Add Narration to Your Home Movies with Windows Movie Maker 2
Updated: January 7, 2003
With Windows Movie Maker 2 for Windows XP, you can easily add a voice-over to your home movies. Adding narration lets you use your own words and voice to describe the scene that viewers are seeing.
To add voice narration to your movie, you need a microphone installed on your PC.
Once you've assembled the elements of your home movie on the storyboard, you are ready to start your narration:
1. | On the View menu, click Timeline (or click Show Timeline in the Storyboard section). |
2. | Move the playback indicator on the timeline, which appears as a square with a vertical line, to a point on the timeline where the Audio/Music track is empty and where you want to begin your audio narration. |
3. | Click on the microphone icon above the timeline, or go to Tools menu and select Narrate Timeline. |
4. | To see more options, click Show more options, and do the following: | • | If you have added other audio clips to the Audio/Music track and you do not want the other clips to shift on the timeline, select the Limit narration to available free space on Audio/Music track check box. | | • | In the Audio device list, click the audio capture device you want to use. Then, in Audio input source, click the line that you want to use. | | • | To adjust the volume of your captured audio, move the Input level slider to the level you prefer 
| | • | Select the Mute speakers check box to prevent the audio from a video clip on the timeline from playing back over your speakers while you are narrating the timeline. This keeps unwanted audio from being captured in your narration. |
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5. | Click Start Narration and begin narrating the content on the timeline. |
6. | Do one of the following: | • | If the Limit narration to available free space on Audio/Music track check box is selected, narrate the timeline until the time limit expires. | | • | If the Limit narration to available free space on Audio/Music track check box is cleared, click Stop Narration after you have finished narrating the contents on the timeline. |
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7. | In the File name box, type a name for your captured audio narration, and then click Save. |
The audio narration you captured is imported automatically into the current collection and the narration is added automatically to the point on the Audio/Music track where the narration was first started.
