Tutorial on making a video using Windows Movie Maker
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First, let us learn what is Windows Movie Maker?
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Windows Movie Maker is a freeware video editing
software by Microsoft.
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(codenamed Sundance, formerly known as Windows
Live Movie Maker in Windows 7)
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It is a part of Windows Essentials software suite
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and offers the ability to create and edit videos
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as well as to publish them on OneDrive, Facebook, Vimeo,
YouTube, and Flickr.
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The first release of Windows Movie Maker was included with Windows ME in 2000.
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Version 1.1 was included in Windows XP a year later,
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and included support for creating DV AVI and WMV 8 files.
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Version 2.0 was released as a free update in November
2002, and added a number of new features
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Version 2.1, a minor update, is included in Windows XP Service
Pack 2.
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The Movie Maker in Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 had more transitions and support
for DVD burning.
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An updated version, Windows Live Movie Maker 2011,
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was released on August 17, 2010, adding webcam capture,
support for high-definition video,
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the ability to upload videos directly to SkyDrive
and Facebook,
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and the ability to add media files stored on network shares to
projects.
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With the discontinuation of the Windows Live brand
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(and the re-branding of the Windows Live suite as Windows Essentials),
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Windows Movie Maker 2012 was released in April 2012.
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Support for recording voiceovers was restored, along
with an audio mixer and integration
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with several free stock music services. H.264/MP4 became the default export
format
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(replacing Windows Media Video), support for uploading
to Vimeo was introduced,
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and hardware accelerated video stabilization was also added as
an exclusive feature for Windows 8 users.
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Now, lets start this tutorial.
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Open Windows movie makerby clicking the start icon in
lower left of our screen.
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Then click Windows live movie maker.
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To start our movie making project,
Click Add videos and photo.
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Now, open the folder where your picture are saved then
hilight it and click open
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To add more picture for your video project,
just click again the Add video and photo to repeat the process.
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To delete the photo that you dont want to be added in your
movie project,Click the photo then press
delete button on your keyboard.
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To add music for your movie project,
click Add music.
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Select the music for your movie project,
then click open
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To add title for your movie project,
click Title.
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Now edit the title for your movie project.“Life of Truth ChurchWorkers Convention
@ Peniel 2011”
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To put closing credits to our movie project,
click the down arrow beside the Credits then click credits.
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Add the closing credits for your movie project.
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Now to add animation to our movie project,
click Animation
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Select animations for Transitions,
this can apply to all or individually.
For now I will select Apply to all.
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Click any picture to select for Pan and Zoom
animation.Then click selected animation
then click apply to all.
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Now that you added your music, animation and credits to your
movie project. Its time to edit the timing of each slides to insync
with the music.
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Since the music we added has 4 minutes and 41 seconds
duration and our slides only has 3 minutes and 58 seconds.
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Click Edit, then add seconds to
the slide that you chose. Do this until you reach
the same length of time of your music,
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Since we already insync our slides and music, we can now play our
movie project.Click the play button
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Now to save our movie project,click the arrow besides
the movie maker
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Click save project as.
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Then name your movie project and click save.
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Or we can save our movie project to a movie file,Click the Save movie.
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Then click Recommended for this project
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Lets upload our movie in Youtube
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Open your Gmail Account then click Youtube
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Click upload
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Then click theSelect files to upload
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Click the saved movie projectand click open
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Once uploading is done,Click the publish button to finish
the process.
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You can now see your movie in your Youtube channel
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Thanks for your time and I hope you have learned
from this tutorial.
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