What is Windows Live Movie Maker

I will start with the question, “What is Windows Live Movie Maker, and what can you do with it”
With Windows Live Movie Maker, “Movie Maker” for short, you can assemble movies from photos, and videos.
You can not just do video editing, but you can also use it to create slide shows of your pictures.

Movie Maker is free and can be downloaded on the following page:
http://explore.live.com/windows-live-movie-maker

 

Download and install

In order to use Movie Maker, we must first download.
Surf to this link above, click the button “Download Now” button and click “Run.”

 

This opens a second window (A) where you make the choice whether you want to install all Windows Live applications, or select the programs you want to install.
On my computer, Movie Maker is already installed (C), but if this is not the case with you, highlight it in the second window (B), and click the “Install” button.
Note that Photo Gallery and Movie Maker are placed together in an application.
With Photo Gallery, photos can be managed and possibly edited, Movie Maker is then suitable for building a video-based images and video clips.

 

Start Movie Maker

Once everything is installed and you start Movie Maker, start it with a new blank project and see the screen below.
I will explain everything you see here, as it will soon be overflowing, so that you know when I talk about a certain part of the screen, you know where to find it.

At the top we find the title bar (1).
In the title bar “Save”, “Undo” and “Redo” buttons are found in the left, the name of the file and the application in the middle, and “Minimize” “Maximize” and ” Close ” buttons on the right.

Under the title bar, we find the Menu Bar (2).
Depending on what is selected in the menu bar, we find different options in the Ribbon (3).
All these buttons and options are discussed in the course of this lesson.

Below the menu bar on the left, we find the preview pane (4) and on the right the storyboard (5).

 

For those who might not know how Movie Maker starts, click the Start button in the taskbar, choose “All Programs” – “Windows Live” and click “Windows Live Movie Maker”.
Or, click the Office button in the taskbar (1), type Movie (2) into the search box and from the results that appear in the menu, click Windows Live Movie Maker (3).

 

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