How to Use Windows Movie Maker (for beginners)

How To Use Windows Movie Maker

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Why use Windows Movie Maker?

With Windows Movie Maker, you can quickly and easily

create eye-catching movies from your videos and photos

PART 1 > Installation > Interface Tour > Adjusting the View > File Types

> Adding Videos and Photos > Adding Sound Effects and Background Music

Make sure it’s installed in your computer

To check, click the Start button or Windows Logo

Click All Programs

You should see Movie Maker in the list

If not, open up a browser

like Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox

On your chosen browser, click on the address bar

Type http://windows.microsoft.com/ en-us/windows/downloads

Hit the Enter key.

Scroll down

until you see Windows Movie Maker. (Click!)

Click Download now

Click the downloaded file to run it.

The first option lets us install the entire suite

For this tutorial, we only install Windows Movie Maker

Click Choose the programs you want to install

Uncheck all boxes except for Photo Gallery and Movie Maker.

Click Install

The installation is complete. Click Close.

Launch Movie Maker by first clicking on the Windows logo.

In the search field, type moviemaker

Click moviemaker to launch it

Tour of the Movie Maker Interface

On the title bar is the name of your project

Here is the quick-access toolbar with shortcut buttons

Here is the ribbon broken up into several tabs

where you see groups of commands (e.g. Add, Editing)

Down below the ribbon are two panes: Preview and Storyboard

The Preview pane shows you the preview of your project

The Storyboard pane allows you to add assets (e.g. photos)

Let’s add photos by clicking on the Storyboard pane

You can also click on Add videos and photos

Find the location of your files here

Click on the file that you will use

To select more, click them while holding the CTRL key

on your keyboard

Notice that the selected files get highlighted

Click Open

Here are the files that you have opened

By default, each photo appears in the movie

for 7 seconds. Since we opened 3 photos,

the length of the movie is now 21 seconds

Save the project by going to the save button.

You can also click the moviemaker tab

and click Save Project

Navigate to the location where you want to save it

For this tutorial, we’ll save it on the desktop. (Click!)

Type in your preferred file name

Click Save

Go to your desktop and check the saved project file

Do you notice the small file size on mouseover?

The photos we used were just referenced in the project

They’re not actually a part of the project file.

Make sure all files used are in a fixed location

Adjusting The View

Use the zoom time scale to increase the timeline view

It’s useful when editing specific locations in a photo/video

Also do this in the View tab on the ribbon

Click here to increase/decrease the storyboard thumbnail size

Click here for a full screen preview of your project

Adjust the Preview and Storyboard panes by moving the separator

What type of video files can you use?

What type of photo files can you use?

What type of audio files can you use?

For more details, click the Help button on Movie Maker

This launches your browser and shows the Support page

In this case, we refer to the 6th question

Let’s add photos and videos

using either of the methods we’ve learned

In this example, we add 2 videos and 3 photos.

Again, click to select one file,

Hold down the CTRL key

then click on other files to select them as well

To select a block of files, again, click one file

hold down the Shift key and click the last file

After you’ve selected the files that you need, click Open

You might want to rearrange your photos and clips

Click and drag a clip to select and move it

Here, we’ve moved the clip down to the very end

Notice when you select a clip, you also preview it

Click the play button to check a video clip

When done rearranging, move back to the first clip

and click play to preview your project

You’ll see the accumulated time here

Again, save your new project through the Save button

or through the Moviemaker tab

Now, you can also add sound effects or background music

The Add Music button is broken up into two parts

The top button is the default button.

If you click the bottom half, you see two headings.

Find new music online and Add music from PC

The latter has two options

The 1st option lets you add a sound file

to the beginning of the project

The 2nd option lets you add music at the current point

Say, a sound effect before the last video clip

If you click on the first option (Add music)

it’s the same as clicking the button’s top half

Find the sound file that you need (e.g. mp3, wav)

As you hover over a file, you see the type

and length of the music (2 minutes & 49 seconds)

Select the file

and click Open

Music gets added to the beginning of the storyboard

You see the song in green

at the end, you see the song cut off

at the 1:02 (1 minute & 2 seconds) point

If you remember, the music file is 02:49 long

So how do we deal with it?

We can add more photos or more video

Manually manipulate the length of time that a photo appears

Use the Fit to music feature

Click on the Project tab

On the Audio group, you’ll see Fit to music which

automatically adjusts the duration of any photos in the project

Video clips will always stay the same length

Once you click Fit to Music, the photos get longer

They’re going to appear for much longer

The last photo stretches out

to the length of the song

which, in the preview pane, is now set to 02:49

That’s now the length of the project as well

This saves you manipulating the durations for individual photos

Let’s preview it again by clicking the play button

So because of our Fit to music function,

The photos now appear for much longer

than the default of 7 seconds

We might want to add some more photos

We could even start working with the video clips

We will continue to do this as the tutorial progresses

Coming Soon: Part 2 How To Use Windows Movie Maker

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