Windows Movie Maker A component of Microsoft Windows
The last version of Windows Movie Maker shown on Windows Vista
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Included with	Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows Vista
Replaced by	Windows Live Movie Maker

Windows Movie Maker is a video creating/editing software application, included in Microsoft Windows Me, XP, and Vista. It contains features such as effects, transitions, titles/credits, audio track, timeline narration, and Auto Movie. New effects and transitions can be made and existing ones can be modified using XML code. Windows Movie Maker is also a basic audio track editing program. It can apply basic effects to audio tracks such as fade in or fade out. The audio tracks can then be exported in the form of a sound file instead of a video file.

The first version was available for Windows Me in 2000, followed by Windows XP in 2001, including other XP editions.

Development of Windows Movie Maker was abandoned after the release of Windows Vista; its replacement, Windows Live Movie Maker, is included with Windows Live Essentials, a free download from Windows Live;^[1] that does not have the same features as Windows Movie Maker.^[2] Windows Movie Maker 2.6 for Vista is compatible with Windows 7 and recommended by video editors,^[3] although Windows Movie Maker 2.6 is a stripped down version and does not include video capture.

Contents 1 Version history 1.1 Windows Me 1.2 Windows 2000 1.3 Windows XP 1.4 Windows Vista 1.5 Windows 7 2 Layout 2.1 Importing footage 2.2 Editing and output 2.3 Effects and transitions 3 Reception and criticism 4 Releases 5 See also 6 References 7 External links

[edit] Version history

[edit] Windows Me

The first release was included with Windows Me in 2000, but it was not available in Windows 2000, which was released in the same year as Me (2000). Version 1.1 was included in XP in 2001.

[edit] Windows 2000

While Windows 2000 does not come with Windows Movie Maker, it is still possible run the Windows Me version of Movie Maker on Windows 2000. If the Movie Maker program files are copied from Windows Me and transferred to Windows 2000, the application will run perfectly. This can also be done with version 1.1.

[edit] Windows XP

Version 1.1 was included in Windows XP a year later, and included support for creating DV AVI and WMV 8 files. Version 2.0 was released as a free update in November 2002, and added a number of new features. Version 2.1, a minor update, is included in Windows XP Service Pack 2. Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 introduced a new version of Windows Movie Maker, 2.5, with more transitions and support for DVD burning.

[edit] Windows Vista

A WPF version was included in some builds of Windows "Longhorn" (now Windows Vista), but was removed in the development reset.^[4]

Version 6.0 of Windows Movie Maker in Windows Vista includes new effects and transitions, and support for the DVR-MS file format that Windows Media Center records television in. The HD version in Premium and Ultimate editions of Windows Vista adds support for capturing from HDV camcorders. The capture wizard will create DVR-MS type files from HDV tapes. However, the Windows Vista version of Windows Movie Maker no longer supports importing video from an analog video source such as an analog camcorder, VCR or from a webcam.^[5]

Some systems might not be able to run the new version of Windows Movie Maker. Therefore, Microsoft has also released an updated older version 2.6 for Windows Vista on the Microsoft Download Center. This version includes the old effects and transitions, and is basically the same as Windows Movie Maker 2.1, but without the ability to capture video. Installation requires Windows Vista and is only intended for use on computers where the hardware accelerated ...

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iMovie is a registered trademark of Apple. I am in no way affiliated with Apple. Okay, in this clip, we're going to be adding some music to our project. Over here on the far right hand side where your Title tool and Transition tool is you have your musical symbol tool here, and this opens up your sound effects and music browser, so let's click on that. It opens up the music folder on your hard drive in iTunes, and we're going to use this little search box to type in the beginning of the song we want to use, which is called Acoustic Dreams. After we've put in a few letters it comes right up there. If we select this now and bring it to a blank area in our project and drop it you can see that this green area fills the entire project. Basically, that's a quick way to add music to the background of your projects, but we don't want to do that right now. We want to actually attach this music to a specific video clip, so let's hit Command Z to undo that, and what we want to do is take this music clip and put it right over the skyline, and have it stop after the skyline shot, when our vows and rings begin. So, let's grab that and bring it over to right before the skyline clip begins here and let's drop it there. Now, you can see on the bottom here it says Acoustic Dreams in this little green bar here, indicating where the music will appear in our project. Obviously it it's far too long right now. The song is longer than the clip that we want it attached to so we need to trim that, so let's select that, go up to Edit, Trim, or you can hit Command R. See, your little yellow handles for the end point of your clip and your beginning point. We want to drag the end point backwards until it's over the skyline clip. Now, you can hit the little Play button in this window to see how that looks. Stop that. This actually goes a little bit too fast, so let's bring it back a little bit more to right about there. Let's hit done. We want to make an audio adjustment to that now. It's a little bit too loud. So, we want to use our audio adjustment tool, which is this little speaker with the wav form coming out of it. Let's click on that. Now, you can adjust the volume here. You can also do a fade-in and fade-out here, and you can do what iMovie calls ducking, which basically means you can reduce the audio that's on the video clips so it balances more with the music if you want to have both playing at the same time. Okay, we're not going to use ducking right now. We're just going to make a volume adjustment, and we're going to bring this volume down to 45%, and we're also going to add a fade, a manual fade. We're going to have this song fade-up, one second fade and a two second fade-out. Now, you can alls, always use the Revert to original button if you are not happy with the changes you've made and you want to start over. So let's hit done. Let's bring our cursor to right before that clip; hit the space bar to play it. You can see how it fades in. It should also fade-out nice here with our two second fade. Now, you're not limited to just music here. You could add sound effects. Basically, any file that's on your hard drive; any sound file, you can attach to a specific video clip, and make the trimming adjustments as we just did. So, that's how ...

Windows Movie Maker is a useful tool that is a video editor and creator all in one.

If you think that creating a video with your photos is too complicated, think again and take a look at Windows Movie Maker.

Introduction

This easy-to-use movie maker software lets you create completely customizable multimedia presentations that include not only your best shots and favorite video clips, but also some nice video and transition effects that will add a professional touch.

How to use

Windows Movie Maker is really simple to use: import all the media you'd like to use (images, video files and even video captured in real time) and drag it onto the timeline. Add as many effects as you like, and check how everything looks in the preview window. There's even a special tool in Windows Movie Maker that lets you add titles and credits to your movie.

Additional features

Once your work is finished, Windows Movie Maker lets you export the video to several different formats, depending on where you want to use it: publishing it on a website, recording it to a CD or simply saving it to your hard drive are some of the options included.

That said, bear in mind that Windows Movie Maker is intended for people with little or no movie making experience, which means that more advanced users may find it a bit too limiting.

With Windows Movie Maker you can easily create video presentations with your favorite photos, video clips and some nice transition effects.

Hi, I'm Isaac Brody for About.com Computing.

Today I'll teach you how to add music to projects in Windows Movie Maker. Once you've created your movie in the timeline you may want to add music or sound effects. Music and sound effects are a good way to increase the production value of your film.

Movie Maker Music Import

To add audio click on the task button, and click on Import Audio or Music, under the Capture Video task. You can also go to File, Import Into Collections, to select audio. This brings up the Import File window. Under file types click the dropdown menu and select Audio and Music Files.

I'll find some of my original music and hit the Import button. Our music is imported into the Collections folder.

If you have a lot of music, click on the collections button and right click on collections and click new collection. I'll rename this collection... music.

Organize Music Imports

Next I'll drag my music file from the general collections folder to the music folder. I do this to keep my collections folder organized. In a project with lots of files it's easy to lose track of files and organizing them into folders helps me keep track of them.

Incorporate Music into Timeline

Now I'll drag my music onto the timeline. The music is much longer than my video, so I'll hit the unzoom tool a few times. Next I'll position my mouse on the edge of the music file and drag it to the left to fit my project.

Music Properties- Transitions

You can right click on the music to change properties. You can mute the music, and add a fade in and fade out to make the music seamlessly merge into the video.

Music Volume

And you can adjust the volume. You can also change the audio properties on your video clips so that just your music is present. I'll right click on my video clip ad choose mute. To play your music, drag the play head to the beginning and press the play button.

And that's how you add and work with music in windows movie maker. Thanks for watching. For more information, please visit us online at Computing.About.com

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1. Starting a new project 5855 2:12 2. Adding clips in storyboard view 5856 1:21 3. Inserting clips in storyboard view 5857 0:31 4. Locating missing media files 5848 0:39 5. Deleting clips in the storyboard 5858 0:50 6. Resequencing clips in storyboard view 5859 0:53 7. Adjusting the size of your storyboard 5860 0:43 8. Previewing movies in storyboard view 5861 1:39 9. Surveying storyboard view features 5862 1:25 10. Surveying the timeline view, pt. 1 5863 1:38 11. Surveying the timeline view, pt. 2 5864 1:48 12. Adding clips to the timeline 5865 2:03 13. Overlapping clips on the timeline 5866 1:20 14. Trimming clips on the timeline 5867 1:50 15. Creating an AutoMovie 5868 2:56 16. Editing project properties 5869 1:23

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