The BBC’s new media team has just released their latest toy: the Doctor Who trailer maker. Using a variety of video and audio clips from the series, you can now put together your own 30-second trailer using a web-based video editing interface.
The style of the interface should be familiar to anyone who’s worked with programs like Windows Movie Maker or Apple’s iMovie before. While everything’s been simplified to make it as easy to use as possible — options to trim clips and sett audio levels, for example, aren’t as precise as you’ll get in a desktop application — it’s still easy to grasp the concept quite quickly.
To get an overview of what the tool is capable of, here are a few examples that TV Today has knocked up:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/trailermaker/view/7frbj2
http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/trailermaker/view/7frbyu
http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/trailermaker/view/7frbcj
Why not have a go, and add a link to your efforts in the comments?
Have you been playing?
Here's my effort :)
Thanks for giving me something to waste my afternoon on! :)
don't blink
http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/trailermaker/view/7fr0cl
I've got 11 GCSEs to revise for so thanks for the distraction. Here's my attempt.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/trailermaker/edit/7fxejp