3 is a beta, and is intended for everyone to use.
Not only does the program lets you create your own movie with the movie maker, it also allows you to do some basic editing to your video clips before you go to the movie maker.
Here are some movie editing functions of Picasa 3:
Movie Editing Interface
When you play a video file in Picasa 3, it opens the video editing interface. Basically it has two areas: on the left is a window with button functions to upload to YouTube, Take a Snapshot, Export Clip and reset buttons for the In/Out cutting tool. The larger area on the right is the preview window for the video/movie clip and below it are 4 rows of buttons and icons for various edits and functions.
Just below the preview window is the first horizontal tasks bar that consists of a Play/Pause button on the left. On the right of the timeline are the In/Out buttons, audio volume slider and a Play Full Screen button.
* In and Out buttons
The "In "and "Out" buttons are located in the lower-right corner. They are very important tools as they allow you to cut or trim away unwanted footage from a video clip. Anything within these two buttons is the footage you want to show to others.
P.S.
You can reset the Start and End points by using the buttons located in the task window to the left of your screen.
You can use the "." and "," keys on your keyboard to step the video frame-by-frame. This is very useful to mark the exact spot where you want to trim your video clip, and to select the exact frame to take a snapshot.
* Volume Slider
Glide the slider left or right to lower or raise the volume of your video clip.
* Play Full Screen
You can use the Play full screen button to watch the large version of your video clip.
The second horizontal bar has a Show/Hide Caption icon that looks like a page on the left, the caption is in the middle and on the far right is the trash-can icon where you can delete the caption.
The third horizontal task bar has a few more buttons that you use to edit your video clips.
* Add/Remove a Star
You can rate your videos with stars and view only the videos with a certain rating. This makes it easy to tell by thumbnail which videos you are looking for.
* Rotate counter-clockwise or Clockwise,
Picasa 3 is the only free video-editing software that I know which allows you to rotate clockwise or counter-clockwise your video clip using the Rotate buttons in the Photo Tray. This function is very useful if you want to correct a vertical video clip that you took holding the videocam sideways.
* Tag photos with words for searching
Previous versions allowed you to add only one-word tags. Now, Picasa 3 adds multiword tag support. This is a hugh improvement for quick search.
* Geo-Tag
Geotagging now integrates with Google Earth, letting you tag using that program or automatically fly to a video's location on its global display.
* Zoom Slider
You can use the zoom slider to adjust the size of the video in the Picasa editing window.
* Display Photo In Actual Size
Clicking on this button allows you to view your video in its actual size.
On the left side of your screen is a task window comprising six buttons with the following functions:
* Upload to YouTube
When you are satisfied with your edited video clip, you can upload it directly to YouTube. Just fill in the necessary editorial details, log in to YouTube with your credentials and hit the Upload button.
Using Picasa, you can also Upload videos to Picasa Web Albums. Videos uploaded must not be larger than 100 MB in size. You can upload videos to Picasa Web Albums using the the Upload button with the green upward-pointing arrow located at the right of the Photo Tray.
* Take Snapshot
You can also take a snapshot from any point in the video by hitting the Print Screen key. A screen capture tool takes a a single frame of the video of what's on your screen, and auto saves it as captured videos.
* Export Clip
By default, the edited video stays where it is in the Picasa gallery, unless you decide to export a file with the edits. Just click the Export Clip to output a newly trimmed or rotated video as a compressed wmv file.
* Reset Start and End
* Undo Start Point, and
* Redo
These three buttons located at the bottom of the window are used together with the In/Out buttons to cut or trim your video to a shorter clip.
* Movie
When you are satisfied with the video clip you have just edited and decide to make a movie, just click the large Movie button in the Photo Tray. You can now create a movie presentation with your selected video.
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