Mother's Project

I know that money is tight. If you are like me you want to do something nice this Sunday for your mother or the mother of your children.

A few old photos scanned into your computer, that is running Windows Vista, can make a very big impression for Mother's Day. Converting a favorite song to MP3 along with a few spoken words in voice over of Window Movie Maker is all you need.

The video you see below took me only 3 hours. It says to mom who imiportant she is. The cost is only the time it takes to do it.

Movie Maker - Finishing Touches

I am not going to stretch out the making of this video in Window Movie Maker. Today, I going to add music and post it on YouTube. You can see it my clicking here or you can watch in the screen below.

• What I have did was import some classical music that I got from the internet. This can be a sound bit made in a mp3 format. The important thing is to have it saved in an mp3 format.
• Then I dragged the sound clip into the storyboard. It shows up under the pictures.
• I finished off my little video production with a title and closing credits.
• Finally, I went from the File menu button to Publish Movie and walked through the wizard.

Movie Maker - Previewing

Windows Movie Maker main window is a complete utility. On the right side is the preview window. This is where you and preview you video production.

• At the bottom of the preview window is the time stamp of the video and the total length of the video in hundreds of seconds.
  
• Below that is a status bar. here you can see the location of the current viewing screen in relation to the total video production.
• To the right of the start/pause/stop button is a little button for splitting the video clip. This is nice if you want to edit an existing video.
  

Movie Maker - Importing

In Windows Movie Maker you do not have to just work with video. You can import pictures, and audio. All you have to do is open Windows Movie Maker. In the menu on the left hand side select the type of media you want to import. The imported pictures, in this case, will show up next to the menu.

This weekend, I am selling some dolls for my wife on eBay. I have imported the pictures that I took of the dolls.Then I drag and drop them into the Storyboard below in the order I want to have them seen.

In the left side menu, the next section down is Edit. Here you can give special affects and transitions between frames. I can show detail or place emphasis one or more of these dolls.

The bottom section of the left side menu is titled Publish to. Now you have got to decide in what format you want other to see your creation.

Movie Maker - Transitions

One of the things that Windows Movie Maker such a powerful tool is how you can go from one slide to another.

This is one thing that is easier to show you than to write. I found this video posted on Youtube that gives you all the transition options in Windows Movie Maker. Warning it is over 9 minutes long.

Movie Maker - Intro

Do you have video clips that you want to edit? Did you make a little movie that you want to edit and put it up on YouTube? Well, you don't have to buy special software. Your computer that is running Windows Vista already has it on your computer.

• Left click on the Start Orb
• Then All Programs
• Left click on Windows Movie Maker

Here is all the tools the beginning movie editor will need to cut their teeth.