Your Final Concert Movie Project

How you will create a movie about the song you took “pictures” of

Opening MovieMaker 2.6

Click on Windows Movie Maker 2.6

Now the screen looks like this:

Now you will import the pictures you took, then save your document. You will need to do one of three things:• Connect your phone to my computer;

• Email the pictures to yourself (or me);

or• Remove the smart card from the camera and insert it in my computer to

send yourself the photos via email:

Highlight your pictures, “right-click” on one of them, and choose “copy”

Now you can “paste” the pictures into the file named for you by highlighted the folder and pressing “ctrl-v.” Now your folder will look something like this:

Now, Divide the 10 pictures by the number of seconds the

song you chose lasts, so you can set the timing of the movie. We want the length of

the video and the length of the audio to match To do this

select “Tools,” and click on “Options.”

Insert the number of seconds you want every slide to last into the highlighted box. It will look like the picture below.

For example, if your song is 260seconds long, put “26” into highlighted box

Stop and save your project so you don’t lose anyof this hard work.

Insert your pictures into the MovieMaker program, by selecting your photos, and dragging them from the Collection window (circled in red), into the video window.

If you want to change the order of the pictures, just highlight the picture and drag it to a different position in the Video pane.

This will not affect the length of the video, or the length of time that a picture is shown in

the movie.

Stop, save, and have Mr. Pearce take a look at your project

Now you can add the audio file to the movie. Click on “Import Audio or Music,” and navigate to the folder “Spring Concert 2011 Song Files.” click on the songYou took pictures during, and it will be inserted into the “Collection” window.

Then click on the file and drag it to the Audio/Music portion of the window, belowThe video portion of the project:

The screen will look like the one below, with the audio added. Notice that the audio and the video line up perfectly!

Save the file again!

There are just a couple of things left that you can do to make your movie sparkle!First, let’s make the slides transition into each other. This makes the show have a Professional look to it, and it is easy. You can choose from the following options toEdit your movie. Look at the left side of the MovieMaker Screen under the number 2:

• View Video Effects lists the possible effects you can choose to drop on a picture to make it look different

• View video transitions lists the effects you can drop in betweenpictures to make the transitions between picturesdifferent

• Make titles or credits adds a slide at the beginning of your movie showing the title, and a slide at the end that says you made the movie

• Make an AutoMovie is the easiest effect to use when you start, but is not one we will use.

For this project, click on “View Video Transitions.”You can place these in between each picture, and yourAudience will keep their interest in your movie! Below, the screenshot shows the list of possible transitions.

Choose a transition, and drag it into the

video pane. When you play

your movie, all of your slides will

Transition or fade into each other,

making your movie look

professional.

Stop, save, and have Mr. Pearce take a look at your project

For the grand finale, let’s place a title slide at the beginning of your movie. It should have the title of the song you chose, and your name. To create the slide,

Click on “Make titles or credits.” The following screen will display, and you willClick on “Add title at the beginning of the movie.” Just type in your information, click on

“Done, add title to the movie.” I placed mine below so you can see an example.

There you are! Save the file, and let us make a movie we can Play on any computer!

To convert your MovieMaker file into a usable movie file, click “File,” then click “Save Movie File.” Your screen will look like this:

Choose “My Computer,” then click next.Enter the filename followed by your name.Click next, make sure “High Quality Video”

is checked. Choose where to save the movie,Which will be in the file folder you found

Your audio clip in. Click next one more time, and the movie will be saved, and

ready for viewing.

Congratulations, you’re finished! Next week, we will play the movies

for each other in class, where everyone will view them, and give positive feedback on everybody’s

efforts!

References:

Screen shots from Microsoft MovieMaker 2.6