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• Introduction to Windows Movie Maker 6
• Hardware requirements for Windows Movie Maker on Windows Vista
• Download Windows Movie Maker 2.6 for Windows Vista
• Enabling the Arabic language on Windows Vista:
  • Steps on how to add the Arabic language keyboard:
• Movie Make Features & Arabic Support
  • Steps on how to add the Arabic language keyboard:
• Project Properties
• Import Media Files
• Rename Media Files
• Titles and Credits
  • Add Titles at the Beginning of the Movie
  • Adding a title before and after a selected clip from the Story Board
  • Add Credit at the end of the Movie
• Auto movie
  • Add Title for the Automovie
• Add Audio or Background Music
• Story Board
  • Timeline View Shows Media Files (Videos, Picture and Audio) Arabic name
• Take Picture from Preview
• Finish Movie
  • Finish Movie: Save to my Computer
  • Saving Movie Maker project
• Known Issues
  • Movie clip Shadow in timeline

Windows Movie Maker is used to import audio and video to your computer from digital video (DV) camera, and then use the imported content in your movies. After editing the audio and video content in Windows Movie Maker, which can include adding Arabic titles, transitions, or effects, you can then publish your final movie by saving it with an Arabic filename to your hard drive or even sending it by email or publish to a desired website. Windows Movie Maker interface is fully localized with the Arabic language with a full support of the Arabic language characters and keyboard.

• 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processors
• 1GB of system memory
• Support for DirectX 9 graphics
• 128 MB of graphics memory (minimum)
• DVD writable drive
• Audio output

• Windows Movie Maker 2.6 Arabic for Windows Vista

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Steps on how to add the Arabic language keyboard:

1. Click on "Start" button and then select "Control Panel".
2. Under "Clock, Language, and Region" area select "Change keyboards or other input methods" link.

Note: If you are in the Control Panel "Classic View" then double-click on "Regional and Language Options" icon and click on the tab "keyboard and languages".
3. Click on the "Change keyboards…" button then click on "Add…" button.
4. Expand "Arabic (your Country)" tree then Expand "Keyboard" tree from the list.
5. Make a check mark beside the required keyboard(s).
   Note: You can preview any keyboard before adding it by highlighting its name then click on "Preview…" button.
6. Click "OK" to add the selected keyboards to the "Installed Services".
7. Click "OK" to confirm and apply your new language settings.

Note: If you add more than one keyboard to the same language; you will notice a keyboard icon in the language bar which enables you to switch between the language keyboards.

Figure A-2: General Tab (Default input Language)

Steps to Create & Rename an existing collection folder

Collection Folder is one of the areas that is used to let the Arabic user have all the important media files that was imported to the Movie Maker in one place or one folder customized by the user, instead of having them filtered by the Movie Maker in separated folders. Arabic user is able to create and rename those Collections folders with Arabic characters.

1. Press Start Button
2. All Programs -> Windows Movie Maker
3. From the upper Task bar, press on the Collections button
4. Right Click on the Collection folder, Created a new folder with the desired Arabic name

Movie Maker project properties is a very useful area that is usually used for adding and editing a Movie Project Title, Author, Copyright & Description. All those fields in the properties of a WMM project can be edited by using the Arabic Language content.

Figure 3 WMM project Properties

• Press Start Button
• All Programs -> Windows Movie Maker
• Select Properties (figure 3) from the main menu
• In the properties dialog, write all the information and press OK

To begin on creating a new WMM project, user must use some media files to be able to create the WMM project. Importing Arabic media files such as sound, video & pictures is supported by the Windows Movie Maker 6

Figure 4 Snap shot show WMM importing Arabic pictures files

1. Press Start button
2. All Programs -> Windows Movie Maker
3. Select File from the main menu -> Import Media Items
4. from File Types, select the desired type (figure 4) -> Browse to the desired media files -> Import

After importing files to the WMM in the collections folder, Arabic user might want to rename one of the imported Media Files in the WMM. Arabic language is supported when trying to rename a media file in the WMM.

Figure 5 Renaming Media File Using Arabic Language

• Press Start Button
• All Programs -> Windows Movie Maker
• Select File from the main menu -> Import Media Items
• Import the Desired Files -> Press On Import Button
• Right Click on any Media Files in the Collection Folder (figure 5)-> Rename or Press F2 Button on the Keyboard directly

Titles and credits area allow the user to Add Titles at the beginning of the Movie, Add Titles before or after a Clip, Add Credits at the End of The Movie or Add Title for a Chapter or section of The Movie which fully supports the Arabic Language.

Add Titles at the Beginning of the Movie

Figure 6 Adding Titles at the Beginning of the Movie

Figure 7 the Preview Monitor Shows the Added Titles

Figure 8 the Title Added Show Arabic Content in the Story Board View

1. Press Start Button
2. All Programs -> Windows Movie Maker
3. Select Tools From the Main menu -> Titles and Credits
4. Select From the Tasks List -> Left Click on Add Titles at The Beginning of the Movie
5. Fill The Desired Texts in the 2 empty white Box (figure 6)-> Done, Add Title to Movie

Adding a title before and after a selected clip from the Story Board

Adding a title before & after a selected clip on the Story Board can be done using the same steps for adding a new Title at the beginning of a movie; also the user can drag and drop this Scene in the Story Board in any place on the Story Board. The two options are made to save time for user by simply using the Drag & Drop method.

Steps:

1. Press Start Button
2. All Programs -> Windows Movie Maker
3. Select Tools From the Main menu -> Titles and Credits
4. Select From the Tasks List -> Left Click on Add Title before the selected clip in the Timeline or Add Title after the selected clip in the Timeline.
5. Fill The Desired Texts in the 2 empty white Box -> Done, Add Title to Movie
6. The New Title Scene appear in the timeline -> Drag & Drop the Scene in the Desired place

Adding a title over a selected clip from the Story Board

Add title on the selected clip is very useful to show the Arabic Language content on a specified movie clip in the Timeline view

Figure 9 the Title before the Selected Clip in the Timeline

Figure 10 Title on Selected Clip Merged in the Preview Monitor

1. Press Start Button
2. All Programs -> Windows Movie Maker
3. Select Tools From the Main menu -> Titles and Credits
4. Select From the Tasks List -> Left Click on Add Title on the Selected Clip In the Time line
5. Fill The Desired Texts in the 2 empty white Box -> Done, Add Title to Movie
6. Drag The Title Scene in the Desired Place in the Timeline (figure 9), Use the Arrows of the Title Scene to Specify the Time the Title will appear on the Clip

Add Credit at the end of the Movie

To be more professional on showing that the movie creator has used Microsoft Movie Maker with all its features, Add Credit at the End of The Movie is the right choice to display the entire movie cast that have worked on the Movie. For example: Adding Casts member, Director, Etc…and filling all those important content using the Arabic language.

Figure 11 Credits Table

Figure 12 Credits in the Preview Monitor

Figure 13 Credit Scene in the Story Board View

1. Press Start Button
2. All Programs -> Windows Movie Maker
3. Select Tools From the Main menu -> Titles and Credits (figure 11)
4. Select From the Tasks List -> Left Click on Add credit At The End of The Movie
5. Fill The Credit Table With the Desired Content -> Done, Add Title to Movie

The Auto Movie features in Microsoft Movie Maker simplified the making of a movie for the user to be quicker and faster in publishing a simple movie generated by Movie Maker itself. By just making the user provide the data for the Movie Maker and then simply uses the auto Movie feature to produce the Movie. Users only specify and add the Arabic Title and choose the Arabic Music File to Use it as a Background for the Movie.

Figure 14 Adding Title to Automovie

1. Press Start Button
2. All Programs -> Windows Movie Maker
3. Select Tools from the Main Menu -> Automovie
4. Left Click on The Enter a Title for the Movie (figure 14)-> Add The Desired Title -> Create AutoMovie, Edit Movie

Figure 15 Adding Audio or Background Music

1. Press Start Button
2. All Programs -> Windows Movie Maker
3. Select Tools from the Main Menu -> Automovie
4. Left Click on Select Audio or Background Music (figure 15)->Click on the Browse, Select the Desired Files, press Create AutoMovie-> Done, Edit Movie

The Story Board view is the default project view in Movie Maker and it is usually used for reordering the sequence between Clips and Scenes in the Movie project. Story Board displays names of each clips or picture underneath the object and it can show the Arabic Names of each clip in this current view.

Figure 16 Story Board view shows Arabic Names

1. Press Start Button
2. All Programs -> Windows Movie Maker
3. Story board (figure 16) is Located in the Bottom of the WMM main UI

User can use the timeline to review or modify Clips in Movie Maker project. Timeline is used to perform tasks such as changing the view of WMM project, zooming in or out on details of All the Media files added to the Timeline showing its Arabic Names.

Figure 17 Timeline View

1. Press Start Button
2. All Programs -> Windows Movie Maker
3. Select View from the Main menu -> Timeline (figure 17)or By using the Keyboards shortcuts CTRL+T

User can take snap shot from a being played Media in the preview monitor with just one click and save it to PC with the same clip filename. Take picture from preview use the same name to save the picture as the media File (Video or Picture). Arabic media files can be used to take snap shot from the Preview Monitor. Preview Monitor also show Arabic media files name.

Figure 18 Preview Monitor & Take Picture from preview Process

1. Press Start Button
2. All Programs -> Windows Movie Maker
3. Select File from the main menu -> Import into Collections
4. Import the Desired Media Files -> Press On Import Media Button -> Drag and Drop in the Story Board One of The Media File Imported
5. Select Tools from the Main menu -> Take Picture from preview (figure 18)-> Enter the Name for the Picture -> Save

Its more like saving the movie, and this is the last step the user will use to finish and save his Movie project the way he likes, By Save it to The Computer, Send it by E-mail, Save to CD (User Must a CDR Drive for this step) or even Send to DV Camera. The 2 areas that shows that WMM support the Arabic language are by save it to The Computer, Send It to the Web.

Saving movie to the computer is one of the choices of the last step to save a Movie. Movie maker begin this step by asking the user to provide the Arabic name for the movie and choose the Arabic (Folder) location for the Movie that will be saved to. User will be able to show the Arabic name that he just typed to save his movie in the progress dialog while saving the movie.

Figure 20 Save to My Computer Dialog

Figure 21 Save to My Computer progress Dialog

1. Press Start Button
2. All Programs -> Windows Movie Maker
3. Select File from the main menu -> Import Media
4. Import the Desired Media Files -> Press On Import Button ->
5. Press on Publish Movie button in the upper Task Bar -> In the Finish Movie Area, Left Click on This Computer then click on Next button.
6. write The Desired name for the movie (figure 20)-> Choose the location by pressing Browse for the Movie that will be Saved -> next (figure 21)

After creating a Movie Maker project, Movie Maker has the ability to use Arabic language for saving the Movie Maker project name in MSWMM extension.

Figure 1 Save dialog for Movie Maker project

1. Press Start button
2. All Programs -> Windows Movie Maker
3. Select File from the main menu -> Import Into Collections -> Select the desired (media) files and press Ok
4. Drag the imported (Media) Files to the Story Board area
5. Select File from the main menu -> Save Project As (figure.1)-> Write the desired Arabic name -> Save

This bug only occurs when a user will be trying to expand the time length of a movie clip or trying to modify music or a movie file in the view of the timeline in movie maker. What actually goes wrong is when the user tries to hold one of the sides of the movie or music clip in the timeline and try to expand the movie; the user will notice that the shadow of the clip is moving wrongfully to the other side instead of seeing it correctly moving above the clip.

Figure 22