Once you have finished making a home movie, you want to enjoy the fun of sharing it with others. To do this, you need to publish and save your movie in a format that is compatible with video viewing software. In this article I will describe how this can be accomplished using the Windows Movie Maker.

Windows movie maker is one of several free downloadable movie editors. Using Windows you can easily edit the length, and ordering of your video clips. You can combine them into a longer movie, and you can add scene transitions and special effects. You can also add titles subtitles, credits and captions. These various types of captions are easy to add to a video, and they can greatly enhance the quality of the clip. The Windows makes it easy for an amateur to use this type of editing.

Within the last year, You Tube began putting their foot down and shutting down videos guilty of copyright infringement. This doesn’t happen automatically. However, if a video becomes popular, and if the author of the music or the owner of the copyright sees the video and makes a complaint, then the video will be shut down. This has happened a number of times, even with popular videos that suddenly lost their appeal overnight, after You Tube yanked the audio portion of the tape.

With modern technology, the amateur video maker can try his hand at video editing, and use techniques that are seen in professional movies. There are many video editors on the market, and many video editors come free as part of a larger computer package. For example, the Windows Movie Maker comes with most Windows software packages.

People who have the complete Windows package for their PC, get the Windows movie maker along with other Windows programs. The movie maker is a nifty software package that allows owners to edit their own home movies, and then post them online. Using a special digital detection method, the movie maker automatically slices raw video footage into small clips, wherever it detects an abrupt scene changes. The movie maker features a story line editing board, with clip holding boxes and transitional areas. When a user is ready to edit, he simply drags his video clips into one of the boxes. Special effects can then be added to one or more of the clips, and special transitions can be added to the space between the boxes.

If you use windows on your pc, check the start menu and you might find that you have the window movie editor on your computer. This is a free editor with the capability to edit home made movies. You can trim them, arrange individual clips into a sequential story, add special transitions between clips and add special effects.

On first view, the window movie maker clip system seems formidable and a little strange and arbitrary. The fact that the Windows movie maker will automatically break up video film into small clips on downloading is frightening. How will the software know where to make the cuts? What if it creates a cut in the middle of a scene? In truth, the clip creation process is very scientifically based, and there are opportunities to change the structure of the clip selection later on.

Once you have captured video footage with a home camera, webcam or cell phone video, you can download the raw video to your computer, and polish it up with a video editor. There are a number of free and professional video editors, and some video editors come free with the purchase of a larger programs. This article will describe the features which come with the Microsoft Movie Maker.

If the video bug has bitten you, and you own your own web cam,
video camera or cell phone with digital capabilities, you might
be wondering how you can post your video online and make it
presentable, as well.

To appreciate the value of Dr. DivX software, you have to understand the purpose of a codec. A codec is a compressor, a software program that recodes a video file into a new file which takes up much fewer megabytes. Compression is important because it allows more efficient internet transfer of files, and additional advantages, such as, for example, the posting of longer videos on You Tube.