This document is a Windows Movie Maker tutorial that covers the basics of creating a movie, including trimming and splitting video clips, importing and adjusting music, adding transitions, titles, credits, and visual effects. It provides step-by-step instructions for enhancing movie projects with music synchronization and transition effects. Key features and functionalities of Movie Maker are explained to help users produce professional-looking movies.

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Windows Movie Maker
Lesson 3 – Creating a movie

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Lesson objectives:
In this lesson, you will learn how to:
 Trim and Split video clips.
 Import and adjust music and photos
 Use transitions, titles and credits
 Add visual effects to photos and videos

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1. How to trim and Split video clips.
Sometimes, when you use a video in your movie, you don’twant to use all
of it. You may want to hide unwanted part of your movie.
To do that, you have two ways:
Split: dividing the video into parts, and delete the unwanted ones.
Trim: cropping the video by choosing the start time and the end time of the
part you want.
To trim a video in movie maker:
 First, import a video.
 Second: Go to edit > Trim.

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 Notice that in the image below, the start point is 20.00s. this means that
the trimmed part will start in the second 20 of the video. And the end
point is 25.00s which means that the end of the rimmed part will be at
second 30.
This means that the length of the wanted part ( the trimmed part ) is only
5 seconds.
 Save the trimmed part.

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To Split a video:
1- import a video.
Then the video will be splitted into two videos.
Go to the point where you
want to split the video
2
3
Click on split

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2. How to import and adjust music
Music is an important part of any movie, it makes it more professional and
sometimes it makes it more funny. It depends on the type of the movie you
are making.
Click on add music, you will see five options.
The first three options are online websites that can use as a resource to
download the music from.
The fourth option ( Add music ): allows you to add a music file from your
computer.
The fifth option ( add music at the current point ): If you are selecting a
point in the middle of the movie, and used the fifth option, the music will be
added at the point (or frame) you are selecting.

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Click on the music in the
workspace, then you will
see the music properties
The time of the movie when you want
to start playing the music.
The point of the music
when you want to start ( for
example, you don’t want to
play the first 10 seconds of
the music, so you will write
in start point 10 ).
In which point of the music you
want to stop playing it.
Fade in: allows you to choose the
speed of the music start.
Fade out: allows you to choose the
speed of the music end.

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3. How to make the music fit with the images?
In the image below, it is obvious that the display time of the images is more
than the play time of the music.
This means that the music will stop playing and the images will keep
displaying.
To make the time of music and images fit with each other, then the duration
time of the images will be adjusted to make it fit with the music duration.

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4. How to use transitions, titles and credits
Transitions are the movements that you can add between your clips and
images in the movie. They can help the flow between clips. In transitions
you can add fades, wipes and other animated movements to help bridge the
gap between videos and images.
Example of transition:
To add a transition to your movie, go to animation, and you will see
different types of transitions.
As it is shown in the image above. We chosethe Diagonal transition
And the point we have selected is between the red flower and the purple
flower

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Titles are pages that you can add before a specific page to identify what is
the coming picture or video about. For example, you can add a title before
the images of flowers come, and write in the title “flowers”.
Example of a title:
you can add a title from Home > Title.
The title slide
appearedHere where
you write
the title
Here where
you edit the
text of the
title
Text effects:
The way the text
appears

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Credits are texts that are used to present information about the productionof
the movie, and it comes at the end of the movie.
There are five types of credits:
5. How to add visual effects to photos and videos
Movie maker allows you to apply visual effects on both photos and videos.
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Blank credit
Information about the stars of the movie
Information about the soundtrack
Information about the director of the
movie
Information about the location of the
movie creation