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MovieMaker CheatSheet Notes 2018Important!!: You can’t just copy a picture or song to MovieMaker. You must have each file on the computer. (H drive)You can’t work on a MovieMaker at home without taking the pictures/video/music files as well. Many MovieMaker versions are not compatible. If you do work at home, do a section, and save it as a movie, and then bring that wmv file here. It doesn’t come standard, so you may have to download it.Keeping picture, video, and music files together in a folder is important while doing any video editing program. That is because, for example, the picture you see in MovieMaker really isn’t there…it’s just a “thumbnail” reminder or “link” to the image.Don’t hit “automovie themes” ever. Trust me on this one.Getting Started (Title and pictures):Open Live MovieMaker. Write _Movie_ in the start button to look for the MovieMaker program. (You may have to accept “Live” to do it)Title: (You will have title, credits, and at least 5 other text or caption slides in your individual video clip.) Title_, in the HOME tab obviously can be used at the beginning of a video, but if you click somewhere else with the black line, you can put titles anywhere in your video…and move them around once they are in. Format the title. Usually, the _FORMAT__ tab will come up automatically. In the format ribbon, change the size, color, and style of font, as well as the background color. Also, set the DURATION, and add a text effect.Save Project as: Click the blue “office button”, and save your project by going to SAVE _PROJECT__ As. Name it, and put it in your fileserver folder.Add pictures (or videos later): Go to “_HOME_” tab, and then “__ADD__ Videos and _PHOTOS_”. If you want to get multiple pictures, you may have to hold down the __CTRL_…or just highlight the picture group. Once in, you can move the pictures into whatever order you want by dragging them.Make pictures move: Add transitions and pan & Zoom. To do this, go to the___ANIMATIONS__ tab, and choose one transition (left side). Time how long you want the transition to last in the ___DURATION_ box. Then, choose a “pan and _ZOOM” (right side) for each picture.Duration/Timing: Each picture usually defaults to _7__ seconds. Play it to see. You will want most of yours to be shorter if you aren’t using text to read. To change the _DURATION_ of each slide, go to the tab called VIDEO TOOLS at the top. It is _YELLOW__in color. Set the time you want. When you change timing, be sure to check the _TEXT__ ____TOOLS______ tab as well to make sure your text isn’t longer than your slide.Story Slides, Captions, Credits, and Music:46012109525If you just want to put a word or two right on top of a picture, choose the _CAPTIONS_button. You can then format and move your label anywhere it is best seen. If you have a sentence or two to say, I would put it in a title on its own slide. (Titles can be use anywhere you put the black line, not just the beginning) Remember that when you add text, the text tools tab, which is _PINK__ in color, will show up to change duration and other things. When you get ready to put credits at the end, use the ___CREDIT___ button. Time the slide, so that you can read all the credits. Use “duration” at the _TEXT/VIDEO_ _TOOLS tab. Music: Go to “Add music” in the HOME tab to add a music sample. (You must have a file of it….either a CD or an mp3 on a USB, or find one from the Internet sites from the “Music” paper. If you choose to just “___ADD__ ___MUSIC_”, it will put it at the beginning. If you choose “ADD MUSIC AT THE _CURRENT__ ___POINT__”, it will put the music wherever you have put the black line. If you go to the Green Music tab, you can __SPLIT_ your clips, change the VIDEO to loud or soft, or if you want to gradually change volume, _FADE in or out. (Note: If you put on music (or anything else, for that matter) that you end up not wanting, either click right and _REMOVE__ or click on it, and then hit DELETE on your keyboard. *Patriotic Music files can be found in the D:\New Volume drive.Effects and special for pictures/video:Visual Effects tab: Use effects sparingly. You would never want to add effects to all your slides, just one or two for decoration…or to fix, and make brighter, etc. To narrate over pictures, use the _RECORD_ NARRATION button at the HOME tab. Make sure your black line is where you want the narration to start, plug in a ___MICROPHONE__, and then click the narration button. Next, click the _RECORD button to start. When finished, make sure you name it and save it in your fileserver folder, so it’s there the next time you open the project. (It saves as a separate audio file)Still pictures from Actual videos: If you want to take a still picture of a part of your video, choose _SNAPSHOT_ and save it to your fileserver folder. If you have a video you want to split in parts, go to the VIDEO TOOLS and choose with the _BLACK___ _LINE_ where you want to split. Hit _SPLIT_, then delete the portion you don’t want. When you actually film “Clips” (short videos), start filming before and after what you actually want to use. You can split them, and delete any unwanted parts. Choose the video, put the black line where you want to start or stop the split, click, and delete the unwanted part(s).Finishing:Reminder: If you are not finished yet with a movie or movie segment, you will want to save your project “as SAVE PROJECT AS”. To do this, go to the office type button, and “save project as”. Notice that it saves as a MovieMaker Project. (.wmmp)392112519685Once you are totally finished, and want to share your video, you will want to make it into a media player file (wmv) or mp4. To do this….Go to SAVE MOVIE and then FOR COMPUTER and wait for it to compress/render into a wmv. Make sure you name it something, and direct it to your fileserver folder.When it says “Open Folder”, do that, and find it, and then watch it to make sure it’s ok. Remember its name!!! Ex. Something.wmv or something.mp4**Remember that there are DURATION buttons EVERYWHERE. The main ones involve the video length, text length, transition length. You have to make sure your durations match over an area, or it will throw off your whole video, and will not save as a finished movie. ................
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