PE4_Movie Maker

Welome to MovieMaker

This week's tool I choose to use is Windows Movie Maker. As a teacher of video, I wanted to make sure that I am really teaching my students as many possibilities with video as possible. Currently, we create and edit our videos using Pinnacle Studio, which is a great video editing tool. But my students do not have access the tool from home. So since Movie Maker and is free and for the most part is already loaded on the computer, I thought this would be a great tool.

Often times when a product is free is it not as robust and somewhat limits your capabilities, but not MovieMaker. This tool is very robust and even the free version can meet all your video needs. MovieMaker allows you to import from your digital or video cameras, vcr, hard drive or cd. Once you have your pictures and or video clips uploaded to your hard drive, all you do is import into your MovieMaker project and now the editing can begin. You have options to to add video effects, titles, transitions, and background music to your projects. MovieMaker allows you to edit your individual clips by breaking them up into smaller clips and trimming your clips to add more precision to your video. Since we have access to flip cameras at school, my kids can use those to capture video at our sporting events instead of using our video recorders. With movie maker, they can come into class, upload the video footage and begin the editing process. This creates a dynamic of collecting video from multiple sources to save for our daily announcements for the school to view. Not to mention that they can work on video from home. Students can even add introduction slides to their video making their clips a more complete and finished product, making my job a lot easier. Once they have their video edited they can save the finished product to a movie file of which can be imported into pinnacle. So there you have it, Windows MovieMaker. A great video editing tool suitable for all you video needs.