Moviemaker

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__Brief History of Windows Movie maker__ Windows Movie Maker is a video editing program created in 2000 included in Windows Vista that makes movie editing and deployment easy for every user. When talking about movie deployment, apart from sharing your movies online, the ability to burn your DVD movies fast is a nice feature to have, and Windows DVD Maker is exactly the little tool designed to help you with this task. Although Windows Movie Maker is available in almost every edition of Microsoft's last operating system, its companion, called Windows DVD Maker, can be found only in Vista Home Premium and Ultimate. To make a short story even shorter, you have to know that Windows DVD Maker was designed to enable the creation of DVD movies in Windows Vista. The interface of this program is nicely done and well organized, containing a storyboard/timeline, collections for organizing the imported videos and, of course, a preview screen. [[http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Getting-started-with-Windows-Movie-Maker|http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Getting-started-with-Windows-Movie-Maker

]] Step 1: Capture Video • Capture from camera (the wizard will guide you through the process) or • Import existing video o Locate video: Movie Maker will import the video into the collections pane. The number of clips created depends on how the movie was originally created. Clips can be renamed here. o Preview clips by double-clicking on each. You can also preview clips by selecting one and tapping the space bar or using the play controls in the preview pane. When you mouseover a clip, a tooltip window shows the clip duration. Step 2: Edit Video • Create a movie by dragging clips to the timeline in the order you want. The order can be changed at any time. o Edit a clip by clicking on it. Drag the playhead or use alt+arrow keys to move to the desired frame. Set Start and End Trim Points from the Clips menu. Clips may also be split at any point by using the Split Clips button in the preview pane. o Preview your work by clicking the rewind timeline button, then click the play button. Step 3: Add transitions and titles • Transitions o Click Video Transitions in Task Pane. Double click a few to see how they work. • Titles: Click Make Titles or Credits in Task Pane 􀃆 Add Title at the Beginning • Credits: Click Make Titles or Credits in Task Pane 􀃆 Add Credits at the End Step 4: Add audio: • Mute entire movie: Click Audio Levels button next to microphone, move slider to right to mute video’s audio, to left to mute audio track. • Import an audio file: Movie Tasks 􀃆 Import Audio • Adjust or Mute individual clip audio o Click the clip; Clip menu 􀃆 Audio 􀃆 adjust volume. • Record narration: You must have a microphone to record narration o Click the Title clip; Click the Narrate Timeline (microphone) button (lower left) 􀃆 Click Start Narration. Wait 1-2 seconds, then begin speaking into microphone. Speak fairly loudly with the microphone about 6” from your mouth. Click Stop Narration. o Adjust the length of the title clip if necessary to accommodate the narration. Step 5: Add Pictures Still pictures may be added anywhere in your movie. • Locate a file: Movie Tasks 􀃆 Import Pictures 􀃆 browse for your file • Drag clip to timeline at whatever location you want them to play. • Adjust clip length by dragging right or left end. • Add video effects: Video effects function while a clip is playing. Some of them can be used to “soften” the default cut between clips. o Click View video effects on task pane o Drag Fade in from black and Fade out to black onto credits clip. Step6: Finish Movie: After you have all the parts of your movie assembled, you must save the movie in a format that will accommodate how you want to view or share the movie. Five options are provided in the task pane. • Save to my computer; a wizard will guide you through the process to create a .wmv file which can be viewed using Windows Media Player or Real Player (maybe). • Save to CD gives many of the same options. You must have a CD in the recordable CD drive to use this procedure. • Send in e-mail gives no options and immediately creates a movie approximately the size of what we did, opens your email program, and attaches the movie to a message. • Send to the web gives many of the same options as Save to my computer. The file must then be uploaded to a web server. • Send to DV camera allows you to save your movie to a digital tape in your camera. You must have a firewire connection on your computer in order to connect your camera. Then, by connecting your camera to your VCR, you can make VHS tapes without degrading the quality of the copies. See your camera manual for instructions. Remember, digital video creates huge file sizes. Each hour of TV quality video at 720 x 480 resolution requires 13 GB of storage space. []
 * __Steps On How To Use Movie Maker__**

**__What You Can Use Movie Maker On__**
 * Burn DVDs from a camcorder
 * Make a miniature movie about something
 * Slideshow for pictures