How to use Movie Maker to make a home movie

Movie Maker is a video-making tool for Windows systems, easy to learn, and it's fun to make home movies with it. You can create, edit, and share your own home movies on your PC. With simple drag-and-drop operations, carefully filtered screen, and then add some effects, music and narration, home movies take shape. You can then share your results with your friends and family through the Web, email, PC or CD, or even DVDs. You can also save the movie to the tape, play it on the TV or on the camcorder.

>>1. Menu bar

>>2. Toolbars

>>3. Task bar

Note: This box shows the contents of the "Tasks" or "Favorites" in the toolbar

>>4. Footage Preview Area

Note: Here preview the footage or preview the excessive and video effects.

>>5. Video preview window

Note: Preview material or timeline

>>6. Timeline

Note: The material of the carrier, all materials are placed here for editing.

>1. Import Material

Related pictures, music, video footage, etc. (or just video) are ready, and we're going to import them into the WMM. (It's best to categorize the material and give it a proper name before importing it)

Method 1: Select tasks in the toolbar, and the options on the side of the taskbar appear:

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Select the video, picture, or music you want to import, and then import it.

Method 2: Drag the material to be imported directly into the WMM.

Note: In the import video there will be an option, as in the figure red box:

Remove the "Create clips for video files" check box, or the imported video may be cut into segments.

>2. Edit a movie

When we import the footage, we start editing them. Note that all edits are related to timelines. In fact, it is also very simple, is to drag the material all to the timeline. And then drag the video effects onto the timeline. The key word is: drag and drop.

(1) Dragging music

It's best to drag the music to the timeline and then do it according to the rhythm of the music. Figure:

2) production of the title

Video always has a title, used to explain the name of the video, explain the use of what. Okay, let's see how to make a title.

Step one: Select "Make a title or tail" in "movie Task", as shown in figure:

Step Two: When you enter, select "Add title at the beginning of the movie", and then enter the title text here are two options: "Change the title animation effect" and "Change text fonts and colors," You can choose your favorite animation effects and fonts, colors. Detailed operation as shown:

Both animations and fonts can preview their effects in the video preview window. When you are satisfied, click "Finish, add title for movie" and finish editing the title.

(3) The video or pictures and other materials in order dragged to the timeline.

(4) Clip the material [important]

Let's start with some gossip. Preview the video, press SPACEBAR to start, and then press SPACEBAR to pause. The two magnifying magnifier patterns on the timeline are used to enlarge or reduce the length of the timeline so that the material can be edited.

After you decide where you want to clip, select "Clip" in the menu bar, below is a description of some important submenus.

Just start editing may not be used to, it doesn't matter, more practice will be skilled.

(5). Adding excessive and special effects

Let's look at the panel of excessive and special effects first:

Choose your favorite special effects, remember that the video effects are dragged directly onto the video or picture, and the transition effect is dragged between two of footage.

6) making the tail of the film

Well, after a few steps, the video is probably done. Now let's add the tail. The production of the tail is the same as the production of the title. Write your name in the end!

>3. Generate Export Movie

It's time to export the movie after the hard work above! Select Save to My Computer in the movie task, and then follow the wizard

Step by step, the computer will export your work!