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1. Even if you did not get a cam corder for the holidays you
can still have holiday movies. If you have a digital camera
and a computer you can create some great home movies. I
have the windows vista and this is what program I use to
make the movies. I'm not sure if all computers have the
same program but I would think that they have a program
that is similar.

2. What you have to do is to go into programs and pull up the
windows photo gallery. Once you are there you will see a
black bar that runs across the top of the page. Within this
bar you will see where it says make a movie. My computer
has a auto-movie feature but I'm not sure if all programs
do so we will use the manual way.

3. So you hit make a movie and then it will open in another
window. On the left side of the page you will see tasks,
here you will want go to import and then pictures. This
will open up your files. I keep mine under desk top then
pictures and keep them filed by the date. Once you are
here then double click on the file you want to work with.
You can just scan over the pictures that you want to use
and then hit import. When I'm here I will hit views and use
the large icons, I do this so that I can double check the
photos and fix anything that I do not like before going on.

4. Now that you have found a image that you wish to use hit
import and the image will be move to a side bar. This will
be a small image and another larger on will display on the
screen. Now just go back to pictures and hit it again. This
will bring you back to the same file and choice another
image. You have to repeat the process to get all the small
images which you will use in the story board. I tried to see
if I could get all the images at one time but it just takes the
images to the big screen. Here you can not place them in
the order that you want.

5. At the bottom of the page you will see a gird. This is your
time line, just hit this and it will take you to the story
board. Here you can double click and drag the small image
to the frame that you want. If you do not like what you
have you can move the images around as much as you
like.

6. Now your pictures do not have sound but that is alright
because you can add audio and or music to them. In the
grid you will also see audio and music just hit this tab. You
can take any music from your library to use and also be
able to narrate the movie. You can have soft music in the
background as you tell the story. With the time line to can
adjust the length of the music with the frames, so if you
want a different song for each frame it is real simple to do
so.

7. Another thing that is cool to play with is the edit section.
Here you can add a title and credits at the end. You can
also put titles in between the frames or you can put titles
right on the photo. I do not care to place titles over the
photo because it takes away from the picture.

8. You can have a lot of fun playing around with this
program. Plus you can download onto DVD's or e-mail to
family. Who knows once to see how simple this is to use
you may want to learn more about editing your
photography.

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