This document is a tutorial that teaches how to use Windows Live Movie Maker to create videos. It discusses importing videos and photos, adding titles and credits, editing video clips by splitting or changing speed, and exporting the finished video. The target audience is educators who want to engage students with technology. It contains questions to test understanding and guides the user through the movie making process in Windows Live Movie Maker.

1. INTRODUCTION
This is a self-paced training
for Windows Live Movie
Maker
Please use the hyperlinks and navigation buttons to
move around within this tutorial.
This tutorial will take approximately 15 minutes.
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2. What is Windows Live Movie
Maker?
 Windows Live Movie Maker is a basic video
editing application that is available to all
users of Windows Vista and Windows 7 or
newer Microsoft computers. Anyone who
would like to download this application to a
personal computer, open the following link:
 http://explore.live.com/windows-live-
essentials

3. Objectives:
 Learners will learn how to:
 Import Video
 Import Photos
 Edit video
 Add a Title or Credit Slide
 Export Video

4. Target Audience
 This training is for educators at San
Benito High School who want to keep their
students engaged in their lessons by the
use of technology.
 If there are any questions please use the
back or home buttons to work through
this tutorial.

5. ADD VIDEOS AND PHOTOS
 Click the Home tab
and then click Add
Videos and
Photos.
 Now browse to your
external storage
device, select the
file(s) you would
like to import, and
click Open.

6. Question One:
 Movie Maker is available on most newer
Microsoft computers.
True False

7. Add a Title or Credit Slide
 Title and credit slides
enhance your slides by
your video by adding
text to your production.
 Click on the Home
tab, and then click
either Title or Credits.
 A black slide will appear.
Click inside the text box
and enter your text.

8. Question Two:
 How do titles and credits let you enhance
your movie?
a. By adding text-based information to your
movie
b. Smaller segments of larger audio and video
files
c. Collections pane of Windows Movie Maker

9. Editing Your Video
 By using the video editing features in
available in Windows Live Movie
Maker, you can make your movie look the
way you want it to.

10. Spilt Videos
 Click on the Edit tab to edit your video.
 Drag the black bar where you want to split the clips.
 Go to the Edit tab and click Split.

11. Speed up or slow down a video
 You can change the speed of your video in
Movie Maker to go slower or faster.
 To change the speed of a video, click the
video. Next, under Video Tools, on the
Edit tab, in the Adjust group, click the
Speed list, and then click a speed.

12. Question Three:
 Is movie maker used for editing images?
a.) No
b.) It's only for editing audio
c.) yes

13. IMPORT YOUR VIDEO
 Click the main file
menu button and
then click Save
movie

14. IMPORT YOUR VIDEO AND SAVE
YOUR VIDEO
 Then select Standard-
definition type a
meaningful file name
and then click Save.
 Once it has finished
saving, follow the prompt
and Play the final
movie through, just to
make sure it looks
exactly the way you
want. Select the first
slide from Video
Preview.

15. EXPORT VIDEO
 Once you are
satisfied, copy the
finalized WMV file
over to your
external device for
uploading to the
Web or use in
another
project, like a
PowerPoint
presentation.

16. Question Four:
 How can we test the movie?
a.) Select the first slide then start the
movie from Video Preview.
b.) we cannot
c.) save it

17. You have now successfully
created a Video.
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18. Conclusion
 In this self-paced tutorial , you learned
how to create and edit a video.
 We hope that you enjoyed this tutorial
and that you create many videos to
capture your memories.
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19. Credits
(Education)
Education, J. H. (n.d.). Retrieved September 6, 2011, from Windows
Live Movie Maker Guide:
http://www.utoledo.edu/education/centers/carver/pdf/Windows_Live_M
ovie_Maker_Guide.pdf
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