How to create a movie using Windows Live Movie Maker:

1. Import a video or music file by pressing the “Add videos and photos or Add Music” button.

2. You can add text to your movie by pressing the “Title, caption or credits”.

Titles – Go at the start of your movie.

Captions – Appear over the top of your video or images.

Credits – Scroll through at the finish of your movie.

3. Windows Live Movie Maker uses tabs and these will appear or disappear depending on what

you have in your movie.

4. Sometimes your images or video can be the wrong way up, use the “Rotate left or right”

button to correct the orientation of your footage.

5. In the Video Tools – Edit tab you can “Trim, splice or change the start and end point of your

video”.

6. In the Music Tools – Options tab you can “Split, or change the start and end point of your

music”.

7. In the Text Tools – Format tab you can “change the font, change the duration or add nifty

animation to the text “.

8. When you are ready to finalize your movie you

must make sure you save it as a movie. Click on

the blue file button at the top left of your screen

then select Save Movie from the list choose the

option For Computer and pick a spot on your

computer to save the movie file.

9. Depending on the length of your movie it will take

between 5-10 minutes to render. Once this is

complete you will be able to watch your movie or

give it to your teacher.