Windows Movie Maker 2012 Open Windows Movie Maker A shortcut for Movie Maker should be on the desktop, but if it is not, you can search for the program by touching the right edge of the screen and swiping left. Click Search and type in the name of the program. Recording with the Webcam: Click the Webcam video button o If Movie Maker Options pops up, the settings should look like this. Available audio devices: Microphone (Logitech USB Headset) Available webcam: Integrated Webcam; You can always recheck the options by clicking File/Options to make sure the headset is selected. Click OK Carefully adjust the computer monitor (and/or yourself) by physically moving it to where you can properly see yourself onscreen. Click the Record button to record. When you finish, click the Stop button. The file will automatically ask to be saved o Create a folder on the Desktop with your name o Save your video clip in the folder After saving, the clip will be added to the timeline (the main work area for videos) Saving your project This keeps track of your editing progress. You should save your project often just in case Movie Maker crashes. To save your project, you can go to the File menu and select Save Project. Other ways to save your project include the keyboard shortcut ctrl + s, or clicking the save button. (When you are finished with your project, you will click Save movie. Save project saves your editing progress and Save movie will save your project as a video.)
Part 2: Editing your Video Auto movie is a new feature that lets you automatically add a title screen, transitions between each slide, gives you different effects for the words, and adds a credits sequence. Note: this feature is available as soon as you record or add a file. It can be found right next to title, caption, and credits option Adding Captions: To add captions, first click add captions button on toolbar. Next, type in your desired text, change the color, font, or time desired for it appear on the screen. Once everything is perfect click outside the text box to save. Editing Captions: To edit the captions, double click on the desired caption which is seen below the images or video. Once you click on the desired caption a text box will appear with everything you have previously written or the phrase "Enter text here." delete what you wish and type in your text. After you have everything you need click outside of the text box and it will automatically save. Changing Caption Duration: To change the duration of a caption, select you captions start time by pressing the arrow buttons. Next, select the duration you want your caption to be. Adding Pictures on Windows Live Movie Maker: Look for pictures on the Internet or have desired pictures ready. To save the picture to your computer, right click on the picture and save as to the Pictures library. If the pictures are on a CD or a flash drive, download these on to the computer, and put them in the Pictures library. Once you have your desired pictures, open Windows Live Movie Maker, and go to the tab that says Home. Here you will see an icon that says Add videos and photos. Click on this icon, browse to the appropriate folder and select your desired picture. The picture will automatically appear in the movie editing window. In order to change a picture s position, simply click on the picture you want to move, and drag it to the position on which you wish to put it. Your picture will appear in its new position automatically.
In order to adjust your picture s exposure duration, go to the tab entitled Edit. Select the picture whose duration you want to adjust, and locate the clock icon entitled Duration, adjust the picture duration in seconds, so if you want exposure for 1 minute, type in 60.00, for 2 minutes 120.00, and so on. Once you have adjusted you picture you should be able to see how the picture spreads about a larger space in the movie editing screen. NOTE: In this version of Movie Maker, you can t overlay (or put) pictures over video. The following is one way to work around this. 1. Add the audio track of your video as music a. Click Add music button b. Under the Add music from PC section click the Add music option c. Click the drop- down menu in the bottom- right hand corner of the window and choose Audio and Video d. Open the video file of the video you want to put your picture over 2. Make sure the new music from your video is lined up with your original video 3. Mute the audio on your video a. Click the video clip > Edit tab > Video volume button > Slide the slider all the way to the left 4. Split your video where you want to put the picture in a. Drag the play line over to where you want to split your movie b. In the Edit tab, click the Split button c. Figure out where you want the picture to end and split the video again d. Hover your cursor (your mouse arrow pointy thing) over the clip until an information window pops up e. Take note of how long the section s duration is f. Delete this section of video 5. Drag the picture to the space where you deleted the video section. 6. You need to adjust the duration of the picture to be the same length as the video you cut out. a. Click on the picture > Edit tab > type in the duration value into the Duration section 7. If you did everything right, the audio and video should be aligned. If you are still having trouble, ask a lab assistant for some help. Adding Music:
If you want to add a music soundtrack to your film, click on the "Add Music" button (seen above.) After you click the "Add Music" button, scroll through your music library until you reach your desired choice. Once you have added the music, you can choose to whether to dim the music compared with the films noise, or make the film fit to the music 1. Click on the music line that appears above the video and pictures 2. Then, click on Music Tools to start editing Adjusting Video Volume: Make sure you are on the Video Tools tab at the top Click on the Edit tab then press the Video Volume icon to the left You can then raise, lower, and even mute the volume of the video Visual Effects: To change caption effects, first select a caption, click Text Tools menu. Then scroll through the blue bar above and select a caption effect you like. To see all of the captions, press the arrow buttons facing down (noted by the red arrow above) to select open all of the effects. To add movement, click the picture. On Animations tab click Pan and Zoom, click the More button (indicated by the red arrow above) and select an option in the gallery.
To add transition, click the picture. On the Animation tab click Transitions, click the More button (indicated by the red arrow above) and select an option in the gallery. - NOTE: You can control the duration of the transition by clicking on the drop- down menu labeled duration Part 3: Publishing your Film Saving your Project: To save your project, go to the file menu and select Save Project a. If you save your file as a project, you will not be able to view it in any other program other than windows movie maker. If you open your project again you will be able to continue editing from where you left off. If you are NOT using the same computer to open your project you will need all the files that were used (the project file, pictures, videos, music, etc ) to be saved on a removable flash drive/usb device. Saving your finished Movie: To save your movie as a finished film go to the file menu and select Save Movie o Then select Recommended for this project or For Computer o Make sure the file type is set to Windows Media Video File Additionally you can save your movie by clicking the Save Movie icon located to the top of the page If you save your movie it will save as a single file and you will not be able to go back and edit it further. You should only choose this save method when you are completely done. o It s a good idea to save your project before you save your movie in case you realize later that you wish to change something. Publishing your Film: To publish your film, first save. After you have saved your file, choose one of the publishing options above. You may choose YouTube (if you have an account), or any other type available