Creating a movie with Window’s Movie Maker

First collect your pictures.

If you collect them from the Internet

·        Right click ON picture

·        Save picture as

·        Put pic in your network folder (create a pic folder inside your network folder to save these pics.)

If you scan your picture save to your folder on the network.

If you take a pic with camera, move from the floppy A drive to your network folder.

When you are ready to make your movie, move your network pic folder to the computer you are working on.  It’s really best to put it in “My Documents” instead of the desktop.  Your computer will work easier if its not on the desktop.  Remember to delete this folder after you finish creating your movie.  No one else on that computer will need it, so don’t leave it there to take up memory.

Open Windows Movie Maker , Start, All Programs, Windows Movie Maker

If you are just starting the project, save your project---File, save project, put it in your pic folder in my documents.

If you need to finish a project you have all ready started—File, open

Import pictures- look for your pic file you just moved to “My documents”

Click one time on the first picture

Hold the shift key while you click on the last pic (this will highlight all the pics)

Import

Drag the pictures down to the boxes or the video bar in the order you want them to be in the movie.

Record your narration

If you don’t see an audio bar, click on “Show timeline” just above where you drug the pics.

• Click on the microphone (make sure you have a microphone plugged in)

• Wait for recording window to come up

• When you are ready to speak, click on the “Start Narration” button.  The input bar should be changing colors as it moves back and forth if it is receiving sound.

• When finished “Stop Narration”

• Wait for a window to come up where you will name your file and click save.

• Wait for the file to appear in the audio bar.  The file will also appear in your “collection” window.

• You can only record as long as there is a picture.  You may have to lengthen the [last] picture if you need more time to talk. Or, you may have to shorten the picture to fit the audio file you just made.

 Transitions and Video effects

• Click on tasks

• Click on transitions for movement from one picture to another.

• Click on video effects that will change a particular picture.

• Drag the transitions or effects to in between the picture

Title slides

Type information accordingly and choose done when finished.

Note you can change the title animation and font and color.

To make the movie file when finished

• Click finish movie

• Save to my computer

• Enter a name (the title) for your movie

• Put in “my documents” (easier for computer)

• Move the movie file later to your network folder

• Delete project and pic folder from my documents