A) Introduction

We’re going to learn how to make a credit at the beginning and a credit at the end in a video and this in EKD. We’ll be using the menu Add elements and the Multiplying images in the section Image. We are going to finish by a video mounting of the credit at the beginning, three videos and the credit at the end.

Before starting, you have to be aware that we’re not going to do it with only three clicks as in most of the tasks in EKD (but don’t worry !, you’ll see it with the procedure just below, … this is gonna be quite easy to do).

B) Practical case of adding an element

First of all, we created an image totally black with The Gimp whose size is 384 x 320.

b1) Creating the images of the credits

In EKD select Image > Various > Add elements, then in the Image(s) source tab click on the button Add.

In the window Images path, on the left side select the directory (if you need, look in the subdirectories ), and look for the images. If you wish to select more than one image at the time, keep the key CTRL (or SHIFT) pressed (while selecting them), click on Add.

Your image has been added to the list.

Go to the Setting tab, the image you load will appear on the screen, click then on the button Add text.

In the dialogue box that appears, select the Font, the Size and the Color, write your text (where you have to) and click on the button OK.

Your text is now available in the main window and in a dot frame, and you need to put this frame in the image (in our exemple we put it in the center of the image).

Click on the button Apply.

The saving window gets open (Save) , and here, on the left side, select the final directory (if you need go the the subdirectories), type the title in the text field File name: and click on the button Save.

We now have to create the image of the credit at the end (that means the final sequence). We have to erase what we’ve been written before (but keeping the image) and we have to create a new text. Once you select the text (you see it when the dot frame around is visible), click on the button you see on the image below.

You have to confirm that you erased the text by clicking on the button Yes in the dialogue box that appears.

For the new text, click on the button Add text and in the dialogue box select the Font, the Size and the Color, write your text (where you have to) and click on the button OK.

Click on the button Apply.

The saving window gets open (Save) , and here, on the left side, select the final directory (if you need go the the subdirectories), type the title in the text field File name: and click on the button Save.

C) Multiplying and transforming images into videos

The images you load (in our exemple, two images) are going to be multiplied and then be transformed into videos. We start from a single image for each video, but at the end each video will contain Multiplication, running time in seconds multiplied by Multiplication, number of frames/sec images (the user is asked to do this setting in the Setting tab).

If we start from what we see in the exemple below, each video will contain 6×25=150 images, that means two videos of six seconds each running at 25 images per second.

In this menu each image that you load will be transformed into a video in one time.

c1) Loading images

Select Image > Various > Images Multiplication , then in the Image(s) source tab click on the button Add.

In the window Images path, on the left side select the directory (if you need, look in the subdirectories ), and look for the images. If you wish to select more than one image at the time, keep the key CTRL (or SHIFT) pressed (while selecting them), click on Add.

Your image has been added to the list.

c2) Important settings

In the Setting tab do the changings as it is shown in the image below (do not forget Multiplication, number of frames/sec has to be set on 25 in order to have everything fine in the final step).

c3) Building the credits of the video

Click on the button Apply and save the video.

The saving window gets open (Save) , and here, on the left side, select the final directory (if you need go the the subdirectories), type the title in the text field File name: and click on the button Save.

This window gets open with some informations, click on the button Yes.

c4) Playing the videos you made

At the end of the treatment (after the view of the progression bar), select the Created videos tab, you’re going to see that a scrolling list has been made, and it contains the references of the videos you just made.

Select one of these videos in the list to play it.

D) Last step, the video editing

Now that we have a serie of videos, we can concatenate them.

d1) Loading videos

Select Video > Video editing > Video only, click on the button Add.

In the window Videos path, on the left side select the directory (if you need, look in the subdirectories ), and look for the images. If you wish to select more than one image at the time, keep the key CTRL (or SHIFT) pressed (while selecting them), click on Add

The videos has been added to the list.

d2) Settings of the editing order

You can go now to the Settings tab, you’re going to se a list in which you can change the appeareance order of the videos (by going up or down in the files with the arrows).

d3) Final treatment

Click on the button Apply.

The saving window gets open (Save) , and here, on the left side, select the final directory (if you need go the the subdirectories), type the title in the text field File name: and click on the button Save.

At this time a dialogue box gets open asking you to read and confirm some informations ; if you want everything to be allright, click on the button Yes.

A first progression bar takes place (it is the video treatment).

When the progression bar gets to the end, a button See the informations about the encoding appears.

By clicking on this button you’ll get to this informations.

Go to the Play video tab, you’ll be able to play the video coming from the concatenation of the different videos. In this tab, you can use the buttons play/pause, stop and the choice about the displaying (4/3, 16/9 and (w;h) to play the video in the widht x height of the origin).

d5) Information about the path

To finish, the Infos tab allows you to see the video(s) loaded (with the right path) before and after the assemblying.