Video: See how to make your first movie
Published: August 8, 2006
With Windows Movie Maker, you can turn your videos into fun, fast-paced, and professional-looking movies. Then you can share them with your friends on the Internet or burn them to a DVD. What better way to learn how to use Movie Maker than by watching a video?
See it in action
See it for yourself by watching this short video. Watching the video requires that you have Windows Media Player.
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Do it yourself
Now that you've seen what Movie Maker can do, it's time to create your own movie. To get started, connect your camera and computer, and download your videos. Then just drag and drop your video clips to assemble a home movie.
Read these articles for more detailed instructions:
| • | Let Movie Maker create a movie for you. AutoMovie, a feature of Movie Maker, automatically creates a movie for you using a theme, title, and background music of your choosing. AutoMovie is the best way to quickly see what Movie Maker can do. This article shows you how to use AutoMovie to create an exciting movie in just a few minutes. |
| • | Create and trim video clips. Movie Maker can automatically split your home movies, which might be an hour long on a single tape, into smaller clips that are easier to edit. You can also manually trim your video clips to show just the most interesting moments. This article shows you how to use Movie Maker to automatically split movies into short clips and then how to manually divide those clips. |
| • | Work with collections. Movie Maker organizes your video, music, and pictures into collections. You can then drag items in your collections to your storyboard to make a movie. This article shows you how to add items to your collections, edit items, and add them to your storyboard. |
| • | Use special features to polish your movie. Once you add video clips to your storyboard, you can make your movie more fun and professional-looking by adding transitions, special effects, background music, narration, titles, and credits. This video and series of articles show you how. |
| • | Save your movie in different formats. Once your movie is polished, find out how to save it and share it with your friends. |
