The document provides step-by-step instructions for creating a movie using Movie Maker. It describes how to import video clips, photos, music and other media; edit the clips; add titles, transitions and visual effects; adjust audio levels; and save the finished movie in various formats. The instructions guide the user through all aspects of the movie creation process within Movie Maker.

1. Instructions
Create
a
Movie
in
Movie
Maker
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2. MovieMaker
Collections – this is where all your movie clips, music
and photos will be stored
Tasks –
Click on
the tasks Watch your
and they movie in this
will guide screen
you
through
the
different
processes
Story Board –
drag all your
photos, movies,
music, transitions
etc down to here.
Click on the
Timeline button to
see all the sound
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3. Creativity FunPack
You can download a Creativity fun pack from
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/mmcreate.mspx
This has free sounds, music, titles and video end credits
You will then need to import it into MovieMaker
1. Open Windows Movie Maker 2.
2. Go to File - Import . find where the Creativity funpack is. The default location is in your My
Videos folder
3. Before importing the Video Title Slides, uncheck the Create clips for video files box. You
need the video files to remain in one piece.
4. Select the clips by pressing Ctrl A on the keyboard and click Open
5. You will need to open each folder and select all of the contents, you cannot import the
folders
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4. Capture the movie
Note: most DV cameras USB leads will not work on your laptops or computers if you are
running Windows XP SP2. All new laptops and computers linked to a network will be in this
category as they will be updated automatically via the internet. You will need to purchase a
Firewire cable for your camera. All laptops will have a firewire port but not all computers.
Firewire cable
Firewire port
• Open MovieMaker by going to Start – All Programs, it may be in
your programme menu or you might need to look in Accessories
• Turn on your Video Camera and set it to Play or VTR (depending
what model you have)
• The Video capture wizard will start automatically
• Type in a name for your video.
• Select where you want your video to be saved
• Click Next
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5. Capture the movie
Select Best quality for playback on any
computer if you are just going to be using on
your computer.
If you want to create a good quality DVD you
will need to select Digital Device format or
choose from other settings.
If you select Other Settings, you can choose
other ways to save your movie file. It can be
saved to a Pocket PC or you can publish to a
website and choose how big you would like
the file. If you choose the DV-AVI (PAL)
option that will give you a very large file of
very good quality that can be burned to DVD,
for slightly lesser quality but a significantly
smaller file you could choose High Quality
video.
Click Next.
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6. Capture the movie
• Click Capture parts of the tape manually
• Click Next
• Make sure that the Create clips when wizard
finishes check box is ticked
• Find the place on the Video tape where you want to
start downloading by clicking the play button on the
Controller
• Click Start Capture.
• Click Stop Capture when you have finished
• Click Finish
Use these controls to play and stop your movie
Use the Green controller
to move quickly through your movie. Or press
the Spacebar on your computer to start and stop
a clip playing.
Don’t forget to
save as you go
by going to File –
Use these controls to zoom in and out your timeline Save Project
so that you can see more or less of all your clips.
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7. Storyboard
• You’ll see your clips in the Collections view.
• Double click a clip to see how it looks in the preview window. Press
Play
• Click and drag each clip in order to the Storyboard
Storyboard
Split a long clip
• If one of your clips in the Collections View is very long
you can split it
• Click on the clip in the Collections View
• Click Play and when you see the place you want to split,
click the Play button again to Pause it
• Click on the Split button
• Your clip will split into two separate clips in the Collection
Pane
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8. Combine your clips
• You can also combine many small clips to make
one clip, you can do this in the Collection
Window or on the Storyboard or Timeline view
• Click on the first clip to be combined, hold down
your Control key and click on all of the other
clips to be combined (they should all be
highlighted)
• Go to Clip – Combine in the menu bar
Edit your clips
• Click on Show Timeline , click on the clip you’d like to trim.
• Drag the scroll bar and watch the movie in the Preview window.
• Stop where you want to trim the clip.
• Go to Clip - Set Start Trim Point. (this will delete everything before)
• Now continue to drag the scroll bar until you reach the end of your clip.
• Go to Clip - Set End Trim Point. (this will delete everything after just on that clip)
• You will now have your trimmed clip.
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9. Import photos
• In the movie task pane click on Import
Pictures
• Navigate through your My Picture’s Folder
until you see the pictures you want
• Click on one and Ctrl Click the other ones
you want
• Click on Import
• Click and drag the photos down on to the
Clip Pane just as you did with the movie clips
Add Transitions
• Click View video transitions.
• Double-click the transitions to see how they
look
• Drag a transition down to the Storyboard
and place them in the squares between
your video clips.
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10. Add Titles
• Click Make titles or credits.
• Add a title before your movie by clicking
• Type in the words you
want to appear on your
screen
• Click Change the title
animation, and then select a
different animation from the
list. A preview will show in the
Preview window
• Click Change the text and font colour, and you can
make changes to the font, font size and position and
the colour of the text and background.
• Click Done, Add Title to Movie and your title will be
added to your storyboard before your first clip.
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11. Add text to a clip
• Click Make Titles and Credits
• Click on a clip that you want to add text on top of
• Click on
• Type in text
• Click on Change the Title Animation and make changes to
how it appears on the screen
• If necessary make changes to font size and colour
• Click Done, add title to movie
Add credits to end of clip
• Click Make Titles and Credits
• Click on
• Type in text
• Click on Change the Title Animation and make changes to
how it appears on the screen
• If necessary make changes to font size and colour
• Click Done, add title to movie
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12. Add Video Effects
• Click View video effects .
• Double-click on an effect and it will show an
example in the preview window.
• You will need to be in Story board View
• Drag the effect of your choice down to the
Storyboard and place it on top of the star in the
lower left hand corner of the clip.
• You can add more than one effect to a clip
Three effects
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13. Add Music
• Click on Import audio or music
• Click on My Documents and then doubleclick My Music
folder
• Double click on any of your music folders
• Double Click on the music track you’d like to use
• Click on Import.
• The music track will appear in your Collection view.
• Click on Show Timeline button in the
Storyboard part of your screen.
• Drag your music track to the Audio/Music part of the
Timeline.
• You can change the place of the music track by clicking
and dragging and moving it
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14. Adjust audio levels
• Go to Tools - Audio Levels.
• Increase audio level of Music track by dragging the slider bar towards
Audio/Music.
• To increase the audio level of audio from the Video drag the slider bar towards
Audio from video.
• Click Close
• Click on the Music clip and alter the volume sound by going to Clip –Audio
• Fade in and out the music by selecting Fade in and Fade out on the dropdown
menu
• Adjust the volume level of the clip by clicking on Volume on the drop down menu
•
Mute audio
Sometimes you can get noises on a video clip that you don’t want to hear like somebody
talking or wind noises. You can remove these without affecting other clips or background
music you have inserted
• Click on the clip that needs to be muted
• Go to Clip –Audio-Mute
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15. Add a Narration
• Click on Narrate Timeline button
• Click Show more options
• Drag the Playback indicator on the
timeline to where you want to start the
narration (you can’t add it to a music
clip so you may need to move the
music clip)
• Click in the Limit narration to
available free space
and that will stop you from moving the
music track along as you speak
• Plug in your microphone and click
Start Narration
• Click Stop Narration when you have
finished and Click Save when the
dialogue box appears
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16. Save a Movie
• Go to Save Movie File
• Choose where to save it
o My Computer (Full quality, it will play back in Media Player)
o Recordable CD (it will be compressed to fit a CD)
o Email ( heavily compressed to be sent in an email)
o The Web (heavily compressed to be viewed on a web page
o DV camera (full quality which can then be recorded on video
tape)
• Click Next
• Type in a • Choose best
name for quality for
your movie playback or
and choose make a
where you choice from
want to save the other
it settings
• Click Next
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17. Save a Movie
If you select Other Settings, you can choose
other ways to save your movie file. It can be
saved to a Pocket PC or you can publish to a
website and choose how big you would like the
file. If you choose the DV-AVI (PAL) option that
will give you a very large file of very good quality
that can be burned to DVD, for slightly lesser
quality but a significantly smaller file you could
choose High Quality video.
1. Click Next
2. The Movie file will
now start to be
saved
3. When it is finished,
click on the Finish
button to view
movie
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