October 26, 2010
Windows Movie Maker Animation
Now that you have your 100 images to create your first animation, you need to use Windows Movie Maker to make them into a little movie. Here’s how you do it:
1. Open Windows Movie Maker under programs.
2. Under Capture Video, click Import Pictures and select all of your animation images.
3. Click Tools->Options->Advanced. Change the Picture and Transition duration to about 0.25 seconds.
4. Select all of your pictures from the collections board and drag them down to the storyboard at the bottom.
5. Now you can see how they look as a movie when you click the play button.
6. Under Edit Movie, click View video effects. Check them out. Add any of them to your pictures by dragging them down to the storyboard.
7. Go to Edit Movie -> Make titles or Credits. Create a Title Slide with the Title of the animation. Create Credits at the end:
Created by ______________
for Computer Arts
Miss Waggoner
Seward High School
Seward, Alaska
2010
Music: This Song by This Person
8. Add music! Go to this site for free music. This site is really easy to search and the music is all copyright free. Once you have the mp3 file, click Import audio or music under Capture Video. Once you have the audio file in the Collections area, cllick Show Timeline on the bottom, and then drag that audio file down into your movie. You can now move it to determine when the sound starts, ends, etc.
9. Finish your movie! Once everything is perfect, you need to save your movie as a Windows Media Player file so that anyone can watch it. Under Finish Movie, click Save to my Computer. Choose to save your movie inthe L drive, under your e number. This is because your movie is a big file that takes up a lot of space. Name your movie with the file name, but don’t include any spaces in the title, for example, save it as kittydream, not Kitty Dream. Click Next, and under Movie Setting, Other settings, choose Video for broadband (512 Kbps). Click Next again, now your movie is saving as a WMM file, this should take a minute or so.
10. Post your movie! On your blog, click Plugins ->Embedded Video -> Activate. Then in a new post, click on the little TV symbol. Choose the tab that says upload video. Find your video in the L drive, and upload it. Click the box that says Show video without link. Save your post and preview it to make sure your video plays!
11. Under your movie, write about your experience in making your first animation and Windows Movie Maker. What did you learn? What did you like? What didn’t you like?