How to create videos with an IRI appeal

From WikIRI

Imagine that you have created a video and want to show it in a Conference or post it on your web site. All videos created at IRI should have the same institutional appeal, as much as we do with conference presentations, posters, or the PhD thesis format and Technical Reports.

These are the instructions to edit your video so that it complies with the "IRI image".

Windows

• First, make sure you have Windows Movie Maker installed. If you do not have it installed, just upgrade to XP SP2 at [1]

• Close Windows Movie Maker, then, copy these two xml files: [2] and [3] to the directory C:/Program Files/Movie Maker/Shared/AddOnTFX, copy the IRI logo with some transparent background at [4] into the C:/Program Files/Movie Maker/Shared directory, and the Powerpoint template [5] anywhere in your PC.

• Open and edit caratula_video.ppt, then save it to an image format that you can later add to the start of your video (gif or jpg for example).

• Start Windows Movie Maker and load your video or sequence of videos into it. If your video does not load into Windows Movie Maker, first encode it with a codec and encapsulator it understands, for example WMV8, using eRightSoft Simplified Universal Player Encoder at [6]

• Once you have the video in Movie Maker, add a title to the whole length of the video with a blank space in its contents. Choose the effect for the title "Mylogo" for NTSC image size or "MylogoWide" for wide screen image size. This should add the IRI logo to the right bottom corner of your video.

• Finally load the caratula_video image you saved from the ppt file into Movie Maker and let it last for say 5 seconds.

• Save the final video to a file. This will encode it with Windows Movie Maker 9.

• Finally, to make sure your video plays well on all Windows machines, even when inserted in a PowerPoint presentation with Office older than 2003, as well as on MAC machines with FLAC drivers, and most linux machines with current Debian distributions, you first MUST reencode the video with eRightSoft SUPER to the WMV 8 format.

All platforms

See the Windows section to get the video title and IRI watermark.

VLC player (multiplatform and free) allows to transcode videos [7] and also add a logo in the process [8]

Caveats: the WMV encoded videos produced with VLC on a MAC are not WMV8 compatible with the explanation described above. The transparency in the logo is not preserved by vlc. This procedure needs further testing.

Linux/MacOS

See the Windows section to get the video title and IRI watermark.

Transcode users can use the logo filter [9]. The logo can be in any of the ImageMagick supported formats.

Caveat: if you use transcode, and to comply with the portability described above, make sure that your video plays well on a Windows Office 2003 ppt presentation before distributing it. Personally, I have not tested this yet.

If you have doubts or questions, email cetto@iri.upc.edu