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PVNET-WLMM-Handout-1.doc 1

Basic Home Video Editing

PV NET – Spring 2012

Handout Package No. 1

BASIC HOME VIDEO EDITING &

MULTIMEDIA PRODUCTION

D O N S T O U D E R

D O N S T O U D E R @ C A . R R . C O M

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P V N E T 1

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

• Provides Provides Provides Provides a basic introduction to digital video editing. a basic introduction to digital video editing. a basic introduction to digital video editing. a basic introduction to digital video editing.

• Use Microsoft’s Live Movie Maker to work with photos and Use Microsoft’s Live Movie Maker to work with photos and Use Microsoft’s Live Movie Maker to work with photos and Use Microsoft’s Live Movie Maker to work with photos and videos.videos.videos.videos.

• Create a multimedia presentation.Create a multimedia presentation.Create a multimedia presentation.Create a multimedia presentation.

• Share presentation in multiple formats.Share presentation in multiple formats.Share presentation in multiple formats.Share presentation in multiple formats.

P V N E T 2

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SOME SPECIFIC ACTIVITIES

• Use Windows Live Movie Maker to make a multimedia Use Windows Live Movie Maker to make a multimedia Use Windows Live Movie Maker to make a multimedia Use Windows Live Movie Maker to make a multimedia

production.production.production.production.

• Use Photoshop Elements to manage your media. Use Photoshop Elements to manage your media. Use Photoshop Elements to manage your media. Use Photoshop Elements to manage your media.

• Rip Music from Audio CD for use in your presentation.Rip Music from Audio CD for use in your presentation.Rip Music from Audio CD for use in your presentation.Rip Music from Audio CD for use in your presentation.

• Copy/convert video from DVD for use in WLMM.Copy/convert video from DVD for use in WLMM.Copy/convert video from DVD for use in WLMM.Copy/convert video from DVD for use in WLMM.

• Publish the production in a variety of formats.Publish the production in a variety of formats.Publish the production in a variety of formats.Publish the production in a variety of formats.

• Windows DVD Maker to make a TVWindows DVD Maker to make a TVWindows DVD Maker to make a TVWindows DVD Maker to make a TV----viewable DVD.viewable DVD.viewable DVD.viewable DVD.

• Upload the completed video to online services, such Upload the completed video to online services, such Upload the completed video to online services, such Upload the completed video to online services, such

as YouTubeas YouTubeas YouTubeas YouTube

P V N E T 3

ADDITIONAL COURSE HIGHLIGHTS

• Bring your laptop or Use PVNET’s Computers With Windows 7Bring your laptop or Use PVNET’s Computers With Windows 7Bring your laptop or Use PVNET’s Computers With Windows 7Bring your laptop or Use PVNET’s Computers With Windows 7

• Work With Different MediaWork With Different MediaWork With Different MediaWork With Different Media

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Making a Multi-Media Production

With Windows Live Movie Maker – Part 1

In Part 1, we will select the pictures to be in the presentation, add video clips, learn to rearrange

the items, and finish by making an initial version of your movie. In Part 2, we will put the

finishing touches on it, including adding background music. The screen shots are from the

Windows 7 version of Windows Live Movie Maker (WLMM).(Movie Maker 6.0), but they are

essentially the same for the Vista version.

The WLMM Workspace

The figure below shows the basic WLMM workspace. It is significantly different from the

workspace one sees using the standard Movie Maker program.

Main Windows Live Movie Maker Workspace

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Step 1 Open a New Project

• In the upper left corner, click on the blue tab and select New Project.

Step 2 Import the Photos for Your Presentation

• Click on the icon shown in the first figure above.

• Browse to the folder containing the desired images.

• Select the photos you want to include using the standard Windows technique.

• Click Open.

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• Thumbnails of the selected images will appear in the main editing window.

• In the above figure note the vertical bar to the left of the first image.It is the current

playback position of the movie. As you preview the movie, it will move across the

screen.

• The red ellipse shows an image that has had a caption appied to it.

Step 3 Set Basic Options and Save WLMM Project

• On the Menu bar, click on Project.

• Select Aspect Ratio. For our purposes, we’ll use 16:9, and of course NTSC.

• Click on the blue tab and select Save Project as… Navigate to the folder where you want

your project file to be saved following the standard Windows prompts and screens.

Hereafter, click on Save to periodically update your project file.

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Step 4 Reorder Your Images as Needed

• The way your movie is displayed in WLMM is different most programs. It combines

what many programs refer to as the Scene Line (filmstrip of thumbnails) with the

Timeline, which in the case with WLMM, the moving vertical line mentioned above.

• To change the order of a single image a group of images, select it or them in the usual

way and drag them to their new position.

Step 5 Preview Your Movie

• To preview your movie at any time, click on the play button below the Preview Monitor.

• You can click on the small box with the arrow to preview it full screen.

• To exit the full screen mode, press the ESC key.

Step 6 Add a Video Clip to the Presentation

• Position the vertical play bar just left of the frame that you want to come before te video

clip.

• Click on Home on the Menu Bar and the Add Photos and Videos button.

• Navigate and select your video clips, and click on Open.

• You can move video clips in the same manner as still images to rearrange their order.

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Step 7 Save Your Project & Final Preview

• Click on File > Save. Actually, you have been doing this periodically up to this point,

right?

• Note: Only the locations of the pieces of your movie are saved, so you can not delete or

move them until after your movie is rendered.

• Reposition the vertical play bar to the beginning of the movie.

• Click on the View Full Screen button in the lower left corner of the preview monitor, or

press F11. Your movie will begin to play filling your screen.

• When the movie completes playing, press the ESC key to return to the main window.

Step 8 Save (Render) Your Movie on the Computer

• Click on Home and then the down arrow on the Save Movie button.

• Select For Computer.

• Name your movie and browse to where you want to save it.

o Since this is just an initial incomplete and low resolution version of your final

movie, add “Short” after its file name.

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• Note, in the lower right hand corner of the screen, you can create your own custom

setting.

• Click Save. The movie will be rendered and saved in the selected location.

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Ripping Music From an Audio CD

Using Windows 7 Media Player

This document provides the basic information and outlines the major steps in ripping music from

an audio CD using the Windows Media Player. Note, these instructions are for Media Player as

implemented in Windows 7. Different versions of Windows Media Player have slightly different

screens.

Step 1 Select Options

• Start Media Player, as you would any program, by clicking on Start > All Programs and

then finding Media Player in the list of programs.

• Do not put CD in drive yet.

• The opening screen may look like the one below. If it does, click on Organize > Layout >

Show Menu Bar.

• On the Menu Bar, click on Tools > Options > Rip Music to get the dialog box shown

below.

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• Select the folder location where the output file is to be saved by clicking on the Change

button.

• Click on File Name… and select Track No., Song Title, and Artist.

• Change the Format to MP3.

• Set Audio Quality to 192 kbps

• Click Devices tab and then the drive letter to verify the CD drive is properly selected.

• Click Ok

Step 2 Load the Audio CD

• In the screen, select the drive letter for the CD drive you will be using.

• Insert the audio CD. If it starts to play, click on the Pause button.

• The screen below appears that displays the songs on the CD.

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Step 3 Select Songs to be Ripped

• Click on the small square above the main list to remove its check mark. This removes the

check mark to the left of each song.

• Now click on the square to the left of each song you want to rip.

Step 3 Rip the Selected Songs

• Click on the Rip CD button at the top.

• The music is copied to a labeled sub-folder of the folder you created.

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Making a Multimedia Production With

Windows Live Movie Maker – Part 2

This is the second and final installment in making a movie using Microsoft’s Live Movie Maker

program. For this exercise, we assume that your pictures and video clips have been added to the

filmstrip and placed in the order you wish them to appear. This exercise covers those refinements

that will give your movie that professional look. They include adding transitions, background

music, and titles/credits. We also cover adding special effects, and editing your video clips to

eliminate those sections that did not come out the way you intended when you shot the video.

Finally, you will learn how to publish your finished movie in a format you can import into your

DVD burning program to make a DVD you can watch on your TV.

Step 1 Add Transitions

• Open your project and view the Filmstrip.

• Click on Animations on the Menu Bar as shown above.

• To preview a transition, hover the mouse over its icon.

• The transitions are for the image immediately to the right of the vertical play bar. Also,

the available transitions for the first image are limited. The are many for available for the

other images in your movie.

• To apply a transition at the current position of the play bar, click on it.

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Step 2 Adjust the Duration of a Transition

• While the transition button is still highlighted you can adjust its duration.

o Click on the down arrow in the Duration button and/or type in the desired time.

o Note, the default is 1.50 sec. in LWMM. In PSE Slide Show Editor it is 2.0

seconds.

o Also, you can set the same transition/duration for all of the images to the current

choice by clicking on the Apply to All button immediately below the Duration

button.

Step 3 To Repeat Transitions

• Click on First Picture whose Transition you want to change.

• Hold down Shift Key and Click on Last Picture whose Transition you want to change.

• Click on the desired transition.

• As shown in the figure below, once an image has been assigned a transition, its lower left

hand corner has a gray triangle. In the figure images in the top row have been assigned a

transition. Those in the bottom row have not.

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Step 4 Add Effects

In many video editing programs the term “Effects” refers to both basic editing adjustments, as

well as special effects.

• Click on Visual Effects in the Menu Bar.

• Click on desired image.

• To preview the desired effect on that image, hover your mouse over the effect.

• To apply the effect to the selected image, click on the Effect’s icon.

• Note the image now has four small squares in its upper right hand corner. See the figure

below.

• Also note, Effects can be added to your video clips.

Step 5 Add a Title at the Beginning of Your Movie

• Click the first image, then click on Home on the Menu Bar.

• Click on the Add Title button.

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• The Text Editing screen is displayed. From here you can customize its look any a

variety of ways, including how it is displayed and the length of time it is displayed.

• After the Title slide is incorporated you see the title beneath its thumbnail in the

filmstrip.

• To Add credits at the end of your movie, click on Home on the Menu Bar, and then then

the Add Credits button.

• The screen below appears. You can customize the credits in a similar way is you did for

the title, including the animation of the credits.

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Step 6 Import and Add Background Music

• Click on Home on the Menu bar, and then click on the first image in the Filmstrip, the

title slide.

• Click on the down arrow in the Add Music icon, add select Add Music at the Current

Point as shown below.

• In the Movie Tasks pane, click on Import Audio or Music.

• Navigate to the appropriate folder and select the desired song.

• At the top of the screen there is now a button, Music Tools. That opens a screen from

which you can set various options to be applied to the music track, including fading it in

and out, and where it is to start and stop.

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Step 7 Adjust the Background Music Track – Avoid it Playing over Video Clip Audio

• Add the Music at the beginning of the movie, which will play through any video clip in

the middle.

• Position the vertical play bar exactly where the video clip starts. Note the time in seconds

– conversion may be required.

• Type this value in the Set End Point using the Music Tools screen

• Position the play bar at the exact end of the video clip and note its time.

• Add the desired music and select the Start at This Point in the Add Music icon from the

Home screen. The figure below shows the screen after this has been done. Notice there is

no green music bar above the video clip’s thumbnail.

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Step 8 Trim a Video Clip

One of the major features LWMM has that PSE does not is it can edit the video clip and delete

any portion of it.

• Click on Home from the Menu bar.

• Click on the thumbnail for the desired video clip.

• Click on the Video Tools tab at the top of the screen. See the figure below.

• In the Video Tools screen, click on Trim Tool icon. Note the blue in the center represents

what you want to keep ultimately.

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• Play the video clip and pause at that point you wish to start the video. Note its time in

seconds.

• Play the video clip to that point where you want to stop it.

• Again note the time in seconds.

• Note when a video clip has been selected, the time is shown for that clip in the lower

right hand corner of the preview monitor is for the video clip and not for your entire

movie.

• Set these two times in the Start Point and End Point fields respectively.

• Click on Save Trim.

• The figure below shows that the edited video will start after about 6.7 sec. after its initial

beginning and run to its 15-seconf point.

You can also split a video clip at any desired point by position to the point where you want

to split the clip into two clips, and clicking on Split icon.

Step 9 Save (Publish) Your Movie on the Computer

• Click on Save Movie down arrows and select how you want save your movie. Select the

desired option and follow the screen prompts for that choice.

• A good choice is For High Definition Display.

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