Windows Movie Maker

[rodent]

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Originally Posted by athena I love all of these different tips!! I've been using movie maker for about 3 years now. It's fun to put pictures faded into movies that relate. I have ran into a few problems with it though - if you make a movie/pic slideshow over 30 min, it can freeze and you loose all your work. Not fun!! Especially since editing can take forever!! Anyone else run into this problem?

What if you saved as you went along? I haven't made anything that long. But, I do backup often so I don't lose stuff. Would you lose it even if you had saved? It freezes up on me even when I'm making short videos.

have you tried rehans pan zoom effects? they really enhance movie maker. It's $8 for the download.

[Debs]

Don't mind me, I just want to post to this message so that when it comes to my time to do a slide show it's in my subscriptions

 

Morgan, YOU ROCK!!

[ACDCDCAC]

EDITED TO ADD:

after posting this i (of course) figured it out myself. BUT i decided i better post how so the next person wondering will know! and i left my original inquiry in case it helps explain things.

 

to edit the length of each clip, look at your movie on the bottom of the screen where it is shown in the timeline, (storyboard without music, and timeline with music clips.) click on the individual clip you want to lengthen or shorten and then hold your curser over the line on the right of the clip, the one that separates it from the next clip. you should get a red "left-right" arrow. when you hover and get this arrow, a hove messgae says "Click and drap to trim the clip." as you do this, another hove message appears and shows you the length of the clip, left dragging makes the clip shorter, and right dragging makes it longer! hope this helps someone else!

 

morgan, sarah or anyone else knowledgeable about WMM:

 

i am just getting started with this, i'm only using picture files, and i dont need my pics to show for more than 2 seconds. my problem is that so far my video is over 12 minutes long, because of the length of each slide (each slide is on the screen for like 5-6 seconds, and i've got over 160 pics, hence the long length of the entire video, AND i'm not done adding pics! yikes!)

 

does anyone know how to make each slide shorter? i will keep playing with it until someone answers, but i havent been able to figure it out yet so in the meantime i thought i'd ask

[ACDCDCAC]

one thing i havent figured out is how to shorten multiple clips at one time, instead of individually shotening the length one by one. if anyone knows this, reply away!

[rodent]

Tools --> options --> advanced --> picture duration

 

But I think it only works for pictures you haven't added yet. Maybe there is a way to select all & shorten everything.

[Banana11]

Another option if you are looking to speed up or slow down a specific clip is to: Click on the clip you are working with, right click your mouse (I think), choose "video effects" and from there you can select to speed up the clip double time or slow it down. There are a few other great options under that screen too. I hope this makes sense. I have a raging migraine but of course can't stay away from BDW, even when sick...

[ACDCDCAC]

thanks guys i'll keep playing with it so much fun and a great way to waste a day off!