How to Use Window’s Movie Maker

A Cursory Look—for more help, ask!

Step One

Find Window’s Movie Maker and open it

It looks like this:

Step Two

Begin using Movie Maker It looks like this:

Step Three

Start putting your cool pictures and stuff into the project collection

Click here to do this:

Step Three Continued

You can also just click the handy links labeled: Import pictures Import video Import audio or music

See

Step Four

Make sure you are in the timeline mode (it’s my fav.)

Click h

ere to

change

views/m

odes

Step Five

Start dragging your media to the storyboard to create your movie

Step Six

Continue overlaying media Drag pics and arrange Drag video and arrange Drag in drop is where it’s at!

Timeline in Progress

Adding Text or TitlesWould you like words with your images?

Step One

Click on “Make Titles or Credits”

Step Two

Click on the option that you want (I’m going to trust you can read on this step )

Step Three

Type up the words you want and play around with it

All sorts of fun

options

Step Four

Click “Done, add title to movie”

Step Five

Play around with length of title and placement

Here, or here One goes on top of your pics and one in the middle of your

pics

Getting FancySlide transitions

What they are

Slide transitions are ways of going from one picture to the next.

They can add shape or dimension to a picture

You’ve used them in PowerPoint I’m sure

Be Careful

The awesome video we watched on Wed (4/6) did not use transitioning too often

Transitions can get old fast or be too much

They can take away from the power of your words or images

This is the only picture slide for this section

Take a look at that task list you’ve been using

Check out the circled area and follow directions

Hey, you’re fancy now, you don’t need detailed instructions

Don’t Be Afraid to Get Super-Fancy

There are lots more items you can play with Editing clip length Fooling around with animation Playing with the timing of your words

and images

Wow me and teach me something!

Saving

It is imperative to save the movie the right way or you will be very upset

Why this is important

Your pics, vids, etc. are only on YOUR computer. If you don’t save correctly, you will not be saving the whole movie…it is upsetting when this happens…trust me

Step One

Be sure to click on save to my computer

Be sure to follow all directions (pretty easy)

IMPORTANT: When you save, it needs to be saved on your H drive!

Step Two

Upload to the wiki You can put the file on the wiki You can create a plug-in You can do some other fancy thing

that I don’t know about!

I hope you enjoyed the experience!

I can’t wait to see your movies