Movie Maker Collections is a way of grouping video clips, still pictures and sound files.

In Microsoft Windows, documents are organized into folders. In Movie Maker, video clips, still pictures and sound files are organized into Collections.

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When you Capture Video from a camcorder into Movie Maker, Movie Maker automatically creates a new collection for you with the same name as the video file.
But when you IMPORT video clips, pictures and sound files from your PC hard drive into Movie Maker, you must first choose a Collection to import them into. That means the Collection have to exist first.
When you start building your movie timeline, you can add video clips, pictures and sound files from any collection. Stuff in Collections can be used in any project.

BIG TIP: Nevertheless, do try to group your video clips, pictures and sound files for one movie in one collection so you can find them easily. This is a matter of preference. You'll develop your own working preference with time.

Homework

Create a New Collection and name it: First Movie.
Make Video Effects the active collection. You should see a bunch of Video Effects in the Collection pane.
Make Special Effects the active collection. You should see a bunch of transitions in the Collection pane.
Make First Movie the active collection. You should see nothing in the Collection pane (because it's a brand new collection).

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