Movie Maker Tutorial

The World Cup is wonderful and can miss, oneself do will be director, do-it-yourself clip wonderful video. It's easy to do without a professional non-linear editing software with Windows XP from Windows Movie Maker can be easily implemented. Windows Movie Maker is a home movie production tool that can be completed in one program from capturing video, editing, adding special effects, subtitles, and sound effects until the final output becomes a movie.

In Windows XP, open the Start menu, select All Programs → attachment →windows Movie Maker command, the system will open the Movie Maker main interface, if not installed, you can download to updat through Windows Movie Maker version 2.1,

Import footage

Click on the left side of the screen "movie task area" of the "Import Video" item, select the appropriate folder image files, after the confirmation will start to import, as shown in Figure 1.

Figure 1

Movie Maker In addition to capturing the film from the DV machine, can also import other materials, including a variety of formats of audio-visual files, still picture files, audio files (such as MP3, WAV). However, the imported material and the captured material, each import a material, is a separate collection of files.

Add material to Timeline

Movie Maker 2.0 has two modes of operation, the storyboard mode and the timeline mode respectively. Users can switch under the main interface. Because the time line pattern can let the user understand all material, the transition, the effect and so on between the time and the order relation.

There are two ways to add a piece of material to the timeline. Click the right mouse button on one of the movie footage, and then select Add to Timeline in the pop-up menu. If you need to put more than one material in the timeline, be aware of the order in which you add it. Another method is to drag and drop the appropriate material icon directly into the timeline area, and the footage will be added automatically. In the timeline we can drag a timeline to clip the movie, as shown in Figure 2.


Figure 2