A Guide to Using Windows Movie Maker
Tool Bar
The Task Pane Collections pane Monitor
Timeline
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The screen
Add Pictures/Video
The first is to insert
pictures that you
already have taken
1. Select Import and stored on your
Picture computer
2. Locate the picture
on your computer
3. When you import it,it will
There are two ways of using still appear in collections.
pictures in your movie. Drag it on to the timeline. It will last
for 5 seconds in you movie. You can 2
expand or shorten this time by draging
Add Pictures/Video
The second is to
take pictures or
stills from the
movie itself.
You can do this
by stopping the
movie at the place
The picture will
be saved to the
computer. Then
follow steps 1
to 3 from
previous slide
Then click this button
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Edit or Add a Clip, Picture, music
Your Video/pictures should now appear in
the Collections Pane
Drag the first clip on to the time line
Collections pane
Drag a clip onto the time line
You can also type text in PowerPoint and save those slides as JPG files so you can
import them into Movie Maker
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Editing a Movie Using the Monitor
Edit a Movie Clip
and the Timeline
Click HERE to
Expand Or contract the time span
Timeline
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Monitor
controls
Play
Play the video clip by using
The monitor controls here Forward
Stop/Pause Back
Next frame
And by using these two Previous frame
Buttons in the time line
Rewind Play/Pause
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You can undo changes you don’t like here
Trim a Movie Clip
Or preview your new clip here
Trim the end off the clip
by clicking on the end of the clip
And a red two way arrow should appear
Drag the arrow to trim
(use Edit Undo) if you
make a mistake)
Do the same at the start FINALLY
of the clip if you need to If you need to split a clip into
trim at the beginning Smaller clips use this button at
the right place on the time line
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Adding Titles and Credits
Click “Make titles...”
in the task pane
This dialogue box will appear
Choose which titles/credits you
need and follow the instructions
on screen
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Adding Music
Step 1 Step 3 drag the sound file onto
Select import audio Step 2 locate your sound The audio/music timeline
or music or music files
And if you
‘Right click’
On the file
this box
appears so
Step 4 You can drag the sound file you can ‘trim’ the file
you can
left or right using the
fade in or
fade out
your music 9
Adding Sound
This will bring up this dialogue box
You can now control which sound source
Step 5 Should be heard most
Click on Tools
Audio levels
Adding Sound – Add Your Own Narration
Click on Tools This dialogue Box appearsUse the controls
Narrate Timeline To record your narration
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Add Video Effects/Transitions
Choosing to add a
Changing the EFFECT
TRANSITION will alter the way
will alter the entire clip
one clip merges into the next
Choose an effect
Then drag it in Choose a transition
between the film clips
and on the transition
line
Then drag it
onto the film clip
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Finish The Movie
SAVE YOUR WORK OFTEN
Just clicking Save or
selecting save from the
File Menu will only save
the storyboard it will not
put the movie together
When you have done
everything you need select
Save to my computer
And follow the prompts
give the Movie a suitable title
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