Movie Maker & Audacity

Digital Storytelling... the final frontier. This highly educational series will train you how to take your media content and convert into a movie for distribution to others. Different Movie Maker versions for Windows Vista / 7 and Windows XP are covered in this training. As an added bonus, a brief look at Audacity, the free audio recording application is provided as well. Ready to make videos? Select any clip below to get started!
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Windows Live Movie Maker
Lesson 1:  Getting Started
3:20
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Getting Started

This lesson will introduce you to the Live Movie Maker interface. Learn about the ribbon and tabs, Quick Access Toolbar, online help and more. This lesson concludes with information on how to download Windows Live Movie Maker for free from Microsoft.

Lesson 2:  Organizing & Importing Your Media
3:16
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Organizing & Importing Your Media

In addition to showing you how to work with media files in your Movie Maker project, this lesson also explains and demonstrates the importance of properly organizing your media for use with the project -now or later.

Lesson 3:  Editing Your Movie
6:41
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Editing Your Movie

See how to get the most out of the Edit tab. Learn how to move your content around, trim it, add & edit captions and more. Also, a brief demonstration of simple text effects is shown.

Lesson 4:  Adding Slides to Your Presentation
5:40
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Adding Slides to Your Presentation

Slides can be an important teaching tool that clearly explains your topics. This clip shows you how to use slide content from Microsoft PowerPoint and import it into Live Movie Maker.

Lesson 5:  Adding Audio, Animations & Effects
4:12
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Adding Audio, Animations & Effects

Get ready to add some lights, camera, and action to your presentation! This lesson demonstrates several high quality animations and effects. Also see how to add audio to your movie. This clip closes with an example of the high quality cineamatic themes available in Live Movie Maker.

Lesson 6:  Producing Your Movie
4:12
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Producing Your Movie

Learn what production settings are available for your digital story. Then you'll examine the custom production settings and learn how to fine tune and save your audio and video settings for the final product.

Lesson 7:  Sharing Your Movie
4:31
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Sharing Your Movie

Ready for the world to see what you've been working on? Discover how to share your movie using a variety of methods. A step-by-step guide to uploading your movie to YouTube.com is also presented.

Windows Movie Maker (for XP)
Lesson 8:  Getting Started
2:46
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Getting Started

This lesson will introduce you to the interface. Learn about the different activity panes including Movie Tasks, the Collections pane and Preview pane. You'll also see how to switch between Timeline and Storyboard view and how to quickly access Help.

Lesson 9:  Organizing & Importing Your Media
3:55
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Organizing & Importing Your Media

See how to prepare for your movie projects and then import your media directly into Windows Movie Maker. You will see how to import images, videos and audio.

Lesson 10:  Editing Your Movie
4:19
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Editing Your Movie

See how to edit your media from within Movie Maker. Don't worry!!! Your original files will all stay intact! See how to adjust the duration for still images and split / trim videos.

Lesson 11:  Adding Video Effects to Your Transitions
4:31
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Adding Video Effects to Your Transitions

Take the ordinary to the extraordinary with the integrated video effects and transitions in Movie Maker. You'll see how easy it is easy to become a special effects pro in no time!

Lesson 12:  Adding Titles to Your Presentation
5:26
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Adding Titles to Your Presentation

If you need to elevate your teaching prowess, adding titles to your presentation will definitely help get the point across. We'll show you a basic way to do this and a more advanced method that utilizes Microsoft PowerPoint.

Lesson 13:  Producing Your Movie
3:50
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Producing Your Movie

Learn the difference between the various methods of production available in Windows Movie Maker. Choose from different distribution methods such as CD, DVD, Email attachments and more!

Audacity
Lesson 14:  Introduction to Audacity
2:59
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Introduction to Audacity

This clip will give you a brief tour of the Audacity interface as well as show you the application in action. Learn about the timeline, playback controls and other advanced audio features.

Lesson 15:  Record and Edit Audio
4:57
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Record and Edit Audio

Follow step-by-step the entire process of recording and editing an audio clip. Learn how to delete portions of audio, silence other parts and finally move sections of audio around.

Lesson 16:  Saving and Exporting Your Audio
3:20
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Saving and Exporting Your Audio

After watching this lesson, you will have a better understanding of how to save your edited audio files for use in other applications such as Windows Movie Maker. This clip briefly explores some advanced file saving options as well.

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