1. Paul Davis ECTC/Crosslake Communications
Windows Movie Maker
Paul Davis
ECTC/Crosslake Communications

2. Movie Maker Do you have thousands of photos? Videos?
Have you ever tortured your friends and family by making them watch hours and hours of them?
Would you like to be able to create great quality videos of some of them and have a more usable 10 minute show for them?

3. Movie Maker Windows XP Vista 7, 8, 8.1, and 10
All of these have FREE movie maker programs
Microsoft calls it Movie Maker

4. Movie Maker
You can put a bunch of pictures in a project, add a song or two, then tell it to make the pictures fit the music so it just works perfectly.
You can trim videos so you only have what you want
Produce a final product for many places

5. Movie Maker Click Start
Start typing movie and you should see Movie Maker, click on it
If you don’t see it you need to install it
Be careful!!! Be sure to only select what you want or you get tons of extra software

6. Movie Maker – Photo Project
Once it is opened click add photos and videos
Browse your hard drive and pick the photos you want, click open.
You will see the photos in the big white area
Click before the first picture and click Title
Type in what you want and click the first pic to set the title

7. Movie Maker – Photo Project
The black vertical bar is your slider, drag it to the middle of the first pic
Click Caption
Type something and click the next pic
Drag 

8. Movie Maker – Photo Project
You don’t have to put the caption in the middle, I just point it out because it is nice to know you can. The start of a pic is sometimes best.
Title – Complete black slide with text
Caption – Text box that floats over the content

9. Movie Maker – Photo Project
Click Add Music
Browse your hard drive and pic a song or two
Your song will fill up the project
Show how to start music at a specific point
Show how to end music at a specific point
Show the Fit to Music in Project Tab
Show how to change title/caption font & color
Show how to make any slide longer

10. Movie Maker – Photo Project
When you are done click the Home tab
Check this area
You can publish right to Onedrive, Facebook, Youtube, Flickr, and make your own by using the Save Movie drop down arrow

11. Movie Maker – Photo Project
Save As:
Pick 1080 for nice full size stuff
Burn a DVD to play
– Small and easy to send but quality is lower. Just attach it to an
Many other options

12. Movie Maker – Photo Project
So far this has been for photos only
Now let’s add a video, the first step is to do your pix first, it just works better this way
Open movie maker, add pix, add music, fit pix to music, adjust start time, stop time, fade in, fade out.
Now you can add your video, put the slider at the end

13. Movie Maker – Photo Project
Add your video, it might take some time to totally fill in all the frames but you can still work on stuff
Show how to trim video, re-add and re-trim
Produce

14. Questions?
Any ideas for next seminar?