Windows Movie Maker 2 Zero to Hero

- Introduction
- Shooting your footage
- Capturing video and importing files
- Collections and projects
- Transitions
- Editing clips
- Video effect
- Audio editing
- Titles and credits
- Saving and sharing movies
- Hero 1 – E-mailing a video postcard
- Hero 2 - Editing a vacation movie
- Hero 3 - Videoing an event
- Hero 4 - Producing a short movie for the web.

Jon Bounds is a writer and editor from Birmingham, England, where he grew up listening to The Smiths and trying to get his Sinclair Spectrum to do desktop publishing. Jon studied Computer Science at the University of Birmingham in the days when the Internet was still dismissed as a niche research tool, and digital video would never replace film. He graduated with plans to use computers to create and share 'stuff'. A short-lived journalism career ended when he realized that he'd rather just make it all up - the National Enquirer had no vacancies. Jon instead settled for the equally glamorous life of a Technical Editor at friends of ED and has edited many titles on digital video including Final Cut Pro, Premiere, QuickTime, After Effects, and video for Flash. Now computers have caught up a little, Jon spends many an hour editing video, writing, and entertaining people at www.jonbounds.co.uk. John Buechler has been a photographer and videographer from the pre-digital days of film cameras and projectors to the non-linear computerized editing of today. He uses many different photo and video editing software tools and, since its first release, he has been an avid user of Microsoft's Movie Maker. He lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan. In addition to doing freelance video work, he applies his photography, video and computer skills to home and family uses. He is called 'Papa' by his grandchildren and is known by many on the Internet as 'PapaJohn'. His personal website http://pws.chartermi.net/~papajohn includes links to some of his movies. PapaJohn is active on several Microsoft sponsored multimedia newsgroups. You see him most often on microsoft.public.windowsxp.moviemaker, a key newsgroup for users of Movie Maker 2. John was recognized by Microsoft as one of their 2003 Most Valuable Professionals in the Multimedia area. He recently expanded his support role by becoming a moderator of the Movie Maker 2 Special Interest Group (SIG

From the reviews:

"Microsoft's free editing program finally covered comprehensively." - Digital Video Made Easy

"Microsoft's Movie Maker 2 is a simple editing program that is simple to use and a great introduction to digital video. ... Windows Movie Maker 2 Zero To Hero ... has plenty of practical tips on how to use it effectively. ... This book covers many of the features in Movie Maker 2 by using a mixture of images and screenshots. ... complex exercises are detailed in steps. The writer clearly has a vast knowledge of the program ... ." (Digital Video, Issue 14, 2004)