Getting StartED with Windows Live Movie Maker [Paperback]

Windows Live Movie Maker is a small but powerful movie editing application from Microsoft. It is a complete rewrite of the old Movie Maker software with a new audience in mind. The focus of this new edition is on giving you the power to quickly create movies and slideshows to share with your friends and family. The movies can be a combination of your favorite pictures and home movies set to your own soundtrack. You can add cool effects to transition between scenes, and captions to add a narrative to your movie. With Movie Maker, users can:

• Edit digital video and photos, including adding music and narration
• Apply animation effects to videos and photos
• Create DVDs for personal use, including menu systems for navigation

If youve ever watched a friend or family members home movies and wished you were home doing the laundry because it would be much more exciting, then you might find this book useful. If youve ever watched your friends and family members try to stay awake, fidget, and watch the ceiling fan spin while watching one of your home movies, then you might find this book useful, too. Either way, there is always room for improvement when it comes to homemade movies. While you have no control over other peoples movies, you do have control over your own. There are plenty of computer applications out there that will allow you to edit your movies, add music, pull in special effects, and tweak opening and closing credits. But not all of them are easy to use or easy to afford. The easy applications always seem to come with a high price& and the complicated ones seem to come with an even higher price! Well, not anymore. While Microsoft continues to charge for its newest and most popular operating system, Windows 7, and its productivity suite, Office, it does occasionally give away some really nice software. And one of those freebies just happens to be a great little lss