Objectives: • Understand what is movie maker • Understand what is the benefit of using movie maker • Understand the interface components of Movie Maker

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Windows Movie Maker
Lesson 1 - Introduction

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Lesson objectives:
In this lesson, the learner will:
 Understand what is movie maker
 Understand what is the benefit of using movie maker
 Understand the interface components of Movie Maker

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1- What is movie maker?
It’s a software that lets you integrate images and video clips and turn them
into movies. It also let you add special effects, transitions, music clips,
songs or recorded voice clips, and captions to help tell your story. In
addition to that, Movie Maker allows you to add text in any part of the film,
as well as visual effects and make your film look professional.
1. What can you do with movie maker ?
Through film maker program, you can:
 Montage a video clips.
 Design image albums of memories of childhood trips or special events.
 Design presentations and educational films and work professionally.
 Create documentary films.
 Create dramatic movies and out elegantly.
2. Where can you find this software?
By default, the program comes with Windows system.
Go to Start> All programs> Movie Maker.

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3. The interface:
This is the main interface of Movie maker.
1. The movie title
2. Shortcuts
3. Menus bar
4. Movie preview space
5. Movie work space
Save
back forward

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4. Menus bar
 The first menu ( Home)
Cut
Copy
Clipboard
Add
Taking a screen
shot of the selected
image
Record
your voice
Recording a video from your camera
Add a title that displays before any
image or video
Add a text that
displays on
specific pictures
or video
Add a page that contains information
about the production of the film (the
participants, the producer and the
location)

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Choosing themes that are already existed in movie maker
 The secondmenu (Animations):
 The third menu ( Visual effect):
Auto Movie theme
Rotate
left
Rotate
right
Delete
Select
all
Editing
Share the
movie
with
different
social
networks
Save
the
movie
Share
Transitions between images
Duration of the selected image
images effect

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 The fourth menu (Project):
The fifth menu (View):
making the recorded
voice sound louder than
the music and video
sounds
making
Video
sound
louder than
the music
and
making the Music
louder than the recorded
voice and the video
sounds
Using widescreen
aspect ratio for the
selected picture
using a standard aspect
for selected image
The size of the image icon
in the workspace

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 Sixth menu (Edit):
This menu appears when you select an image or a video, but it’s mostly used
for video.
When you select an image, the only thing you can adjust here it the duration.
But when you select a video, you can edit the following:
END
Choose the fade in and out of
the sound in the video
Change the speed of the
video
You can trim the video if you
want to hide any unwanted
part
Trim setting