Adding Video Effects

Movie Maker offers a variety of video effects that you can add to a movie project, such as Ease In, Blur, Film Age Old, Mirror Vertical, Speed Up Double, and Watercolor. A video effect is applied for the entire duration of a clip, picture, or title in a movie project. You can add multiple video effects to the same clip, as well as customize the order. If you no longer want to use a video effect, you can remove it.

Add a Video Effects

Click the Locations list arrow, and then click Effects.

Click the Timeline/Storyboard button, and then click Timeline or Storyboard.

Drag the effect to the video effect cell of the clip in the storyboard or on the clip on the Video track in the timeline.

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Change Order or Remove Video Effects

Right-click the clip with the effects you want to change, and then click Effects.

Click the displayed effect you want to move or remove.

To remove the effect, click Remove.

To move the effect, click Move Up or Move Down.

When you’re done, click OK.

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