Uploading To Windows Movie Maker 7 Saving Trouble Shooting

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7 Saving Trouble Shooting Remember it is suggested that you save your project to a USB drive. This way you may work on the project on any computer. Go to File, Save as I don’t have Windows Movie Maker at home. When you select My Computer you will see a list of drives available. You should see a drive listed as removable that is your USB drive. Select that one. http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/ downloads/updates/moviemaker2.mspx Name your project and select Save. Remember before you Open Movie Maker again to insert your USB drive and open your movie from there. Not a problem, this program is available as a free download. Just type in this address or search for “Windows Movie Maker” and look for downloads When I open my movie I see Red X’s This happens when movie maker can not find your movie files. Simply exit without saving changes. Put in your USB and try to reopen again. I have a different operating system than the school does If for example you run Microsoft Vista at home and at school we have Windows XP you will need to decide; Do you want to work at home or school? To use at school you will need to finish your movie as a Uploading to Windows Movie Maker A tutorial 1 Uploading B efore you attach your camera or camera card to your computer open Windows Movie Maker. Also we recommend that you save your work to a USB drive. This will allow you to work on your movie at school or home. A 4GB drive should be more than enough. Attach your device to the computer. Usually Windows Media Player will automatically detect your device and bring you to the next screen. If not select “Capture from device” or “Import” if you have saved something to your computer already. 2 Where to “save” mediea We recommend that you save your media (pictures, movies, sounds) to a USB drive. You are only able to work on your movie that has access to the folder where your information is saved. Name your collection (ex. Take1) you may need to re-film and this will help keep things organized. Choose to save your media on your USB drive. Here’s how; select browse, look for removable disk, select it and click save. 3 Capturing Video Select best quality for playback on computer Capture entire tape automatically— do this if you have only your film on the tape and it is the first take. Capture tape manually—do this if there are other videos on your tape or if you have made additional “takes” Capture in progress—At this point your movie is being imported. You will be able to view the video as the computer imports it. Pictures-to import pictures select import pictures. If you would like to select all of your photos hold down “control”+”A” at the same time. Then press import. 4 Collections When your movie is done being captured you will see that Movie Maker has broken the movie up into clips. The clips will be numbered to you can drag them to the timeline in order. Pictures will also be displayed in a similar fashion. Pictures will have a number underneath them so you can put them into the timeline in order. 5 Storyboard The Storyboard is the area where you put your pictures or video in order. Don’t worry about how long the video is at this point. Just drag and drop the thumbnails into position. In the sample there are only 5 clips for 2 hours of tape. I know I will edit these so I will drag the clips multiple times to the story board. For example I may move clip2 i4 times into my story board and clip 3 5 times. 6 Timeline Once you have moved your pictures or video into the storyboard select Timeline view. Here you may drag the start or stop point of your video or select how long a picture appears on the screen. Use the magnifying glass to zoom in. You will see the time displayed at the top of the Timeline. Do not worry about the length of your film at this point. Your goal now is to get your film in order and cut the scenes. We will edit for time later.