Transcript How to use Movie Maker

How to use
Windows Movie Maker
Using the Tools
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The Task Pane
1. Capture video actually allows you to import video,
pictures, and audio. Just click and navigate to your
file (avi, jpg, gif, mp3, etc…)
2. Edit Movie allows you to add effects and transitions
to your videos, pictures, and audio. It also lets you
add titles and credits to your movie.
3. Finish Movie turns your project into the movie.
You MUST save it to your computer for the final
product. Your project is a .mswmm file, but the
final project must be .wmv.
4. If you lose the task pane, go to View>Task Pane
from the top menu items.
The Collection Field
The Collection field is where your picture, audio, and sound
files will appear after you import them from Step 1 of the
Capture Video option. Above, you see a sample of a sound
file, video file, and a picture file.
Your Video
The Video gives you the preview of the movie you’re making.
After placing an object into a timeline or storyboard field,
you can run your movie to see how it will look.
The Timeline Tool
The timeline allows you to edit sound and pictures together.
You can drag video and sound files from the collection field to
the Audio track. It’s best to use audacity of you want to use
multiple sounds.
Along the top, you can see the time sequence of the movie.
You can use the magnifying glass to zoom in or out on the
time. You can shorten a video clip from the end, but you
cannot make it longer. You can edit the middle, but it’s tricky
to do.
The Storyboard Tool
The storyboard is easier to work in, especially for pictures. From
the Collection. Just drag and drop the file into the larger
boxes in the order you want them to appear. You can drag and
drop pictures and videos, but not sounds files with it
automatically switching you back to the Timeline view.
Video Effects
You can add effects to your pictures and sounds using Video
Effects found in Step 2, Edit Movie found in the Task Pane.
When you select this, you’ll see a small star appear on your
storyboard slide. Just click on View Video Effects and drag
the desired effect onto the star. You can add two effects to one
slide.
Video Effects
Transitions
The smaller boxes are from transitions you pick from Step 2,
Edit Movie. Just click View Video Transitions from the Task
Pane and click and drag the desired transition effect. If you
want to use the same transition, you can insert the transition
into the first small box, click back in the box, copy it, and then
paste it into the rest of the small boxes.
Sample Transitions
Make Titles or Credits
In Step 2, Edit Movie,
click on Make Titles or
Credits. You’ll get this
menu in the next window.
Make Titles or Credits
Places a title as the first slide.
Places text before the chosen
slide.
Places text on a slide.
Places text after the chosen
slide.
Places a title as the last slide.
Make Titles or Credits
Each option allows you to
pick an effect, font, color,
and font size. You can also
pick animation for your
text.
For each of these, you can
see how it will look in the
Video field.
Audio/Music Field
In your Timeline field, you can add different sounds. However, in Movie
Maker, you can only have one sound playing at a time. So, if you want soft
sound playing behind your recorded voice, you cannot do that. You should
use Audacity to layer sounds, save that as an MP3 file, then import that MP3
into Movie Maker.
With other sounds, you can shorten them by moving your mouse to either
end of the sound file (where the triangle is in the picture above for example,
and once the hand turns into a double red arrow, you can shrink the size of
the audio file.
You can also shift the sound files in the Timeline view by clicking and
dragging the sound field to the left or right.
Converting your project
To finish your movie, Got to Step 3,
Finish Movie. Choose Save to My
Computer.
The Save Movie Wizard window will
open.
Step 1, Name Your Movie
Step 2, Save it to your desktop
Converting your project
To finish your movie, Got to Step 3,
Finish Movie. Choose Save to My
Computer.
The Save Movie Wizard window will
open.
To get the best quality:
Step 3, You’re best off choosing the
bottom button and choosing High
Quality Video. This may not always be
the best option however.
When you click next, the movie will
convert. It may take a while
depending on the length of your
movie.
Reminders
While you are working on your project in the .mswmm file, you can
edit anything you need to edit. This is not the final copy.
Once converted, your movie will be a .wmv file. You cannot edit this
anymore. But this is the version you want to give people. So make
sure you are 100% satisfied with the .mswmm version before
converting to .wmv.
PowerPoint
A great trick with Movie Maker is to actually create your project in
PowerPoint first, then save your PowerPoint as a .jpg. You can do this
by going to File>Save As> and scroll down to .jpg.
PowerPoint
The next window asks if you want to save every picture or the current
slide. You decide. Either way, it saves the .jpgs into a folder and you
can simply insert each PowerPoint slide into Movie Maker.
PowerPoint sounds,
transitions, and effects do
not transfer to Movie
Maker, just the slide.