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Video Tutorials for Movie Maker 2.1?
Ayumilove's Movie Maker Tutorials on YouTube
and...
See this website for video tuorials on the following topics:
  1. What Is Windows Movie Maker?
  2. The Collections Area
  3. Importing Clips
  4. Importing Video From Your Camcorder Tape
  5. Capturing Video From Your Camcorder
  6. Import Pictures Into Movie Maker
  7. Import Audio Or Music Into Movie Maker
  8. Splitting Video Clips
  9. Trimming A Video Clip
  10. Adding Transitions
  11. Video Effects
  12. Titles And Credits
  13. Add Some Sound To That Movie
  14. Add Photographs To A Movie
  15. Add Narration To A Movie
  16. Saving A Movie - Parts 1 and 2
  17. The "Save Movie As"... Wizard
More Titles, Effects and Transitions?
Many places! I'll list several below:

Vendors' web sites: Forum Members' web sites: Want to make your own transitions?
Transition Maker 2

Want to make your own effects?
See the "XML Generator for Custom Effects" item on my "Toolbox" page.

On the web: see my "Toolbox > Video Editing Toolbox/Free Software" page for links to Flaming Text, Credit Maker, Sqirlz, and others.

On the Movie Maker forum:
* Check back here often as more will be surely added.
More Titles, Effects and Transitions for the Vista Version of Movie Maker?
This is a new category due to the release of the Vista OS, so check back often for new additions, both here and the linked sites below.
Forum Post 126998 - Most current Vista listing as of Sept.09, 2007

Forum Post 110082 - VISTA transition and effects in Alphabetical order under construction

Blaine's Movie Maker Blog

Rehans's FX Blog

Nick's WMM Source

To see some discussion and samples of what is being worked on: ---> Considerate_Guy's Forum Thread
Free stock footage and movie trailers?
Prelinger's Archive and PapaJohn #3.
* Be careful not to use copyrighted materials from other sources.
Free music and sound effects?
Converters?
Download site for Windows Movie Maker 2.0?
List of Movie Maker compatible file types?
You can import files with the following file name extensions into Windows Movie Maker to use in your project (from the Help section in Movie Maker 2.1):
  • Audio files: .aif, .aifc, .aiff .asf, .au, .mp2, .mp3, .mpa, .snd, .wav, and .wma
  • Picture files: .bmp, .dib, .emf, .gif, .jfif, .jpe, .jpeg, .jpg, .png, .tif, .tiff, and .wmf
  • Video files: .asf, .avi, .m1v, .mp2, .mp2v, .mpe, .mpeg, .mpg, .mpv2, .wm, and .wmv
*You can import these file types, but all may not save out of Movie Maker.

AVI is an accepted file type of MM. However, .avi should be thought of as a container or wrapper. Codecs are what are used to create the movie file within. The wrinkle...MM doesn't get along well with all codecs out there. In simplest terms--->lets say a young child wants a chocolate bar > the wrapper looks good, but inside is a chocolate covered onion bar... yep, yuch!
Info on firewire versus USB?
The Media Doc's site

Wikipedia

Here's the breakdown:
  • USB is rated at 1.5Mb/s to 12Mb/s (low speed and full speed)
  • USB2 is rated at 480Mb/s (high speed)
  • Firewire is rated at 400Mb/s
The differences are speed, but don't just judge the raw numbers because there is the issue of *maximum* versus *sustained* transfer rate. On paper the USB2 standard appears to have a higher bandwidth (480Mb/s vs. 400Mb/s) but that's more of a maximum rather than a sustained rate. Firewire can keep a *sustained* data rate so it ends up faster than USB2. Also, more of your CPU is involved in a USB capture compared to a Firewire capture. I would definitely recommend Firewire.

And not all models of camcorders can do video capture via USB. Many just use the USB for transferring the memory card contents (memory card video and images), but not the recorded video from the tape. Capture via USB, if it is even offered on a camcorder model, often results in softer video and lost frames. In my opinion, Firewire is the current best choice for capturing video footage from your camcorder.

Apart from the quality advantage, Firewire can control the start/stop of your camcorder via the software and it can read information like the time codes on your mini-DV tape to automatically create scenes at the points where the camera was turned on/off.

The disadvantage is that camcorders don't seem to ship with an included Firewire cable (which seems completely illogical to me) and Firewire ports didn't come standard with PCs until recently. Both of these can be remedied by buying a Firewire cable and an OHCI-compliant Firewire card.

Firewire captures are usually done in the DV-AVI format since it retains the original resolution of the camcorder. However since it is a lightly compressed format, it will take up more of your hard disk compared to WMV. If you don't have the disk space though, you can switch back to WMV for Firewire capture too, just expect a softer picture.

So go for Firewire, and if you have the disk space, capture in DV-AVI format.

Hope that answers your questions...
Info on xml and making custom titles, effects and transitions?
Creating Custom Transitions and Effects Forum, Rehan's Site and PapaJohn's site (see Edit Movies > Persian Girl section for video and tutorial).

In a short version:
  1. Copy / paste the xml code into NOTEPAD and Save As: YOU GIVE NAME HERE.xml extension in folder C:\Program Files\Movie Maker\Shared\AddOnTFX. Create the AddOnTFX folder if necessary.
  2. Confirm the file has .xml extension by turning off the "hide extensions of known file types" from Explorer > Tools > Folder options > View.
  3. Restart WMM.
The .XML is the Important part.

*more to be added
Info on Vista?
A firewire card and cable?
Most computer retailers, Best Buy, Circuit City, NOT Home Depot! You can contact your computer manufacturer as well. Below are four sites that can assist you in finding the best price at the time you are ready to purchase:
Info on Kathokatho's Particle Illusion clips?

Check Out the "Clip Archive" on: Neo's Movie Maker Portal

See the full thread announcement of his new site's features: Here
Info on Avisynth scripting?
This Movie Maker forum thread: Forum post #94272.
Animated .Gifs?

  • www.gifs.net

  • www.animationfactory.com


    • Here is a good thread to review for usage techniques with Powerpoint to Movie Maker:
    Forum Post #123489