{"id":3469,"date":"2016-07-08T22:49:20","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T22:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.apogeephoto.com\/?p=3469"},"modified":"2016-07-08T22:49:20","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T22:49:20","slug":"direct-your-own-photo-show-windows-live-movie-maker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apogeephoto.com\/direct-your-own-photo-show-windows-live-movie-maker\/","title":{"rendered":"Direct Your Own Photo Show:  Windows Live Movie Maker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KYivmPH3few\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Eyes Wild, above, is a show I made with the Windows 7 &ldquo;Windows Live Movie Maker&rdquo; program that is a free download from Microsoft, as part of <a href=\"http:\/\/explore.live.com\/windows-live-movie-maker?os=other\" target=\"_blank\"> Windows Live Essentials<\/a>. WLMM is easy to learn and friendly to use. It is also and has an intuitive and useful set of features for making short shows or videos.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s walk through the 8 steps.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. START <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In your Windows 7 program, check to make sure you have WLMM installed or download and install it. <\/p>\n<p> Give thought to your topic and then set up a folder on your external or main drive with the images you want to use. Looking at the photos in the folder you just set up, <em>Double Click on one of your Pictures<\/em>. It will appear and above it you&#8217;ll see a menu showing Edit, File, Email, Print and Slideshow.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Bring up WLMM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Click on Slideshow once<\/em> to bring up WLMM. <\/p>\n<p> Now, as the show plays, you&#8217;ll see a menu option for Create Movie. <em>Single Click Create Movie<\/em>. It will automatically load all the images you have in your folder. Now for the fun part&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. You&#8217;ll see a series of tabs for HOME, ANIMATIONS, etc<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Under the <strong>HOME tab<\/strong>, you can reorder the images just by dragging them. <em>Use the &ldquo;Add Videos and Photos &ldquo; button to import more images.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I chose the Sepia setting for my show. The preview window shows you the run time, and lets you click the arrow to expand your preview size to full screen.<\/p>\n<p>Add a music track by <em>clicking the Add Music button<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Add a title with different fonts and add captions<\/em> if you like. Just like in the movies you can choose how your Credits will scroll, fade, or dissolve.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. ANIMATIONS TAB <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll want to <em>choose transitions<\/em> from one image to another. By default, WLMM will zoom and pan automatically, so you can choose another <strong>Transition or Animation<\/strong>, or none at all, by clicking on those two options and choosing different fades, or pan and zoom effects.<\/p>\n<p><em>Note: When you are just beginning, try not to overdo the pan and zoom. Turn it off and just use the basic non-pan, non-zoom most often. This will put the emphasis on your image, not the effects.<br \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>5. VISUAL EFFECTS TAB <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This gives you options to alter the individual photos using fades, overlays and color adjustments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6. PROJECT TAB<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Under the <strong>Project tab<\/strong>, choose your format. I chose 16:9 for widescreen. WLMM has a wonderful feature to make the duration of each slide add up to match the total length of your music file: <em>just click on the Fit to Music button<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>7. EDIT TAB<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> You can fade the audio in the <strong>Edit panel<\/strong>, and also choose a different background color for your show.<\/p>\n<p><strong>8. FINISH with MENU TAB<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Just left of the HOME tab, is an icon for the <strong>MENU tab<\/strong>. Unlike the other tabs, it doesn&#8217;t show letters, just an icon and a little downward triangle.<\/p>\n<p>Save your project, publish the movie directly to the web and save your movie to your hard drive through this menu.<\/p>\n<p> That&rsquo;s it. You&rsquo;ve now created a movie using your own photos. 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