Nokia N72 - Edit video clips

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Edit video clips

You can edit video clips in

Gallery

.

To edit video clips and create custom video clips, scroll to
a video clip, and select

Options

>

Edit

. To create custom

video clips, combine and trim video clips, and add images,
sound clips, transitions, and effects. Transitions are visual

through MMS, select

Sharing

(QCIF resolution, .3gpp

file format).

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effects that you can add in the beginning and end of the
video or between the video clips.

In the video editor you can see two timelines: video clip
timeline and sound clip timeline. If you add images, text,
or transitions to a video clip, they are shown on the video
clip timeline. To move on the timelines, scroll left or right.
To switch between the timelines, scroll up or down.

Edit video, sound, image, text, and transitions

To create custom video clips, mark and select one or more
video clips, and select

Options

>

Edit

.

Press

and

to move between the video clip and the

sound clip.

To modify the video, select from the following options:

Edit video clip

:

Cut

—Trims the video clip in the cut video clip view.

Add colour effect

—Inserts a color effect on the video clip.

Use slow motion

—Slows the speed of the video clip.

Mute

/

Unmute

—Mutes or unmutes the original video clip

sound.

Move

—Moves the video clip to the selected location.

Remove

—Removes the video clip from the video.

Duplicate

—Makes a copy of the selected video clip.

Edit text

(shown only if you added text)—To move, remove

or duplicate text; change the color and style of the text;
define how long it stays on the screen; and add effects to
the text.

Edit image

(shown only if you have added an image)—To

move, remove or duplicate an image; define how long it
stays on the screen; and set a background or a color effect
to the image.

Edit sound clip

:

Cut

—Trims the sound clip in the cut sound clip view.

Move

—Moves the sound clip to the selected location.

Remove

—Removes the sound clip from the video.

Duplicate

—Makes a copy of the selected sound clip.

Set duration

—Changes the length of the sound clip.

Edit transition

—There are

three types of transitions: at
the start of a video, at the end
of a video, and transitions
between video clips. A start
transition can be selected
when the first transition of
the video is active.

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Insert

:

Video clip

—Inserts the selected video clip. A thumbnail of

the video clip is shown in the main view. A thumbnail
consists of the first non-black view of the video clip. The
name and length of the selected video clip is also shown.

Image

—Inserts the selected image. A thumbnail of the

image is shown in the main view.

Text

—Inserts text to the video clip. You can insert a title,

subtitle, or credits.

Sound clip

—Inserts the selected sound clip. The name and

length of the selected sound clip is shown in the main
view.

New sound clip

—Records a new sound clip to the selected

location.

Movie

—Preview the movie in the full screen mode or as a

thumbnail, save or send the movie, or cut the movie to a
proper size for sending it in a multimedia message.

Tip! To take a snapshot of a video clip, select

Options

>

Take snapshot

in the thumbnail preview

view or in the cut video view.

To save your video, select

Options

>

Movie

>

Save

. To

define the

Memory in use

, select

Options

>

Settings

. The

default is the device memory.

Tip! In the

Settings

view, you can define

Default

video name

,

Default image name

,

Resolution

, and

Memory in use

.

Select

Send

>

Via multimedia

,

Via e-mail

, or

Via

Bluetooth

if you want to send the video. Contact your

service provider or network operator for details of the
maximum multimedia message size that you can send. If
your video is too large to be sent in a multimedia message,

appears.

Tip! If you want to send a video clip that is over the

maximum multimedia message size allowed by your
service provider, you can send the clip using Bluetooth
connectivity. See ‘Send data using Bluetooth
connectivity’, p. 84. You can also transfer your videos to
your PC using Bluetooth wireless technology or by using a
memory card reader (enhancement).