Chapter 1. Create Your First Amazing Movie

  • Take a Tour of Movie Maker

  • Organize Your Video Footage

  • Capture Video from Your Camcorder

  • Create Introductions

  • Organize and Edit Your Clips

  • Save and Play Back Your Movie

You don’t need a professional editing studio or a degree in computer science to make your own movies. If you can drag, drop, and click, you can quickly create professional-looking movies without having to master complex editing equipment or obscure software packages. Remember, if you’ve got Microsoft Windows XP, you already have Microsoft Windows Movie Maker 2 on your computer. Movie Maker does more than assemble simple movies from basic clips. It contains sophisticated editing tools and features that let you create new and exciting multimedia ...

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