In this blog post i will be talking about using windows movie maker thats given free with windows and boy does it show.

I have used windows movie maker for sevral years, only my own little side projects that involved recording inside games and cutting allready made videos.
I did a few Dragonball z music videos when i first started editing and windows movie maker may be the worse thing to ever edit with.

Heres one video i edited with it:

 

I used fraps like i am doing with this assignment but the qualty this time round is alot better.

Now here are some of the tools in movie maker :



These are the import tools, where you import the videos you wish to edit.
You can also import pictures and audio here.




This is the timeline in windows movie maker, you can select certain objects like most editing programs and you have the choice of zooming in and out.
One diffrence between movie maker and AVid  is you can not add other timelines to do shots over shots that fade into each other.




These are just some of the effects you can have.
Such as fading in and out, fade to black or white, add film ages to it and so on.
there are not as many effects as there are in Avid and adobe but for a free program, it is quite pleasing.



Here are some transitions avilable in movie maker.
I admit, they look tacky when used but i usualy use avid for editing.

These are just a few features in Windows movie maker.