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I mean seriously as if this guy's gonna really be able to read my mind okay just gotta make sure I really don't think about it you know what is up guys that staying here with the tutorial showing you how to make videos in Windows Live Movie Maker so as you guys can see from that video that you just saw you can do some decent stuff in moviemaker certainly nothing spectacular or professional or anything like that but you can make some decent stuff so I want to give you guys kind of an overview a lot of people think that you need something really hyper you know professional or what not real expensive like Vegas or Final Cut or something like that but there is a surprising amount of things you can do with the free Live Movie Maker so of course this is the interface as you guys can see here this is the timelines you can see here's our text here's our video on music all that kind of stuff it is not perfect kind of more an approximation as you guys can see here just kind of splits it up into a couple of thumbnails it doesn't really give you fine-grained control but for a lot of stuff you don't really need that too much and if you really do you can kind of work some work a little bit of magic to get it to work properly now up top you'll see that there are quite a few different options as well there are a few options there not that many you can add your videos and photos you had music you can record straight from your webcam which is certainly a nice feature student need to be worrying about some third-party software whether if you wanted to you know film something with your webcam you can do it straight from Live Movie Maker and then just import it and edit it just like nothing really simple you can also do grab screenshots of the video so for example if I wanted to do some adding on this particular clip or scrub ahead a little bit you know do do if you want you can do that which is definitely does come handy sometimes you make titles captions credits now there are a couple of auto themes but particularly I don't really like these most of this stuff you can do a little bit better if you just do it manually but of course there are a few things that are built in also you can rotate and whatnot but less so I think you guys a quick little example of how I did this so first of all of course I do have my music if I open up the music tools dialog there's a few things there's fade in and out which not again nothing is really all that fine grained in Live Movie Maker it's pretty much it's not like I want it to fade in for a half a second don't ever know it's going to be slow medium or fast which it'll work you also do the music volume that kind of thing as far as this goes now one of the big things about video editing just in general but especially when you're using something that's not particularly high-end is be creative you learn how to improvise so for example with this I wanted to do a nice long fade in you know I don't want to just jump straight into the video so what I did was I just grabbed a generic black background is just you know they leave 1280 by 720 just all black and just use it for the video and just I believe what I do it for here I'd like nine seconds and then kind of have it fade in so I mean there are different things you can do with just straight images and that's kind of something you'll learn slowly I mean if you learn to improvise learn to kind of do some cool little things to speed up your editing or make it look a little bit better definitely will help especially in life movie makers so I did that I also did text here so you guys can say bye head over here the text tools are actually not half-bad probably some of the best things in moviemaker you can select your fonts and colors and your sizes and all that kind of good stuff you can even do transparency if you like you know how long it runs when it starts all that kind of good stuff and there are also quite a few different effects so there's some of the more basic ones just fade in and now kind of stretch span your class some of these are not particularly amazing there are also some pretty decent ones like for example this one I think looks rather nice kinda a little lens flare and kind of zoom in all kinds of stuff like that I can zoom all the way anomie there are some definitely some decent ones in here I mean not a huge fan like for example that one and this one don't look fantastic to me but you can make some decent looking text and show up on your video now as far as the video itself goes there's not tons you can do with it like I was saying earlier with the music you can kind of split it and trim it exactly where you want so you know you want cut the beginning of the clip before you start it or whatever you can do that pretty simply it can speed up and slow it down you know you want to make something somebody run around the fest or whatever and you do your fade ins and outs but where the bulk of it is in the visual effects you can also add something like blur so for example if I wanted to make it all out of focus put some text here kind of draw your focus to the text instead of the video behind I could do that there also some kind of crazier ones like edge detection and you do want to come makes it look a little bit like an oil painting I mean there are some decent effects in here I will admit me you know certainly some things that you can definitely use and you know there are also some standard ones like black and white with a little bit filters and whatnot you can also do some different things like flip it upside down or add like effects on the side of it I mean you know if you can do some things for the most part though you know you're going to more want to do some kind of fun ones like this you know it's not really something you're going to want to do on most videos but if you want to kind of have a little fun with it you certainly can have it spin around and whatnot as you guys are probably tell by now movie maker actually is pretty decent as far as how the effects go and this works the same way for animations and whatnot all you do is just hover over to find the right chapter all you do is just hover over and it'll immediately start playing even if you don't have that particularly great of a computer it's typically pretty good so if you want to test something out Staffing to drag it and sometimes rig like on other software you can just drag it or just hover over rather in or just fine you also do have a brightness control so you know it's not bad you're definitely not going to be able to do full color correction but if you want to turn the brightness down a little bit or up you can certainly do that and the last thing I want to show you guys is the animation so uh you know there are a few animations here so you know some of these that are a little silly looking you know it's gonna it's it's live movie maker you know movie makers always going to have some kind of silly effects but there are also some decent ones like this one I kind of like fade in it's kind of blurred through black we can also do it just kind of a crossfade blur you know there's definitely some different things you can adjust the animation or the duration of the transition kind of suit whatever your needs are lastly we do have the pan and zoom so we'll actually pan and zoom through the video you guys can't see it too well here but if I can get a good one so you guys see here it's kind of zoomed in it's gonna start slowly panning up on that big fan of this of course there's no keyframes of any type on here but you know if you want some general kind of things like some panning and zooming and why not this will work pretty decently anyway guys that's it for my overview of Windows Live Movie Maker so what I really recommend for you guys is just to check it out it's free you may already have it on your computer otherwise it's just a quick free download away and it very well might be enough to hold you over from needing to buy that Sony Vegas or needing to buy Korell video studio or something like that for a while it will allow you to do some decent video editing make some okay stuff I mean what I've shown you guys here's definitely I mean it took me maybe 10 min to make I've seen people do quite a bit better videos with it so just give it a shot it's very easy to learn it handles a lot of formats leave an export and you know in high-definition or send it you can send it to YouTube or Facebook or whatever you want so it's a pretty decent editor anyway guys if you enjoyed be sure to hit that subscribe button up above to be notified with all of my new content