Windows Live Movie Maker is a small but powerful movie editing application from Microsoft. It is a complete rewrite of the old Movie Maker software with a new audience in mind. The focus of this new edition is on giving you the power to quickly create movies and slideshows to share with your friends and family. The movies can be a combination of your favorite pictures and home movies set to your own soundtrack. You can add cool effects to transition between scenes, and captions to add a narrative to your movie. With Movie Maker, users can:

Edit digital video and photos, including adding music and narration
Apply animation effects to videos and photos
Create DVDs for personal use, including menu systems for navigation

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James Floyd Kelly is a professional writer from Atlanta, Georgia. He has written numerous books on multiple subjects, including LEGO robotics, open source software, and building your own CNC machine as well as a 3D printer. He is the editor-in-chief of the number one MINDSTORMS NXT blog, The NXT Step (TheNXTStep.com), where he is joined by fellow NXT experts who share their knowledge and designs with other robot fans around the world.

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Book Title: Getting StartED with Windows Live Movie Maker
Authors: James Floyd Kelly
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-2902-5
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Apress Access Books, Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4302-2901-8Published: 14 April 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4302-2902-5Published: 07 June 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: 248
Topics: Microsoft and .NET, Media Design

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