Windows Live Movie Maker is a video editing software that allows users to create and edit video projects. It is intended to replace Windows Movie Maker and allows users to publish videos to Windows Live SkyDrive, Facebook, YouTube, and Flickr. The software has various tools and options to edit videos, including adding titles, captions, credits, and visual effects. It also allows users to customize aspects like themes, transitions, audio, and project settings.

2. Windows live movie maker is one of the
multimedia authoring tools. It is a video
creating/editing software that is a part
of Microsoft's Windows Live initiative. It
is intended to replace Windows Movie
Maker that is currently included
in Windows Vista.

3. It allows you to create proficient video in
great looking and share it with your
family and friends across a TV, PC, or
mobile phone. Windows Live Movie
Maker allows users to publish videos
to Windows Live
SkyDrive, Facebook, YouTube,
and Flickr, as well creating HD videos.

4. Main toolbar
Preview pane Storyboard
pane
Time scale zoom

5. In this menu you will find the
most relevant commands to
open, import, and close files.
Also, this menu involves
saving and publishing the
project.

6. Clipboard:
It contains Cut, Copy, and paste
option. By using these icons you can
copy image, text, or video from
various sources and paste them in to
the storyboard pane.

7. Add box contains adding
video, photo, and music
option.

8. Also, in add box there is button
called Webcam video that allows
you to record video from your
laptop camera.

9. In addition, there button called
snapshot that allow you to
snapshot of the current frame
of your project to use in your
movie.

10. Add title: this icon used to add a title or
other text that stands alone as a new slide
Add caption: this icon used if you want to
add a caption to a photo or segment of
video
Add credits: this icon used when you
indicate to something. You can add a
Credits, Director, Starring, and Location
with this icon.

11. In the home tab, also you
will find different types of
themes. These themes used
to add some effects when
the movie move from part to
another part. For example,
when it moving from video
to picture and so on.

12. Try to think what is the
purpose of each icons of
these????

13. These icons used if
you want to share
your movie to other
by uploading it via
Facebook, YouTube,
Flickr and so on

14. Try to discover
what can this
button do ?

15. You can add transition to your project by selecting one
from the Transitions gallery on the Animations tab.
These transitions used when you want to add some
animations between images and so on.

16. The duration button used if you want
to control the period of viewing the
transition.
And Apply to all button, used if you
want to apply the transition that you
did to all images.

17. According to the
previous slide, what is
the purpose of Pan and
Zoom box????

18. In visual effects tab, you will find all effects that you want to
add to your movie including Blur, Edge detection, and Black
and White effects.

19. Also, in visual effects tab you will find
brightness button that is used to
control the brightness of the effects
that you apply it.
Apply to all button used when you want
to apply the effects to all image and
video.

20. If you insert audio to your
project, audio option will appear
directly in the project tab. This option
allows you to control the audio that
you inserted by mixing it with the
video or playing the sound only
without the sound of the video.

21. This option allows you to fit your
project to the music.

22. You can set project your project
aspect ratio by choosing one of two
option appear on the Project tab.
Most older video cameras shoot in
4:3 aspect ratio. Most modern ones
use 16:9.

23. Zoom in icon used if you want to
view your project in more details.
Zoom out icon allows you to view
more of the items in your project
on a larger time scale.

24. Reset icon used to set the
storyboard to the default zoom
level.

25. This button allows you to change the
size of thumbnails on the storyboard.

26. This button used if you want to view
your project in full screen

27. You can use this button to
change the volume of the
selected video. That’s means,
you can increase or decrease
the volume of the video using
this button

28. By these two buttons, you can
choose how fast to fade out or
in the audio in your project.

29. This button used if you want to
change the background color
of the text item.
Try to practice what you learn
above by your own.

30. This button used when you want
to change the speed of the video.

31. This button used if you want to
control the photo or back ground
duration.

32. This button used if you want to
divide your video into two items at
specific point.

33. You can trim the video to hide any
unwanted parts by using Trim tools
or, you can directly select start and
end point by clicking on Set start and
end point buttons at the appropriate
point..

34. Try to insert text item and then apply all this option on it.