Create-A-Movie is a video editor not unlike Windows Movie Maker or iMovie. The only difference is that it’s entirely Web-based and lives on the official Sims site. It’s also designed to be easy-to-use; for instance, different objects such as transitions are associated with different shapes (square, circles). That way, when you make a movie and need a transition between two scenes (which may be associated with squares) is select a square object and drag it into the square slot.
When you get to Create-a-Movie, you’ll see all of the clips that you’ve uploaded. At that point, it’s just a matter of arranging your clips in order, editing which parts you want to use. Then you add transitions and effects, such as fades, blurs, and sepia tones. You can also add captions and a soundtrack, choosing from more than 200-plus musical tracks made for all The Sims games to date. However, you won’t’ be able to upload your own music, probably for copyright reasons.
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“Create-A-Movie is a video editor not unlike Windows Movie Maker” ~ That’s probably because it essentially is Windows Movie Maker just with the preview screen reversed and basic features stripped out. I just hope movie makers aren’t forced to only use this piece of Maxoid dung.
Just Simish music would suck but I can understand it due to amount of copyright Nazis on YouTube but EA needs to understand that movie makers can always host their movies on their own sites where the video won’t be deleted every time someone cries copyright even when the copyright holder agrees to allow the movie to remain on YouTube with advertising like was the case with one of my videos.
Actually, the musically inclined could just make their own score for their movies and use that without any problem. So taking options away is a bad idea and rather unintelligent.
But this is EA we’re talking about so intelligence isn’t their strong suit. After all this is a company who recently didn’t realize it was a bad idea to ship illegal weapons across state lines.
LOL The brass knuckles incident. And you know what was even worse? They wanted the press who received them to BREAK the law and ship them back! Geez, what a smart move, EA!
Yeah, leave it to EA to give a gift and want it right back. Personally, I would have kept them just to see how badly EA wanted them back. Sure they’re illegal here in New Jersey but it’s not like I would actually use them. But I wonder if someone did use them prior to sending them back if that makes EA an accomplice to the crime. They probably should have thought about that one for a bit.
EA just a suggestion… free AK-47’s with the Sims 3. It’ll be a great preorder item. 😉