MS Movie Maker Instructions

 

 

To enter into Movie maker –

 

            Start

            All Programs

            Windows Movie Maker

 

To Begin Project:

                                                                                                

File

New Project

 

1.         Creating Page One and Inserting text before, after, and on pictures…

Tools

Titles and Credits

Add title at the beginning of the movie, etc.

 

Type what you want the slide to say, you can also change the title animation, text font and color on this screen. 

 

            News video, inset is nice.  So is Newsbanner.  Newspaper will make a nice effect sometime for the group that is reporting.

                 

2.         Inserting Pictures

Capture Video

Import pictures

 

At look in :  ______________ select the drive you have the pictures in, this may be the flash drive (E or F) or the CD drive (D). This will bring the picture into the collection.  Then drag and drop the picture name into the storyboard below.

 

 

3.         Import audio or music:

 

Look in: Keep using the up arrow until you get to CD Drive (D): or the location of the music file.

 

            Audio may only be added in the timeline view.  

 

** Up to 10%, but in no event more than 30 seconds, of the musicworks may be reproduced as part of a multimedia project.

 

In your credits, be sure to identify the artist, songwriter, the record company and date of publication.  Use the copyright symbol.  You do this by going to Insert/Symbol/and finding the ©.

 

You may adjust (Shrink or move) the audio by dragging it with your mouse in timeline view. 

 

 

 

4.         Importing Video

 

We can shoot a video message from you using the digital camera.  All you have to do is hit the red record button on the digital camera.  Then we will insert the video using the SD card. 

 

5.         Inserting a sound file of  your voice:

 

We can record your voice using a microphone attached to the computer.  See the Inserting a sound file document for further instructions, and I’ll be able to walk you through it.

 

After you have inserting your video, music and picture files you can adjust the length of time the pictures are displayed and the music is played in the Timeline feature.

 

Saving the movie:

 

If there are still changes that need to be made save it in the following way:

 

File

Save Project As..

_____________ (use lower case and no more than 6 characters)

 

Then when you open it again you will do the following:

 

File

Open Project

Look in: My Videos

Select your file

 

When you are Completely done and happy with the project you can save it to a CD.  You can’t change it from the CD once it’s saved on the CD.  However, as long as it is saved as a project you can go back and edit that.

 

You can send it in an e mail if it is less than 1 MB in size.

You can save it to a CD.

If it weren’t a security issue we could post it to the internet.  Since first names are used with only one person on the picture I will not post it to the internet.