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Make Quick & Professional Looking Videos With Windows Movie
Maker (Part Two)
 
Jul. 10th, 2009 ByMark O'Neill 
Inpart oneof this series, I showedyou how to transfer yourcamcorder footage from thecamera to your desktop usingWindows Movie Maker. Today, Iam going to show you what youcan do next – editing your footageand adding some special effectssuch as music and credits. Then,exporting your finished movie.There
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s a lot more you can do with Movie Maker so I am just going to focus on the ones thatenable you to bang out a good quality video. I
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ll let you experiment with the other stuff yourself. If you want to see some live examples of what I am about to show you, you cancheck outmy video blogwhich has most of these features in them.So last time, we ended the article with the footage having been dragged over from the top of the screen to the storyboard below.If you press “show timeline” 
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you
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ll see another view of theclips. This is the view you will needto look at if you want to add anything extra such as music,credits and extra footage in theright places: Advertise Here 
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At the top of the screenshot, you will see two little magnifying glasses (one with a plus andone with a minus). The plus one zooms in and gives you the timeline in a more detailed timeframe. At the moment you can see the time being split up into 5 second intervals. Zooming in, you can have the timeline split up into one second intervals. Again, that
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s good forinserting extra features at
exactly
the right moment of the movie. The minus magnifying glasszooms back out into bigger time chunks.To edit, take one clip at a time. Click on the “show storyboard” view and then click on theclip. It will immediately show up in the media player at the top:When you press “play” and the footage starts rolling, a small button will then activate (shownby the red arrow in the screenshot above). This button is your editing button.When you get to the point where you want to remove a piece of footage, press the editingbutton. The footage will then be split in two and a new clip will be created. Keep that cliprolling till you get to the end of the part you want to remove. Click the button again and again
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it will be split. This results in a clip in the middle which is the piece you don
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t want. Now,right
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click and select “delete” to remove it from your storyboard. Repeat with other parts of the footage until you have removed all the embarrassing scenes and drunken rants from yourmovie masterpiece.It
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s a bit difficult to explain this. It
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s one of those things that will become apparent once youstart doing it. It would be an excellent idea to backup your footage
before
starting theediting. That way, you can start over if you make a mistake.The next thing might be to improve the quality of the picture or the sound. You may havefilmed a scene in poor lighting or the audio might be a little faint. Movie Maker provides someoptions for improving things like that.Click on the clip you want to alter and then right
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click. A little menu will pop up. Choose “Video Effects” 
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 You
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ll then see options for changing the clip. Some of them are veryPhotoshop
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like such as “chalk and charcoal” but the main ones you should focus on are the brightness options, fade inand out, and slow down & speed up.Just make your options and save. Now, replay the clip and you should see your changes.If you want to change the audio volume, click on the clip you want to alter and then press theaudio button on the far left. Increase or decrease as desired. Remember to keep saving allyour changes.
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