How To Rotate Videos using Windows Movie Maker

While taking still photos using cameras and mobiles, we rotate the device between landscape and portrait mode to get the best from the scene. While viewing on the camera, we can easily tilt the device and view the photos correctly but when we transfer it to computer, we have to rotate them for the best experience.

Sometimes while shooting videos people make a mistake of shooting them in portrait mode and when they transfer them to computer, watching them is literally a pain in the neck. Well, the good news is that rotating videos is as easy as rotating a photo, you just need to use the right tool.

Rotating Videos

To rotate a video open Window Movie Maker and import a video to it. The video will be analyzed and expanded in the timeline view. Now all you need to do is select the video and press the rotate button located on the toolbar. You can rotate the video to left or to right. Clicking a mode twice will turn the video upside down.

Now that was how you can rotate the full video.

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How to Use Windows Movie Maker As a Video Cutter

Windows Movie Maker is an excellent tool to work on videos and the best part is that it’s free! Obviously, you can’t compare it to the advanced tools like Sony Vegas or Adobe Movie Maker but if you are looking for some basic, in fact more than just basic video editing then Windows Movie Maker will not disappoint you.

Previously we have discussed how you can quickly create a movie from your photos using the Movie Maker tool and today I will tell you another out of the box idea that you can use the movie maker for: using it as a video cutter.

So lets see how you can use the Movie Maker as a video cutter to cut out a segment from any video. You know that movie scene you always want to play repeatedly or that part of the speech in a talk. Better to separate them in a separate video file so that you could play and share them easily no?

Before you start, make sure you have all the necessary video codecs installed on your system. If you don’t have them, then I recommend you to install K-Lite media codecs before you continue any further.

Here we go.

Step 1: Launch Windows Movie Maker and click on Click here to browse for videos and photos to browse and add the video you want to cut. You can also drag and drop your video to add it.

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How To Watermark Your Videos In Windows Movie Maker

If you’ve always been fascinated by how well some YouTube videos or commercials turn out that you wish to make some of your own, why not try Windows Movie Maker to warm up your video-making skills? Lots of YouTube gurus seem be doing so. Authoring your own videos can be fun and time-consuming at the same time, so if you want to protect your work, make it more distinguishable and even professional, you should consider adding your signature.

I certainly wish I did back when I fansubbed a music piece with some (as I was told later) metaphorically incorrect translations and later laughed when I saw the exact same, incorrect lyrics I had spent hours researching for in another similar video. As you can tell, there’s no real harm in spending a few more minutes protecting your work. It may even get you more motivated when you see your own logo in your videos that you’ll continue making videos!

So before we start with the tutorial, note that the first part of the tutorial focuses on adding simple text-based watermarks, and for the second part, we’ll add an image watermark or logo into our video using the code from some brilliant users at the Movie Maker Forums.

Adding A Text Watermark
If you want a simple text watermark, not a logo, of your username or name in the lower portion of your video, you can get started right away with one of the built-in Titles.
First, start up Windows Movie Maker. Press Ctrl + I (or click on Videos under Import in the left sidebar) to import your video from your computer.

Drag your video to the timeline. Click on Title and credits under Edit in the left sidebar and then, click on Title on the selected clip.

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How to open or save Windows Movie Maker or MSWMM files?

As the beginner of Windows Movie Maker, you may come across various problems when using it, such as how to open .mswmm files, save Windows Movie Maker to WMV or how to import your source file into the Movie Maker, etc. In the article, I would like to show the detailed tips on using the Windows Movie Maker.

First comes to MSWMM files:
Some users may be confused about why the .mswmm can’t be uploaded upon YouTube. In fact, the .mswmm file is project file, rather than Windows Movie Maker video, but the project file. So before sending the video to YouTube, you should save the movie as .wmv or .avi video file type.

Part 1: How to open or import video to Movie Maker:

1.Run the Movie Maker program.

2.On the File menu, you can choose Import into Collections or Import Media Items. Make your selection and then click Import. Also you can directly add .mswmm project file into the software.

3.Drag the video to the storyboard at the bottom of the window.
Now, you can effortlessly edit your video in Movie Maker. When you finish the editing job, you can follow the Part 2 to save it.

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Some Tips on Using Windows Movie Maker

Windows movie maker is a popular free video editing software on windows. We can use it to do some simple video editing like crop, merge, or add effects, if you don’t need much advanced editing features, you can use the windows movie maker to edit your video share with your family or friends, adding some fun for our life.

(1) How to Crop a Video in Windows Movie Maker

1 Import the videos into Windows Movie Maker using the "Import Video" command in the Movie Tasks list. Select the video in the list window and click the "Import" button.

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How to Chroma Key in Windows Movie Maker

Record your subject.

• With any method of Chroma Key, you will need a video to superimpose over your background.
• Your subject must be shot in front of a dark blue or green background.

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   Method 1:
   • Highlight the following xml code: (Source-windowsmoviemakers.net/forums) 
     
     <!-- windowsmoviemakers.net/forums -->
     <TransitionsAndEffects Version="1.0">
     <Transitions>
     <TransitionDLL guid="{C5B19592-145E-11D3-9F04-006008039E37}" >
     <Transition name="Greenscreen" iconid="12" comment="Makes first clip show through blue areas of second clip">
     <Param name="KeyType" value="1"/>
     <Param name="Similarity" value="100"/>
     <Param name="Progress" value="0.0"/>
     </Transition>
     </TransitionDLL>
     </Transitions>
     </TransitionsAndEffects>
   • Copy it, and paste it into notepad.  
     1. Click File>Save As, and navigate to C:\Program Files\Movie Maker\Shared\AddOnTFX.
     2. If you don't already have an AddOnTFX folder, right click then New>Folder.
     3. In the drop-down "File type" box, select "All types". Save the file as "greenscreen.xml"

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