Adding Sounds to Pivot Stick Figure Animator, Using Windows Movie Maker, and Uploading to Youtube
This tutorial shows you how to upload sounds to Pivot and even upload multiple sounds at one time and narrate. Even experts of Pivot can learn from this. Even if you don’t use Pivot and just using Movie Maker, it’s usefull.
Everybody keeps asking, “How do I put music and sounds to a pivot?” Look no further. You’re questions will be answered here.
In this tut I will show you.
- Making a Pivot file to a gif
- Puttuing on Windows Movie Maker and Using Movie Maker
- Tips: Using WMM Better
- Putting it on YouTube
- I don’t have Windows Movie Maker
- Faq
Making a Pivot file to a gif
First, save you’re pivot file to a gif file. A gif file is a moving picture file. Doing this will enable you to put it on Movie Maker. To do this, when you save you’re animation click the dropdown box and select gif. The tutorial to saving as a gif is located here.
The following below is for Windows Users. Don’t go down if you have windows, Instead, go to An Alternative Way Section.
Putting on Windows Movie Make and Using Movie Maker
Movie Maker is very simple to use. Here’s a screen shot of it to familerize yourself. Open up Windows Movie Maker (we’ll call it WMM for short) and start looking around the screen to familerize yourself again. To begin, find your gif by clicking on the left hand on what’s called “Movie Tasks” and click “Import Pictures”. Remember were you saved your gif, find it and import it. It will be added to the “Collections” and highlighted.
Drag your gif to the bottom where it says Drag Media to the storyboard/Timeline to begin Making your movie. I would leave it at the timeling setting because you have more control and professionalism added to your movie, click the button near the timeline/storyboard to do it.
You can add music, sounds, titles, transitions, and effects to your movie. Click on the any of the buttons on “Edit Movie” in the task bar to add titles, transitions, and effects. AutoMovie makes a random stupid thing, ignore it unless you want something random. To add music/sound do just like you did to import the gif except click “Import Audio or Music”. Drag it to the timeline where you put your sounds/music, you can’t put two at the same time, you can only “merge” two clips by moving one clip onto another (sliding it on the other clip). To put two clips you have to make to save it as a movie, then Import the movie and add more sounds (you’ll learn latter).
4. With more practice and curiosity, you will get better and better with WMM.
do you no another way to get sounds onto pivot without useing findsounds.com?!?!
When i put my gif. file in wmm, it comes up with a messege saying that it couldn’t import it. catastrophic failiur.
what do i do?
but i cant import stick pivot, it stays saying dat i cant import the file because the codec is not installed and i dont know how to install it! pleeease help!
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I’m having problems up loading Pivot Stick Animator fils onto windows movie maker. Every time I try to this messege appears:
The file C:Program FilesPivot Stickfigure Animatorstick figuresCricket Game gone bad!.piv cannot be imported because the codec required to play the file is not installed on your computer. If you have already tried to download and install the codec, close and restart Windows Movie Maker, and then try to import the file again.
It says I need to download a codec, but I’m not sure were to find it. Can someone give me some help please. It will be greatly appreciated!
Wow?
in my movie i have 4 boxes at the botton used and alot left and
wont let me import any more and pops up a message that seys like a catastrofic falure.
can some one help
wen i play my movie on pivot it looks kewl, but when i put it onto WMM it goes soooo slow!how do i make it faster?
I’m having problems up loading Pivot Stick Animator fils onto windows movie maker. Every time I try to this messege appears:
The file C:Program FilesPivot Stickfigure Animatorstick figuresCricket Game gone bad!.piv cannot be imported because the codec required to play the file is not installed on your computer. If you have already tried to download and install the codec, close and restart Windows Movie Maker, and then try to import the file again.
It says I need to download a codec, but I’m not sure were to find it. Can someone give me some help please. It will be greatly appreciated!
yo i got the pivot sticks to import but it wont play
everytime i try and do what it says i put my pivot on my timeline and then it makes it 24 hours long and it just shows the very first slide through out the entire vid i need help what do i do!
i go on a file on wmm and i find something in import pictures called “pivit”. i press it and it says “wmm can not let you import “pivit”.
noobs
how do u make some effects which go across your pics or your video like whoooosh u know what i mean and this sparkly thing goes across it and changes to another picture how do i make that or like make the bakground colourful and make it flash while the music is playing?
It seriously does come up with “catastrophic failure” lol. What are we supposed to do?? Help!!!!!
i need help to find a good stick figure yell
of a boy
Whenever I watch the wid on WMM it turns out to be all wierd and it like goes through all of the frames randomly….DIFFERENT ORDERS!!!!!!
I don’t get it….
when you save it, type in w/e the name of it is, and then click the save as down arrow and choose .gif and save it as that. it should be able to import onto wmm.
it also just tells the same thing on the section that says “Making a Pivot file to a gif”
i rekon the long pivot animations that people are strying to put on wmm are saying catastrophic failure because they are too long
how you download new stuff on pivot!?
How in the crap do I do this? I got the catastrophic failure error:
C:Documents and SettingsAll UsersDocumentsBack-Up (Bomb Shelter)Pivot Animationssmash.gif could not be imported. Catastrophic failure
I even tried importing a video with only two frames, and it still didn’t work. PLEASE HELP!!
Matthew, did you save your pivot file as gif because you said:”C:Program FilesPivot Stickfigure Animatorstick figuresCricket Game gone bad!.piv.” and you saved as piv file so save as gif!
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When I save it as gif. file, it only lasts 5 seconds, even though it has 357 frames! Someone please help me.
yea droidz.org is the bomb
u need to change the gif opitons to something different to make it go faster but i dont remember what… but gifs dont work good if u dont do it before you put it on windows movie makers..
not working. i want to know exactly wat kind of codec i should use. i went on google, youtube, and wikepedia and answers.com and ask.com but nothing came up that i wanted and the information was useless!!!!!! please i downloaded like 4 billion codecs but every time i go to windows movie maker i always get this note:
The file C:Program FilesPivot Stickfigure Animatorstick figuresCricket Game gone bad!.piv cannot be imported because the codec required to play the file is not installed on your computer. If you have already tried to download and install the codec, close and restart Windows Movie Maker, and then try to import the file again.
please tell me wat i should use. im an 11 year boy that knows alot about computers but this isnt easy!!!!!!!!!!!! help. i have like the best animation ever i just need sound i just need sound!!!!!!!!!!!
did u ever even read trhought the post? save it as a f***ing .gif file, if it goes to fast or to slow edit the framerate,wich is done either in the saving process or u can change the animationspeed in WMM, from there u should be able to import it to WMM, stop whining for not even trying, and btw flare tnx for the advise, it actualy worked out pretty good
i have over 1000 frames in my vid and its 10 secs! what do i do?
another way to find sounds is called moviewav.com
also when i try to put a video in windows movie maker(a pivot 3 beta video) it wont work
it has stuff from cartoon quotes to move to etc. i have pivot 3 beta and pivot 2.2 and neither of them will get put into windows movie maker. i c people in youtube import the videos but i can not . how do u do that?
I am tring to import my gif file (from pivot) into moviemaker, but keep getting the message that the file is invalid or corrupt. What codec do i need? I have downloaded ad installed ffdshow but the problem did not go away.
Everytime I put my pivot animations on WMM it doesn’t play all of it and it goes super fast, I change framerate and everything but it doesn’t work!
what……..weird…….cause i cant seem to find my thing what i made…..CAN YOU HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!PLEASEPLEASEPLEASE
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add me then we can go over it cause it very confusing..
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my thing goes super fast even though it has 200 frames help mme at cloakeslayer@aol.com
I get my pivets to work but If I do a seizure vid it laggs and youtube won’t accept it why is that????
This is great. Thank you for your tutorial.
I\’ve saved it as a gif file, put it into WMM, but unfortunately, it only saves the first 5 frames then nothing more. I know it must be something simple that I\’ve missed. Can you or anyone help?
thanks.
Further to my question, I found out the answer. I needed to just click on the right-hand edge of the gif and stretch it out to the desired length.
Thanks again for your great tutorial.
Arrietty
what websites do you get the music from ? How do you save?
When i try to import a pivot WWM freezes and it takes about 1000
hours! After it’s done with it’s (1000) hours it saids catastophic failer… it sucks. Maybe i have not and memory in my computer
but when ever i make space it still saids catastophic failer…
on pivot it looks great but when i put it on movie maker it’s well fast. How do i slow it down? thx
one thing when i click the gif sign to be shown how to make 1 it goes to your homepage and talks about runescape and mafia wars
how do u play it on internet for free without downlouding
dude, i want to know how to put BETA 3!!!!!!!!!!!!
cause in beta 3 it cant be saved as a gif!!!!!!!!!
SO HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and by the way, u havent even answered anybody’s reply yet!
how to input background music
- Uncheck Merge.
- Frame Delay 6
- Shrink frames by 1/2
@Skillz2 THANK YOU!
Thanks, I am uploading them on youtube! Thankyou, I didn\’t even know. LOL!
To All Having The Catastrophic Failure Error:
try converting the gif to a movie file(avi , mpeg)…and then try putting it on wmm…..Hope this helps…
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