Star Wars crawl on my PC; Can it be done?

[HeapThaumaturgist]

Well I abandoned my quest to do it via PPT. Too much of a pain in the kiester.

I might be able to save my MovieMaker file as a MovieMaker file and anybody with WinXP should be able to open it up, edit the text of the credits, and output it.

I'm currently trying to download the SW main theme so I can add it to the movie file, synch them up nicely ... my wife has been laughing at me since last night.

--fje

 

[Ashrum the Black]

Just since last night?

Huh, mine seems to laugh and point at my geekyness all the time.

-Ashrum

 

[Chaldfont]

There's a screen saver that comes with Red Hat linux that does this. It pops up on my workstation at work from time to time since I have the screen saver set to random. Its called "starwars". You might be able to use a Live Linux CD to boot to linux and run this.

 

[HeapThaumaturgist]

Well I've completed what I consider to be a good final draft, including theme song. I wish I had a star background or something to go with it, but I'd need some fancier stuff ... Adobe and Lightwave and each of those is hundreds of dollars. For the grand total price of 99 cents (for the theme song, DLed it off iTunes and stripped the copyprot so I could USE it), I've got a pretty smooth outfit.

I'd post it up, but it's something like 7mb for some reason. I think because I put the whole theme music in there and trimmed the audio clip within MovieMaker and it doesn't delete the unused portion of the song, so I'll have to find some way to edit the MP3 down. It looks pretty sweet, I'm dorking out, myself. And because the project itself is saved and editable, after each adventure I could go back in and edit the text and make a whole new intro for each adventure arc. Tales of the Jedi - Episode 1: Shadows of Doubt, etc etc.

--fje