In addition to the gift itself for various holiday events, whether it is a birthday or, say, Valentine's Day, it is customary to give cards. However, it’s hard to surprise anyone with ordinary paper or e-mail cards. On the other hand, one cannot do without such a congratulation. After all, I want to not only give something material, but also to express love / appreciation / wishes to a loved one with words or visual images. What to think up to avoid banality, but to convey your feelings to the hero of the occasion? Our article dedicated to how to make video greetings to any significant event is called upon to help with this.
Ideas for Creative Greetings
Today everyone has a computer and Internet access, and therefore the idea of a congratulatory video will be an original alternative to paper cards. You can make them using one of the many programs designed for editing and editing video clips. Among the most famous and quite functional, you can select Windows Movie Maker, which is often installed by default, as well as Movavi - a video editor with many interesting services and effects, which can be downloaded for free on the network.
You still do not know how to create a card in the form of a slide show or a full-fledged video clip? You need to come up with an original idea for congratulations. Below we give some pretty entertaining options that are suitable for various events - anniversary, Valentine's Day, New Year, wedding, birth of a baby and others. Choose an idea that you like and create!
Biography or retrospective
The first idea is perfect for congratulations on a birthday or anniversary. Its essence boils down to the fact that in your video you will talk about the life path that the birthday traveled, from birth to a significant day. You can use a variety of materials - photographs, fragments of old videos - how he learned to walk, how he went to school, how he went to the camp; Pictures taken together with friends and colleagues, with family and so on. You can also get some drawings and crafts created once by a birthday person, tell in a video clip about his hobbies, achievements, etc. We think you understand the idea. It remains only to mount all this material in a harmonious roller.
History of dating and love
How to make a video congratulation for the newlyweds? In this case, shooting a beautiful love story is a good option. Helped you in this obtained joint photos of couples, videos on which they are together. You can go further and take something like an interview with friends and relatives, asking them about the acquaintance of the young, as well as about interesting stories / moments from their lives. At the end of the video, it would be nice to congratulate the future family on such an important event and write down wishes from themselves or from all the people dear to them.
Greetings for loved ones
If you want to surprise your soulmate on Valentine's Day, then record a beautiful declaration of love for her by inserting your favorite musical composition, as well as joint photographs , into the video. In addition, you can ask friends or relatives to participate in your clip. Make signs for them with words or letters that will be the basis of your congratulations, and take it all on camera. Mount the video in one of the video editors and send it to your loved one. By the way, the idea with tablets is also suitable for a birthday. This is a good way to make a video greeting from all your friends. See, the effect will be amazing!
Unusual movie plot / lyrics
There are other, more fun and creative ideas for greeting videos. For example, if you know a favorite movie of the person you are going to dedicate your clip to, use an excerpt from it for your congratulations. Choose an interesting moment and sound it as if the actors were talking about the birthday man, wish him something, etc. Does the hero of the occasion love a song? Redo it by devoting the main lines to it. And then do it alone or with friends and record for your video clip. By the way, you can use not only a song, but also a clip. Execution, of course, will lie with you.
Important person
Celebrity can congratulate a birthday person or a married couple. Just sound a passage with a monologue of their favorite actor in your own way. Or take advantage of the news release in which the TV presenter will talk about an important event that has taken place in the world - birthday, wedding, anniversary, birth of a child, etc.
We think these ideas are quite enough to choose something suitable for your special occasion. And now a little about how to make congratulated videos in one of the special video editing programs. We will focus on Windows Movie Maker.
Create a congratulatory clip in a video editor
The first stage is preparatory. You need to make a selection of thematic pictures, photos, video clips and musical compositions that you plan to use in your video. It is better to sort them all into folders in advance, so that it is more convenient to search during installation.
Step-by-step instruction:
- Open the video editor and import multimedia (function in the upper left corner). In the program window, in a separate folder, all files selected by us will be loaded - both music, and pictures, and video.
- Switch to the timeline mode: through the "View" menu.
- Now we perform simple actions: we select in turn the required clips or photographs and drag them to the bottom of the window - to the timeline. It should be noted here that each frame is displayed for 5 seconds. To change the set duration, click on the desired frame and use the arrow that appears to move the borders to the desired length.
- Then you can add effects (in the "Tools" menu). Choose the effect you like (you can view them in a special window by clicking on playback) and drag it to the desired frame.
- We insert the musical accompaniment by dragging the audio files onto the “Sound / Music” strip.
- Now the time has come for storyboards (the Transitions item in the Tools menu). We choose what the transitions between frames will be and drag them similarly to the effects, but not on the frames themselves, but in the spaces between them.
- If you want, at the beginning and at the end of the video, add the name of your clip and captions. They can also be found in the indicated menu.
Finally, you can see the result of your work, and if necessary, make some kind of editing. If you liked everything, you can record a video by selecting the "Publish Movie" option in the menu. It will be saved in wmv format.
Before sending a finished congratulatory video, publish it on one of the video hosting sites, for example, on YouTube (you can make it private to other users). Receive the link and send it to a friend.
Conclusion
We think this article helped you figure out how to make a video congratulation using one of the popular video editors. And the proposed ideas for creating original videos prompted their own creative ideas or simply helped to find the favorite options for unusual congratulations.