IntroductionWelcome| 00:04 | These days, many of us use digital
cameras, and we even have some video cameras
| | 00:08 | built right into our phones.
| | 00:10 | With Windows Live Movie Maker, you can
quickly and easily create eye-catching
| | 00:15 | movies from your videos and photos,
and best of all, it's a free download with
| | 00:19 | Windows Live Essentials.
| | 00:21 | This course will show you how to make
movies using features like AutoMovie,
| | 00:25 | which now adds themes, transitions,
effects, titles, and more to turn an
| | 00:33 | ordinary video or a collection
of photos into a movie that wows.
| | 00:38 | Now, this course will also help you
take your movies to the next level, using
| | 00:41 | more advanced features and functions
for editing content, adding audio tracks,
| | 00:46 | and adding special effects.
| | 00:49 | Once you've completed the creation
process, you'll learn how to share your
| | 00:53 | masterpiece with others, whether it's
online or on DVD--even in high-definition.
| | 00:59 | With so many exciting and powerful
features to explore, let's get started.
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| Using the exercise files and restoring missing links| 00:00 | If you're a premium subscriber with
the lynda.com, you'll have access to the
| | 00:04 | exercise files, and the exercise
files allow you to follow along with me
| | 00:08 | step by step as we move through
the various chapters in this title.
| | 00:12 | If you are going to use the exercise
files, I highly recommend placing them on
| | 00:16 | the Desktop where they'll be easy to
find, because every project in Movie Maker
| | 00:21 | references the various assets,
such as photos, video, and music.
| | 00:26 | And unless you have the exact same path
that I'm using, that reference will be
| | 00:30 | broken. But I'm going to show you how to fix it.
| | 00:33 | First of all, double-click the exercise files.
| | 00:35 | You'll notice that each of the
chapters is represented by its own subfolder,
| | 00:39 | and double-clicking one of those
folders reveals subfolders for each of the
| | 00:42 | movies in that chapter.
| | 00:44 | You may also see an Assets folder
here, or it may be hidden right within
| | 00:48 | the Chapter folder.
| | 00:49 | So, if we double-click 01_02, you'll
see the project My Beach Movie, and you'll
| | 00:54 | also see the Assets folder containing
all of the photos, the video, the music
| | 00:59 | that might be used in that project.
| | 01:01 | But like I said, if you're not
storing the exercise files in the exact same
| | 01:05 | path that I have, which means my
username David Rivers, on the hard drive, on
| | 01:11 | the Desktop, et cetera,
| | 01:12 | when you go to open up a
project, this is what you'll see.
| | 01:16 | You'll see a number of exclamation marks for
each of the clips or assets used in the project.
| | 01:21 | That's because the reference link
has been broken, but it's easily fixed.
| | 01:27 | If you hover over any one of these
clips, you'll see information about it.
| | 01:30 | For example, this one is called
beach_1.JPG. It's a JPEG photo.
| | 01:36 | It's not found right now because we've moved it.
| | 01:39 | So double-clicking allows you to fix that.
| | 01:41 | Double-clicking brings up the Fix Item
dialog, and all you have to do is find it
| | 01:46 | by clicking the Find button.
| | 01:48 | Now it's just a matter of going
to that exact same location for the
| | 01:51 | Assets folder, by going to your
Desktop, your Exercise Files, Chapter1,
| | 01:56 | the 01_02 subfolder.
| | 01:58 | There's the Assets folder. Double-click
and you'll see beach_1 right there.
| | 02:02 | Now, double-click again:
| | 02:03 | not only does it find that one asset,
but it restores the link or reference to
| | 02:08 | each of the assets in the project, and
you're ready to continue on, following
| | 02:12 | step by step with me.
| | 02:14 | Now, if you don't have the
exercise files, not to worry.
| | 02:17 | You can still learn a lot by using your
own files. Or if you prefer, simply sit
| | 02:22 | back, watch, and relax.
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1. Getting StartedInstalling Windows Live Movie Maker | 00:00 | Well, before you can start creating
your movies with Windows Live Movie Maker,
| | 00:04 | you'll need to make sure
it's installed on your computer.
| | 00:07 | If it's not, it's really not a big deal.
| | 00:10 | Just open up your browser and go to
the Windows Live homepage. There,
| | 00:14 | you'll find a heading for Essentials,
and under Essentials is where you'll
| | 00:18 | see Polished movies: Movie Maker.
| | 00:21 | Just give that a click, and it'll take you
to the Windows Live Movie Maker 2011 page.
| | 00:25 | You'll see a brief description about
what Movie Maker does, and of course
| | 00:29 | it's all about taking your photos
and your videos and turning them into
| | 00:32 | movies, adding special effects, and
sounds, and captions, and then of course
| | 00:35 | sharing them at the end--
| | 00:38 | everything we're going to be
talking about in this title.
| | 00:40 | Right now though, we're going to
focus on the Download now button.
| | 00:44 | This allows you to download either the
entire suite of Windows Live Essentials
| | 00:49 | or just Movie Maker, if you so choose.
| | 00:52 | So let's give it a click.
| | 00:52 | Now, you'll see a security warning.
| | 00:55 | You need to choose whether or not
you're going to run or save the program.
| | 00:58 | We'll just click Run to run it, and
you may see a User Account Control,
| | 01:03 | indicating that a program is about to
make changes to computer, and you'll need
| | 01:08 | to accept that by clicking Yes.
| | 01:10 | As soon as you do, you'll see the
Windows Live Essentials 2011 logo, indicating
| | 01:14 | it's preparing to install.
| | 01:16 | Nothing is installing yet.
| | 01:18 | You will have the opportunity to choose
the entire suite or just pick and choose
| | 01:22 | the programs you want to install.
| | 01:26 | So when the Windows Live Essentials
2011 window opens up, you get to pick to
| | 01:30 | install all of the Windows Live
Essentials programs. Look at them all.
| | 01:34 | There's quite a few, including the new
Messenger. Photo Gallery goes with Movie Maker.
| | 01:39 | You'll see Mail, Writer, Family Safety--
all kinds of cool things that are part
| | 01:43 | of the Windows Live Essentials suite.
| | 01:45 | But if you only want to install Movie
Maker, you'll select Choose the programs
| | 01:49 | you want to install, and from
here, you'll get to pick and choose.
| | 01:53 | You'll notice for me that all of
these programs are already installed,
| | 01:57 | so my only option is to close up this window.
| | 02:00 | Notice though that Photo
Gallery and Movie Maker go together.
| | 02:02 | So if you're going to be creating
movies from your photos, Photo Gallery is an
| | 02:06 | excellent tool that works
hand in hand with Movie Maker.
| | 02:09 | You'll see this in action in an upcoming movie.
| | 02:12 | So once you've chosen what you want to
install, go ahead and install it, and
| | 02:15 | you'll be ready to start making
movies with Windows Live Movie Maker.
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| Touring the Movie Maker interface| 00:00 | Once you have Movie Maker installed,
it's time to launch it, and from Windows,
| | 00:04 | just click your Start button.
| | 00:05 | You can start typing in "Movie Maker" in
the Search field or click All Programs,
| | 00:09 | and you'll notice Windows Live Movie
Maker is installed in the root directory,
| | 00:13 | so it's easy to find.
| | 00:15 | I'll just give it a click
to launch the application.
| | 00:17 | Now, it's time to get
comfortable in our surroundings,
| | 00:20 | so we'll take a quick tour of the user
interface, starting at the very top where
| | 00:24 | we see the title bar:
| | 00:25 | Windows Live Movie Maker.
| | 00:27 | You'll also see the name of your project here.
| | 00:29 | In this case, because we're starting a
new project when we launch Movie Maker,
| | 00:33 | you'll always see My Movie up there.
| | 00:35 | Of course, when you go to save your
project, you'll give it a different name.
| | 00:39 | Just to left of the title bar is the
Quick Access Toolbar with shortcut buttons
| | 00:43 | to commands you might use more often, like
Saving, Undo, and Redo: the default buttons.
| | 00:48 | Of course, you can click the dropdown
and add any that don't have check marks--
| | 00:52 | like New Project and Open--or remove existing
ones that do have check marks by selecting them.
| | 00:58 | So you can see really
customize your Quick Access Toolbar.
| | 01:00 | We'll click that same button, or
click the title bar to close that up.
| | 01:04 | Now, down below the Quick Access
Toolbar is the biggest change. And if you've
| | 01:09 | used any of the newer programs in Windows,
you might already be familiar with the Ribbon.
| | 01:15 | The Ribbon is broken up into several
tabs, and these tabs, as you click them,
| | 01:20 | you'll notice groups of commands.
| | 01:22 | For example, on the Home tab, we have the
Clipboard, the Add group, AutoMovie themes.
| | 01:27 | All of these commands are
organized so they're easy to find.
| | 01:29 | You'll spend a lot less time
searching for commands and more time actually
| | 01:33 | creating your movies here in Movie Maker,
| | 01:36 | thanks to this new interface.
| | 01:37 | Now, down below the Ribbon,
you'll find two panes:
| | 01:41 | on the left-hand side, the Preview
pane where you'll see a preview of your
| | 01:45 | project; on the right-hand side, the
storyboard pane, which has a link with
| | 01:50 | any new project to browse for videos and
photos that you want to add to the storyboard.
| | 01:55 | If you've used previous versions of
Movie Maker, you're going to notice
| | 01:58 | something is missing, and that is the timeline.
| | 02:01 | The timeline is gone.
| | 02:02 | You're going to be working in the
storyboard now for adding your assets, like
| | 02:06 | photos, videos, music, credits.
| | 02:10 | So if you've got titles or closing
credits that you want to add, all of that's
| | 02:14 | done now on the storyboard.
| | 02:15 | To see what this looks like,
let's open up a project.
| | 02:18 | We're going to go to the very first
tab now on the Ribbon, which is the Movie
| | 02:21 | Maker tab, and this is similar to
clicking a File menu in most programs.
| | 02:25 | You'll see file-related commands
for creating new projects, opening,
| | 02:29 | saving, importing, et cetera.
| | 02:32 | On the right, you'll see recent
projects that you worked on in order, from the
| | 02:36 | most recent at the top to
some older ones down below.
| | 02:39 | Now, as you start working on multiple
projects, you may want to keep certain
| | 02:43 | ones on this list, and you can
do that by clicking a pushpin.
| | 02:46 | It will always appear on the list, no
matter how many new projects you create, as
| | 02:50 | the older ones get pushed down. And you
can deselect the Pushpin by selecting it
| | 02:55 | again with your mouse.
| | 02:57 | Let's click Open and go to our
exercise files, to the 01_02 subfolder.
| | 03:01 | You'll find one called My Beach Movie.
| | 03:03 | Notice the extension WLMP,
Windows Live Movie Maker Project.
| | 03:07 | That's what that stands for.
| | 03:09 | Now, when you click Open, you'll notice on
the storyboard we have things like music files.
| | 03:15 | Here is a song by the
Jellybricks. We have photos.
| | 03:19 | Here you'll see a title, for example.
| | 03:22 | You'll also see, in the bottom left-hand
corner, these little triangles indicating
| | 03:26 | there are special effects like transitions.
| | 03:29 | So all of this appears on the
storyboard, and on the left-hand side, we have our
| | 03:33 | Preview pane where we can
click Play to preview our movies.
| | 03:37 | So let's give it a click.
| | 03:38 | The Play button will turn into a
Pause button, so you can pause at anytime.
| | 03:41 | (Clip playing.)
| | 03:54 | So there is an example of previewing
exactly what you've set up on your storyboard.
| | 03:59 | There are so many tools available to you
now on the Ribbon when working with a project.
| | 04:03 | You'll notice that it's context-sensitive;
| | 04:05 | a couple of new tabs have shown up.
| | 04:08 | Once we start adding photos
or video and so on--even music--
| | 04:12 | we'll see new tabs appear at the
end, like the Edit tab for Video tools.
| | 04:16 | Then we've got the Options tab for Music tools.
| | 04:20 | On our Preview pane, you'll also
notice a time count, and this little button
| | 04:24 | that allows us to preview it in fullscreen.
| | 04:27 | Function key 11, F11, is your keyboard
shortcut to preview in fullscreen, and
| | 04:32 | you'll have some options there for
working with your project as well.
| | 04:35 | So let's give it a click.
| | 04:36 | (Clip playing.)
| | 04:44 | When you click back to movie, you're
still previewing, but you're not in a
| | 04:50 | full screen. And you can click Pause at
anytime to stop what you're previewing.
| | 04:55 | Now, down at the very
bottom, the items are listed.
| | 04:58 | So in this case, we're
using a number of photographs.
| | 05:00 | There are 54 of them altogether.
| | 05:03 | Currently in our preview,
you can see I'm at Item 6.
| | 05:05 | But as you click the different items
down below, you'll see they're all numbered,
| | 05:10 | as you click those thumbnails.
And notice, too, that the thumbnails go from left
| | 05:14 | to right and then you come back over
to the left-hand side, unlike a timeline
| | 05:18 | where you have to shift from left to
right and zooming in and out to be able to
| | 05:21 | see each of your clips.
| | 05:22 | We have a scrollbar on the right to scroll down.
| | 05:25 | It's more like reading a book, going
from left to right and down the page.
| | 05:29 | Now, if you want to be able to see
your whole project in one storyboard, you
| | 05:33 | have a Zoom option down below.
| | 05:35 | This allows you to zoom the
timescale, not the thumbnails themselves.
| | 05:39 | So if we click the Zoom out or the
Minus button, you can see we're zooming
| | 05:43 | out. And we can even use this slider to move
all the way left or all the way right to zoom in.
| | 05:50 | So it allows you to zoom
down or up the timescale.
| | 05:53 | Now, the actual thumbnails themselves
can be adjusted by going to the middle
| | 05:59 | section. Right in between our
preview and storyboard, there is a divider.
| | 06:03 | When you see that double arrow, you can
click and drag it over to the right to
| | 06:07 | decrease the storyboard and increase
the preview, or go to the left, if you're
| | 06:12 | not too concerned with the Preview pane
and you want to be able to see more
| | 06:16 | thumbnails in your storyboard.
| | 06:18 | So it's totally customizable.
| | 06:19 | So you should now be feeling quite
comfortable in your new surroundings here.
| | 06:25 | The user interface for Movie Maker has
been totally redesigned to make it easier
| | 06:30 | for you to create your projects, to
work in the storyboard without a confusing
| | 06:34 | timeline. Quite often, some of the
steps that are involved--for example--to add
| | 06:39 | a title, which used to be
four clicks, is down to one now.
| | 06:42 | So you're going to see all of this as
we begin to move through the various
| | 06:46 | chapters in this title,
| | 06:47 | creating your Movie Maker projects.
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| Starting and saving a new project| 00:00 | When you're ready to start your own
project in Movie Maker--a brand-new project
| | 00:04 | from scratch--there is a couple of
different options you have available to you.
| | 00:09 | As you already know, when you launch Movie
Maker, you're presented with a new, blank project;
| | 00:13 | that's one option.
| | 00:14 | So you could shut down
Movie Maker and restart it.
| | 00:17 | Or if you prefer, just simply go up to
the Movie Maker tab--the very first tab on
| | 00:22 | the Ribbon--and move down to New Project.
| | 00:25 | You could also use the keyboard
shortcut, Ctrl+N. Selecting this starts a
| | 00:30 | brand-new, blank project.
| | 00:32 | Any projects you had open will be closed.
| | 00:35 | If you have made changes and not saved
them, you will be prompted to save those
| | 00:39 | changes before the projects closed up,
and the new one appears in front of you.
| | 00:44 | Now a new, blank project has nothing in
the storyboard except for a link to browse
| | 00:49 | for videos and photos you might want to add.
| | 00:51 | You'll notice there is nothing
to preview in the preview pane.
| | 00:56 | So when you're starting a brand-new
project, the first thing you're going to do
| | 00:59 | is add things to the storyboard.
| | 01:01 | So we can click over
here on the right-hand side.
| | 01:03 | You'll notice your mouse
pointer turns into a pointing finger.
| | 01:06 | This is the same as clicking Add videos
and photos on the Home tab of the Ribbon,
| | 01:11 | here in the Add group.
| | 01:13 | However you decide to do it, we're
going to click there and navigate to
| | 01:17 | the exercise files in the 01_03 subfolder,
where we do see a number of different photos.
| | 01:23 | These are all beach photos, and if we
wanted them all added, we would select them all.
| | 01:28 | Click the first one, hold down your
Shift key, click the last one and then click
| | 01:32 | Open, and they will be added
in order to the storyboard.
| | 01:36 | So here is what we see on the right-
hand side: our storyboard with each of the
| | 01:39 | clips. As we select them, you can see
we select or highlight the clip, the
| | 01:44 | others are deselected.
| | 01:46 | This is where we can go now if
we want to rearrange these clips--
| | 01:49 | something we'll do a little bit later on.
| | 01:51 | Right now, we've got the clips in there.
| | 01:53 | We started our brand-new project.
| | 01:55 | We may just want to save this project.
| | 01:58 | So that's what we're going to do now.
| | 02:00 | We can save the project by going to the
Save button on the Quick Access Toolbar.
| | 02:04 | You could use Ctrl+S, as in save--the
keyboard shortcut--or click the Movie Maker
| | 02:09 | tab, and you'll see Save project there as well.
| | 02:13 | When you do this, you're going to navigate
to the location where you want to say it.
| | 02:17 | Let's go to the Desktop, let's say.
| | 02:20 | You'll see the name My Movie.
| | 02:21 | That's the default name and the
extension WLMP Windows Live Movie Maker Project.
| | 02:27 | So we're going to change the first part of this.
| | 02:29 | We'll keep the extension.
| | 02:31 | So instead of My Movie, we'll just click
and drag over that and type in something
| | 02:35 | different like "BeachMovie".
| | 02:40 | When you click Save, you
will have saved the project.
| | 02:42 | Now I just want you to see something.
When we go back to the desktop now and
| | 02:48 | right-click our BeachMovie
project icon and go down to Properties,
| | 02:53 | you'll notice the size of this
particular project or file is very small.
| | 02:58 | It's much smaller than any one of the
individual photos we added to the project,
| | 03:03 | and that's important to remember.
| | 03:05 | The photos we added to our project--
and we'll just go back to it--have been
| | 03:09 | referenced in our project.
| | 03:11 | They're not actually a part of the project file.
| | 03:14 | So if we were to go into our exercise
files and remove any of the photos from
| | 03:19 | the original folder, they
wouldn't appear here in our project.
| | 03:22 | So it's important that you have all of
your assets--your videos, your photos,
| | 03:26 | any music you're going to be using--located
in a location that's not going to be altered.
| | 03:32 | So you don't want to remove anything
unless you don't want it in your project.
| | 03:36 | The project file is simply going to
reference those individual assets. But we do
| | 03:41 | have our first project created.
| | 03:43 | We now see the name on the title bar,
BeachMovie, and we're ready to continue
| | 03:47 | adding additional photos,
maybe videos, movies, and so on.
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| Adjusting the view| 00:00 | As you begin to work on your Movie Maker
projects, the last thing you might want
| | 00:04 | to do before you really get into things
is to adjust your view, and that's what
| | 00:09 | we're going to talk about right now.
| | 00:10 | The user interface is customizable.
| | 00:13 | We're going to start with our
Preview pane, versus the storyboard.
| | 00:17 | Now we already know down in the bottom
right-hand corner of the storyboard here,
| | 00:21 | we have the Zoom time scale option.
| | 00:24 | So we can click and drag
the slider to the right.
| | 00:26 | It doesn't make the thumbnails any bigger,
but it does increase the view of our timeline.
| | 00:32 | So if we see a seven-second shot of an
individual photo, we can see that that's
| | 00:37 | actually stretched out now.
| | 00:39 | It's twice as long as it was.
| | 00:41 | We might want to drag that back.
| | 00:43 | You can see it gets a little smaller.
| | 00:45 | So this is the timeline we're zooming in to.
| | 00:47 | We can also go up to the View tab on the
Ribbon, and use the Zoom in and Zoom out options.
| | 00:53 | As we zoom in, you'll see the same effect.
| | 00:56 | Now we're kind of stretching out our timeline.
| | 00:58 | This is very handy if we want to get to
specific locations in a photo or a video for editing.
| | 01:04 | If we wanted to cut out certain parts,
we can zoom in to the timeline to
| | 01:08 | better see those areas.
| | 01:10 | We can also reset back to
the way it was when we started.
| | 01:13 | Now the thumbnails themselves can
also be increased or decreased in size by
| | 01:17 | clicking the Thumbnail Size button.
| | 01:19 | If you want to go to a larger
icon, you can see what happens.
| | 01:22 | It gives you a better view of the
thumbnails, so you know what you're working with.
| | 01:26 | You can go all the way up to
extra large icons if you want.
| | 01:29 | Now, if you've got many, many photos
and video clips as part of your project,
| | 01:33 | you'll probably want to bring those back down.
| | 01:35 | You can go as far as extra small icons,
which makes it very difficult to see
| | 01:39 | what you're working with,
| | 01:40 | so let's go back to Medium.
| | 01:42 | Now, we can also access our preview
full screen view from here by clicking
| | 01:47 | Preview Full Screen, or F11.
| | 01:49 | You'll be able to see a preview of
your project in its current state.
| | 01:54 | As you move your mouse around, you do get
some options that appear across the top.
| | 01:58 | You also have navigation buttons for
going backwards and forwards through
| | 02:02 | the various frames.
| | 02:03 | You can pause the movie, and at anytime,
you can press Escape or click Back to
| | 02:08 | Movie Maker to go back to the previous view.
| | 02:12 | The other thing you can do is adjust
the actual Preview and Storyboard panes.
| | 02:18 | This little separator in between the
two, when you move your mouse over, turns
| | 02:22 | into a double arrow.
| | 02:24 | So if you want more Preview window and
less storyboard, click and drag to the right.
| | 02:28 | You can see the Preview pane getting
bigger and bigger, and we have less and
| | 02:32 | less room for our storyboard.
| | 02:34 | Of course, you can always go back to the
left to create more storyboard and less preview.
| | 02:39 | So just simply adjust that to your liking.
| | 02:42 | When you're done, let go,
and you've adjusted your view.
| | 02:45 | You're ready now to really get in to the
features and functions of Movie Maker.
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2. Gathering ContentUnderstanding what files you can use| 00:00 | As you get ready to create your
project in Windows Live Movie Maker, it's
| | 00:04 | important to first understand the
different file formats that can be used.
| | 00:08 | For example, if you're going to be
bringing in photos, what formats or file
| | 00:13 | types are acceptable here in Movie Maker?
| | 00:15 | Same thing goes for video and audio files.
| | 00:18 | It's really simple to find out.
| | 00:20 | Here we are, ready to start a new project.
| | 00:22 | We'll just go up to the top right-hand
corner, where you'll see the Help button--
| | 00:25 | the little question mark.
| | 00:27 | F1 is the keyboard shortcut, if you prefer.
| | 00:30 | But this is going to launch your
default browser and take you directly to the
| | 00:33 | Windows Live Movie Maker Help Center.
| | 00:36 | As you look at the Frequently Asked
Questions, as you scroll down to the third
| | 00:39 | one, you'll see a question:
| | 00:41 | What kind of files can I use in Movie Maker?
| | 00:44 | Well, click the link to the answer.
| | 00:46 | You'll see three categories:
| | 00:48 | one for video files,
photo files, and audio files.
| | 00:51 | You can show them all,
expanding them all, or go one by one.
| | 00:54 | So let's start with video files.
| | 00:56 | We'll just click that link.
| | 00:57 | Now, as we scroll down, you're going
to see quite a long list of video file
| | 01:01 | formats that can be used in Movie Maker.
| | 01:04 | So you can be bringing in Windows
Media files, you can be bringing in Apple
| | 01:08 | QuickTime files, AVI files, and so on.
| | 01:12 | AVCHD files come directly from your camera
if you're using a video camera, for example.
| | 01:17 | There will be a couple of things to
consider as you scroll down this list--which,
| | 01:21 | by the way, gets longer and longer
with every version of Movie Maker.
| | 01:25 | There are some notes down below.
| | 01:27 | For example, if you have any files,
whether they'd be audio or video files, that
| | 01:32 | are protected using digital rights management,
| | 01:35 | they won't be accepted into
Movie Maker. Keep that in mind.
| | 01:39 | Also, if you're going to be using
AVCHD video files coming from your camera,
| | 01:44 | you won't be able to use them unless you're
using one of the following versions of Windows 7:
| | 01:49 | Home Premium, Professional,
Enterprise, and Ultimate.
| | 01:53 | There are other notes about the various formats.
| | 01:55 | So depending on the format you plan on
using, you might want to read a little
| | 01:58 | bit about those formats.
| | 02:00 | As we scroll further down,
we get to the photo files.
| | 02:03 | We'll click that link.
| | 02:04 | Look at the photo file types
and formats that can be used.
| | 02:08 | You'll see their extensions
over here on the right-hand side:
| | 02:10 | JPEGs, TIFFs, GIFs, BMPs, and so on.
| | 02:14 | Then we get to audio files.
| | 02:16 | You might be adding music
to a project, for example.
| | 02:19 | What types of files can be used?
| | 02:21 | Quite a long list again.
| | 02:22 | You can see the WMA files.
| | 02:24 | They are popular, as are MP3
files, and a few others in between.
| | 02:29 | There are a couple of notes down
below about the audio files to consider.
| | 02:34 | When you're done, just simply close up
the Browser window, and you're back to
| | 02:37 | Movie Maker, ready to start your new
project with a good understanding of the
| | 02:41 | different file types that can be used.
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| Adding and organizing video and pictures| 00:00 | Many of us who are about to create a
Movie Maker project already have photos and
| | 00:05 | video footage stored on our computer--
maybe on the hard-drive, for example.
| | 00:10 | Well, we can bring that
into our Movie Maker project.
| | 00:13 | That's what we're going to do right
now, with a brand-new project underway.
| | 00:16 | You'll notice, over in the Storyboard
pane here on the right-hand side, a link
| | 00:20 | that says, "Click here to
browse for videos and photos."
| | 00:23 | That only appears there so long as there
are no clips already on the storyboard.
| | 00:28 | Once a clip is on the storyboard, you
won't see this message, and you'll have
| | 00:32 | to go up to Add Videos and Photos from
the Add group, with the Home tab selected
| | 00:36 | up here on the Ribbon.
| | 00:37 | Either of these will do the exact same
thing; it will allow you to go browse in your
| | 00:41 | computer for actual media.
| | 00:44 | Now, in this case, we're going to go
to the Assets folder of the Chapter 2
| | 00:47 | folder of the exercise files, where we
do find some photos--some JPEG photos--as
| | 00:51 | well as some Windows Media Video files.
| | 00:55 | So we've got all of these that can be added.
| | 00:58 | If you want to add one, just simply
select it, like beach_78, and click Open.
| | 01:03 | Notice it gets added to the storyboard.
| | 01:06 | We see a preview here, and
certain defaults are applied.
| | 01:10 | For example, this is going to
appear in our movie for seven seconds.
| | 01:13 | That's the default setting.
| | 01:15 | Of course, we can change that.
| | 01:17 | Notice also the option to browse
for videos and photos disappears from
| | 01:22 | the Storyboard pane.
| | 01:23 | Now if we want more, we have to go
up to the Ribbon and click Add Videos
| | 01:27 | and Photos up here.
| | 01:28 | It takes us right back to where we left off.
| | 01:31 | Let's go get the other photo,
| | 01:32 | beach_79, and let's get all
of these video clips as well.
| | 01:37 | So to select everything but the
first photo, we'll click the second photo,
| | 01:42 | scroll down to the last video clip, hold
down the Shift key, and click to select
| | 01:46 | everything in between, and once
we've got them selected, click Open.
| | 01:52 | Now, they will all be added
in the order they appeared,
| | 01:55 | so we have probably some
rearranging to do at this point.
| | 02:00 | We have our clips, but they're probably
not in the right order, unless you took
| | 02:03 | pictures and video in the exact
right order that you need them.
| | 02:08 | So over here in the Storyboard pane, for
example, beach_79--the second photo we brought in--
| | 02:12 | we really want that at the end.
| | 02:14 | So we're going to click once,
just to select that one clip.
| | 02:18 | We're going to click and drag
it down now to the very end.
| | 02:20 | Notice the vertical bar that appears
in between clips as we move around.
| | 02:25 | Once you see that vertical bar
after the last clip, just release, and
| | 02:28 | you've rearranged the photo.
| | 02:31 | Now it's time to put our video clips in order.
| | 02:33 | Now, it looks like the story here
is getting ready to go surfing and
| | 02:37 | then actually surfing.
| | 02:39 | So let's start with--how about
arriving at the ocean side here? surfing11.
| | 02:44 | We'll click and drag that up, so it
appears after our photo, and release.
| | 02:49 | Notice as you hover over these clips,
you get to see some information about them.
| | 02:54 | When you click a video clip or a photo,
you see a preview of the very first
| | 02:59 | frame, and at anytime, you can click the
Play button to see if that's the right clip.
| | 03:06 | If it is, perfect; it's in
the right spot. All right!
| | 03:08 | Next, we might want to get the surfboard ready.
| | 03:11 | So this waxing clip here,
we'll just move up after that second clip.
| | 03:16 | Then it's getting dressed.
| | 03:18 | So let's take surfing2, as we hover over
this, and move it after the waxing scene.
| | 03:24 | We have some more equipment here, surfing8.
| | 03:27 | Move it up in between. There we go.
| | 03:30 | You can see how
everything is getting rearranged.
| | 03:33 | Now, it's ready to run out
into the ocean, surfing9.
| | 03:36 | We'll move it after that last
clip that we just rearranged.
| | 03:41 | Now, here we go to surfing12.
| | 03:43 | So we'll move it after our last clip.
| | 03:46 | It looks like the rest are actually
surfing, except for this one: surfing10.
| | 03:51 | If we click it and click Play, there is
no real surfing going on there, so that
| | 03:58 | might be good to actually move up at
the beginning here after our first photo.
| | 04:02 | So we'll just move that up.
| | 04:03 | It becomes the second clip.
| | 04:06 | Now we're into the ocean
and surfing, so paddling out.
| | 04:09 | That would come next.
| | 04:11 | We'll move it after the
picture or the scene on the rocks.
| | 04:15 | Now, we have some actual surfing footage.
| | 04:19 | Let's move 7 just after that last one.
| | 04:22 | It looks like we're ready.
| | 04:23 | At anytime now, you can move back to
the first clip and click Play to just
| | 04:27 | preview the whole thing.
| | 04:29 | You'll see the accumulated time appear
here just below the preview of your video.
| | 04:35 | That's going to take into
consideration that photos automatically get seven
| | 04:39 | seconds, and then your video clips, how
they already have a certain amount of
| | 04:43 | time applied to them.
| | 04:44 | So we've got everything in order.
| | 04:46 | The first step is completed.
| | 04:48 | It's time to save our project.
| | 04:50 | So we'll go up to the Save button.
| | 04:52 | You can save it wherever you like.
| | 04:54 | I'm going to the Desktop here.
| | 04:56 | Let's call this one "SurfingUSA"--
| | 05:00 | there we go--and click Save.
| | 05:03 | So when you already have your video
footage and your photos ready to go, it's
| | 05:08 | a simple matter in Movie Maker of
browsing to the correct location, correct
| | 05:12 | folder, and bringing them in, and
then sorting them, so that they're in the
| | 05:15 | right order.
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| Importing photos from a camera| 00:00 | If you have photos on a digital
camera that you haven't uploaded to your
| | 00:04 | computer yet, you can import them
directly from your camera into your
| | 00:08 | Movie Maker project.
| | 00:09 | We are going to do that right
now using our SurfingUSA project.
| | 00:13 | The first step, of course, is to
connect your camera to the computer.
| | 00:16 | When you do that in Windows, the
AutoPlay window shows up, offering some options
| | 00:21 | for importing your pictures and video.
| | 00:24 | But we are not actually going
to use any of these options.
| | 00:27 | We are going to close that window, and we
are going to import directly from Movie Maker.
| | 00:31 | So here we are with our Movie Maker project.
| | 00:33 | We are going to go up to the Movie
Maker tab, because that's where you're going
| | 00:37 | to find Import from device.
| | 00:40 | When you select this, you'll see a list
of devices connected to your computer.
| | 00:44 | For me, I have a scanner and
what appears to be a removable disk.
| | 00:50 | Under Other Devices, if your camera
brand is not recognized, it may show up as
| | 00:54 | a removable device--
| | 00:56 | in this case, Disk F:.
| | 00:59 | Well, that's the device. That's my camera.
| | 01:01 | I am going to select it by
clicking it and then click Import.
| | 01:05 | What this will do is show you a little
window with some options for importing
| | 01:10 | your photos and/or video--
| | 01:12 | some digital cameras also
have video capabilities.
| | 01:16 | The first option is to allow you to
review the contents of your camera,
| | 01:20 | organize, and group items to be imported,
| | 01:23 | so you can pick and choose.
| | 01:25 | Or, if you just want everything from your
camera, you might select Import all new items now.
| | 01:30 | Let's leave the first one selected.
| | 01:32 | If you have a camera, you
can follow along with me.
| | 01:34 | If you don't have a camera, you can
actually find the pictures that we are going
| | 01:37 | to be importing in your exercise files.
| | 01:41 | But with review, organize, and
group selected, we will click Next.
| | 01:45 | Now this is going to show you a list
of items and groups all based on time.
| | 01:51 | In other words, the amount of time in
between taking the pictures, you will see
| | 01:54 | different groups, and that time can be adjusted.
| | 01:57 | You can see Adjust groups
down below has a slider.
| | 02:00 | You can move it to the right
| | 02:01 | if we want to increase the time--16
hours between groups, for example--or to the
| | 02:07 | left if you want to see more
groups and less time in between groups.
| | 02:11 | I am going to move mine to about 20 hours.
| | 02:13 | Now I do see some thumbnails, and
you'll see the same thing for the different
| | 02:17 | groups. And I know what I'm
looking for is some more beach photos.
| | 02:21 | It looks like the first group might
have some--11 items altogether--and I can
| | 02:24 | view them all by clicking the link.
| | 02:27 | As I scroll little further down,
here's another one with 49 items.
| | 02:31 | So I can actually just click the actual
thumbnails to expand the group, or click
| | 02:35 | view all 49 items and then scroll down to see
thumbnails for each of the images. There we go!
| | 02:42 | Notice that everything has a
check mark in the check box.
| | 02:45 | Everything is selected by default.
| | 02:47 | So you will be importing everything
unless you deselect the Select all check box.
| | 02:52 | Now nothing is selected.
| | 02:54 | As you hover over the thumbnails, you
will see their names, and you will also
| | 02:57 | see the check box is unchecked.
| | 02:59 | So let's just scroll down
and choose a couple of these.
| | 03:02 | I am going to click the check mark next to that.
| | 03:05 | Then I am going to find 61
and check that one as well.
| | 03:11 | Like I said, if you don't have a
camera connected right now, you can access
| | 03:16 | these exact photos from your exercise
files. We'll click Import now, and you can see
| | 03:22 | each of the items is being imported.
| | 03:24 | Do I want to erase them after they're important?
| | 03:26 | No, by default that's not checked, and
you probably don't want to remove them
| | 03:30 | from your camera if you are
ticking them directly into Movie Maker.
| | 03:34 | Now what's going to happen is Windows
Live Photo Gallery will launch by default.
| | 03:38 | You'll see your two images.
| | 03:41 | Would you like to use Windows Live
Photo Gallery to open these types of files?
| | 03:44 | You can choose Yes or No, and you can
choose not to see this message again.
| | 03:48 | I am going to click No.
| | 03:51 | With our Photo Gallery open, as we
look over to our project here, we are
| | 03:56 | missing these two photos.
| | 03:58 | All we have to do is drag them over.
And we can drag them to the exact
| | 04:02 | location where we want them.
| | 04:04 | So this one here, which is the photo 75,
we will just drag it over, and we will
| | 04:09 | slip it in between the first photo
in the first video clip, and release.
| | 04:13 | You can see how that gets added.
| | 04:16 | Now we can switch back to Photo
Gallery to get the other one. There it is!
| | 04:21 | We will move it just after the video clip
with our surfer taking a look at the ocean.
| | 04:29 | So now we have combined some video clips and
photos, and we've got them in the right order.
| | 04:33 | We're able to take photos
directly from our camera.
| | 04:36 | Of course, you'll want to save up your
project, clicking the Save button before
| | 04:41 | moving onto the bringing in video
clips directly from a video camera.
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| Importing video from a camcorder| 00:00 | If you have video footage on your video
camera that you haven't uploaded to your
| | 00:04 | computer as of yet, you can import
directly from within Movie Maker.
| | 00:09 | That's what we are going to do now, and
the first step is to, of course, connect
| | 00:13 | your video camera to the computer.
And when you do, Windows will display the
| | 00:17 | AutoPlay window, giving you options
for importing your pictures and video
| | 00:21 | directly into your computer.
| | 00:23 | That's now what we want to do;
| | 00:24 | we want to bring them right into our projects,
| | 00:26 | so we are going to close this up,
and we'll go to our Movie Maker tab.
| | 00:31 | I am still working with our SurfingUSA project.
| | 00:34 | Click there and go down to Import from device.
| | 00:38 | You will see the device is connected
to your computer, and under Other Devices,
| | 00:43 | my Canon video camera does appear as
G. I am going to select it and click
| | 00:48 | Import. And just like we saw when
working with photos, the Import Photos and
| | 00:52 | Videos wizard begins here.
| | 00:55 | The first question is, do we want to be
able to review, organize, and group the
| | 00:58 | items that we want to import, selecting
maybe one here or there, or do we just
| | 01:03 | want bring everything in by
selecting Import all new items now?
| | 01:08 | If there are select clips you want to
bring in, make sure Review, organize, and
| | 01:11 | group items to import is
selected before clicking Next.
| | 01:15 | Now you are going to see different
groups, all based on time, and you'll see
| | 01:20 | thumbnails for those groups.
| | 01:22 | You will also see the number of items in
those groups. And if you want to expand,
| | 01:25 | you can click View all items or click
the thumbnails to see the groups of clips.
| | 01:30 | But as you scroll through looking at
the thumbnails, you'll notice there's one
| | 01:34 | here, for example, on my camera that fits
with my SurfingUSA project; it's the ocean.
| | 01:41 | So Select all is probably checked off for you.
| | 01:44 | If it is, you will want to deselect
that, so you can go down to the individual
| | 01:48 | items and select them by
clicking their check boxes.
| | 01:51 | If there is a group with multiple items,
you can click to expand and then select
| | 01:56 | the check box for each item.
| | 01:58 | In this case, we are taking our beach
video here and bringing it in by itself.
| | 02:04 | So with that selected, I am clicking Import.
| | 02:06 | If you have something you can
bring in, go ahead and do it.
| | 02:09 | You can see what happens, just like
what we saw with photos: the Windows Live
| | 02:13 | Photo Gallery opens up.
| | 02:15 | In this case, we see our imported clip.
| | 02:17 | You will also see this little dialog
box, asking if you would like to use Photo
| | 02:22 | Gallery moving forward, to open up
different types of photos and video files.
| | 02:27 | You can say Yes or No. That's up to you.
| | 02:29 | I am choosing No, but I do want to be
able to see that video clip and then just
| | 02:33 | simply drag it into my
project over here on the right.
| | 02:37 | So in this case, it's just the
ocean, and I'm thinking maybe that
| | 02:41 | that would look good right
after our image here, beach_61.
| | 02:46 | I will click and drag that in, and release.
| | 02:51 | See the vertical bar.
| | 02:52 | And because it's a video clip, we see
the Playback quality dialog down at the
| | 02:58 | bottom, as it prepares for
improved playback performance.
| | 03:01 | So that just takes a moment.
| | 03:02 | You can close up this message, clicking
the Close button, and you've got your new
| | 03:07 | video imported directly from your camera.
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| Importing content from other devices| 00:00 | When importing photos and video footage,
you'll typically be doing so from your
| | 00:05 | digital camera or your video camcorder,
but there are other devices you can
| | 00:10 | get media from as well.
| | 00:11 | We are going to take a quick
look at some of those options now.
| | 00:14 | As we continue to work with our
SurfingUSA project, one option appears
| | 00:19 | with the Home tab selected on the Ribbon in
the Add group, and that is a Webcam video.
| | 00:24 | If you have a web cam connected to
your computer, you can actually record
| | 00:28 | directly from it into your project.
| | 00:31 | Now I don't have one connected, and I
wouldn't be able to show you how to record
| | 00:34 | while I'm recording what
I'm recording right now.
| | 00:37 | But if we click this button, I will
see the message saying, "No webcam was
| | 00:40 | found," but I do get to see the controls for
recording, stopping, and canceling the recording.
| | 00:47 | You also see a preview in the Preview pane
of what you're recording from your webcam.
| | 00:52 | So if you want to include footage
of yourself or anything else you want
| | 00:55 | to record with your webcam, you can do so
and have it go directly into your project.
| | 01:00 | We will click Close.
| | 01:02 | Another option is to go to the Movie
Maker tab and down to Import from device.
| | 01:07 | Now we have already seen how it
works with a digital camera and a video
| | 01:11 | camera, but maybe you have a scanner.
Maybe the photos you want to use in your
| | 01:15 | project are not digital; they're printed.
| | 01:18 | Well, in that case, you can put them on
your scanner and scan them directly into
| | 01:22 | your project. Or they could be on other
devices, like USB drives, for example.
| | 01:27 | Let's check out the Scanner option.
| | 01:30 | If you don't have a
scanner, don't worry about it.
| | 01:32 | You can just sit back and watch.
| | 01:33 | I do have an HP Photosmart scanner
attached to my computer, and I do have a
| | 01:38 | paper copy, a printed
photograph, sitting on the scanner bed.
| | 01:43 | So I click Import, and I'm going to
see a window that pops up based on my
| | 01:48 | particular brand of scanner.
| | 01:50 | In this case, I'm going to be creating
a new scan with my HP Photosmart 3100.
| | 01:55 | I do have some options.
| | 01:57 | I can change to another scanner if I wanted to.
| | 01:59 | I have profiles here,
including Photo, Documents.
| | 02:02 | This is a photo, so I am going to
keep that selected on the Flatbed.
| | 02:06 | I can choose the format, Color
Grayscale or Black and white.
| | 02:09 | The file type is going to be a JPEG.
| | 02:11 | I can even change the resolution from
here. Adjust brightness and contrast.
| | 02:15 | First thing though, I should do is
click Preview, which will allow me to get a
| | 02:19 | preview of the image on my flatbed.
| | 02:22 | Now in this case, I see a preview
over here of the entire flatbed scanner.
| | 02:26 | You can see the image is showing up
here. It just takes up a small corner on the
| | 02:29 | top left-hand side. So there it is.
| | 02:32 | There is the preview.
| | 02:33 | Obviously, I don't want all of this white space,
| | 02:35 | so I'm going to just click and drag the
handle on the bottom right-hand corner
| | 02:39 | to select the area I want.
| | 02:41 | Now if it wasn't straight--it was a
little crooked--I could do some cropping
| | 02:44 | at the same time here.
| | 02:46 | I am going to do a little bit of that.
Take out the edges. Try and center to
| | 02:51 | shell right there, and it looks pretty good.
| | 02:54 | When I am done previewing, adjusting
brightness, maybe the contrast a little
| | 03:00 | bit, I'm ready to scan.
| | 03:03 | Clicking the Scan button will do just that.
| | 03:06 | So it's going to scan the area I have
selected, and now I'll have a new photo that
| | 03:10 | was, in paper version, added to
my project here in Movie Maker.
| | 03:15 | So let's just give it a second.
| | 03:19 | So it's done scanning now.
| | 03:20 | This little window pops up:
Import Pictures and Videos.
| | 03:23 | I can tag the picture if I wanted to.
| | 03:25 | I am just going to call this
"Beach100" and click Import. So there it is.
| | 03:34 | It's imported into my library.
| | 03:36 | So you can see a brand-new folder is
created. And if this is something I want to
| | 03:41 | be able to use in my project, clicking
and dragging it into my project is the
| | 03:46 | easiest way to add it.
| | 03:48 | In this case, I want to add it near
the end, right before the last photo.
| | 03:52 | When I can see that vertical bar between
the video clip and my last photo, I let go.
| | 03:56 | It's been added.
| | 03:57 | You can see it's been rotated for me
automatically. And now I've got an image in
| | 04:03 | digital format as part of my Movie
Maker project that was, just a moment ago, a
| | 04:07 | piece of paper on my scanner.
| | 04:09 | So there are other devices to
consider when importing video and photos;
| | 04:13 | scanners, USB drives, external hard
drives, and so on can all be plugged into
| | 04:19 | your computer and accessed
directly from Movie Maker.
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| Adding music to a project| 00:00 | With Windows Live Movie Maker, you
can add sound files to a project.
| | 00:04 | This could be to add sound effects at
certain points in the project. Or maybe
| | 00:08 | it's to simply add a song that plays in
the background of your entire project.
| | 00:12 | We are going to look at that
scenario right now, continuing to work with
| | 00:15 | our SurfingUSA project.
| | 00:18 | You'll notice in the Preview pane, the
length of this project is 2 minutes 32
| | 00:21 | seconds to be exact.
| | 00:23 | Wouldn't it be nice if we could find a
song that is exactly this long that could
| | 00:27 | play in the background?
| | 00:29 | Odds aren't good, but we can
deal with that in a moment.
| | 00:31 | First step though, is to add the music file.
| | 00:33 | When we go to the Home tab of the Ribbon, in
the Add group, you'll see an Add Music button.
| | 00:39 | Now, this is actually a button
that's broken up into two parts.
| | 00:42 | The top button is the default button.
| | 00:44 | When we click the bottom half, you'll
see there are two options: Add Music--
| | 00:48 | that's the default, which simply adds a
sound file to the beginning of your project.
| | 00:54 | The other option is to add music--or any other
sound file for that matter--at the current point.
| | 00:59 | So if you wanted a sound effect after
the second video clip, you could click
| | 01:03 | there in your project in the storyboard and
then choose Add Music at the current point.
| | 01:08 | But we want to add it to the entire project,
| | 01:10 | so I am just going to start right at the
beginning, when we click Add Music, and
| | 01:13 | like I said, that's the same as
clicking the top half of the button.
| | 01:17 | Next, we go and find that
sound file, which can be an MP3.
| | 01:20 | It could be a WAV file, an AU file--any audio
file, pretty much, can be added to your project.
| | 01:27 | In this case, we have one in the Assets
folder in Chapter 2 called SoManyTimes.
| | 01:31 | This is the name of the song by the Jellybricks.
| | 01:34 | As you hover over this, you'll notice
the length is actually 3 minutes and 59
| | 01:38 | seconds--much longer than our project.
| | 01:40 | So we'll deal with that in a moment.
| | 01:42 | First though, we'll select it
by clicking and then click Open.
| | 01:46 | It does get added to the very
beginning of the storyboard, just above your
| | 01:49 | photos and videos.
You'll see the song in green here:
| | 01:53 | So Many Times by the Jellybricks.
| | 01:56 | As you scroll all the way down to the
end of the project, you'll see it's going
| | 01:59 | to get cut off here at the
2 minute, 31-second point.
| | 02:04 | So how do we deal with that?
| | 02:05 | Well, we could add more photos, we
could add more video, we could manually
| | 02:10 | manipulate the length of time that a
photo appears, or--there is a neat feature--
| | 02:15 | when we go to the Project tab, here in
the Audio group, you'll see Fit to music.
| | 02:20 | This will automatically adjust the
duration of any photos in your project.
| | 02:24 | Video clips will always stay the
same length, but the photos can be
| | 02:27 | manipulated to appear longer or
shorter to adjust to the length of your
| | 02:32 | particular song choice.
| | 02:34 | So we're going to click Fit
to music. It's one click.
| | 02:37 | All of a sudden, our photos just got longer,
| | 02:40 | so they're going to appear for a much longer.
| | 02:43 | As we scroll down to the bottom, you'll
see the last photo stretches out to the
| | 02:47 | length of our song, which in the Preview
pane now is set to 3 minutes, 59 seconds.
| | 02:53 | That's the length of our song, and it's
now the length of our project as well,
| | 02:57 | so it fits perfectly.
| | 02:59 | So this saves you manipulating the
durations for individual photos--something you
| | 03:03 | can still do if you prefer.
| | 03:05 | But with this one click of a button, we
now have a project that has music in the
| | 03:09 | background, and it's going to fit
perfectly to the length of our project.
| | 03:13 | We can preview it by clicking the Play button.
| | 03:16 | (Clip playing.)
| | 03:24 | So there's the music playing in the
background; it starts right at the beginning
| | 03:26 | with our first photo.
| | 03:28 | The photo is going to appear there
now for much longer than the default,
| | 03:31 | which was 7 seconds.
| | 03:32 | It's going to be up there
for 24-and-a-half seconds now.
| | 03:36 | That's because of our Fit to music function.
| | 03:39 | So we might want to add some more photos.
| | 03:42 | We could even start working with
the video clips--trimming, and so on.
| | 03:45 | These are things we're going to do as
we continue to work on our project here
| | 03:49 | in Movie Maker.
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3. Putting It All TogetherCreating an AutoMovie| 00:00 | By far the fastest and easiest way to
get started in a Movie Maker project is to
| | 00:05 | use AutoMovie themes, something we are
going to look at right now as we start a
| | 00:09 | brand-new project from scratch.
| | 00:12 | If we have anything onscreen, click the
Movie Maker tab, select New Project, and
| | 00:16 | you'll see what I see.
| | 00:18 | So let's add our videos and photos.
| | 00:20 | We can do that by going right to the
storyboard because we started a new project
| | 00:23 | and click where it says, "Click
here to browse for videos and photos."
| | 00:27 | We will go to the Assets folder in
Chapter3, where we do see a number of photos
| | 00:32 | and a couple of videos.
| | 00:33 | We will just click inside there, and
to select everything, use Ctrl+A. Notice
| | 00:39 | everything is now selected, so you can
click the Open button, and everything gets
| | 00:42 | added in the order we saw it in the folder.
| | 00:45 | Now let's scroll down near the bottom,
where you will see the last two video
| | 00:49 | clips. Just click the second-to-last one.
| | 00:52 | So now it's the only clip that's
selected, and we could drag this up to the
| | 00:56 | beginning, and as you drag it
you'll notice the Move tooltip appears.
| | 01:01 | As you reach near the top of the
storyboard, it starts to scroll for you.
| | 01:04 | Now the other option is to right-
click this, cut it, move to the top of the
| | 01:09 | storyboard, and paste it there.
| | 01:11 | So depending on the length of your
project and how much scrolling you have to do,
| | 01:15 | you might want to choose that option.
| | 01:17 | But when you see the divider at the
beginning of the first clip, you can let go,
| | 01:20 | and you can move it to the very beginning.
| | 01:22 | So we've got our video and our photos.
| | 01:25 | Let's go to the AutoMovie themes now,
and I am just going to click the first
| | 01:29 | photo, so after the video clip--
because when we go to the AutoMovie themes
| | 01:33 | you're going to see a
little preview. Contemporary.
| | 01:39 | Go to the next one. Cinematic.
| | 01:42 | And you'll notice as you hover over these,
you'll see a preview. Some of them add titles.
| | 01:46 | Now the very first option, which is
the default, has no special effects.
| | 01:50 | No transitions. No credits. No titles.
The rest do, and you can click this little
| | 01:55 | dropdown to see the
other ones, like Pan and zoom.
| | 01:59 | There's the title. Black
and white. Sepia as well.
| | 02:02 | Let's go to Pan and zoom, and select it.
| | 02:04 | Now you'll see this little message
saying that music hasn't been added yet.
| | 02:09 | Now we could have done that
ahead of time, or we can do it now.
| | 02:13 | If you say Yes to this, you'll be adding
music and let's say the music isn't long enough.
| | 02:19 | It will loop around and
start over, so it is long enough.
| | 02:22 | In this case, our project is over 7
minutes and 20 seconds, so we can add it
| | 02:26 | now and have it automatically looping around
for us, or you can say No and do it yourself.
| | 02:31 | Let's click No.
| | 02:33 | Now you are going to see
things like these little triangles,
| | 02:36 | indicating transitions.
| | 02:37 | You are also going to see the little
squares in the top left corner of each clip,
| | 02:42 | indicating it's using the Pan and zoom,
AutoMovie transition, and special effect.
| | 02:47 | So all of these options now have been
applied because you used AutoMovie.
| | 02:52 | It could have been done individually.
It could take forever to do it. But now we
| | 02:56 | are going to add our music to our movie,
which is 6 minutes and 13 seconds right now.
| | 03:01 | Let's click Add Music, and we'll go to
the Assets folder again under Chapter3,
| | 03:06 | where we find the
Jellybricks song called So Many Times.
| | 03:08 | It's the full version, and when we
click Open, it gets added. And like we saw in
| | 03:14 | that previous movie, it's not quite long enough.
| | 03:18 | It doesn't reach the end of our entire project,
| | 03:21 | so we can click the Project tab on the
Ribbon, choose Fit to Music, and now our
| | 03:27 | project is only 3 minutes and 58 seconds long.
| | 03:31 | It still has the titles.
| | 03:33 | As we scroll down to the bottom, the
other thing, when we chose the AutoMovie
| | 03:36 | for Pan and Zoom, we see Directed By, Starring,
Filmed On Location; all of these were added for us.
| | 03:45 | So let's go to the Save button on
the Quick Access Toolbar. Ctrl+S is
| | 03:48 | your keyboard shortcut.
| | 03:50 | We'll save it to the Desktop, and
let's just call it "BeachMovie," like so.
| | 03:55 | Notice the extension WLMP. It's a project.
| | 03:59 | So all of the assets we chose have to
stay in the Assets folder under Chapter3.
| | 04:04 | As soon as we start moving those around,
they will disappear from our project.
| | 04:07 | So if we want to test this out,
we can click the Play button.
| | 04:12 | (Clip playing.)
| | 04:31 | That's very cool.
| | 04:32 | How long did that take us to create a
very cool music video using our video,
| | 04:36 | our photos, our song?
| | 04:38 | We even have a title that can be
edited, as well as the credits that appear
| | 04:43 | at the end. These are things we are
going to do as we continue to work with
| | 04:46 | our BeachMovie project.
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| Adding and modifying titles in a project| 00:00 | Using AutoMovie is an excellent option
to get your Movie Maker project started,
| | 00:05 | but there may be some manual
changes you'd like to make--
| | 00:09 | for example, titles.
| | 00:10 | That's what we're going to talk about right now.
| | 00:12 | Because we used an AutoMovie theme, a
clip was inserted at the very beginning
| | 00:16 | with a black background, and the My
Movie title was added by default as well.
| | 00:22 | Certain special effects are added by default.
| | 00:25 | The formatting is all set by
default, but we can manipulate that.
| | 00:28 | We can even add our own titles if we want.
| | 00:31 | So just make sure that your Timeline
marker is dragged all the way to the
| | 00:35 | left at zero seconds.
| | 00:37 | Let's add a new title.
| | 00:38 | From the Home tab in the Add group, click Title.
| | 00:41 | A new title is added, using the same
special effects and formatting as we
| | 00:45 | saw with the AutoMovie.
| | 00:47 | You'll notice that an actual text box
appears with a cursor inside, ready for you
| | 00:52 | to make changes to that text.
| | 00:55 | Now in this case, we saved our project.
| | 00:56 | We can called it BeachMovie.
That's what appears there.
| | 00:58 | But we can click just left to that
to start typing our own text in here.
| | 01:02 | Type in your own name, press
Enter, and type in "presents".
| | 01:07 | Now we'll start making
some changes to this text.
| | 01:10 | Click to the left of your name
and drag down to get both lines.
| | 01:13 | You'll notice the Format tab is
now selected under Text Tools.
| | 01:17 | So we can do things like change the font.
| | 01:19 | Let's change the font to
something more script-like.
| | 01:23 | You can choose any script font you like.
| | 01:25 | Let's knock the size down
using the Shrink font button.
| | 01:29 | The next step is 28 points.
| | 01:30 | That looks pretty good.
| | 01:32 | We'll leave the color at white,
| | 01:34 | but we could change the color if we
wanted to--or add bold and italics.
| | 01:38 | We don't need it with our Script font.
| | 01:40 | We can also add transparency.
| | 01:42 | Click the Transparency button and
use your slider to achieve the correct
| | 01:47 | level of transparency.
| | 01:48 | I'm going to go to about a
quarter over from the far left.
| | 01:51 | So that looks pretty good.
| | 01:53 | Now it's on to the Adjust group over here,
where we can adjust the background color.
| | 01:58 | Let's change it to a nice tan color, about 50%.
| | 02:02 | This is going to match our beach theme.
| | 02:04 | Now since we do that, we're changing the
background color of the clip and our text.
| | 02:08 | So to go back to the text, you can
go to the title itself--which is added
| | 02:13 | underneath the clip on the
storyboard--and double-click.
| | 02:16 | That gets you right back in.
| | 02:18 | Now the black background you
see is how the movie starts;
| | 02:20 | it's not the actual color of the clip.
| | 02:23 | We have changed that background.
| | 02:24 | We see it here on the storyboard.
| | 02:27 | But the duration is far too long.
| | 02:29 | Let's change it from seven seconds--
the default--down to three seconds.
| | 02:33 | I want you to see what happens here.
| | 02:35 | It's just the text.
| | 02:37 | Remember, we're on the Format tab for our text.
| | 02:39 | It's down to three seconds, but the clip
itself is going to sit there for seven.
| | 02:43 | So if we want to adjust that, we go
to the Edit tab under Video tools and
| | 02:47 | change it to match. We'll go to three.
| | 02:51 | Let's go back to the Format tab now under
Text tools to continue working with our title.
| | 02:56 | Notice the effect that's applied
is right here at the beginning.
| | 03:00 | It's called zoom in - small.
| | 03:02 | But there are some other ones.
| | 03:03 | I like the cinematic ones,
for example. There is burst 1.
| | 03:10 | There is burst 2.
| | 03:11 | You do hear a quick sample of it
with the music in the background.
| | 03:16 | Let's go with Cinematic - burst 2.
| | 03:20 | Now we'll go to the second title.
| | 03:21 | Now this is the one that was added
initially as part of our AutoMovie, and
| | 03:25 | we'll double-click it.
| | 03:26 | We want to change that,
| | 03:28 | so we're going to size our text box;
| | 03:30 | you can drag the handles to do that.
| | 03:32 | We can move it around.
| | 03:34 | Let's click inside between "My" and "Movie,"
and type in "Beach Movie" there. There.
| | 03:40 | That looks better.
We'll do the same thing.
| | 03:42 | Now we'll change the
Background color to match our first one.
| | 03:47 | We'll choose one of the cinematic effects.
| | 03:52 | Now let's see what that looks like.
| | 03:53 | We'll go back to the very beginning.
| | 03:55 | Let's drag our time marker to the beginning,
| | 03:58 | press Play, and have a listen.
| | 04:00 | (Music playing.)
| | 04:12 | That looks pretty good.
| | 04:14 | So we have the titles that are added
automatically for us using Auto themes
| | 04:19 | or AutoMovie themes.
| | 04:20 | But we can also add our own, and we
have full control over what those titles
| | 04:24 | look like and how they behave.
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| Adding and formatting captions in a clip| 00:00 | When we add titles to a movie, clips
are automatically created for those titles,
| | 00:05 | with background colors, and so on.
| | 00:07 | Another option is to use a caption.
| | 00:10 | A caption is text that can appear right on
top of existing content, like photos or video.
| | 00:15 | That's what we're going to do right now,
as we continue to work with our BeachMovie.
| | 00:19 | We do have two titles:
| | 00:20 | one should be your name, presenting, and
then in the second one, the name of the
| | 00:26 | project--in this case My Beach Movie.
| | 00:29 | What we're going to do is
remove the second title.
| | 00:32 | Couple of ways to do that:
| | 00:33 | You can click the title itself--My Beach
Movie--and press Delete on your keyboard.
| | 00:37 | That removes the title,
| | 00:38 | but we still have the clip,
which was the background.
| | 00:41 | So another thing we can do is click the
clip and press Delete on the keyboard,
| | 00:45 | or right-click to get a pop-up
menu and choose Remove from there.
| | 00:49 | Now we're down to our first title,
and then it's right into the video
| | 00:52 | footage for our project.
| | 00:55 | This is where we want the caption to go.
| | 00:57 | Now notice the Timeline marker kind of overlaps
the title and the beginning of our next frame.
| | 01:04 | So what we're going to do is just drag
that across until we're done with the
| | 01:08 | transition of the title, and into the
video itself. Right at about--let's try
| | 01:15 | and get it close to four seconds. 4.03 is good.
| | 01:17 | Here is where we want our
caption to go instead of a title.
| | 01:22 | So we go to the Home tab on the
Ribbon, in the Add group, and click Caption.
| | 01:26 | Now by default, captions will appear
with certain formatting and effects.
| | 01:31 | You'll see it at the bottom of your
frame, in this case our video footage.
| | 01:36 | The text is already selected, or
highlighted, so we can type right over that.
| | 01:39 | We're going to type in "My Beach Movie".
| | 01:43 | Of course, this is text that can be edited now.
| | 01:46 | So you can click to the left of it,
and you will notice the Format tab under
| | 01:49 | Text tools is selected, so we can
change the font if we wanted to.
| | 01:53 | Let's go to a fancy font. We can bold it.
| | 01:58 | Let's bump it up to nice big size. Maybe 36.
| | 02:03 | Let's move it up near the top where it's
visible, just above the horizon, our ocean.
| | 02:10 | If we wanted to, we can add transparency--
| | 02:12 | let's leave it as is--
| | 02:13 | change the alignment, the duration--all
things we saw when working with a title.
| | 02:17 | What's different though is the effects.
| | 02:20 | The effects appear over to the right-hand side.
| | 02:22 | There is many to choose from.
| | 02:24 | The default, you can see is right here.
| | 02:26 | (Music playing.)
It's called Fade.
| | 02:29 | We get to see a preview of that.
| | 02:31 | Let's click the dropdown though,
because there is quite a few, and
| | 02:33 | they're categorized.
| | 02:34 | We can go down to the Cinematic
(Music playing.)
| | 02:38 | and apply the exact same effect we
saw with our title, Cinematic - burst 2.
| | 02:43 | So we'll click that to select it.
| | 02:45 | Now we can go right back to the
beginning by dragging our marker all the way to
| | 02:49 | the left, and see what that
looks like by clicking Play.
| | 02:52 | (Music playing.)
| | 03:02 | Very good! So it's just another option,
another way of getting text into your presentation.
| | 03:08 | In this case, we've added it on top
of the existing content, as opposed to
| | 03:12 | creating a title, because we have the
ability in Movie Maker to use captions.
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| Adding and modifying credits in a project| 00:00 | Much like working with titles in a
movie project, credits usually appear near
| | 00:04 | the end of your movie.
| | 00:06 | In Movie Maker, there are number of
different types of credits that can be
| | 00:09 | added and modified.
| | 00:11 | As we scroll to the end of our
BeachMovie, you'll notice some credits that
| | 00:15 | were added by default when we applied one
of the AutoMovie themes in an earlier lesson:
| | 00:21 | a Directed By credit, Starring, and
you can see Filmed On Location as well.
| | 00:27 | Now these are just like titles, in
that text can be added and modified.
| | 00:31 | If we go to the Directed By and
double-click, you'll notice the text box
| | 00:36 | appears right in the center as it fades out
from the last video clip and into a dark screen.
| | 00:41 | Directed By and then it say Enter
your name here. So we'll do that.
| | 00:45 | Let's just click inside the text box.
| | 00:47 | We'll click and drag over the
existing text, and type in your own name.
| | 00:54 | Now, we'll double-click the Starring.
| | 00:56 | The Starring credit has
a black screen in behind.
| | 01:00 | This is a background that can be modified.
| | 01:02 | It says, "Enter your cast here."
| | 01:04 | In this case, you would-- let's just
do a triple-click on the existing text
| | 01:09 | and start typing in your cast.
| | 01:10 | Now if you don't have cast,
you can be creative here.
| | 01:13 | For example, we have "The Ocean" in this movie.
| | 01:17 | Press Return, and you're on to the next line.
| | 01:20 | If you want to leave a little
extra space, press Return again.
| | 01:23 | The next star of our
presentation might be "The Beach."
| | 01:29 | Press Return a couple of
times, and type in "Wildlife".
| | 01:35 | Press Return again a couple of times.
| | 01:37 | You can see how the text
box starts to stretch out.
| | 01:40 | Now we'll just add one
more: "The Sky." There we go.
| | 01:44 | Now if you want to see what this
looks like, just press your Play button.
| | 01:48 | (Video playing.)
| | 01:56 | So what you're seeing there is the
default effect, where it's scrolling, and you
| | 02:00 | see the title of the cast, with
the standard default background.
| | 02:03 | But we can start making some changes to this.
| | 02:05 | Let's go to the Background color.
| | 02:07 | Let's change it to that dark
tan color we use for our titles.
| | 02:11 | We'll do the same now by
going to the Directed By.
| | 02:14 | Now this one fades from our
movie into a black screen.
| | 02:17 | So when we click Directed By, we want
to make sure that we drag the marker into
| | 02:23 | the dark part, so we can select Background color.
| | 02:27 | There is our dark tan.
| | 02:28 | Now there is one more that's been added here:
| | 02:31 | Filmed On Location.
| | 02:33 | Let's double-click that, Filmed On Location.
| | 02:36 | Enter location here.
| | 02:37 | We'll triple-click on that text to
type in "California", just like so.
| | 02:42 | When you click outside the text box,
you can see the beginnings of the
| | 02:47 | credits starting to roll.
| | 02:49 | Another way to go into the text box
itself to make changes is to click the
| | 02:54 | Edit text button that appears in the Adjust
group, with the Format tab selected under Text tools.
| | 02:59 | This just gets you back inside.
| | 03:01 | Let's just be a little more specific.
| | 03:03 | We'll type in "Ventura, California". There we go.
| | 03:09 | Now of course, we can change the effect as well.
| | 03:12 | Let's go to our Background color, so it matches.
| | 03:14 | Let's choose that dark tan.
| | 03:17 | The effects appear in the Effects group.
| | 03:20 | So if you wanted to apply effects to
all three of them, why not click the
| | 03:24 | first one, Directed By, hold down Shift,
click the Filmed On Location option
| | 03:29 | so all three are selected?
| | 03:31 | Now you can see what's currently selected here.
| | 03:33 | (Clip playing.)
| | 03:35 | It's called Scroll, and as you
hover over it, you get a quick preview.
| | 03:39 | So let's go to our dropdown, and you'll
see a number of different options here.
| | 03:44 | I kind of like this one.
| | 03:45 | (Clip playing.)
| | 03:47 | The Swing down kind of
swings down each of them.
| | 03:50 | That's as an option.
| | 03:50 | You can go to some more Cinematic effects.
| | 03:53 | (Clip playing.)
And Contemporary.
| | 03:58 | (Clip playing.)
| | 04:05 | So why don't we go to one that adds emphasis?
| | 04:07 | We'll go to this Emphasis
group, and choose Stretch.
| | 04:12 | All right, we'll move our marker over
to the first clip containing one of our
| | 04:19 | credits, Directed By, and click Play.
| | 04:22 | (Music playing.)
| | 04:43 | That looks kind of cool.
| | 04:45 | So we were totally able to
manipulate the credits that were added.
| | 04:48 | Now if you wanted to add a credit at
anytime, all you need to do is make sure
| | 04:52 | the Home tab is selected. In the Add
group, you'll see Credits has a dropdown.
| | 04:57 | When you click it,
credits can be simple Credits.
| | 05:00 | It's a new blank credit.
| | 05:02 | You're going to apply any of those
effects. Or if you want, you're can have
| | 05:05 | the Directed By, the Starring,
and Filmed On Location in options.
| | 05:11 | Now these just give you a little
bit of a head start with some existing
| | 05:14 | text that can be edited,
| | 05:15 | but all you need to do is fill in
the blanks with these three. Credits,
| | 05:19 | if you choose that, totally blank so
you can create whatever credit you want.
| | 05:23 | Once they're in there though, it's just
a matter of making all the changes that
| | 05:27 | you want necessary to make it
look exactly the way you need it.
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| Adjusting music options| 00:00 | If you're going to be working with a
music file in your Movie Maker project,
| | 00:04 | there are number of tools that you have
at your disposal for doing things like
| | 00:08 | fading the music in and out,
trimming, splitting the music clip, even
| | 00:13 | adjusting the volume--
| | 00:14 | things we're going to look at
right now with our BeachMovie.
| | 00:18 | You'll notice when we go to the
storyboard, the tune called So Many Times by the
| | 00:22 | Jellybricks does appear.
| | 00:23 | We inserted it in a previous lesson,
and it starts right at the beginning with
| | 00:28 | our very first clip, which is a title.
| | 00:31 | Now we can adjust where it starts,
where it ends, and what it sounds like by
| | 00:35 | going to the Options tab, under Music tools.
| | 00:38 | So long as your marker is somewhere in
music in your storyboard, you will see
| | 00:44 | the Music Tools > Options tab.
| | 00:46 | Let's give it a click.
| | 00:48 | Well, we have two groups here: one for
adjusting the audio and one for editing
| | 00:52 | the actual clip itself.
| | 00:54 | Now here we see the beginning of the
song, starting right at the beginning of our
| | 00:59 | very first clip, but maybe would be
better if it started a little bit later.
| | 01:03 | So we can change the start time.
| | 01:06 | One option is to use Set
start time by moving our marker.
| | 01:10 | So we'll just click and drag to the
spot where we want the music to start and
| | 01:14 | then click Set start time.
| | 01:17 | You can see it changes the start
time in this case to about 1.5 seconds.
| | 01:22 | Now, the other option is to click
and drag the actual music clip itself.
| | 01:26 | Right on the storyboard, click
anywhere inside and then just click and drag.
| | 01:30 | You're actually moving the start
marker to the left, in this case, and when you
| | 01:34 | let go, that's where it's going to start.
| | 01:36 | You've just adjust the start time.
| | 01:38 | The other option is to use the up and
down arrows, or simply type in an exact
| | 01:43 | number that we want it to start
at. 1, for example. Type in 1.
| | 01:47 | You can press Enter, and
you've locked in at one second.
| | 01:50 | So you can be very precise with this.
| | 01:53 | Now you can also trim the music,
| | 01:55 | so that is to cut off the beginning or
end of the song using Set start point and
| | 02:00 | Set end point options, or typing in,
or using the Arrow keys to set a start
| | 02:06 | point and end point.
| | 02:07 | This is going to actually cut off
parts of the song though, when you do this.
| | 02:11 | So, for example, if we clicked at the
end of our first clip or just dragged the
| | 02:15 | marker to the end of our first clip--
which is the title--and we choose Set that
| | 02:20 | as the start point, we would actually be
trimming off the beginning of our song.
| | 02:25 | Same thing goes for working with the
end of the song, if we were to go to the end
| | 02:29 | of our project and set the end point.
| | 02:31 | You can see numbers will be
inserted for start and end points.
| | 02:37 | The other option is to split it up.
| | 02:38 | Maybe we don't want to hear the
song when our video clip is playing,
| | 02:42 | so we'll just click the video clip
itself, and that moves the marker right to
| | 02:46 | the beginning of the clip.
| | 02:48 | This might be good spot to split it.
| | 02:49 | Now we're going to split in this case
because the Options tab under Music
| | 02:53 | tools is that we're just splitting the
music, not the video clip. So now it's split.
| | 02:59 | Now, if we didn't do anything, it would
continue to play smoothly. But what we're
| | 03:03 | going to do now is just move this
over to the end of our video clip.
| | 03:07 | You can see now the music starts, there
is a pause, and then it kicks up again
| | 03:12 | at the end of our video clip--
| | 03:14 | something you might want to do when
you're going to be inserting video where
| | 03:17 | there is audio and you don't
want them competing with each other.
| | 03:20 | Of course, if you don't like
that, you can always click Undo.
| | 03:23 | Let's click Undo twice to bring it
right back to a solid stream. There we go.
| | 03:30 | Now, let's work with fading in and out.
| | 03:32 | Fade in they're obviously is going to
fade in the music, and it can be Slow,
| | 03:38 | Medium, or a Fast fade. Let's choose Fast.
| | 03:43 | For the fade out at the
end, we'll do a Slow fade, so
| | 03:45 | it gradually goes out to nothing.
| | 03:48 | We can also adjust the music volume.
| | 03:52 | If you find it too loud, just
bring it down to an acceptable level.
| | 03:57 | You can always listen to that by clicking Play.
| | 04:00 | (Music playing.)
| | 04:09 | At anytime if you don't like what you hear,
you can always go back and make adjustments.
| | 04:17 | Let's go back to the Home tab.
| | 04:18 | So when you're working with music in the
background, you have many tools at your disposal.
| | 04:24 | Remember that Options tab that pops
up whenever your marker is placed over
| | 04:28 | music in the storyboard.
| | 04:30 | If we were to move our marker away from
the music and back into our first clip,
| | 04:33 | notice the options tab has
disappeared for working with music tools.
| | 04:37 | Your marker has to be inside the song.
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| Trimming and splitting video clips| 00:00 | When you use a video camera to capture
footage you're going to use in a Movie
| | 00:04 | Maker project, you might just
capture things you don't need.
| | 00:08 | Maybe it's at the beginning of the
video clip, or at the end, or even
| | 00:11 | smack-dab in the middle.
| | 00:13 | Well, the good news is here in
Windows Live Movie Maker you have some
| | 00:16 | video editing tools.
| | 00:17 | We're going to take a look at those
now. Still working with our BeachMovie.
| | 00:21 | The first thing we're going
to do is insert a video clip.
| | 00:24 | Let's go to the storyboard, and we'll
just click the picture labeled beach_15
| | 00:29 | as you hover over it.
| | 00:30 | It's the rope that's tied up in a knot.
| | 00:33 | When you click this, it's selected so
you know anything you're about to add
| | 00:37 | we'll go right after it.
| | 00:38 | That's what we're going to do. With the
Home tab selected on the Ribbon, in the
| | 00:42 | Add group click Add videos and photos.
| | 00:45 | Now navigate to your exercise files
in the 03_06 subfolder. You'll find
| | 00:49 | surfers.wmv, a Windows Media Video file.
| | 00:54 | With that selected, click Open. And sure
enough, it gets added to the storyboard,
| | 00:58 | right after the picture of our rope.
| | 01:01 | So this is our video clip. As you hover over it,
| | 01:03 | you see it's about 10 seconds in length.
| | 01:06 | There is a marker that we can click
and drag to move across the video. And of
| | 01:12 | course, if you prefer, you can
preview it using the Play button.
| | 01:15 | (Clip playing.)
| | 01:21 | So it does look like there might be
parts at the beginning here we can trim off
| | 01:25 | as well, as the end--maybe
even a little bit in the middle.
| | 01:28 | So let's start by trimming off the
beginning of our video clip. Click Play.
| | 01:33 | You can see that surfer on the left.
As he brings his arm down, that's the spot
| | 01:40 | where we really want to start
this video clip. Right about there.
| | 01:47 | So to trim off the beginning, you'll
notice with video selected, we have Video
| | 01:51 | tools up here on the Ribbon,
with an Edit tab down below.
| | 01:54 | Click the Edit tab. You will see options
for working with the audio--that's in our
| | 01:59 | video clip--adjusting, as well as editing.
| | 02:02 | We're going to focus on audio first.
| | 02:05 | We really don't need to hear that
interfering audio in the video clip, because
| | 02:09 | we have a song playing in the background.
| | 02:11 | So let's choose Video volume and drag
this slider all the way to the left.
| | 02:16 | This mutes out any audio
that's part of the video clip.
| | 02:20 | So we only hear our song. Perfect.
| | 02:23 | Let's go back to the video clip, where
we moved our marker to the exact spot
| | 02:27 | that we want to trim.
| | 02:28 | You'll notice we have two buttons here:
Set start point and Set end point.
| | 02:34 | Well, what we've done, by moving the
marker to the exact location where we want
| | 02:38 | the video to start is we
have set our start point.
| | 02:41 | Now to trim off the beginning, we
click the Set start point button.
| | 02:45 | Go ahead and do that, and
you got a new beginning.
| | 02:48 | Click Play to preview it.
| | 02:50 | (Clip playing.)
Looks good!
| | 02:55 | Now, as we move to the end of the
video, we could do the same thing.
| | 03:00 | When that camera starts to move quickly
to the other surfers, maybe you want to
| | 03:04 | leave that out. And that would be
a good spot to trim off the end.
| | 03:08 | Again, we could use the Set end point this
time button. Or, if you prefer, go to the Trim tool.
| | 03:14 | The Trim tool lets you go in and
actually see, in the Preview pane here, areas
| | 03:19 | that might need to be trimmed off at
the beginning and the end, and you can
| | 03:23 | do it all in one step.
| | 03:26 | Right there for the beginning, right
there for the end, and then all you'd have
| | 03:31 | to do is click the Save trim button.
| | 03:34 | Now you also have the Set start
point and Set end point buttons here.
| | 03:38 | You could also set them by using the
arrows, change the time to be very precise--
| | 03:45 | even type in those Start and End point markers.
| | 03:48 | Once you've got it exactly the way
you want it, click Save trim, and you're
| | 03:52 | taken back to the storyboard, where
you can preview this by clicking Play.
| | 03:56 | (Clip playing.)
| | 04:02 | So, there is one little spot in the
video that we might want to take out, where
| | 04:06 | the surfer, again, brings his arm up.
| | 04:09 | In this case, it's in the middle,
| | 04:11 | so we need to move across to do point
where he starts to move the arm up--right
| | 04:17 | there--and we're going to split the video here.
| | 04:21 | When you click Split you're actually
turning it into two clips: the first part
| | 04:25 | and the second part.
| | 04:26 | If we just play this, you'll see it's
actually very smooth. It doesn't even look
| | 04:30 | like it's being split up at
this point. Very smooth.
| | 04:37 | Now, we'll go to the second clip in the
storyboard and click. And we'll move our
| | 04:41 | marker across to the point where he is done,
| | 04:44 | bringing his arm back down
there, and we'll Split again.
| | 04:52 | So what we have are three parts now, and
it's the middle part that we don't want.
| | 04:56 | That's the arm motion.
| | 04:58 | So click the middle section, press
Delete on your keyboard, and it's gone.
| | 05:03 | Now, we can do some fancy transitions to
smooth out that motion between these two clips.
| | 05:12 | Or another trick is just to move the
second part somewhere else. Let's just drag it
| | 05:17 | after our photo, and now we've got a video,
photo, and then the remainder of the video.
| | 05:23 | Let's see what that looks like by
previewing it with our Play button.
| | 05:27 | (Clip playing.)
| | 05:37 | That looks much better.
| | 05:40 | So that's all there is to working with video.
| | 05:43 | If you have video footage, and you need
to take out parts at the beginning, the
| | 05:46 | end, or even in the middle, remember
your video editing tools available to you
| | 05:51 | here in Movie Maker.
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| Adjusting photo duration and rotation| 00:00 | The moment you add a photo to your
Movie Maker Project, certain default
| | 00:04 | attributes are assigned for you--
| | 00:06 | for example, a default duration of seven
seconds. Sometimes photos will be rotated
| | 00:12 | for you; sometimes they won't, if that
information is not stored in the photo.
| | 00:16 | So we are going to look at those two
options right now, continuing with our BeachMovie.
| | 00:20 | Now if we were to hover over
any one of the photos here--
| | 00:23 | let's go to beach_5, which is
some tracks in the sand here--
| | 00:27 | you'll notice the
duration is set to 4.76 seconds.
| | 00:30 | If we move to the next one, you'll notice that
duration is exactly the same, 4.76, and so on.
| | 00:37 | The reason for this is we decided to
make our project fit the length of the
| | 00:42 | music choice we made.
| | 00:44 | So in this case, all of those seven
second durations were knocked down to 4.76
| | 00:49 | seconds, but we can adjust that manually.
| | 00:51 | So let's go back to beach_5
and just click to select it.
| | 00:55 | Now any changes we make will be
applied to this one selected photo. And you
| | 01:00 | might not see it in the preview--
| | 01:02 | you'll probably see the end of the
previous clip--but you can move your marker
| | 01:06 | halfway across to see a preview of that photo.
| | 01:10 | Now we are going to make some
adjustments, starting with the rotation.
| | 01:12 | This is actually turned on its side, and it
needs to be rotated a little bit to the left.
| | 01:18 | So you'll notice, in the Editing group
here with the Home tab selected, there are
| | 01:21 | two rotate options:
Rotate Left and Rotate Right.
| | 01:25 | Each time you click this button, it will
rotate either left 90 degrees or right degrees.
| | 01:31 | And it looks like we need to rotate this
to the left 90 degrees, so we'll click the Rotate Left.
| | 01:37 | You can see that looks a little bit better.
| | 01:39 | Now, of course, we end up with black on the
sides, but that's the way the photo was taken.
| | 01:43 | That's the way it should be displayed.
| | 01:45 | If you rotate left again, you can see
it goes back the other way, so we can
| | 01:49 | rotate right 90 degrees to bring it
back. So that looks much better.
| | 01:53 | Now of course, you can be doing this
with many photos if you select multiple
| | 01:57 | photos using your Shift or Ctrl keys,
but we are just applying it to this
| | 02:00 | one clip. And because it has a transition
and a duration, it's really treated as a video.
| | 02:07 | So the other options we are looking for
will appear under the Video Tools > Edit tab.
| | 02:12 | We'll click the Edit tab,
right under Video tools.
| | 02:15 | Most of the video options don't apply
here, but the Duration does. And you can
| | 02:19 | see those 4.76 seconds.
| | 02:22 | So if you wanted to knock this down or
bring it up, just click the dropdown.
| | 02:26 | You'll see a number of presets to choose from.
| | 02:28 | So if you wanted to bring it down
to three seconds, you could click 3.
| | 02:31 | And you will notice that takes us to
the next clip, which is set to 4.76.
| | 02:36 | So we'll go back and click the previous clip.
| | 02:39 | This is our beach_5, and you
can see the duration is set to 3.
| | 02:42 | If you wanted it to be 3.5 seconds,
that's not a preset when you click the
| | 02:46 | dropdown, so just come in here and type
in "3.5" and press Enter, and you now have
| | 02:52 | a three-and-a-half-second-long clip.
| | 02:54 | So that's all there is to rotating and
changing the duration defaults that are
| | 02:59 | assigned to your photos here in Movie Maker.
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| Adjusting and mixing video and audio volume| 00:00 | If your Movie Maker project is going to
combine video clips along with music in
| | 00:05 | the background, there's a way to mix
the volumes for your music file along with
| | 00:11 | your video clip that has its own audio.
| | 00:14 | Now we already know we can adjust the volumes
for our music and our video file separately.
| | 00:19 | For example, in our BeachMovie project
here, if we go to the first video clip--
| | 00:24 | surfing3--and make sure it's selected,
we can go to the Video Tools > Edit tab on
| | 00:29 | the Ribbon and then go to
the Video Volume to adjust it.
| | 00:33 | So we can bring it down or move it up,
and that will affect that one video clip.
| | 00:38 | Then we would have to do the same for
the other video clips in our project.
| | 00:42 | We can also do the same for the music.
If we click the Options tab, we can adjust
| | 00:47 | the Music Volume. It has its own slider.
| | 00:51 | But if you would rather just mix the
volumes between the music and the video
| | 00:56 | clips, you would then go to the Project
tab. And this will affect your entire
| | 01:00 | project--not a single clip. And over
on the left-hand side in the Audio group,
| | 01:05 | you will find the Audio Mix button.
| | 01:08 | When you click this button, you can
then adjust the volume between your video
| | 01:13 | and your music file.
| | 01:14 | On the left, you'll see an icon
representing the audio level for your video
| | 01:19 | clip. On the right, you'll
see an icon for your music.
| | 01:22 | So if we drag this all the way to the
right, we are going to hear our music
| | 01:25 | clip, and we will not hear any of the
audio that appears in any of the video
| | 01:30 | clips in our project.
| | 01:32 | If you want to be able to hear a little
bit of that though, you might drag this
| | 01:35 | slider a little bit to the left, so
you are mostly hearing the music, and you
| | 01:38 | might hear faintly in the background
some crashing waves, for example, in the
| | 01:43 | very first video clip.
| | 01:45 | So once you have that set the way you want,
then you can click Play to have a listen--
| | 01:49 | (Video playing.)
| | 01:54 | you might want to hear a little more,
so go back to the audio mix and just drag
| | 01:59 | it to the left to hear more of
the audio that's in your video clip.
| | 02:02 | Once you've got it set perfectly,
you will just simply save your changes.
| | 02:07 | So that's all there is to mixing the
audio that might appear in a video clip
| | 02:11 | along with music that plays in the background.
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| Creating a snapshot from existing video| 00:00 | A cool effect you may have seen in the
real world--whether it be on TV or in the
| | 00:04 | movies--is when a still photo turns
into an actual video clip, or vice-versa:
| | 00:11 | a video clip hits a freeze frame and
freezes on an exact point in that video.
| | 00:16 | This is an effect you can create in
Movie Maker using the Snapshot tool.
| | 00:20 | That's we're going to do
right now with our BeachMovie.
| | 00:22 | We're going to go to the
video clip of our surfers.
| | 00:26 | So the first step is to click that video clip.
| | 00:29 | Now we can move our marker to any position
in that video clip and create a snapshot.
| | 00:35 | If we want to create the effect of a
snapshot coming to life, we'll move it right
| | 00:39 | back to the beginning.
| | 00:40 | So you can just click the clip to
make sure the marker is at the very
| | 00:44 | beginning of the clip.
| | 00:45 | Then with the Home Selected on the Ribbon,
in the Add group, you'll notice Snapshot.
| | 00:51 | This allows you to create a snapshot
of what you're previewing right now in
| | 00:55 | the Preview screen.
| | 00:56 | So we'll click that button.
| | 00:58 | It's going to name it for
you automatically and save it.
| | 01:02 | So you can type in whatever name you want here--
| | 01:04 | let's type in "Surfers"--and choose any
location, like your Desktop, for example.
| | 01:10 | When you click Save, it saves the snapshot,
but it also adds it to the actual project.
| | 01:16 | You can see it gets added right after our clip.
| | 01:19 | So what we'd rather see is our photo come to life,
| | 01:23 | so we'll click and drag that
clip in front of the video clip.
| | 01:28 | The other thing that happens, as you
may know, whenever you add a photo--or in
| | 01:32 | this case insert a snapshot--
certain default settings are applied.
| | 01:36 | In this case, as we hover over it,
you can see it's a seven-second clip.
| | 01:41 | So there are a few things we might
want to change, like the transition and the
| | 01:44 | pan and zoom effects that have been applied.
| | 01:47 | So let's start by going to
the Edit tab, under Video Tools.
| | 01:51 | We'll change the Duration
down to--how about 2.00 seconds?
| | 01:54 | Now the other thing we'll do
is go to the Animations tab.
| | 01:58 | We don't want any animations,
| | 02:00 | so we'll click the little dropdown here
for transitions and just scroll all the
| | 02:04 | way up to the top where it says None, and click.
| | 02:06 | We're going to be working with animations,
transitions, and effects a little bit later on.
| | 02:11 | But for now, we'll go over to the Pan
and Zoom area of the Ribbon, and select
| | 02:16 | the first option, which is No pan and zoom.
| | 02:18 | So we're removing all effects at this point.
| | 02:20 | We're just going to have our still photo
clip that will lead into the video clip.
| | 02:25 | Now we're ready to see what this looks like.
| | 02:28 | Click the Play button.
| | 02:29 | (Video playing.)
| | 02:34 | You can see how that photo just came
to life as it led into the video clip.
| | 02:39 | So with the Snapshot tool, you can take
a snapshot at any point in a video clip
| | 02:43 | and then use that in your project.
| | 02:46 | Another neat effect you may see is where
the video just freezes and then continues on.
| | 02:50 | In that case, you might go into a video
clips, split it, and create a snapshot
| | 02:54 | that you place in between.
| | 02:56 | Lots of cool things you can
do with the Snapshot tool!
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4. Adding Special EffectsCreating transitions between clips| 00:00 | When you create a movie project using
AutoMovie themes, certain special effects
| | 00:05 | are applied to the various
photos and video in your project.
| | 00:08 | So if you choose an AutoMovie theme
that uses panning and zooming, you will see
| | 00:12 | panning and zooming for all of the clips.
| | 00:14 | But what if you want to use some of the
effects from one theme and some of the
| | 00:17 | effects from another?
| | 00:18 | If you want total control over your
transitions, your special effects, you can
| | 00:23 | apply them yourself, and that's what
we're going to do right now, starting with
| | 00:26 | transitions, using a brand-
new project here called Escape.
| | 00:30 | You can see if we click the very first
clip in the storyboard, it's simply a title.
| | 00:35 | When we click Play, we'll see that
special effect that's applied to that clip.
| | 00:39 | But watch what happens as it
transitions to the first photo;
| | 00:43 | nothing, really, and then
comes our first video clip.
| | 00:46 | There were no special effects.
| | 00:47 | It's just instantly
changes from one to the other.
| | 00:51 | The same thing is going to happen at the
end of our video clip as we reach the
| | 00:54 | next photo, and so on.
| | 00:58 | So it's actually quite boring.
| | 01:00 | We can start applying transitional
effects now to selected clip or the entire
| | 01:05 | project, if we so choose.
| | 01:06 | So it really doesn't matter
what clip is selected right now.
| | 01:10 | We're going to go up to the
Animations tab on the Ribbon.
| | 01:14 | You'll notice a couple of groups here:
| | 01:15 | one for Transitions, and the
other for panning and zooming.
| | 01:19 | We're going to focus on
transitions in this lesson.
| | 01:22 | Right at the very beginning is the
first option, which is No transition.
| | 01:26 | That's what we're seeing.
| | 01:27 | Nothing happens in between our clips.
| | 01:31 | But if we want, we can preview just by
hovering over some of these transitions,
| | 01:36 | like Bow tie - horizontal and vertical.
| | 01:40 | There are many more transitions to preview.
| | 01:42 | If you click the dropdown and
scroll down, you'll see diagonals.
| | 01:47 | That's what we've been looking at.
| | 01:48 | Then we see some dissolve options.
| | 01:50 | This is a cool one called Dissolve
rough, or if you wanted to go to another
| | 01:55 | one called Pixelate,
| | 01:56 | that's a cool effect.
| | 01:57 | There are all kinds of neat ones in here:
different types of blurs, for example.
| | 02:02 | As you scroll a little further down,
you'll see patterns and shapes.
| | 02:05 | So depending on the style of your movie,
you can choose from different shapes.
| | 02:11 | Scroll down a little
further. There are reveals.
| | 02:13 | It's almost like a slideshow where the
pictures are removed to reveal the next one.
| | 02:17 | There are different options there.
| | 02:19 | So if we get a little further down, we get
into some cool effects. Shatters are neat.
| | 02:24 | You'll see the picture shattered to
reveal the next picture or video clip.
| | 02:28 | Then there are sweeps and curls.
| | 02:31 | You can experiment with these. Wipes.
| | 02:33 | There are some cinematic effects here as well.
| | 02:36 | I really like what I see down near the
bottom for Contemporary, because you'll
| | 02:39 | see some reveals here as it switches to
the next one and adds a little bit of
| | 02:43 | graphic element in between the pictures.
| | 02:46 | So you can choose what you
prefer from these groups.
| | 02:50 | I'm going to go to Cinematic, and
select the first one here, Cinematic - blur.
| | 02:57 | Now you'll notice that it's applied to
this one particular clip--nothing else
| | 03:01 | was selected--but I do have an
option here to apply this effect to every
| | 03:06 | single item in my project.
| | 03:08 | That gives me some consistency.
| | 03:10 | It's not too distracting.
| | 03:12 | So let's click Apply to all.
| | 03:14 | Now what you're going to see is this
little triangle in the bottom left corner
| | 03:17 | of each clip, indicating that that
transitional effect has been applied.
| | 03:21 | We can also adjust the duration: how
long it takes for that transition to happen.
| | 03:26 | If you have very short clips--like two
second photo clips--you might want to
| | 03:31 | shorten down the duration, so the
transition happens a little quicker.
| | 03:35 | Click the dropdown, and choose
something like 1.00 second, for example.
| | 03:39 | Now we can go to the very first clip and click.
| | 03:43 | Let's just click the Play button in our
Preview pane here to see what that looks like.
| | 03:47 | So we get passed our title. On we go
to the next photo, and there is that
| | 03:51 | transitional effect.
| | 03:52 | Same thing as it moves into the video clip.
| | 03:55 | At the end of the video clip, we'll see that
transition as we move to the next photo clip.
| | 04:00 | (Video playing.)
| | 04:05 | Now we'll just click Pause to pause there.
| | 04:08 | So you are able to apply
transitional effects to individual clips or to
| | 04:13 | the entire project.
| | 04:15 | If you want to have a majority of your
transitions--the one you just selected--
| | 04:19 | and then go in and change them for
individual clips--like maybe the actual video
| | 04:23 | clips, we'll use a different
transition--you can select those.
| | 04:27 | Hold down your Ctrl key, and
click just the video clips.
| | 04:32 | There are a few in here.
| | 04:33 | Scroll down a little further to
the last one. Still holding Ctrl.
| | 04:36 | Now you've selected three different video clips.
| | 04:40 | You can apply a different transition to them.
| | 04:43 | So let's go back to our Transitions
here and choose something different, like
| | 04:47 | maybe this Zig zag wipe is kind of cool.
| | 04:49 | It kind of represents a wavy-type transition.
| | 04:53 | So we'll choose one of the zigzags.
| | 04:57 | It's now been applied to just the video clips.
| | 05:00 | Let's go to the first photo right
after our title and click Play.
| | 05:03 | You see that zigzag effect
on the actual video clip.
| | 05:09 | When it returns to the photos, you're
going to see the original transition
| | 05:13 | effect that you've applied.
| | 05:15 | There is that Cinematic effect again.
| | 05:18 | Let's click the photo before our
next video clip and click Play.
| | 05:24 | There is that zigzag.
| | 05:25 | We'll click Pause again.
| | 05:29 | So if you need to apply effects that
allow you to transition from one clip to
| | 05:34 | the next, you can apply them to
every single clip in your project, or
| | 05:38 | individuals--even go back and
make changes, like we just did.
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| Panning and zooming photos| 00:00 | When you use photos in a Movie Maker
project and you haven't chosen to apply
| | 00:04 | an AutoMovie theme, photos just sit
there stagnant as they're viewed for
| | 00:09 | whatever duration is set.
| | 00:11 | For example, in our Escape project here,
we'll go to the very first photo, our
| | 00:16 | beach_22 picture, right
after the title, and click Play.
| | 00:19 | You'll see the transition, but
then the photo just sits there.
| | 00:24 | Let's go back to that clip now.
| | 00:25 | We'll just click the actual image.
And let's increase the duration by going to
| | 00:29 | the Edit tab, under Video Tools, and
we'll change it from two seconds to six seconds,
| | 00:34 | so we can really see the
effects we're about to apply.
| | 00:37 | So instead of the picture just sitting
there stagnant, we can add some motion to it
| | 00:41 | so it's almost video-like.
| | 00:43 | Those are pan and zoom effects.
| | 00:44 | We access those by going to the
Animations tab and then move to the right side
| | 00:49 | of the Ribbon, where you'll
see the Pan and zoom group.
| | 00:52 | Now effects that you choose here can
be applied to all of your pictures, or if
| | 00:56 | you prefer, just selected ones.
| | 00:58 | In this case, we've only selected one
clip, and we are going to test this out.
| | 01:01 | Now you will see some of the
effects, like the Automatic pan and zoom.
| | 01:05 | When you hover over it, you see a quick
preview on the left-hand side, in your Preview pane.
| | 01:10 | Same thing goes for the next one,
which is a Pan up and a long left.
| | 01:14 | You can see there are a few options for panning.
| | 01:16 | Click the dropdown though, to see there's Automatic.
| | 01:20 | Then there is Pan only options, so
different panning options for your photo.
| | 01:24 | Now we'll pan across, up, down,
diagonally. Or you could go to Zoom in
| | 01:30 | effects, where you're only zooming in
to the photo by choosing one of these
| | 01:34 | effects in this group.
| | 01:35 | You choose what area of the
photo you want to zoom in to.
| | 01:38 | Now, this is great if you have a
subject, for example, that's on the
| | 01:41 | left-hand side of the photo.
| | 01:44 | You might want to a pan into the left side.
| | 01:46 | If you choose that, you'll pan down
in left, for example, into our birds.
| | 01:50 | There are also some zoom out effects.
| | 01:53 | So in this case, it starts zoomed in to
the photo and zooms away--almost like
| | 01:57 | there is some motion being applied.
| | 01:58 | It will feel very much like
video, even though it's a still photo.
| | 02:03 | So let's go to Automatic and just click there.
| | 02:06 | That then is applied to our single photo.
| | 02:09 | You'll see these little rectangles in
the top left-hand corner, indicating that a
| | 02:14 | Pan and zoom effect has been applied.
| | 02:17 | To really see this, we'll
click the Play button now.
| | 02:20 | So there's the transition from our title.
| | 02:23 | You can see the panning and zooming
that happens, and we'll click Pause.
| | 02:27 | So if you find one that you do like,
you can apply it to every single photo in
| | 02:32 | your project, by using the Apply to all
button. Or if you prefer, just go in there
| | 02:37 | and select the ones that you want by
using your Ctrl or Shift keys on the
| | 02:41 | keyboard and then choosing an
effect to apply it to all of those.
| | 02:45 | You'll see those little icons appear
in the top-left corner of your clips.
| | 02:50 | Now you can test it out by clicking Play.
| | 02:56 | So although these are still photos,
there's motion attached to them now to make
| | 03:00 | them feel like vide-- a very cool
effect that is applied when you use the
| | 03:05 | AutoMovie themes, or as we
did here, apply them yourself.
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| Adding visual effects to photos and video| 00:00 | To add even more excitement and visual
interest to a Movie Maker project, there
| | 00:05 | are some visual effects that can be
applied to the photos in your project
| | 00:09 | and/or the video clips.
| | 00:11 | So that's what we are going to look at right
now, continuing to work with our Escape movie.
| | 00:15 | Let's go to the video clip named surfing6.
| | 00:18 | So, on the storyboard, we'll just click
that clip. And we'll have a little preview.
| | 00:22 | We'll click the Play button in the Preview pane.
| | 00:24 | Here is our surfer, catching a wave,
coming right out us, and then gives us a
| | 00:29 | little splash. Nice little clip.
| | 00:31 | Now we can apply the effect to the
entire clip. Or, here's a neat trick: split the
| | 00:36 | clip in half and apply the
effect to only a portion of it.
| | 00:40 | This way the reality can
bend into the effect we apply.
| | 00:45 | So let's move our marker back to right
where the surfer gets up on the wave--
| | 00:50 | right about there--and we'll split it
here by going to the Edit tab, under Video
| | 00:55 | Tools, and clicking Split.
| | 00:57 | Now it's the second part of our video
clip that is selected, and this is where
| | 01:00 | we are going to apply the visual effect.
| | 01:03 | This means clicking the Visual Effects
tab on the Ribbon. And you will see the
| | 01:07 | first row of visual effects.
| | 01:09 | You can hover over them to
see a little preview of each.
| | 01:12 | I like that Edge Detection.
| | 01:14 | It's kind of a cartoonish look.
| | 01:16 | There are some other ones here. Posterize.
| | 01:19 | You could see Threshold. There's many more
| | 01:21 | if you click the dropdown. And this way
they're broken up into categories.
| | 01:24 | The Artistic ones appear first.
| | 01:27 | So there's our Threshold we just saw.
| | 01:30 | As we scroll a little further down, some
Black and white options, including some
| | 01:33 | sepias, and as we scroll down, some
Cinematic effects where you'll see overlays
| | 01:39 | appear, and you can choose where
you want that overlay to appear.
| | 01:43 | We'll scroll down a little further, and
you see some Mirror options. You can
| | 01:47 | actually change the direction the
surfer is going, even flip him upside down.
| | 01:53 | But it's the next group where we see
some Motions and Fades where you'll see
| | 01:57 | some really cool effects, like 3D ripple,
for example, fading in from black.
| | 02:03 | There are some cool ones here for hues,
and I kind of like this Pixelate option too.
| | 02:09 | That might be a good option for our
clip, but I am thinking actually let's
| | 02:13 | scroll up to the top here where we see under
Artistic that cartoonish Edge detection effect.
| | 02:19 | We'll just click it to apply it.
| | 02:21 | Now we can see the whole
portion of our clip by clicking Play.
| | 02:26 | That's kind of neat, right there. Okay.
| | 02:28 | Now if we go to the first part of the
clip and click Play, we'll see reality.
| | 02:33 | As the surfer gets up, he
turns quickly into a cartoon.
| | 02:38 | So now to add a little bit of
smoothness to the transition, we can apply a
| | 02:43 | transition to the second half.
Make sure that clip is selected.
| | 02:47 | This time we'll go back to Animations,
clicking the Animations tab, and we'll
| | 02:51 | click the dropdown under
Transitions to apply a cross fade.
| | 02:54 | As you scroll down, you'll see, in the
Dissolve section, the Crossfade which will
| | 02:59 | gradually switches from reality
into our Edge detection effect.
| | 03:04 | So we'll choose Crossfade, go back to
the first part of the clip, and click
| | 03:08 | Play to preview that.
| | 03:09 | So here it comes and gradually, there he goes.
| | 03:14 | He returns into the
cartoon and gives us a splash.
| | 03:17 | I like that effect.
| | 03:18 | That's kind of cool.
| | 03:18 | So we are ready now to go back and save our
changes if we are going to continue with this project.
| | 03:24 | So, keep in mind there are visual
effects that can be applied to your video
| | 03:28 | clips as well as your photos. Anything that's
in your storyboard can receive the visual effect.
| | 03:34 | There is many to choose from, so you
can add a different look, a different feel,
| | 03:37 | and some excitement to your project.
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| Adding multiple effects to a single clip| 00:00 | Adding visual effects to your photos and
video clips in your Movie Maker project
| | 00:05 | can add excitement, but when you go to
the Ribbon to do it, you can only select
| | 00:09 | one effect at a time.
| | 00:10 | There is a way to apply multiple effects
to a single clip, and that's what we're
| | 00:14 | going to do right now.
| | 00:16 | Still working with our Escape project,
let's scroll down near the bottom on the
| | 00:20 | storyboard, where you'll find a
clip--which is a photo--called beach_79.
| | 00:25 | Currently, the duration is set to two seconds.
| | 00:27 | So with that selected, the first thing we'll
do is click the Edit tab, under Video Tools.
| | 00:32 | Let's change the Duration to 6 seconds.
| | 00:35 | That way we can really see the effect.
| | 00:38 | If we preview this by clicking Play,
we'll see the transition to the photo, and
| | 00:41 | then it's just a static photo that
sits there as we view it for 6 seconds.
| | 00:46 | So let's go back to that clip and
make sure it's selected, and now we'll
| | 00:49 | apply multiple effects.
| | 00:51 | This means going to the Visual Effects
tab on the Ribbon. And instead of just
| | 00:55 | selecting one from what we see here on
the Ribbon, let's click the dropdown.
| | 01:00 | You don't have to scroll down to see
Multiple effects appear at the bottom
| | 01:05 | of this dropdown menu.
| | 01:06 | Choose Multiple effects, and now
you'll see an alphabetical listing of all
| | 01:10 | of the effects above.
| | 01:11 | So you do have to be familiar
with the effects and what they do.
| | 01:16 | Now let's go down to near the
bottom where we see Posterize.
| | 01:20 | We'll select it and click Add.
| | 01:23 | Now the displayed effect includes Posterize.
| | 01:26 | Now, we get to add more.
| | 01:28 | This is the cool part.
| | 01:30 | Let's scroll up a little bit, and
we'll go to one of those Cinematic options.
| | 01:36 | We'll choose Cinematic and add it.
| | 01:39 | And if you wanted another one, let's go all
the way down to the bottom and choose Warp.
| | 01:45 | Now we have got the three we've added,
and they appear in the order we added,
| | 01:48 | from the bottom to the top,
but we can rearrange those.
| | 01:51 | If we want Warp down in the middle,
just click the Move down or move it up.
| | 01:55 | It's totally up to you, the order. Click Apply.
| | 01:58 | You'll want to experiment with the
order to see how the effects appear.
| | 02:02 | Now let's preview that. Click the Play
button. There we go. Cool effects.
| | 02:10 | And then it's on to the next picture.
| | 02:12 | So it totally changed what we were looking at.
| | 02:15 | Now if you want to make some changes--
maybe you didn't like some of your
| | 02:17 | selections--make sure it's selected,
go back to the Visual Effects tab,
| | 02:22 | click the dropdown, back to Multiple
effects, and now you can work with what
| | 02:26 | you've already selected.
| | 02:27 | Maybe Posterize really doesn't look
very good at all. We'll remove it.
| | 02:31 | So select it first then click Remove
and then click Apply again to apply the
| | 02:36 | changes and see if that makes
more sense. So there we go.
| | 02:43 | There is the Warp, and you may have seen
the Cinematic effect in the background,
| | 02:46 | those bubbles appearing to
go through the picture itself.
| | 02:49 | Now this can be applied to more
than one clip if you wanted to.
| | 02:54 | Hold down your Shift key, for
example, so the last three photos are
| | 02:58 | selected, go to your dropdown, Multiple effects,
and you'll see the two that are already there.
| | 03:05 | You can click Apply now to apply those
same effects to the other two selected photos.
| | 03:10 | Let's go back to the first one,
click Play, and there's the Warp with the
| | 03:15 | Cinematic effect, which is
barely visible in the background.
| | 03:18 | Same thing goes on for the other two, which
are very short clips of two seconds each.
| | 03:23 | So you see how you can apply visual
effects--more than one at a time--to one or
| | 03:28 | more clips in your Movie Maker project.
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| Removing effects| 00:00 | Well, as you probably know by now,
there are many different types of effects
| | 00:04 | that can be applied to photos, video,
and so on in your Movie Maker project.
| | 00:09 | You can add transitions, panning and
zooming effects--special visual effects
| | 00:14 | can be applied as well--but how do you
remove them when you don't want them any longer?
| | 00:18 | That's what we are going
to talk about right now.
| | 00:20 | We are going to do this working with
our Escape project. And we are going to
| | 00:24 | go to the storyboard, and our second video
clip, surfing6, is broken up into two parts.
| | 00:29 | We're going to go to the second half and
just click that clip in the storyboard.
| | 00:33 | We'll preview it by clicking Play.
| | 00:36 | So there's a bit of a transition, and
you see a special effect has also been
| | 00:40 | applied there, called Edge detection.
| | 00:42 | So if we want to remove any of those
effects, all we have to do is select None.
| | 00:48 | So let's start with the transition.
| | 00:49 | We'll go to the Animations tab, and
here for Transitions, you can see what's
| | 00:55 | selected as we hover over it.
| | 00:56 | It is called Crossfade.
| | 00:57 | We'll click the dropdown though, where you
can see a full list and scroll up to
| | 01:01 | the top, because the first
one is None, No transition.
| | 01:05 | So when we click that, we now have no
transition between these two clips, and
| | 01:09 | you can see a little triangle that
appears in the bottom left corner of clips
| | 01:14 | that have transitions. It's gone.
| | 01:17 | Now what about that special effect?
| | 01:18 | That's a visual effect.
| | 01:20 | We'll click Visual Effects, and
you can see what's selected there.
| | 01:24 | It's called Edge detection.
| | 01:25 | The very first one though, is None.
| | 01:27 | So when we select that, it's gone as
well. Very simple to remove effects.
| | 01:33 | What about Multiple effects?
| | 01:35 | When we scroll down towards the bottom
and we go to those three photo clips
| | 01:40 | starting with beach_79, select it, hold
down your Shift key and click the second
| | 01:45 | last clip which is our last photo beach_81,
| | 01:48 | all three of these have multiple
effects that have been applied.
| | 01:51 | If we go to the dropdown for Visual
Effects and go to Multiple effects, you can
| | 01:56 | see Cinematic, Warp.
| | 01:57 | Now we can select these and remove them
and then apply, but that's a lot of clicks.
| | 02:03 | If we click Cancel here, and we just
go to the Visual Effects tab, the very
| | 02:07 | first one is No effect at all.
| | 02:10 | So when we click this, we are
actually applying no effect.
| | 02:13 | And if we go back to the dropdown
and take a look at the Multiple effects
| | 02:17 | window, you'll see all of those
displayed effects have been removed. So, very
| | 02:22 | few clicks to remove them all when we
just select No effect from the Ribbon.
| | 02:28 | So that's all there is to removing
the effects that you might apply.
| | 02:30 | This is very handy if you want to take
away effects and maybe add new ones, or
| | 02:35 | simply change the effects.
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5. Sharing the Final ProductSaving your movie in high definition| 00:00 | Once you finalize the details of your
Movie Maker project and you've saved
| | 00:04 | those changes, you're left with a project file.
| | 00:07 | You actually haven't created the
movie yet, so now it's time to save your
| | 00:12 | project to a movie format, and there
are many formats to choose from, including
| | 00:15 | a new one in Windows Live
Movie Maker for high definition.
| | 00:19 | That's where we're going to start.
| | 00:21 | To save your movie to any of these
formats, including high definition, you have
| | 00:25 | a couple of options.
| | 00:26 | One option is to go to the
Ribbon with the home tab selected;
| | 00:30 | you'll notice the Save Movie button.
| | 00:31 | Click the bottom half of this button
to see the different formats you can
| | 00:35 | choose from, including the default at the top,
which is the Recommended format for this project.
| | 00:40 | If you hover over that, you'll see some
details, 1280 x 720, for example, 72 MB
| | 00:46 | per minute of video.
| | 00:48 | So all of this information is
important, depending on how you're going to
| | 00:51 | use the end product.
| | 00:53 | As we move down to the Common settings,
right at the top is our 1080 option
| | 00:57 | for high-definition display, and this is
1920 by 1080 pixels, 173 MB per minute of video--
| | 01:05 | probably not the type of file
you'd send in an e-mail, for example.
| | 01:09 | But if you're going to be using it on a
high-definition display--maybe on your
| | 01:13 | computer, or you want to burn it eventually--
| | 01:15 | this is one option.
| | 01:17 | Let's choose For high-definition display.
| | 01:19 | Now when you do this, you get to choose
where you're going to save the movie file to.
| | 01:25 | I am just going to my Desktop;
| | 01:26 | you can pick your own location.
| | 01:28 | The name is going to be the same as
your project name--in this case By the Sea.
| | 01:33 | Notice the format is wmv, a
Windows Media Video file.
| | 01:38 | It's the only option--
when you click the dropdown,
| | 01:40 | you will see it's the only option.
| | 01:41 | It's just the format is very high-resolution.
| | 01:44 | So now it's just a matter of clicking
the Save button and sitting back and
| | 01:49 | waiting for the movie to be saved.
| | 01:51 | Now depending on the length of
your movie, this could take a while.
| | 01:55 | If you're working with something that's
fairly short and in high-definition, it
| | 01:59 | could still take some time, and
you can see the progress bar here.
| | 02:03 | It might be the time to go get a coffee, sit
back, relax, and wait for your movie to be saved.
| | 02:09 | Now as you're saving off your
movie approaches the end, you will be
| | 02:13 | presented with some options.
| | 02:15 | So a little window opens up saying
| | 02:18 | you can play the movie using the Play button.
| | 02:21 | You can open the folder--that's the
location you chose to save your movie in.
| | 02:25 | It allows you to go and work with the file.
| | 02:27 | If you want to copy it somewhere, copy it
to another device, or maybe even burn it.
| | 02:33 | You could simply close up this
window and continue with your project.
| | 02:36 | But we are going to see what it looks like.
| | 02:38 | By clicking the Play button, we don't
have to exit Movie Maker, go find it in the
| | 02:42 | location we stored it, double-click it
to launch it in the Windows Media Player;
| | 02:47 | simply click Play from
here and watch what happens.
| | 02:51 | (Video playing.)
| | 03:04 | We can close that up at any
time to return back to Movie Maker.
| | 03:08 | So you saw with the high-
definition how it fills your screen up.
| | 03:11 | It's a very high quality, but again
it's a very large file size--something to
| | 03:15 | consider depending on how
you're going to use that file.
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| Saving your movie to DVD| 00:00 | One very popular option for viewing the
finished product of a Windows Live Movie
| | 00:05 | Maker project is to save it to a movie
and then burn it to a DVD that you could
| | 00:10 | put into your DVD player and watch it
on to your big screen, for example.
| | 00:13 | And that's a scenario we are
going to look at right now.
| | 00:16 | Of course, you can save your movie in
your desired format and use your own DVD
| | 00:21 | burning software and go through the
process if you're comfortable with that.
| | 00:24 | But if not, Windows Live Movie Maker can
take you through the process, working in
| | 00:28 | conjunction with Windows DVD Maker.
| | 00:31 | So working with our By the Sea project,
we can go to the Save movie dropdown on
| | 00:35 | the Ribbon or click the Movie Maker tab
on the Ribbon at the very top left and
| | 00:40 | move down to Save movie, and on the
right you'll see all of those same options,
| | 00:44 | including Burn a DVD, which by default
will set the display size to 720 x 480,
| | 00:49 | and it will be about 21 MB per minute of video.
| | 00:54 | So let's select that option, and the
first step will be to save your movie file
| | 00:58 | and choose a location.
| | 00:59 | I am going back to the Desktop.
| | 01:01 | I am going to change the name from By
the Sea to By the Sea2, because this is the
| | 01:05 | second version we create and click Save.
| | 01:07 | That will go through the regular saving
process of saving the project into a movie file.
| | 01:15 | Well what's different is at the end
is going to launch Windows DVD Maker to
| | 01:20 | take you through the burning process.
| | 01:22 | That is, if you have one of the
following Windows versions or editions:
| | 01:26 | Window 7, Home Premium, Professional,
Enterprise, or Ultimate, or Windows Vista
| | 01:34 | Home, Premium, or Ultimate editions.
| | 01:37 | If you don't have one of those versions
or editions, you won't have Windows DVD
| | 01:41 | Maker, and the next that won't happen
by default, which is, you're going to see
| | 01:45 | Windows DVD Maker launch.
| | 01:47 | It might show up down on the
Ribbon. It might be right on your screen.
| | 01:51 | You can select it, and you'll
notice there it is your movie file, saved
| | 01:55 | and ready to be burned.
| | 01:56 | Of course, there are some
options to consider as well.
| | 01:59 | If you want more than one movie
on your DVD, you can add items.
| | 02:02 | Click the Add items button, browse
to the movie file and add it and then
| | 02:07 | reorder it as needed.
| | 02:08 | You are going to see some information
about your movie file: It's about a minute long.
| | 02:12 | Status--it's ready to be
burned. Where? To your DVD burner.
| | 02:16 | If you don't have one of those,
of course, you can't continue.
| | 02:18 | But if you do you'll see drive
letters representing each one.
| | 02:21 | I only have one; its Drive letter E:,
and it's already selected by default.
| | 02:26 | Also, I see some information down below.
It's going to take up about one minute
| | 02:30 | of the total 150 minutes available on a
blank DVD. And the title is, by default,
| | 02:36 | the current date, so you'll see
your own current date in this field.
| | 02:39 | But you can click inside there, drag over
what's there, and type in your own title.
| | 02:44 | I am going to do "By the Sea;"
| | 02:49 | you can do the same or
choose your own DVD title.
| | 02:52 | This is important because when you get to
the menus, this information might show up.
| | 02:56 | So let's click Next.
| | 02:58 | Here is where we get to
choose some of those options.
| | 03:01 | We can preview it the way it is right now.
| | 03:03 | You'll notice By the Sea, our title,
but we also see the DVD title show up here,
| | 03:09 | By the Sea, and this is just using
really no menu style, the default.
| | 03:13 | There are some menu styles that appear
over here on the right-hand side that
| | 03:17 | you can go through.
| | 03:19 | Let's try Bandwidth, for example.
| | 03:21 | This changes the look totally.
| | 03:23 | Now we're only seeing the DVD title.
| | 03:25 | We don't see the title of our project in there.
| | 03:28 | You'll notice a Play button, so to speak--
the word Play becomes the play button.
| | 03:32 | Or we could go to Scenes if
we wanted to be using scenes.
| | 03:35 | So you can try some of these different ones
to find exactly the one that suits your needs.
| | 03:41 | I kind of like layers.
| | 03:42 | That's cool. And you can
also fiddle with the menu text.
| | 03:47 | If you don't like the text that
you're seeing here, you can make some changes.
| | 03:49 | Click the menu Text button.
Choose a different font, if you want.
| | 03:53 | You can see the DVD Title can be
changed here, again, if you wanted to.
| | 03:57 | The Play button, if you
highlight it, it's bolded by default.
| | 04:01 | If we go down to scenes, so is it.
| | 04:03 | Maybe we don't want that to be bolded.
| | 04:04 | We will turn that off,
| | 04:06 | so Play stands out. And once you've
made your changes, you need to save them by
| | 04:10 | clicking Change Text,
and you'll see that change.
| | 04:13 | You can also customize the menu by
clicking Customize menu. In this case, you
| | 04:20 | can choose the Foreground and
Background video that appears in the menu only.
| | 04:24 | You can add audio if you wanted to.
There are Browse buttons for choosing the
| | 04:29 | video and audio. And then of course
the Scene button styles is set by default in
| | 04:34 | this particular theme to Rectangle,
Glass, but if we clicked the dropdown here
| | 04:37 | are some other options like Widescreen.
| | 04:40 | I am going to go with that.
Click Change Style to save those changes, and
| | 04:45 | you are ready to burn.
| | 04:47 | When you click Burn, you will have to
have a blank DVD in your drive, so if you
| | 04:51 | don't already, go ahead and do that.
| | 04:53 | Click the Burn button, and you'll see
Windows DVD Maker and the progress bar as
| | 04:58 | it's encoding and burning
your movie file to a DVD.
| | 05:03 | You will also see a Windows Live
Movie Maker message window here that appears
| | 05:08 | whenever you save to movie file, if
you want to play or open the folder or
| | 05:11 | simply close this and
let DVD Maker do its thing.
| | 05:14 | So it's just matter now of sitting back,
relaxing, waiting for that to happen, your
| | 05:19 | DVD will eject, and you can pop it into
your DVD player and view your finished
| | 05:24 | product on the big screen.
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| Saving your movie in lower-resolution formats| 00:00 | If you plan on viewing your Movie Maker
project on a mobile phone, or maybe you
| | 00:05 | have a Zune mobile device and you
want to be able to view your movie there as
| | 00:08 | well--maybe even send it by e-mail--
| | 00:10 | there are some lower resolution
formats you can save your movies to.
| | 00:13 | We are going to take a look at those now, as we
continue to work with our By the Sea project.
| | 00:18 | We'll go up to the Ribbon with the
Home tab selected, and click the Save
| | 00:21 | dropdown button, and you'll see, as we
move down to the bottom of the Common
| | 00:25 | settings group, a For email option.
| | 00:27 | Now when you hover over that, you
are going to see some information.
| | 00:30 | The Display size is quite small.
| | 00:32 | The resolution is not so good: 426 x 240.
But if you look at the Estimated file
| | 00:37 | size, that's important.
| | 00:38 | If you are going to be sending a video
by e-mail, you want a smaller file size,
| | 00:43 | so in this case 11 megabytes per minute of video.
| | 00:47 | Other options also appear
under Mobile device settings.
| | 00:50 | So we have Windows Phones:
| | 00:51 | we have a large version which is 854 x
480, and a small version that will work on
| | 00:57 | a Windows Phone 426 x 240. And like I
said, if you have one of those Zune mobile
| | 01:02 | devices, there is a 720p display
option or the Zune HD (for device).
| | 01:07 | Now these are high-definition versions,
but in low resolution they will look
| | 01:11 | great on the Zune mobile device.
| | 01:13 | So let's say we want to e-mail our movie out.
| | 01:16 | We'll choose For email.
| | 01:18 | Again, you'll be prompted
to save your movie file.
| | 01:21 | Let's give it a name.
| | 01:22 | I am going to add a 3 to the end this
time, because we have done this a couple of
| | 01:25 | times already. Click Save and off it goes.
| | 01:29 | You can see it's saving the movie.
| | 01:31 | Now it will be saved to the location
you chose, using the name that you chose,
| | 01:34 | and then it will be a matter if you are
launching your e-mail application and
| | 01:37 | simply attaching that file.
| | 01:40 | The nice thing though, is you'll have a
file size that's ideal for sending via e-mail.
| | 01:45 | As always, the Windows Live Movie Maker
dialog appears, giving you some options
| | 01:49 | to play your movie, open the folder
where it exists or close. And in this case,
| | 01:54 | opening the folder is a good idea,
because it will allow you to go to that
| | 01:57 | actual file and find it easily, so
you can attach it to your e-mail.
| | 02:02 | We'll close that up when we are done.
| | 02:05 | So there are a number of lower
resolution formats that are ideal for
| | 02:08 | different types of devices, and
they are all selectable right here from
| | 02:12 | within Movie Maker.
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| Uploading a movie to YouTube| 00:00 | If you have a Windows Live account and
a YouTube account, you can publish your
| | 00:04 | movies directly to YouTube,
where anyone can view them.
| | 00:08 | That's a scenario we are going to look
at right now, continuing to work with our
| | 00:11 | By to Sea project here.
| | 00:13 | When you go up to the very top right-
hand corner of the Ribbon with the Home
| | 00:16 | tab selected, you'll see a Sign In button
here for signing into your Windows Live account.
| | 00:21 | If you don't have one, you'll
need to set one up. It's free.
| | 00:25 | I like to sign in ahead of time, so I'm
not prompted to do it while I'm publishing.
| | 00:29 | Because even though we are going to be
publishing to YouTube--you see it here
| | 00:33 | in the Share group--
| | 00:34 | you will be prompted for your Windows
Live account, as well as your YouTube
| | 00:38 | account credentials.
| | 00:39 | So I am signed in. Now it's
time to go to the YouTube option.
| | 00:43 | I can do that from the Ribbon here in
the Share group or click the Movie Maker
| | 00:48 | tab, move down to Publish Movie, and
you'll find YouTube is there as well.
| | 00:53 | The order may change up, depending
on what you want to use most often.
| | 00:56 | Other options though, include SkyDrive--
that's space reserved for you and your
| | 01:00 | Windows Live account--directly to
Facebook, as well as Windows Live Groups, and
| | 01:05 | those can be set up with your
Windows Live account as well.
| | 01:08 | There's Flickr. And if there's a service
you use that's not on the list, you can
| | 01:12 | add a plug-in. It's all
available to you here from this menu.
| | 01:15 | Let's go to YouTube and select it.
| | 01:18 | Now the first decision you'll
have to make is the Resolution.
| | 01:22 | The best resolution at the top, high-
definition recommended 920 x 1080, also creates
| | 01:27 | the largest file size,
| | 01:28 | so keep this in mind based on the
length of your project and the content.
| | 01:33 | So to speed things up, we are going to
go to a lower resolution, like 640 x 360.
| | 01:38 | When you click an option, you will
be prompted to sign in to YouTube,
| | 01:42 | so you will need your
username and your password.
| | 01:46 | When you click Sign in, then you can see
the Publish on YouTube dialog box opens
| | 01:51 | up with the title already there based
on the project title By the Sea, and you
| | 01:56 | will have to fill in the remaining
fields for the Publish button at the bottom
| | 02:00 | to become available.
| | 02:01 | So let's give it a description here.
| | 02:03 | We will call out Trip to Cali.
| | 02:06 | Tags, you can it's separated with commas.
These are words that will help us find
| | 02:10 | it on YouTube. So we know that it's about
the beach, the ocean, surfing, the surf--
| | 02:20 | these are all words, and you
can add as many tags as you like.
| | 02:23 | Next, we will choose a category.
| | 02:24 | In this case, as we go through all
of these categories, probably Travel &
| | 02:28 | Events suits this best.
| | 02:30 | Then there are two permission options.
| | 02:32 | It can be a public event that
everybody's going to be able to look at, or if you
| | 02:36 | want to make it Private and select
who's allowed to see it on YouTube, you can
| | 02:39 | choose that permission level as well.
| | 02:41 | Let's leave it at Public and click Publish.
| | 02:45 | Now this process can be a
little bit time consuming.
| | 02:47 | It will have to save the movie, which
with a low resolution and a small project
| | 02:53 | won't take too long.
| | 02:54 | But there are two phases
to publishing to YouTube.
| | 02:57 | Once the movie has been saved, it then
needs to be uploaded or published on
| | 03:01 | YouTube. And that's the second phase,
and you can see we just jumped into the
| | 03:04 | second phase here, and it's much slower.
| | 03:07 | So again, another good time to go grab a
coffee if you're into that--maybe a tea--
| | 03:12 | sit back, relax, and let the
publishing phase work itself to the end, where
| | 03:17 | eventually you'll have the
option to view it on YouTube.
| | 03:20 | So let's wait for that.
| | 03:24 | As we reach the end of the publishing
phase, you'll see the upload is completed,
| | 03:28 | and then you'll be prompted with some
different options, as opposed to saving a
| | 03:33 | movie in the regular fashion.
| | 03:34 | In this case, because we're using YouTube,
the options now are to watch it online--
| | 03:39 | this is will take us directly to
YouTube--or open the folder where it was saved.
| | 03:44 | If you don't want to use any of those
options, you can close up this window and
| | 03:48 | continue working in Movie Maker.
| | 03:50 | But let's see what it looks like online.
| | 03:52 | We will click the Watch Online button.
| | 03:53 | So this will take you to YouTube, and
it will take you directly to your video.
| | 03:58 | Now videos do take a little
bit of time to get processed.
| | 04:01 | So you'll see right at the top here, for
example, this video is not yet processed.
| | 04:05 | It's unavailable.
| | 04:06 | But it is called By the Sea. And if we
wanted to, we could just simply refresh our
| | 04:11 | browser to see if it is
actually been processed yet.
| | 04:15 | I am going to click my refresh or F5--
the Function key 5. Eventually, we see
| | 04:20 | the green check mark.
| | 04:21 | (Video playing.)
| | 04:28 | There goes our video, live on
YouTube for the whole world to see.
| | 04:31 | I am going to close my browser,
taking me back to Movie Maker.
| | 04:36 | So if you do want to share your work
with the entire world, one great option:
| | 04:40 | publish it to YouTube.
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| Publishing a movie to other web locations| 00:00 | If you want to be able to publish your
Movie Maker project to a service that
| | 00:04 | does not appear in the Share group,
you can actually download plug-ins for a
| | 00:09 | number of different services.
| | 00:10 | We are going to take a look at those
now, as we continue to work with our By
| | 00:13 | the Sea project here.
| | 00:14 | You can be working with your own file.
| | 00:16 | We can go to the Share group on the
Ribbon with the Home tab selected, click the
| | 00:20 | dropdown, and you'll see
Add a plug-in right there.
| | 00:23 | You can also go to the Movie Maker tab,
move down to publish Movie, and select
| | 00:28 | Add a plug-in from here as well.
| | 00:30 | However you do it, it will launch your default
browser and take you to the Windows Live
| | 00:34 | page here for plug-ins. And some of
these plug-ins will work with both Photo
| | 00:38 | Gallery and Movie Maker, some of them
just Photo Gallery for uploading photos.
| | 00:42 | As you scroll down the list though,
you'll see which ones work with what.
| | 00:46 | For example, this one here at the top works
with Photo Gallery. Live upload to Facebook,
| | 00:51 | we already have. Photo Gallery and Movie Maker.
| | 00:55 | Let's say you use Smug Mug. As you
scroll down a little bit further, there it is:
| | 00:59 | Publish on Smug Mug. That's not an
option that we see by default in Movie Maker.
| | 01:03 | It does work with Photo Gallery and
Movie Maker, so you just simply click the
| | 01:07 | link to get the plug-in, and then
you'll be able to connect to that service and
| | 01:12 | upload or publish your
movies directly to that service.
| | 01:15 | That's all there is to it.
| | 01:16 | So scroll down the list, look for the
ones that work with both Movie Maker and
| | 01:20 | Photo Gallery--as you can see many
of these only work with Photo Gallery,
| | 01:24 | so keep that in mind if you do
like to publish to another service.
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6. Advanced TechniquesMaking a movie from Windows Live Photo Gallery| 00:00 | Windows Live Movie Maker works hand
in hand with another program called
| | 00:04 | Windows Live Photo Gallery.
| | 00:07 | They are both part of the Windows Live
Essentials group of programs. And if you
| | 00:11 | chose just to download Windows Live
Movie Maker, you actually got Windows Live
| | 00:15 | Photo Gallery with it.
| | 00:17 | So let's see what happens when we go
to her Windows Start button, go to All
| | 00:21 | Programs, and look at the list.
Just below Windows Live Movie Maker, you will see
| | 00:26 | Windows Live Photo Gallery.
| | 00:27 | We are going to select that to open it up.
| | 00:30 | Because with Windows Live Photo Gallery,
if you choose to use this program to
| | 00:34 | manage your photos--even work on those
photos--you can also use it to create a
| | 00:39 | Movie Maker project.
| | 00:40 | First, you'll see this little dialog
box, asking you if you want to use Photo
| | 00:44 | Gallery to open the various types of
graphic files that you see listed here.
| | 00:49 | You can choose yes or no; it's up to you.
| | 00:52 | Next we are going to browse to the
folder containing the photos and/or video we
| | 00:57 | want to use in our Movie Maker project,
even though we are here in Photo Gallery.
| | 01:01 | We will go to the Assets folder for
Chapter 6, and we do have a video clip, as
| | 01:05 | well as a number of photos.
| | 01:07 | Let's say we just want to use the photos.
| | 01:09 | We'll select the first one by
clicking it, scroll down to the last one,
| | 01:13 | hold down your Shift key, and click it.
| | 01:15 | Now you can see all of our photos are
selected. Time to create the Movie Maker
| | 01:19 | project right from within Photo Gallery.
| | 01:22 | To do that, click the Create tab on the
Ribbon, and in the Share group, you'll see Movie.
| | 01:27 | When we click Movie, it actually
takes us into Windows Live Movie Maker.
| | 01:32 | If you didn't have it open, it launches
for you and creates a new project titled,
| | 01:36 | by default, My Movie.
| | 01:37 | There is our photo clips over here.
| | 01:39 | They're all selected, so we can do
things like add an AutoMovie theme like
| | 01:43 | Contemporary just by clicking it.
| | 01:46 | If you want music, you can add it by
clicking Yes or No. And then you're ready
| | 01:50 | to save your project maybe even publish it,
| | 01:53 | all accomplished by going into Windows
Live Photo Gallery where we work with our
| | 01:57 | photos and video and creating our
Movie Maker project directly from there.
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| Creating slow-motion video| 00:00 | One cool effect you can apply to video
in a Windows Live Movie Maker project is
| | 00:05 | to change the speed, for example.
| | 00:07 | You might want to see some
slow motion in your video.
| | 00:10 | You can simply apply it to the video
clip or a portion of your video clip.
| | 00:14 | That's we are going to do right now,
using our CaliforniaDream project. And you
| | 00:18 | can see we do have a video clip.
| | 00:20 | If we select the video clip, it's a
simple matter now of changing the speed.
| | 00:23 | Let's see what it looks
like though, in regular speed.
| | 00:26 | We'll click the Play button to preview.
| | 00:27 | (Video playing.)
| | 00:35 | Okay, so that's a very cool video clip.
| | 00:38 | May be there's a portion of
that clip we'd like to slow down.
| | 00:41 | So after our surfer gets up on his board,
we could go into slow motion and then
| | 00:45 | speed it up again at the end.
| | 00:47 | That's going to mean splitting up our
video clip. And to change the speeds, we go
| | 00:51 | to the Edit tab, under Video Tools.
| | 00:54 | Here's where you're going to see
the current speed set to Normal or
| | 00:58 | 1x. When you click this dropdown,
you can speed it up by doubling it,
| | 01:02 | quadrupling, and so on.
| | 01:03 | Or you can slow it down by going up the
list to half speed or quarter speed--even 0.125.
| | 01:10 | But before we get there, let's choose
exactly where in the clip we want to
| | 01:13 | split up the video.
| | 01:14 | So let's just drag our marker back to
the beginning, and right about there, it
| | 01:24 | looks like our surfer is
going to get up on the board,
| | 01:26 | so this would be a good
spot to start our slow motion.
| | 01:29 | So let's split the clip by clicking the Split
button, right under the Edit tab. There we go.
| | 01:35 | Now the second clip, we want to drag
our marker to the point where we want to
| | 01:38 | speed it up again, and maybe right
about there, before he gives us a splash.
| | 01:48 | So we'll split it right there as well.
| | 01:49 | So now we've got three clips. And it's
the middle one that we want to slow down,
| | 01:53 | so we will select it by clicking it.
| | 01:55 | Now we'll go to the Speed dropdown in the
Adjust group here, and let's go to Half speed.
| | 02:00 | We'll go back to the first part and click
the Play button to preview the entire thing.
| | 02:06 | (Video playing.)
| | 02:18 | And there's the splash--very cool effect.
| | 02:20 | Now you may noticed the audio is
lost when we changed speeds like that.
| | 02:24 | So, the audio that we hear in the
background for the first and third parts of
| | 02:27 | our clip is still there, whereas
the middle clip is missing the audio.
| | 02:31 | So you might want to select the clips,
or the portions of the clip, that have
| | 02:36 | audio and just to bring that video
volume by clicking the Video Volume button,
| | 02:41 | dragging it all the way to
the left and mute it out.
| | 02:43 | We will do the same for the third one.
| | 02:47 | Video Volume, we will
mute it out, and there we go.
| | 02:51 | So now we are ready to save this up.
We'll hit the Save button to save our
| | 02:54 | project as it is, and now you know
how to change the speed for a video clip in
| | 03:00 | your Movie Maker project.
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| Adding additional audio tracks| 00:00 | By default, Windows Live Movie
Maker allows you to hear two different
| | 00:04 | audio tracks at once.
| | 00:06 | That could be audio coming from a
video clip in your project, as well as any
| | 00:10 | audio track you add.
| | 00:12 | You are only allowed to add one, though.
| | 00:14 | What if you need to hear
maybe three things at one time:
| | 00:17 | music in the background, audio coming
from your video and maybe a sound effect--
| | 00:22 | or maybe a fourth, fifth or more
tracks? Is there a way? Well, yes,
| | 00:26 | but you have to get a little bit tricky,
and that's we are going to do right now
| | 00:29 | with our California Dream project here.
| | 00:32 | It does contain some video clips
that will have their own audio.
| | 00:36 | Even if we muted them out,
the audio track is there.
| | 00:39 | Now we are going to begin by adding
a song that plays in the background.
| | 00:43 | So we will just click the Add Music
button with the Home tab selected here.
| | 00:47 | Click the top half, and we know
whatever we select will start at the
| | 00:50 | beginning of our project.
| | 00:51 | We will go to the Assets folder for
Chapter6, where you'll find the
| | 00:54 | Jellybricks' song So Many Times, and we
will click Open; double-clicking also
| | 00:59 | inserts it into our project.
| | 01:01 | Now we have way more project than we do song.
| | 01:03 | So you know the trick for that
| | 01:04 | is to click Project
tab and click Fit to music.
| | 01:08 | All of our photo clips now will be
shortened accordingly, so that the song fits
| | 01:12 | the project perfectly.
| | 01:14 | So that's our audio track. Now, we
can't add an additional audio track on top
| | 01:19 | of the existing track.
| | 01:20 | We could add additional tracks to the
end or the beginning, so they play in
| | 01:24 | sequence but not one on top of the other,
| | 01:26 | unless we use our little trick, which
is to save our project as a movie and
| | 01:31 | insert that movie into a new Movie Maker
project. That's what we are going to do.
| | 01:35 | So we will go to the Movie Maker tab,
give that a click, and we'll save
| | 01:39 | our project as a movie.
| | 01:41 | So let's go down to Save movie.
| | 01:42 | Now typically, you will want to
choose a high resolution here--
| | 01:46 | something in high-def, for example--
because you do lose a little of bit quality
| | 01:51 | each time you export your project to a
movie and bring it back into Movie Maker.
| | 01:55 | For the sake of time though, we are
going to go to a low resolution, something
| | 01:59 | using a lot of compression here, for e-mail.
| | 02:01 | We will keep the same name, California Dream.
| | 02:04 | I am going to put mine on
the Desktop and click Save.
| | 02:08 | So now, all we have to do is sit
back and let this save up as a movie.
| | 02:11 | When it's done, we will start a brand-
new Movie Maker project with that movie,
| | 02:16 | where we'll then be able to
add an additional audio track.
| | 02:19 | So let's let it take its course here.
And as it reaches the end, we see our
| | 02:24 | dialog box where we can play our movie,
| | 02:27 | open the folder where we chose to
save it, or simply close this dialog box.
| | 02:31 | That's what we are going to do;
| | 02:32 | we are going to close it up.
| | 02:33 | You might want to save
your project at this point;
| | 02:35 | you'll be prompted to when you start the
new project, by clicking the Movie Maker
| | 02:39 | tab, choose New Project.
| | 02:41 | Do you want to save changes to your project?
| | 02:44 | I'm selecting No. You might want to keep it if
you want to fiddle around with it some more.
| | 02:48 | But I am going to choose No and start a
new project automatically, where we can
| | 02:53 | now start inserting our videos
and photos for this new project.
| | 02:58 | We only need one video, and that's the
one we just saved, so let's click here to
| | 03:02 | browse for videos and
photos right on the storyboard.
| | 03:05 | There is our CaliforniaDream movie we just saved
right on the Desktop. I'll select it and click Open.
| | 03:11 | So there is our entire project
in one video clip, which has sound.
| | 03:15 | It could have sound from the original video
as well, as the music track we played in
| | 03:19 | the background. And now we are going
to add another audio track, but we're
| | 03:24 | going to choose where we want to insert it.
| | 03:25 | So let's just drag our marker across
until we hit the beginning of the video, in
| | 03:31 | the video where we see our surfer getting up.
| | 03:34 | There we go--right about there.
| | 03:36 | All right now, it's just a simple
matter of going to the Home tab, clicking the
| | 03:43 | lower half of the Add Music button--if
you want to add music to the current
| | 03:47 | point which is what we wanted to. You wouldn't
typically have two songs playing at the same time.
| | 03:52 | So in this case, even though it's not
music, it is going to be a sound effect.
| | 03:55 | We choose add music at current point.
| | 03:59 | There's our seagulls.mp3.
| | 04:01 | We'll select it, click Open, and
it gets added at the current point.
| | 04:06 | So it's going to play over the audio
that plays in our movie, which in itself may
| | 04:11 | contain more than one audio track.
| | 04:13 | Let's give it a listen.
| | 04:15 | (Music playing.)
| | 04:25 | Very nice. So that's the trick to
adding an additional audio track.
| | 04:30 | Now if you need another audio track to play on
top of the seagulls, you'd do the same process.
| | 04:35 | Save the entire thing as a movie,
bring it into a new project, and add an
| | 04:39 | additional audio track.
| | 04:41 | We can add as many audio tracks--one
after the other--if we wanted to, but when
| | 04:45 | you need to add an audio track on
top of another, this is the routine.
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ConclusionWhat's next?| 00:00 | Well, congratulations!
| | 00:01 | You've completed Windows Live
Movie Maker Essential Training.
| | 00:04 | You should now be feeling comfortable
enough with the many powerful, yet easy
| | 00:08 | to use features and functions of
Movie Maker to start creating your own
| | 00:12 | cinematic masterpieces.
| | 00:14 | Movie Maker won't take long to master,
| | 00:16 | so when you're ready to take your
movie making skills to the next level, you
| | 00:20 | might consider upgrading to a more
powerful movie-making program, and there are
| | 00:24 | many of them out there.
| | 00:25 | Adobe Premiere Elements offers
consumers powerful automated movie-editing tools
| | 00:31 | with professional quality effects,
quick and easy sharing options, and more.
| | 00:35 | Adobe Premiere Pro has even more
powerful functionality to help you accelerate
| | 00:41 | production, from script writing to
editing, encoding, and final delivery.
| | 00:46 | Now both of these programs are
available for the Windows PC or the Macintosh
| | 00:50 | computer, and you'll find plenty of
training on each in the lynda.com library.
| | 00:56 | Now if you prefer to do your video
editing on a Mac, you might consider iMovie,
| | 01:01 | which is part of the iWorks suite of
applications. Or for more professional
| | 01:06 | tools and options, you can take it to
the next level with Final Cut Pro, for even
| | 01:11 | more creative options and technical
control. And yes, you'll find training at
| | 01:16 | lynda.com for these as well.
| | 01:18 | For the Windows PC, Sony has a
powerful award-winning video editing program
| | 01:23 | called Vegas. And once again, you'll find
training for this software application at lynda.com.
| | 01:29 | This is David Rivers, saying thanks for
watching and best of luck as you move
| | 01:33 | forward, creating your
own cinematic masterpieces.
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