This document provides an overview of Windows Movie Maker, including its history and key features. It details the three main tasks in Movie Maker: import/capture, edit, and finish. It describes the timeline/storyboard with five tracks for video, transitions, audio, music, and titles. It provides step-by-step instructions for importing media, arranging clips on the timeline, adjusting clip lengths, adding video effects and transitions, and including titles/credits to create a movie.

1. With Windows Movie Maker
Done by: Hessa
Shaima

2. Content
•
•
•
•
•

3. What is windows movie maker
•

4. History of windows movie maker
• 2000 : Windows Movie Maker 1.0 (Windows Me)
• 2001 : Windows Movie Maker 1.1 (Windows XP)
• 2002 : Windows Movie Maker 2.0 (Windows XP)
• 2004 : Windows Movie Maker 2.1 (Windows XP SP2)
• 2004 : Windows Movie Maker 2.5 (Windows XP Media
Center Edition 2005)
• 2006 : Windows Movie Maker 2.6 (Windows Vista)
• 2007 : Windows Movie Maker 6.0 (Windows Vista)

5. - Windows movie maker
features.
•
•
•
•

6. • Tasks
• Timeline
• Preview

7. Tasks
3 Tasks:
1.Capture/Import
2.Edit
3.Finish

8. Timeline/ storyboard
• 5 Tracks
– Video
– Transition
– Audio
– Audio/music
– Title
• When we edit our movie, different
parts will go in these tracks

9. preview
•

10. 1- Import media into movie maker:
• Capture video clips or pics from digital
camera, or import from files saved on your
computer.
– Click on import video/pics
2- Move video/pics to the timeline:
• Each item will appear in the collections part
• Drag each item to the story board and drop
them in the order you wish them to appear.

11. 3- picture time:
• You can also change the length of time that the picture shown
in the movie
• By default each picture will be shown for 5 seconds
• If you want to change that amount of time drag the “end trim
handle” , notice when you click and drag the amount of time
will show in the window.
• If you are using video you can crop the length of the video
using the same process.

12. 4- Video effects:
• You can employ different effects that
will jazz up the video.
• In the task part, under step 2, click on
“view video effects”
• The collection of effects will appear in
the collections area
• click and drag an perfect effect down to
the clip in the storyboard
• You can use multiple effects on an item

13. How to create a movie
• There is star will appear to represent an effect
is on the picture
• You will notice that there are 2 stars on a
picture with 2 effects
• You can preview the effect on your
pictures/video

14. How to create a movie
5- Transitions:
• You can employ different transitions to jazz up
the video
• In the task part, under step 2, click on “view
video transitions”
• The collection of transitions will appear in the
collections area
• Drag the transition between the clips in the
storyboard.
• A blue line will appear to show where the
trans will go

15. How to create movie
6- Titles / Credits
• Again, in the task part, under step 2 click on “Make
titles…”
• Chose where you want to put the title/credits
• Type the title in the text box
• Below, you can change the animation or the font and
color
• Once complete, click on Done.

16. Resource
• MediaCollege.com. (n.d.). Windows Movie Maker Overview. Retrieved
November 17, 2011, from MediaCollege.com:
http://www.mediacollege.com/microsoft/windows/movie-maker/intro.html
• PCWorld. (1998-2011). Windows Live Movie Maker . Retrieved October
19, 2011, from PCWorld Communications:
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,157414/description.html
• Texas, U. o. (2005). Introduction to Windows Movie Maker 2. Retrieved October
20, 2011, from Ischool.utexas:
http://www.ischool.utexas.edu/technology/tutorials/graphics/moviemaker2/
MM2handout.pdf