Windows Movie Maker Overview
To turn your raw video into an entertaining polished movie with nifty transitions, special effects, titles and music, you need a video editing software. The movie-editing software that I highly recommend for busy and time-pressed folks like us is Microsoft Windows Movie Maker
There are several reasons for choosing Windows Movie Maker:
- It is easy, easy, easy to use.
- It is rich in features: add music, pictures, titles and credits.
- It comes included with a fun collection of transitions and special effects.
- It has AutoMovie feature – takes your raw video and auto-edit it to a music of your choice at the touch of a button.
- It is very stable. Video editing software is known to be big memory processing hogs and prone to crashing. Not this one.
- It is Free. It comes with your Windows XP software.
- Bottom line: You can make some really cool home movies to impress your family and friends very quickly.
The video tutorial below shows you:
- a quick big-picture overview of the software and
- where to find the software on your Windows PC.
If after watching the video below, you still can't locate it on your PC, you can click here to download Windows Movie Maker
And if you'd like an easy way to master Windows Movie Maker, I recommend my
"Make Home Movie" online course. For $39, you get instant access to an online video tutorials course where I walk through each task step-by-step, click-by-click as if you were right behind my shoulder. Why waste time figuring everything out yourself? The course comes with a 100% guarantee that if you are not making home movies by the end of the course, just email me and you get all your money back, no questions asked. Click here for details.
Now for an overview of how easy it is to use Windows Movie Maker. (If video below has a black screen, please wait a few seconds while the video uploads, this video tutorial is a tad longer than my usual ones so may take a little more patience to wait for it to load. 
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As you can see from the video above, Windows Movie Maker is not only easy to use it offers many features to create a fun, polished video. If you are not able to locate it on your PC, you can click here to download Windows Movie Maker
For a fun way to learn Windows Movie Maker, step-by-step, click-by-click, Preview "Make Home Movie" online course here.
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March 18, 2007
How to make free and legal soundtracks | Simple Video Editing said (pingback):
[...] Almost all my video editing projects involves adding soundtrack. Soundtrack does a lot to engage the viewer emotionally. After years of making movies for friends and family, I found that I was reusing the same soundtrack a little too often. How to tell? When even your friends and family notice. But it’s not easy to find new soundtrack that is free and that I can use legally. I was very happy therefore to discover http://www.SpliceMusic.com. Every sound on Splice is automatically covered with the creative commons attribution license. What this means is that as long as you give credit back to where you found it on SpliceMusic, you can legally use it for your video editing projects for free. All you have to do is give credit where credit is due and you are in the clear. Once you find the free soundtrack you want, you can download it as an MP3 file. You can then use a video editing software to add the MP3 file to your movie projects. If video editing is new to you, an excellent free video editing software we recommend is Windows Movie Maker by Microsoft. [...]
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October 6, 2008
A Love for Horses - Joni said:
Hi, is there a way to rotate/flip a video clip from horizontal to vertical in Microsoft's Windows Movie Maker or Camtasia Studio 3? Thanks!
Myrtha Chang said:
Yes, by using Video Effects:
1. On the timeline, click the video clip you want to rotate.
2. On the Task Menu, click Video Effects.
3. Drag the Rotate 90 (clockwise) or Rotate 270 (will turn it anti-clockwise) to rotate your video.
If you are not familiar with using Video Effects on your video clip, please review our How-To section on that topic:
http://simplevideoediting.com/howto/add_effects
Have fun.
Myrtha Chang
http://www.simplevideoediting.com
A Love for Horses - Joni said:
Dear Myrtha,
Thanks! After I added the video clip to the timeline I had to right click on the video clip in order to find the Rotation effects on the list. These effects were not showing up at the top under Video Effects. I have Window Movie Maker 6.0.6000.163386
Now that I rotated the clip I have black areas on both sides of the clip. Just wondering if there is a way to change that color to another color - maybe the blue that is on the title screen.
November 16, 2008
Fetzel said:
Hi! Great site! I was trying to access Splicemusic.com, as you had posted, but it seems that the site is gone (or down). Any ideas for other sites?
Thank You
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Marielle said:
Is there anyway to Flip a video on Windows Media Player so that way it like Mirrors the original video?
in other words, is there anyway to Flip it horizontally?
For example, Like if in a video someone holds their right hand up and after you flip the video it looks like they held their left hand up
June 25, 2010
yina said:
if you want to edit flip videos using Windows Movie Maker, you will have to convert flip video to Windows Movie Maker supported video formats such as ASF, AVI and WMV. Then you will need a flip video to Windows Movie Maker Converter.
http://www.flip-converter.com/articles/edit-flip-video-with-windows-movie-maker/
Doremisoft Flip Converter can do the job perfectly. The following two parts will guide you through the steps to convert flip video to Windows Movie Maker and edit flip video with Windows Movie Maker.