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Windows Movie Maker

Virtual Presentation of the MovieMaker Workshop (Mediasite)
This is a mediasite of the workshop presentation. You will be able to view the presentor, and watch the presentation at the same time. It breaks MovieMaker into small chunks so you can pick and choose what you want to view.

Opening - Welcome to MovieMaker. This is an overview of the software and explanation of video editing in general.

Saving Project - Learn how to save you project and all the associated files to your flash drive, so you can work at any windows computer.

Import Video - How do I import, not only video, but also images, music and sound files?

Editing Storyboard - Learn how to drag and rearrange clips into your movie. Also, this give a basic overview of the MovieMaker window.

Video Effects - Add effects to video and images. You can do almost anything from speeding and slowing down to making your movie look really old.

Transitions - Give your movie a professional look by adding premade transitions between your scenes.

Titles and Text - Learn how MovieMaker takes you through a step by step process to add titles and text anywhere in your movie.

Timeline Overview
 - The timeline view allows you to see you movie in real time. In this view you will cut and trim clips as well as add sound.

Trim Split Clip - Here is a step by step process for cutting out the parts of the video you don't want. You can cut at the beginning, end and in the middle of any of your clips.

Adding Music - Bring your movie to life by adding music in the timeline view.

Advanced Audio - Here you will learn how to just take parts of a song, also how to just get the audio from a video clip.

Narration - You can narrate any or all of your video. Be sure to pay attention to where the file is saved.

Finish - The most important step. This will prepare your video for the world to view.

Resources

Step-by-Step Handout

  • Capture from a camcorder with Windows Movie Maker (doc)
  • Capture from DVD/VHS with Windows Movie Maker (doc)
  • Editing Basics with Windows Movie Maker (doc)
  • Exporting to WMV with Windows Movie Maker (doc)

Windows MovieMaker 2 Tutorials

From Micorosoft this is a step by step web site that will take you from beginning to end with MovieMaker. Windows MovieMaker 2 Tutorials

Free Online Media Convertor

This will allow you to download and convert flash video on web sites like YouTube into a format that will work in your video, .mov for iMovie and .wmv for MovieMaker. You can also convert sounds files to .mp3 and .wav. Also, you can upload your own files for conversion. Free Online Media Convertor

FreePlayMusic.com

Music that you can use copyright free. FreePlayMusic.com