Demo of Photo Story 3 (Broadband 300k Video) : CaptionKit HyperTranscript


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In this video Vladimir Rovinsky, lead program manager on the Photo Story team, demonstrates Photo Story. The product allows you to blend movement over still photos with audio and narration to create narrated stories. Read more and grab a free download> of Photo Story 3 at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/digitalphotography/photostory/default.mspx
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Channel 9
	So, you're demonstrating Photo Story 3 tonight, right ?
Vladimir Rovinsky
	Yes yes, just main thing, how it is, how you view your stuff.
	So, you import your pictures and err
	And erm
	So here your edit controls, that rotate, automatic red eye and so forth.
	So if, we produce video that is 4 by 3 aspect ratio
	If any pictures here is not optimised for 4 by 3 aspect ratio
	for instance it's either portrait video, or a still image
	or a still image that's done with digital SLR that's 3 by 2 aspect ratio, right ?
	We provide user with this, with the option of automatically cropping it
	based on pretty interesting technology of attention model recognition,
	So it analyses the picture, figures out what is the most important visual part of it
	and suggests to you automatically cropping it
	so to make it 4 by 3 aspect ratio, but still keep the most interesting part so you can tell your story about it.
	So for instance if I click this button it will analyse all these things,
	and try to figure out what can be easily cropped.
	Since this is a panoramic image and since it's too much to drop,
	it will not attempt to crop this one, so let's see what it will try to pick up.
	Well, this is obvious, so that's fine.
	We'll take this one.
	The other cool thing is here, that you can automatically, so it shows you the
	you know, the picture before, we see this is like bordered because it's a portrait picture.
	And how it suggests to crop it. And you can immediately adjust it and say -
	'Well I just want to concentrate on the girls face and I want that'
	Of course when you enlarge the face you immediately saw that she has red-eye problems, which we'll correct.
	So this girl's had red-eye, so we'll just automatically try to fix it up.
	And it determines, figures where her eyes are, and fix it.
Channel 9
	Wow ! I remember spending hours in Photoshop doing that !
Vladimir Rovinsky
	So we're done with that, so then we'll move here,
	And here we can you know, apply text, title text to any picture.
	I won't type it right now, but essential to any picture you can position it, and align it to the top.
Channel 9
	Wh, what does it look like when I just type Channel 9 ?
Vladimir Rovinsky
	OK so fine, so let's do aahhhh...
	So any, any erm, what is it called...
	Truetype font on your system we can use.
	And then you can erm, you know, do your usual things with colours
	Right ? And then you can apply - you can position it
	I hope that's good...
Channel 9
	Yep, that's cool.
Vladimir Rovinsky
	OK.
	So next, and so essentially with this kind of adding this caption
	You can insert this erm, essentially break a story into different like chapters right like your idea.
Channel 9
	Title pages ?
Vladimir Rovinsky
	Title pages, right.
	Oh yeah yeah, we also can add a bunch of effects here, so if you want your writing to stand out
	and for instance, where is the blur here ?
	Washout, washout, yeah, so we - no, it's not that interesting
	but for instance black and white, or something else
	different things, or of course you can say 'I don't want any of that on this picture', and move on.
	So by the time you are here, application figures out how to move your pictures so they'll look very nice.
	So we can always preview it, and look at the pace of the story, and what is highlighted for you and so on, so forth.
	So I want you to play that, to look at how
	I mean at the pace, so, this picture when you add text to the picture, by default it's static so you can read it.
	But all this stuff starts to move, I want to pay attention to the pace of it.
	So it figures out it's a panorama, so it shows it full screen
	The pace is adjusted based on the size of the panorama.
	It's in line, I mean feeling-wise, with the rest of the picture
	so it's not rushed through the panorama in five seconds like any other picture.
Channel 9
	Wow.
Vladimir Rovinsky
	So it figures it out, so it moves your things - here's a cropped girls face. And so on, so forth.
	Let's say you are you know, happy with this motion,
	But you know this guy has this er...
	You want to put, you want to attract peoples attention to this thing he has on, this mask.
	So you can essentially create pretty big zoom motion.
Channel 9
	So the left picture's the start position ?
Vladimir Rovinsky
	Start position.
[Together]
	And the right picture's the end position.
Vladimir Rovinsky
	We also show you the number of pixels here, and the number of pixels here.
	So you can also judge, even when you publish the video
	Right, you know that your smallest zoom should be comparable to the ...
	The smallest portion of the picture you're showing should be in line with the resolution,
	otherwise we'll have to stretch it, right ?
	So for instance if we produce 640 by 480 movie, this should be pretty good.
	And so if you look 3200 by 800 - this between four and five - this is around like 22x digital zoom.
	So I just wanted to show you.
	And if you notice, the duration is automatically adjusted.
	So as soon as you adjust motion, we recalculate duration,
	so it still looks smooth - not rushed, not too slow, not too fast. Let's look.
	And you can have immediate preview, what it will do.
	So let's look at this long zoom.
	It's very smooth, it's very very evenly paced.
	Very few guys do it, especially some of the slide shows based on Flash.
	And they have like tunnel effect, because the deeper you zoom,
	they like speed up like crazy, when you zoom out they start fast then they very slow it down, so.
Channel 9
	Heh (geeky laughing) what kind of algorithm do you do that with !
Woman in background
	.... do that external ...
Channel 9
	Ahaha, is that patented ?
Woman in background
	Yeah, it's patented yeah haha.
Vladimir Rovinsky
	So you see, the default motion is five seconds right ?
	But if you want to really create some dramatic effect you say
	'OK I want to concentrate on this shell here'
	'And I want to start on this and show all the facets of this one, and hang around in there'.
	And then go to the whole picture - we automatically figure out for how long to move it.
	And when you preview it you start with full screen, you know - just this shell...
	so you can just look at it very closely.
	And then go to the whole thing.
Channel 9
	Was this all coded in C++ ?
Woman in background
	Yep.
Vladimir Rovinsky
	Okay.
Channel 9
	Do you use Visual Studio or... ?
Woman in background
	Yep.
Vladimir Rovinsky
	Of course !
[Together]
	Of course hahaha.
Channel 9
	I hoped you'd say that - hahaha.
Vladimir Rovinsky
	Okay, so emmm and you can create this -
	And the other cool thing is right, when you first come here
	The program shows you what default motion is assigned
	So you know that it starts here and ends here.
	For instance if you want to concentrate on more creative er
	kind of interesting effect of mother looking at her daughter
	you can position your rectangle here
	Then to make sure it's exactly the same size rectangle so it's a perfect pan,
	You can say 'Set the end position to be the start position' so it's exactly the same.
	And then you can move it to the girls face, right ?
Channel 9
	Ahhhhh !
Vladimir Rovinsky
	You'll have just straight pan, and finish at girls smile.
	So here you go.
	So have the heading of conversation - so mum talks to the daughter.
	And you finish up on her smile.
	So it gives you all this creative ...
Channel 9
	That's awesome !
Vladimir Rovinsky
	... creative controls.
Channel 9
	Thats awesome.
	Can you, can you show me the music ?
Vladimir Rovinsky
	Right, right sure.
Man in background
	Shall we go to transitions ?
Vladimir Rovinsky
	Yes, we also edit in all Movie-Maker transitions like more than 45 transitions.
	And here you can see that it shows, this is you know, by default it's cross-fade.
	But before you really commit to it you can see everything that, how it will look.
	And we have you know 3D transitions , like flips and page curls and what-not.
	So you can experiment with all these things.
	You know people sometimes go really ga-ga on it,
	I saw this one woman in our visibility show, brought pictures of her son ?
	Playing baseball .... and all the transitions she changed to the stars,
	because he was a star, and so she wanted everything to be a star.
Channel 9
	(Geeky laughter)
Vladimir Rovinsky
	Right, anyway, so....
	But for unobtrusive, very natural moving thing I think
	a lot of people prefer cross-fades still because it's out of the way.
	So here's our music selection piece.
	Which just allows you to select existing music,
	Er so for instance here, I select the existing music and it covers as many pictures as it can.
	And you can preview it, OK, and it will show you both music and pictures.
Music
	#Piano Music#
Vladimir Rovinsky
	OK but you can drop multiple things here...
	And we will fade out of this one and go into the new one...
Music
	#Slow Piano Music#
Vladimir Rovinsky
	It will fade out and then the new music track will start...
Music
	#Faster Piano Music#
Vladimir Rovinsky
	But the really cool stuff here that was introduced was this create music as I said.
	So for instance let's select this picture and 'Create Music'.
	And here as I said, you have multiple pieces of music, er
	Different styles of music that fall into the eleven style like classical, country music, dance,
	funk, jazz, cool jazz, jazz-latin
	So for instance this seems like a ....
Channel 9
	You don't have Eminem on here do you ?
Vladimir Rovinsky
	No (laughs)
	But we have funk, we have hip-hop so for instance,
	This looks like a, the beach scene, so let's try Caribbean...
	I can adjust mood- cheerful - you want high intensity, you want to have you know, high tempo.
Music
	#Cheesy Calypso Music#
Vladimir Rovinsky
	And so it starts, and then it ends as a song so we don't fade out this one.
	OK so and you drop it on, it just shows you where it starts where it ends.
	The cool thing about this as we compose it automatically,
	If you put let's say another picture under it, it automatically recomposes.
	So if I make this picture last,
	and I preview it now, this picture,
	This picture will have the end of the song.
	So it automatically recomposes it, automatically shrinks it.
Music
	#Caribbean Music#
Vladimir Rovinsky
	And as I said, you can create a bunch of things like that.
	Just to show you how, you will feel the difference in the mood,
	So let me show you this Amadeus, so - piano, that's sentimental music
	and then I'll show you the anxious music just to, just so you can hear it out.
	and figure it out whether you hear the difference.
	So here's sentimental.
Music
	#Amadeus Sample#
Vladimir Rovinsky
	OK, so let's go to Anxious.
Music
	#Suspenseful Music#
Vladimir Rovinsky
	So you can play with a lot of those things, you can also play with for instance, outer space
	With the band that plays this, so here's more piano.
	Check this one out.
Music
	#Outer Space Band Style Music#
Vladimir Rovinsky
	Or clockwork, or twangs.
	You can essentially play with a lot of variety here.
Channel 9
	But can you lay audio on top of audio ?
	And record voice on top of the audio ?
Vladimir Rovinsky
	Yes, absolutely. So here,
	Then let's record something, right ?
	This has built in mic alright, so it's going to be bad but...
	(Narrating) "OK so here's Johnny, he's proud wearing his snorkel, he's about to plunge into the water".
	Right, so we'll have both so when you preview it...
Music
	#Recorded narration over music#
Vladimir Rovinsky
	You can reduce volume of the music comparatively, so
	My voice is going to be much better heard...
	Yeah so you can combine those things.
Channel 9
	Excellent.
Vladimir Rovinsky
	And at the end like I said you can figure,
	You can, here's the activities you can do - you can save it for your computer,
	And it has multiple profiles - send it in email,
	So I want to share for instance 'Send it in email', so we have panorama we have all these deep zooms.
	It's building a story based on your video, it figures out what profile
	and what for, for, first of all it's very fast.
	The other thing is - Oooh did we do ... ?
Man in background
	We took audio - well we can talk about it.
Vladimir Rovinsky
	So for email, it tries to have the video clip under one Meg
	so you can send it with most of the email programs.
	But of course you can go, lets say you're on an email server that allows two megabytes or more
	You can go and tweak the profile and have a larger video.
Channel 9
	How long approximately is one megabyte video ?
Vladimir Rovinsky
	With this profile - it depends on the profile, right ?
	But with 320 by 240 profile, one megabyte is probably about one minute, ten seconds.
	So it's a very sizable video.
	So what we think where this kind of thing would be very good you know,
	You go with your kid to the park, you shoot a bunch of photos and you email them immediately.
	You create your story, You put some music, you narrate it with some funny comments, put some captions.
	And you immediately email it.
	So it's just an instantaneous thing you can share it between friends and family.
	You go to the party, shoot a couple of pictures and you send to everybody.
Channel 9
	Is there any limit to the audio I can record ?
Vladimir Rovinsky
	You mean length - yes each picture up to five minutes. It's more than enough.
	Because then the motions become boring because not moving anywhere.
Channel 9
	So, interesting, OK.
	Cause what I want to do is do a radio show on top of my photo story.
	And you know, layer it on top.
	Turn down the music but do like a ten minute audio blog post on top of my Photo Story.
Vladimir Rovinsky
	So for instance it's created 240 by 480, it' can put it under, I mean it made it under 500 kilobytes, right ?
	So let's say lets say we tell it to do 320 by 240, just manual.
	So it picks up on it and makes it that scarce and then we can go
	and you can then go into 320 by 240 and say let's do another one for it.
	Yeah I just want to show you what kind of quality you're going to get
	You know, around one Meg.
Channel 9
	Right.
Vladimir Rovinsky
	And this one's going to be more than a minute video.
Channel 9
	Now for my DVD player, I...
Vladimir Rovinsky
	Yes, since it's a free distribution, we don't include any codecs for burning (to DVD)
	But what we do - since if people have DVD burners, they probably have the burning software -
	But what we do - see, this is one, this is still less than one Meg.
	But what we do smartly, because when you move over still images on TV,
	you have a lot of, you know, kind of bad effects, artefacts, like moires you know -
	all these thin lines, horizontal lines come alive and it's just very distracting.
	So we do smart blurring of these things, so on TV, for our DVD and VCD profiles we do a good job there.
	So your video will have better, you'll have a better viewing experience.
	So let's check it out for a story.
	That's what you can - oh, sorry - so view your story,
	I want to show you the quality, so lets see if the video size is 100%
Channel 9
	You can make it full screen.
Vladimir Rovinsky
	Yeah you can make it full screen, but I suppose the quality will get....
	But that you can mail, and this is, you know - one minute 20 seconds, that quality of video.
	Now you can see whatever, the expression on his face.
Channel 9
	That's really really cool.
Vladimir Rovinsky
	And as you saw it was just a couple of clicks.
Channel 9
	Some email programs will let ya send around 10 or 15 megabytes at a time so.
Vladimir Rovinsky
	And say you continued doing it, and it will let you put in your email client, attach the video and so on, so you can go back.
	And overall we provide 14 profiles, so you can just sent it away
	We provide a bunch of profiles so for, you know if you have a good computer
	You can create a really big one, if you have good pictures, providing the resolution up to 1024 by 768
	But it's going to be pretty much - not sure, yep...
	Let's do 800 by 600, you can see that if your pictures are good it's going to be stunning looking.
	Because you know, it preserves everything.
Channel 9
	You're still in a WMV file format ?
Vladimir Rovinsky
	So even at this, we'll check this out - the size of 800 by 600 video
	for almost a minute and a half, minute and 20 seconds, and we'll see the size.
Channel 9
	Now who's your competition ?
Vladimir Rovinsky
	So we have several products out in the market right now
	in the from 30 to 50 dollar range that do different type of things.
	Some of them allow, you know, quite similar
	What shall I say - freedom in some of the - how to specify motion.
	Not, not as much as we do, but allowed to do it.
	But you know they're, they, some of them are only for instance to create your video and produce DVD out of it.
	So for instance the quality of the preview suffers, it's not very good.
	But when you burn a DVD it looks good on TV.
	Erm, some of them don't provide as much control so for instance you can control
	errr motion, but you cannot control the duratin of transition,
	Or, the duration of transition is not very individual, it's half a second.
	So you cannot create a lot of things with their videos, you know,
	MTV type effects you won't be able to create with those because it's just too long.
	Erm but so, you know, I would say as a free download I mean it's just - nothing touches us !
Channel 9
	That's really really neat, OK.
Vladimir Rovinsky
	So let me show you, so this is 800 by 600.
	Almost one and a half minutes, 4 Meg.
	So let's see the quality of this thing.
Channel 9
	Uhuh, much bigger.
	Yep.
	So you get a little bit bigger video but much better quality.
Vladimir Rovinsky
	Yeah because I mean, you can see you picture preserved
	his optical safety lens or whatever, and it's just, your photos come alive here.
Channel 9
	That's really cool.
Vladimir Rovinsky
	So let's see that shell, because I think that shell is going to look stunning with all the...
	Yeah - look at that.
	You can see the pearl, the pearly glow of light.
	So its -
Channel 9
	Much better quality, yeah.
	Or you could go even bigger.
Vladimir Rovinsky
	Oh yeah, it's just bound by how good is your machine.
Channel 9
	Well congratulations, that's really neat, a neat product.
	Thankyou for taking some time in showing it to us.

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