Adding Slides to a Movie

Instead of using video clips, you can create slide shows in Movie Maker with still images that you create using a digital camera, web camera, or scanner. You can import the clips into Movie Maker and create transitions between them, just as you would in a movie. You can change the duration of individual pictures in Timeline view. You can also add sound clips to create a sound track that plays as your pictures appear on the screen. Portrait-oriented pictures in Movie Maker are the same height as landscape-oriented pictures, and Movie Maker inserts a black background on either side of each one.

Set Picture Duration

Click the Tools menu, and then click Options.

Click the Advanced tab.

Specify the picture duration in seconds.

Click OK.

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Import Pictures

Click the Collections button, and then click the collection where you want to place the imported pictures.

Click Pictures in the Tasks pane.

Select the folder that contains the picture files you want to import.

Select the files you want to import.

Timesaver:

To import several files at one time, press and hold down the Ctrl key, and then click each file that you want to import.

Click Import.

Movie Maker adds the imported pictures into the selected collection.

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Take a Picture from Video

Click the video clip from which you want to take a picture.

Drag the Playback indicator on the Seek bar to the frame that you want to capture as a picture.

Click the Tools menu, and then click Take Picture from Preview.

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Select a folder, and then type a name.

Click Save.