NOTE: You, the customer, are solely responsible for data security. WinBook strongly recommends that you perform a backup of all personal data contained on your system prior to performing this procedure. Warning: WinBook will NOT be held responsible for any data loss incurred during this process.

What is Windows Movie Maker?

Windows Movie Maker allows you to turn your computer into an audio and video-editing center! You can use it to edit audio and video sequences from sources such as camcorders or digital cameras. You can create movies to share with family and friends, save images of important events, or enable distance learning. You can even create a slide show using your own pictures or pictures you import to your computer.

How do you open Windows Movie Maker?

You can open Movie Maker by clicking Start, pointing to Programs, pointing to Accessories, and then clicking Windows Movie Maker.

Playing with home video!

You can use existing home videos to create your own movies using Windows    Movie Maker. It imports and opens video and audio, which you can edit and arrange to create movies. You can then use them as the basis for amassing a family video library, keeping friends and family up-to-date, distributing news, entertaining, selling products, communicating business messages, and conducting distance learning; you can even create a slide show of still images. Once they're made, you view movies in Windows Media Player, which is a part of Windows ME. It can also be downloaded free from Microsoft.com onto any computer running Windows 95 or later. You can view your movies on your computer, send them to people in e-mail, or put them on a Website for viewing. You can find detailed information about how to use Windows Movie Maker by clicking the Help menu in the Movie Maker window. For more information about how you can make movies from your home videos, click any of the following topics.

How do you capture video to your computer?

NOTE: To capture video to a WinBook notebook computer, you will need to purchase a Video Capturing PCMCIA Card.

When you capture video on the computer, you are playing the video (movie) "out" of the video camera, and "in" to the computer. Bearing this in mind will help you keep straight which ports you need to deal with when connecting the camera or VCR to the computer. To transfer videos to your computer, you also need to have the right equipment. For capturing analog video you need the following:

1. A video camera or VCR that has video and audio ports.
2. A video card in your computer that has video in and audio in ports.
3. A sound card in your computer that has an audio in port.
4. Appropriate cables used to connect your video source to your computer.          

For more information on Windows Movie Maker, including features, and advanced controls, please visit Microsoft's website.  You can use the following links:

http://www.microsoft.com/WINDOWSME/news/articles/digitalstate.asp

http://www.microsoft.com/WINDOWSME/guide/digitalmedia/moviemaker.asp

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