Windows Movie Maker
Sun, 02/17/2008 - 22:01 — Ciprian
Windows Movie Maker is one of the applications that have not been changed much since Windows XP. The new version includes relatively minor updates such as: new effects, new transitions and support for the DVR-MS file format which is used in Windows Media Center to record television. In Windows Vista Home Premium and Ultimate, Windows Movie Maker offers as an additional feature the capacity to capture video from HDV camcorders. Another difference, compared to the older version from Windows XP is the fact that it no longer supports importing video from analog video sources such as web-cameras.
Windows Movie Maker is a tool that allows users to create and edit video content. The interface is pretty simple and easy to use: you have a storyboard view and a timeline view, a preview screen, collections of imported media and a tasks list. The timeline consist of one 'Video' bar, an 'Audio/Music' bar and one 'Title Overlay' bar. The content from each bar can be edited. You can stretch the content, cut it in segments, etc.
The tasks practically take you through the features offered by Windows Movie Maker. You can import videos, pictures, audio and, if you have Windows Vista Home Premium or Ultimate, video directly from your digital video camera.
When it comes to editing you can add special effects, transitions, titles and credits.
The list of available effects and transitions is quite big. One nice thing is the fact that you can preview them directly in the Collections area of the interface.
As you can see in the below screenshot, titles can be added practically anywhere.
Publishing your videos is very easy. Windows Movie Maker offers you the following options: saving the video on your computer, directly to a DVD, CD, publishing it directly to someone's e-mail address and to a digital video camera.
Working with Windows Movie Maker is pretty straightforward. Even though it cannot compare itself to professional video editing solutions, it can certainly get the job done for the average user.
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How to connect a video camera and import a movie
How to burn a Video DVD using Windows DVD Maker
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exporting videos
i made a vid but it tells me i need to export it in .WMV format so how do i do it?
publish movie wmv
Pull down File/Publish Movie then Click This Computer then give it a file name and Publish to a location that you can find (Default is the Video Folder) click next. then Choose the settings for your movie: Best quality for playback on my computer (this is wmv). You can see what kind of fiile type and other useful info in the lower left corner. Hope this helps.
Photo Slideshows
If you are having troubles making slide shows with photos try Microsoft Photo Story 3 it's FREE
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Windows Movie Maker stops working during publishing
Hi, I have this project to publish but WMM stops working during publishing whether it is to a DVD or my computer. I published projects with only pictures and it worked fine but now I'm trying to publish a holiday movie and i have wmv files in which are blocking the publishing. I know this cos when I removed the wmv files all was normal. How come wmv files are stopping the programm everytime...any suggestions? thanks.
publish movie
Hi
aktar here i have been try to publish movie to "THIS COMPUTER" as well as i try on the DVD but I cannot publish Please help me
What version of Movie maker is compatible on Vista and XP?
I've been trying to publish my videos (created on Windows XP Movie Maker), but people that have Vista and who visit my webpages, tell me that they only see a black panel rather than the movie. How can I find a patch or newer version of Movie Maker that will show movies and videos on both XP and Vista?
vista movie maker
how do i get into "make a movie" without creating a new folder each time. the folder with pictures is already in imported pictures so i don't need a new folder each time.
Playing back a sample of the DVD before you burn
I successfully completed my timeline with picures and music. I went to view it before I burnt in on a DVD and there where additional pictures added in the beginning alond with some type of sub title. I figure out how to delete the subtitle but not the additional pictures. How can I take it back to the orignial format ?
i'm working with gifs,when
i'm working with gifs,when u split a gif, how kum it doesnt split it at that second, and carry on with the clip, but splits it apart, and the two gifs( theres 2 because u split one ) start from the same place which is the beginning of that particular gif?? how do i fix it??
title overlay
I have made a movie with my photos, Put overlays on some then found more pictures that I needed to add. So inserted the photos ,now the overlay is on the wrong picture. How can I remove the overlay to that picture or to all pictures without losing the whole storyboard.
This is my first movie, so not sure what I am doing. Started on story board but when I wanted to overlay a photo with words it said I needed to go to timeline. Over the last few days of working on this It has jumped between timeline and storyboard. Some of the pictures on storyboard have kept the overlay words, no problem but there are some I need to remove.