This is your Movie editing screen where all your resources are brought together
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Getting started
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You can save the movies you create to your computer or to
a recordable (CD-R) or rewriteable (CD-RW) CD (depending
on your CD recorder).
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About the menu bar and toolbar
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Preparing to create your video
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Supported file types
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You can import files with the following file name extensions
into Windows Movie Maker to use in your project:
Audio files:
.aif, .aifc, .aiff .asf, .au, .mp2, .mp3, .mpa, .snd, .wav,
and .wma
Picture files:
.bmp, .dib, .emf, .gif, .jfif, .jpe, .jpeg, .jpg, .png, .tif, .tiff,
and .wmf
Video files:
.asf, .avi, .m1v, .mp2, .mp2v, .mpe, .mpeg, .mpg, .mpv2,
.wm, and .wmv
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To show or hide the toolbar, on the View menu, click Toolbar.
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Menu Bar
Tool Bar
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About the panes
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About the monitor
Playback controls
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About the storyboard and timeline
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Storyboard/timeline. Indicates that the task can be
performed on both the storyboard and timeline.
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About the storyboard
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About the storyboard cont’
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Story Board
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About the timeline
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About the timeline cont’
You can also preview all of the clips in your current project
which are displayed on the timeline.
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Timeline
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The timeline displays the following tracks to indicate what
types of files you have added to your current project.
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Video
The Video track lets you see what video clips, pictures, or
titles you have added to the project.
The Transition track lets you see any video transitions you
have added to the timeline. This track only appears if you
have expanded the Video track.
You can drag the start trim handle that appears when the
transition is selected to increase or decrease its duration.
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Audio
The Audio track lets you see the audio that is included in
any video clips you have added to the project.
Like the Transition track, you can only see the Audio track
if you have expanded the Video track.
If you select the audio clip on this track and delete it, the
video portion is also removed from the Video track.
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Audio/Music
The Audio/Music track lets you see any audio clips that you
have added to the project.
You can also add video clips to this track if you want the
audio, but not the video, to play in your project and final
movie.
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Title Overlay
The Title Overlay track lets you see any titles or credits that
you have added to the timeline.
You can drag the start or end trim handle that appears when
the title is selected to increase or decrease its duration.
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Now let’s have a go at creating a very basic Movie maker clip
where we will import ;
Images
Video
Music
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Open Movie maker from your START menu
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Click on; import pictures
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Navigate to your desired image and either click it and then import or simply
double click the image
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Your image will appear in the Collections screen
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Drag your image from the
collections section to the
storyboard
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Repeat this stage until you have several images in your story board
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Click on; import video
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Navigate to ; my videos
and select any video, then double click or import as before
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Your video should now appear in the
collections section
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Your video may appear in segments
Drag them into your story board as before, in the order required Home
Repeat for both sections if required
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Click on; import audio or music
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Navigate to chosen track
as before
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Now we have the basic elements into our timeline we can edit them as
needed
We can cut music at any point to bring the duration in line with your images
or video
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Now click onto the film clip button
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You can now click onto the right of the line that has been cut and hit
delete
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Now lets add a
Title screen
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Click on; import audio or music
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Let’s put a title at the beginning of our
movie
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Enter your text in the boxes
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You can view the
work as it happens
by hitting the start
button
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How about some
Transitions
between your
images
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Click on: View video transitions
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Click
‘show storyboard’
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This will change the view and show small transition screens between your
images
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Simply drag your chosen animation into the gaps
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Now hit the play button as before and trial your selection
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There are many more functions and gadgets that can be discovered with
A little experimentation
Tips:
Save your Movie maker clip in the early stages and get into the practice of hitting
control and S to update it, as it can crash on older machines
To convert into a final cut Windows Movie Maker Clip (WMV) format;
Start / ‘save movie file’ and then chose the destination folder,
This can be an email address a CDR or your hard drive on the PC
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