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Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Video Editing With Movie Maker

By Phil Guye

The Windows Movie Maker is already built-in PCs with of course, the Windows Operating System. So even if you do not download any video editing software, you're already pre-loaded with high quality editing tools. When you get videos from your camera or camcorders whenever there's a special event, your videos often have 'junk' portions. These junk portions ought to be removed.

Create professional-grade videos or movies in the comfort and ease of your abode. Home movies are mostly monotonous since the majority of the materials are not quite interesting. Well, one way to create interesting videos is by modifying the raw footage using the Movie Maker. Newbies often make use of the zooming features when capturing videos. Your audience will feel sea-sick with a lot of zooming so make an effort to reduce the usage of this function to framing shots only. You're fortunate mainly because through WMM, you can simply edit the zooming scenes in your raw footages. When filming a family member or a narrator, you will often video the part when they say 'am I on?' or 'should I speak now?'; don't worry since you can now quickly take that part out.

How do we eliminate these junk shots? When transferring videos from your camcorder or any other device to your computer, WMM will ask you if you need to manually take the video; through this program, you can easily decide which sections should be moved to the pc. This is one of the ways of saving disk space. Additionally, there is the option for capturing 100% of the video however, you will rarely make use of this option because novice videos does contain lots of junk material. With WMM, you can also cut the recording in half. This can be done on the timeline or on the preview monitor. Find the exact area which contains all the junk and cut it. Nonetheless, you have to be organized all the time; otherwise, you'll have a large number of clips that will be very hard to work with. Each clip features its own ins and outs. Pull ends of the videos towards the correct point to correctly trim the clip ends.

With editing software like WMM, it's really easy to reduce all the junks. In case you captured a 2-hour video, it is possible to still lower its size by editing and taking out the unnecessary segments. You can also add video effects to your home videos with WMM. You can't possibly utilize all the effects simultaneously. You can alter the lighting of the video. For example, when the video was obtained indoors, occasionally the video seems too dark. You can easily brighten the scene by adjusting the settings effects. Utilizing the sepia tone and grayscale effects, color is instantly removed and the video will have an old photo look. For classy effects, you need to use the de-saturating effects. Flashback and dream sequences effects may also be accomplished. In order to produce comedy movies or videos, you should use the speed up or slow down effects. Don't assume all the effects are of help so select merely the best ones; don't exaggerate the effects because the output won't look realistic.

These are a few things you can do using WMM. Do it now and find out what sort of videos you can create. Have fun.

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