Make a photo movie with Movie Maker

Click the Start button, point to All Programs, and then click Windows Movie Maker.

In the Movie Tasks pane, under Capture Video, click Import pictures, and select the photos you want to use from your My Pictures folder. If you are using photos from multiple folders within My Pictures, repeat this step until you have imported all of the pictures you plan to use for your movie.

Click Import audio or music, and select the music file you are going to use from your My Music folder.
The Contents pane displays the photo and music files that you selected. (This example includes only still photos and music-no video-but you can easily include video clips in the picture movie.)

The area at the bottom of the Windows Movie Maker window is the storyboard, where you arrange your photos. Click and drag a photo to the first box in the storyboard. Continue to add photos to the storyboard in the order you would like them to appear in your movie.

If you want to move a photo within the storyboard, click the photo, and drag it to a new position.

In the Movie Tasks pane, under Edit Movie, click View video transitions. In the Contents pane, click and drag transitions into the storyboard, placing them between your photos.

In the Movie Tasks pane, under Edit Movie, click Make titles or credits to add a title to your movie, and then click Add title at the beginning of the movie. Type your title, and then click Done, add title to movie.

The title you created appears in the first position of the storyboard. Remember to add a transition between your title and the first photo.

In the toolbar located above the storyboard, click Show Timeline to change the view of your workspace to a timeline.

On the Movie Maker toolbar, click the Location drop-down box, and then click Collections.

Now, click and drag your music file from the Contents pane to the Audio/Music track in the timeline. Be sure the music file is positioned all the way to the left end of the Audio/Music track.

With the music file in position, you can adjust the music to end where your pictures end and add a fade-out effect to the music.

Click the end of your music file, and drag it to align with the end of your last photo.

Now, right-click the music file, and click Fade Out.

The final step to create your movie is adding the credits to the end, just like a real movie. Credits are created in the same way as titles, except they are added to the end of the timeline. In the Movie Tasks pane, under Edit Movie, click Make titles or credits to add a credit to your movie, and then click Add credits at the end of the movie. Type your credits, and then click Done, add credits to movie.

The credits you created will appear in the last position of the storyboard.

Before you save your movie, you can preview it by using the controls in the preview monitor.

Once you're satisfied with your movie, save your project file by clicking Save Project on the File menu.

In the Movie Tasks pane under Finish Movie, click Save to my computer to start the Save Movie Wizard.

Type a name for your movie file. By default, Movie Maker saves the movie file to the My Videos folder; click Browse if you want to change the location. Then, click Next.

On the Movie Setting page, Best quality for playback on my computer (recommended) is selected by default. For distributing your movie on CD, this setting is ideal.

To review and change settings for the way your movie will be created, click Show more choices. For example, if you plan to send your movie by e-mail, you can choose Video for broadband, Video for ISDN, or Video for dial-up access to best match the Internet access speed of those you are sending the movie to.

When you've made your selection, click Next. Movie Maker begins to save your final movie file. When Movie Maker is done, click Finish, and you're ready to share your movie with others.