I have just installed the “Fall Creators Update” on my Win 10 machine. (With my slow internet it took hours.)
The two new features I wanted to try were “OneDrive Files on Demand” and “Story Remix (Video Editor)” in the Photos App.
It looks as though I will have to wait for “Files on Demand” as it is a staged rollout over the next few weeks and obviously I must be in the “next few weeks”.
However, “Story Remix” is installed and I had a brief play around with it. Open the Photos App then click “Create” (top middle) and you get 3 choices :
1/ Video Remix (Automatically creates a video) – Only a brief look.
2/ Video Project (Allows you to create video) – Experimented with this option.
3/ Album (gathers together pictures and/or videos for export to a OneDrive Folder or a Sway.) – I did not test this option.
VIDEO PROJECT
The summary – it is very basic but you can add both video and image files to combine, trim, add titles, 3D effects and music as well as motion to still photos – BUT no transitions.
It is very easy to use. When you click on create video it opens a window with all of your videos and images set out in date order. (There doesn’t appear to be any way to alter this or browse for files. If you couldn’t find a particular file in the list, a work around would be to first copy the required items to the desktop. That way they would appear at the top of the list in the App.) Add the video clips and images you want to include by ticking then click on the “ADD” button at the top. A “New Video” window opens and you then drag the selected items to a time line. You can swap the order by dragging and edit by using the menu or by right mouse on the clip or image. With the still images, you can adjust the duration but I could not see how you can adjust the duration of the text. I placed text at the beginning and it displayed over the video for about 5 seconds. If you add a 3d effect, the default duration is about 2 seconds but, when you add it, there is a little slider to adjust duration and you can drag it out to the length of the video clip.
If you wanted the text to be against a separate background, you could create a background .jpg and insert it at the beginning (or end) and put the text on it.
You get a choice from 6 different text styles and a similar number of motion effects plus 12 filters ( sepia etc.).
The display time for a still image can be adjusted from 1 second to 7 seconds and there are a number of basic motion effects (Ken Burns effects) for the images. I could not see any way to adjust the speed of the motion.
The music comes from a list in the App or from your own music on the computer but can’t be trimmed and automatically applies to the whole video.
The music plays over the top of the audio in the video. You can either adjust down the volume of the audio in the video (right mouse on the video clip / volume) to allow the added music to predominate or just select “none” for added music to keep the audio in the video.
The completed project can then be exported in 3 sizes – small , medium or large as .mp4.
The originals I used for the test were 2 X .mp4 videos – 144mb + 109MB plus one .jpg 492kb – total say 253mb.
Output – large 138mb – Medium 79.7mb and Small 54.2mb
For a 4.5 minute video, the “Small” is too large in my opinion particularly when the App says it is for Email and small screens.
There is no facility to upload directly to YouTube / Vimeo etc.. However, as a simple way to combine clips and images it is quick and easy. I will use it but transitions would be nice.
Just like many have said, it is much like the old Photo Story program but with videos.