Windows Movie MakerLesson 1 - Introduction

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Lesson objectives:

In this lesson, the learner will:

Understand what is movie maker

Understand what is the benefit of using movie maker

Understand the interface components of Movie Maker

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1- What is movie maker?

It’s a software that lets you integrate images and video clips and turn them

into movies. It also let you add special effects, transitions, music clips,

songs or recorded voice clips, and captions to help tell your story. In

addition to that, Movie Maker allows you to add text in any part of the film,

as well as visual effects and make your film look professional.

1. What can you do with movie maker ?

Through film maker program, you can:

Montage a video clips.

Design image albums of memories of childhood trips or special events.

Design presentations and educational films and work professionally.

Create documentary films.

Create dramatic movies and out elegantly.

2. Where can you find this software?

By default, the program comes with Windows system.

Go to Start> All programs> Movie Maker.

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3. The interface:

This is the main interface of Movie maker.

1. The movie title

2. Shortcuts

3. Menus bar

4. Movie preview space

5. Movie work space

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forwardback

Save

4. Menus bar

The first menu ( Home)

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Copy

Cut

Clipboard

Add

Add a page that contains information about the production of the film (the

participants, the producer and the

location )

Add a text that displays on

specific pictures or video

Add a title that displays before any image or video

Recording a video from your camera

Record your voice

Taking a screen shot of the selected

image

Choosing themes that are already existed in movie maker

The second menu (Animations):

The third menu ( Visual effect ):

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Auto Movie theme

Select all

Delete

Rotate right

Rotate left

Editing

Save the

movie

Share the movie with

different social

networks

Share

Transitions between imagesDuration of the selected image

images effect

The fourth menu (Project):

The fifth menu (View):

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using a standard aspect for selected image

Using widescreen aspect ratio for the

selected picturemaking the Music

louder than the recorded voice and the video

sounds

making Video sound

louder than the music

and

making the recorded voice sound louder than

the music and video sounds

The size of the image icon in the workspace

Sixth menu (Edit):

This menu appears when you select an image or a video, but it’s mostly used for video.

When you select an image, the only thing you can adjust here it the duration.

But when you select a video, you can edit the following:

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Trim setting

You can trim the video if you want to hide any unwanted

part

Change the speed of the video

Choose the fade in and out of the sound in the video

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