Saving and Sharing Movies with Windows Movie Maker 2
Updated: January 7, 2003
Once you've finished editing, added all the effects, and inserted titles and credits, the Save Movie Wizard in Windows Movie Maker 2 for Windows XP makes it easy to save your project as a final movie. Timing, layout, and content are all saved as one complete movie. You can save and store the movie on your computer or on a recordable CD. You can send it as an attachment in an e-mail message. Or upload it to a video hosting provider on the Web. You can also choose to record your movie on a tape in a digital video camera. Keep in mind that when you save your movie, you must decide how to balance quality against file size: the better the quality, the larger the resulting file size.
Options offered by the Save Movie Wizard include:
My computer
Choose this option when you want to store your finished movie on your PC. You'll be able to play it back on your computer using Windows Media Player.
Recordable CD
Use this option to save your movie to a CD-ROM so your friends and family can view it on their own computers. To save movies to a CD, you must have a rewriteable or recordable CD drive attached to your computer.
E-mail
If your movie is short, you may want to send it directly in e-mail. This option will save your movie as an e-mail attachment. You'll probably want to select a lower bit rate (for example 56 kbps) in order to keep the file size down.
The Web
You can post your movie to a Web hosting provider directly through Windows Movie Maker 2. If you don't already have an account at a video hosting provider, Movie Maker will walk you through the steps necessary to sign up with one of two providers that currently offer free trial accounts. Once your movies are posted, simply send a Web address to friends and family.
DV camera
You can also save your finished movie back to the tape in your digital video camera when connected through a FireWire cable. This option enables you to view your movie on a television (when you connect the camera to a TV).
