Windows Movie Maker 2 Zero to Hero

283 Pages·2003·23.512 MB·English

by  Jon Bounds, John Buechler, Jen Dehaan (auth.)

WINDOWS
MOVIE MAKER 2
Z O O RO
jon Bounds
.. john Buechler
jen deHaan
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At friends of ED, our mission is to unleash your digital creativity, providing technical know-how and
inspiration in equal measure.
With our Zero to Hero series we've gone one better-we'll take you further, faster.
Zero to Hero is more than just a catchy slogan and an endless opportunity for gimmicks, puns, and
graphical representations of phone booths. tights, and capes. It's a style of learning designed by
friends of ED to reach beyond dry technical explanations and dusty old authors who wouldn't know
good design if it slapped them round the face with a wet fish.
You can either first learn everything you need about Windows Movie Maker 2 or dive straight into
the inspirational "Hero" chapters and refer back if you get stuck.
The authors of the Hero chapters are Movie Maker trailblazers from the friends of ED pool of talent.
Each has a different brief and a lot of freedom. They'll show how you can achieve professional
results with this remarkable program-how you too can be a Movie Maker 2 Hero.
And when you're done, you'll be ready to wear your underwear outside of your pants,
metaphorically speaking of course.
We'll not only unlock the toolset for you, we'll also feed your imagination-that's a promise.
So, what are you waiting for?
About the authors
....--------------, jon Bounds is a writer and editor from Birmingham, England, where he grew up listening
to the Smiths and trying to get his Sinclair Spectrum to do desktop publishing.
Understandably, he was a morose child.
jon studied for a Computer Science degree in the days when the Internet was still dismissed
as a niche research tool, and digital video would never replace film. Despite these setbacks,
he left the University of Birmingham with plans to use computers to create and share
"stuff." A short-lived journalism career ended when he realized that he'd rather just make
it all up-the National Enquirer had no vacancies.
He eschewed a crack at the big time as a Vegas lounge-singer because he couldn't face the
possibility of a Copa Lounge engagement clashing with a Birmingham City F.C. match. Jon
instead settled for the equally glamorous life of a Technical Editor at friends of ED. Now
that computers have caught up a little, jon spends many an hour editing video and isn't
bored yet.
Keep Right On
john Buechler has been a photographer and videographer from the predigital days of film
cameras and projectors to the nonlinear computerized editing of today. He uses many
different photo and video editing software tools and, since its first release, he has been an
avid user of Microsoft's Movie Maker.
He lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan. In addition to doing freelance video work, he applies his
photography, video, and computer skills to home and family uses. He is called "Papa" by
his grandchildren and is known by many on the internet as "Papajohn." His personal web
site http:// pws.chartermi.net/, papajohn includes links to some of his movies.
Papajohn is active on several Microsoft-sponsored multimedia newsgroups. You see him
most often on microsoft.public.windowsxp.moviemaker, a key newsgroup for users of
Movie Maker 2.
john was recognized by Microsoft as one of their 2003 Most Valuable Professionals in the
Multimedia area. He recently expanded his support role by becoming a moderator of the
Movie Maker 2 Special Interest Group (SIG) for the Windows Media Los Angeles Users
Group at www.windowsmedia.org.
jen deHaan is a freelance web designer/developer based in Calgary. She has been involved
in writing, contributing to, or editing many computer books on Flash, ActionScript, digital
video, and ColdFusion in 2002. She has co-authored three books on ActionScript for
friends of ED: Flash MX Designer's ActionScript Reference, ActionScript Zero to Hero, and
Flash MX Most Wanted Components. She was also a co-author of the ColdFusion
Developer's Handbook published by Sybex and the forthcoming Dreamweaver MX:
ColdFusion Web Development. ]en was a contributor and technical editor for six books
published by Wiley and has several new titles in the works for 2003.
]en graduated with top honors from a top New Media program and also with a BFA in
Developmental Art from the University of Calgary. She is an experienced teacher and
writer, focusing on integrating technologies for the web using Flash MX. Her personal web
sites are www.ejepo.com and www.flash-mx.com.
Table of contents ir
Chapter Zero 1
How to use this book ................................ 2
Styles ........................................................ 2
Download files ..................................... .3
Support ................................................... .4
Types and sizes of video ............................ S
Analog cameras and digital cameras .. 5
NTSC and PAL ....................................... .5
Aspect ratio ............................................ 6
Learn all the basics about digital
Nonlinear editing ........................................6
video editing and get started by
Installing Movie Maker 2 ..........................8 making a music video.
Movie Maker 2 interface .......................... 8
Tasks pane .............................................. 9
Collections pane .................................... 9
Collection contents pane .................. 10
Storyboard and timeline .................. 10
Preview monitor .................................. 10
Toolbar .................................................. 11
Using the keyboard ............................ 11
Customizing the interface ................ 12
Preferences ................................................ 12
File formats ................................................ 13
Compression ........................................ 13
Importing .............................................. 15
Exporting .............................................. 15
Hard drive file systems ............................ 15
A word about copyright... ....................... 16
The first cut is the deepest .................... 16
Shooting your footage 19
Focus Controls
Getting to know your camera .............. 20 Clockwise Farther Focus
How to read the manual .................. 20
Batteries and power .......................... 20
Tape length and formats .................. 21
Controls while shooting .................... 21
Keeping the camera steady .................... 22
Tripods .................................................. 22
Holding the camera ............................ 22
Keeping steady on the move .......... 23
Lighting ........................................................ 24
Outside lighting-the sun ................ 24
Interior lighting .................................... 24
Learn camera operation tips to
Night shooting .................................... 25
improve the footage you shoot.
Focus ............................................................ 25
Autofocus .............................................. 25
Manual focus ........................................ 25
Focus-pulling ...................................... 26
Camera moves ............................................ 26
Zooming ................................................ 26
Zooming speed .................................... 26
Zoom sparingly .................................... 27
Panning .................................................. 27
Panning speed ...................................... 27
Other camera movement ................ 27
In-camera effects ...................................... 28
Recording sound ........................................ 28
Practice makes perfect ............................ 28
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Capturing video and
importing files 29 -
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Connecting your camera ....................... .30 :1 -~I
Digital cameras ................................... .30 ~----l--~- ­
Analog cameras ................................. .31
Capturing analog video with a
DV camera ........................................... .31
Compatibility ........................................ 32
Setting video properties ......................... .32
Starting the Video Capture wizard ..... .32
Selecting the video device ............. .33 Capture your video from both
Configuring an analog capture analog and digital video cameras.
device ................................................... .34
Storing captured video ........................... .35
Choosing where to store captured
video ..................................................... .35
Selecting a video setting ................. .36
Capturing video ....................................... .37
Automatic capture ............................. .37
Manual capture ................................. .38
Importing the files to your
collections ........................................... .40
Importing files on your computer ..... .40
Importing MOV files .......................... 41
Taking a still from a video clip ............. .42
Collections and projects 43
A project is not a movie ........................ 44
Source files ................................................. .44
Collections .................................................. 45
Creating new collections ................. .45
Copying collections ........................... .46
Organizing collections ..................... .46
Deleting collections ........................... .47
Do you share your computer? ....... .48
Collections from Movie Maker 1 ......... .48 Organize your clips and start
Clips within collections ........................... .48 creating your movie projects.
Previewing clips ................................. .49
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Clip duration ........................................ 50
Viewing clip collections .................... 50
Changing the sort order ................. .51
Moving and copying clips ............... .51
Renaming or deleting clips ............. .52
Relinking lost clips ............................. .52
Creating Movie Maker 2 projects ....... .53
The storyboard and the timeline ......... .54
Using storyboard view ........................... .56
Adding clips to the storyboard ...... 56
Reordering clips on the
storyboard ............................................ 57
Removing clips from the
storyboard ............................................ 58
Showing more or less of the
storyboard ............................................ 58
Previewing your movie
with the storyboard ............................ 59
Using timeline view .................................. 61
Adding video clips to the timeline .. 62
Adding audio clips to the timeline .. 63
Reordering clips on the timeline .... 63
Overlapping clips on the timeline .. 64
Trimming clips on the timeline ...... 65
Previewing your movie
with the timeline ................................ 66
The AutoMovie wizard ............................ 66
Making an AutoMovie ...................... 67
Adding titles, transitions, and effects .. 69
Titles and credits ................................ 69
Video effects ........................................ 70
Video transitions ................................ 70
Saving and reviewing the project ....... .71
Project properties .............................. 71
Table of contents ....
Transitions 73
Types of transitions .................................. 74
Fades ...................................................... 74
Wipes ...................................................... 74
Other types .......................................... 74
Examining how transitions are
used ........................................................ 74
When to use transitions .................... 76
Transitions in Movie Maker 2 ................ 76
Previewing transitions ........................ 77
Add professional-looking
Movie Maker 2's standard transitions between video clips
transitions .............................................. 77 and still images.
Manipulating transitions .......................... 79
Transitions in storyboard view ........ 79
Transitions in timeline view ............ 80
Changing the duration of transitions .. 81
Setting the default transition
duration ................................................ 81
Altering a transition from the
Video track .......................................... 81
Altering transitions in the
Transitions track .................................. 82
Fades to or from plain color ................ 83
Using transitions creatively .................... 84
Fade from black with audio ............ 84
Fun transitions between similar
images .................................................... 84
Audio transitions ...................................... 85
Getting more transitions ........................ 85