Microsoft Windows Movie Maker Handbook (Book & CD-ROM)

Bill Birney; Matt Lichtenberg; Seth McEvoy

ISBN 10: 0735611807 / ISBN 13: 9780735611801

Published by Microsoft Press, 2000

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Synopsis:

Explains how to combine a PC, a camcorder, and Microsoft Windows Me to make movies at home. Storyboard construction and editing styles are covered along with more technical details. The CD-ROM contains Windows Media Player 7, sample music, and title slides. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Review: Windows Millennium Edition (aka Windows Me) endows Microsoft's everyday operating system with considerable multimedia capability, including video editing. Microsoft Windows Movie Maker Handbook explains how to use the video-editing tools that ship with Windows Me to assemble video presentations. Perhaps more importantly, authors Bill Birney, Matt Lichtenberg and Seth McEvoy relate knowledge about movie making, enabling you to plan and create videos that are more emotionally moving, persuasive and technically attractive. They do a good job of communicating the importance of high production values in every video creation, professional or amateur, and appropriately place the editing tools themselves second in importance behind good conceptual thinking.

In a typical section, the authors explain differences in editing styles. Documentary editing in the cinéma vérité style, for example, involves stringing together clips--often out of chronological sequence--in order to convey a larger truth about the subject. They explain camera moves ("dolly in", "pedestal up") as well. Coverage would be better if authors included examples from famous movies and television shows (the "Homicide" jerky camera, the window in the series of dissolves at the beginning of "Citizen Kane"). Sections on Windows Movie Maker and the other Windows Me tools are adequate--it's the background information on movie making that gives this book its value. --David Wall

Topics covered: Fundamentals of cinematography, video editing and the other technical aspects of movie making as facilitated by the tools that come with Microsoft Windows Me. Sections deal with planning shots, writing scripts, arranging lights and capturing video to digital format. Coverage of the Windows Movie Maker software documents the editing suite fully from the everyday user's point of view.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Microsoft Windows Movie Maker Handbook (Book...
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket