Creating a new Film template theme

LoganTMT wrote on 9/20/2023, 1:20 PM

Hey Guys,

So I'm looking to design a wild west theme using some of the western music I have for a steam era model railway video and would like to know where I can find film templates for Movie Studio Platinum 2024?

Thanks,

Logan Thurman

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CubeAce wrote on 9/20/2023, 9:34 PM

@LoganTMT

Hi and welcome to the user to user forums.

I'm not sure what you mean by the word Templates. If you mean something available from a commercial source be aware you may need to buy additional licences to use it somewhere like YouTube to avoid a copyright strike. Always look at End User Licence Agreements before buying anything.

Your request is also somewhat niche so finding something to fit as you have not stated which steam era or country (British steam locomotives tend to look a lot different to American ones for instance) that may be difficult to find. Not to mention it is for a model railway as opposed to the real thing.

If you just mean using text then all the fonts on your computer are available via using the Title Editing tool.

Just open the Font section and use the mouse scroll wheel to go through the list of available fonts on your computer. Additional fonts can be found on the net to download if you don't have one you think will fit.

I think personally I would make something up myself so as to be unique and avoid any possible copyright issues.

If you are after something more please give more details.

Ray.

browj2 wrote on 9/21/2023, 6:45 AM

@LoganTMT

Hi,

Assuming that you downloaded and installed the Additional Content, under the Templates tab, you should have Movie templates & editing templates, Intro/Outro Animations, and Title templates (Fonts Basic). Take a look at these to get some inspiration. Under Intro/Outro, there is one called Train (Intro and Outro) that may help inspire you. Cartoonish, but you can replace whatever you want with your own.

Here is a quick example of the Train intro. I changed the font and would change the orientation of the cartoon train to have it come from the other direction to match with my train footage, and then change the transition since changing the orientation (mirror) messes up the page curl transition which is built into stock train. Or create something else like replacing the cartoon with my own train.

As Ray mentions, watch out for commercial use vs personal use. The content that comes with Magix Movie Studio is for personal use; the same material with Video Pro X can be used commercially.

Here is a link to a video done by someone using BluffTitler. This is way overdone and probably took the guy a month of Sundays to create, but some of the images may give you some ideas.

https://www.outerspace-software.com/community/11995/far-west

I find that trying to find suitable intros is always a chore. Take a look on YouTube for similar videos to see what others have done.

John CB

LoganTMT wrote on 9/22/2023, 4:42 PM

I'm looking for creating kind of like the train intro, but I'm hoping to do more film like and not have to use AE or Premiere to make them.

johnebaker wrote on 9/23/2023, 2:49 AM

@LoganTMT

An Intro template is something you can create your own from your own, or stock, video clips, images, titles adding effects to 'customise' the look,eg:

Animation/movement of titles or use one of the title presets
Colour saturation or tints to transition from for example B/W or Sepia tone to full colour
Zoom and pan effects.

For these items you will need to use Keyframing - see the tutorials list here for how to do various effects and keyframing - some are done using older versions of the program, however the same principles apply.

Once you have created your intro you can save it for adding to future projects by exporting the project as a MVD file, File Manage Project, Export movie file.

Added:

Here are 2 simple examples - both use the same video clip and title object, the rest is effects.

HTH

John EB
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