Music Videos and Action clips are for example a terrible idea to generate cinemagraphs out of and the author (that’s me!) is speaking from his own experience. Else you will need to add several masked layers and make sure the frames are not washed out in the cliplet. To create a decent cliplet you are going to need a lot of patience and most importantly a relatively steady video where there is no zoom in or any random camera effect which changes the frames relative to your subject. Theyre halfway between an image and a video, but theyre not quite an animated GIF either (although you can save the result in this format). If you are satisfied, just hit export and choose your desired format. Cliplets or Microsoft Research Cliplets, is an experimental tool from Microsoft which creates moving images. Once you are done with your desired cliplet, you can preview it by clicking the play button in the lower bar. The lower bar on the other hand previews the cliplets according to the masked layers and the effect selected. You can move the slider accordingly to play the clip from the desired portions.
The upper bar shows the frames from the input video.
You can animate the selected region as a loop, still, mirror or play. The layer will be the region which will be animated in the cliplet. To generate a cliplet from the loaded video you need to select a portion of a frame from the video and add it as a masked layer. While you can certainly produce cinemagraphs fairly quickly, it can be particularly hard to get the desired effect. Microsoft Research Cliplets is an interactive app that gives users the power to. The app in itself looks very intuitive and makes you believe that you can start churning out cinemagraphs in a jiffy. If you load a video of length greater than 10 seconds, Cliplets will automatically pop a window to select a 10 second portion from the clip. Microsoft Research Cliplets 1.1.1 (64-bit): Capture precious moments in an unusual and innovative way with this new Microsoft Research tool. Mind that Cliplets supports videos of duration 10 seconds only. The entire app works very snappily though you may run into some crashes rarely.
Cliplets is available as a free download for Windows 7. You just need to drag and drop the required files into the main UI to get started. Their free new Cliplets app lets you easily turn a 10-second video clip into a Harry Potter. The app has an extremely clean UI and makes you feel at home if you have used any video editor before.