It's horribly awkward to use and distinctly lacking in Help, but Cliplets is also a fantastic tool for extracting the key moments from a video and turning them into something more focused and eye-catching. It is capable of quality results, though, as the examples on the project page show, and with the right source material you could produce something very special. So you'll need to watch its video tutorials before you can get started, on even the simplest project. In our birthday party example, for instance, if someone or some object moves into the mask at some point then it'll also be partly rendered, ruining the effect.Īnd also the program is, well, less than intuitive. The mask needs to contain your movement action and nothing else, for instance. Problems? This won't work with all videos. This title is being offered by Canadian Content as Freeware.
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The program then renders and plays the cliplet, and if it all looks good then you can export the results to MP4 or WMV videos. Download Microsoft Research Cliplets: Create cliplets from Microsoft Research. Then you get to decide how that movement will be treated - whether it loops, where it appears in the overall clip, and so on. Next, you're able to choose the background frame which will become the still part of the cliplet.Ī quick freehand drawing around the area you'd like to remain moving - your daughter in the party, the fountain in Rome - is enough to create a mask. How does it work? You must first import your video, and choose a ten second (or less) section containing the moment you'd like to highlight. So you might have a view of a fountain in the square, say: people passing by are frozen, motionless, but the water still cascades down just as it always did. Again, maybe there's a lot of movement as you focus on many different things, but Cliplets can help you zoom in.
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Or there's that holiday movie you took, in Rome. Pass it through Cliplets, though, and you may be able to create something where the background is entirely still, the guests all motionless, and all you have is your daughter blowing out a candle, then smiling at the camera. Imagine a video of your daughter's fifth birthday, for instance: shaky camera work, lots of movement, it's all a little messy. The result is really original and the possibilities with Cliplets are endless.Microsoft's Research Cliplets is an interesting tool which enables you to extract one precious moment from a video, and focus specifically on that, producing something that's not quite a still, not really a video, but something in between. Original animated imagesĬliplets is a tool that will surprise you with the results it can achieve: static images with a single moving element, like an object or a person. On the negative side of Cliplets, it is missing an option to customize the quality of the resulting video or GIF, and by default it tends to occupy a lot of space, which does limit the ability to share the GIF online. Microsoft Research Cliplets The Xbox and other gaming councils have made great leaps and strides with technology with motion cap that includes Microsofts Kinect and better processing power that give gamers bigger and. In this sense, the technology behind Cliplets achieves its goal with ease. When viewing a cliplet, you'll be surprised at how good the result is, the retouching is barely noticeable and it seems like the original video hasn't been edited. In addition, to select the moving element all you have to do is draw around it.Īs for the rest, with Cliplets you only have the option to open a video, save a project for editing later and save the cliplet for sharing. Furthermore, the use of the layers is very intuitive - like an image editor - to use. Anyone can do itĬliplets is really easy to use. Using the layers you can combine various moves in different elements and create very visually appealing results. When it comes to the movements, you can make the element continuously repeat its sequence, go forward and backward in the sequence, or repeat the movement once - among other options. The process is really simple: choose a video in one of the supported formats, select the elements you want to move using a layer for each, assigning it one of four possible movements, and click " Export Cliplet" to get the result in GIF image format or MP4 or WMV video. In the same vein, Cliplets converts a video into a static image where one or more elements are in motion. GIFs are now very popular on the internet - they're easy to share and offer lots of opportunities for laughs.
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