Chapter 9. Import Video and Make a Quick Movie

  • Connect your camera

  • Import your video

  • Make a movie with Movie Maker

Anyone who has taken a movie on their digital camera or video camera and then put the tape away into a drawer and never looked at it again should read this chapter. There’s nothing worse than capturing memories and then losing them to the junk drawer. It’s so ridiculously easy to import video and make a movie to send to all your friends and family—or view whenever you want—with the Windows Vista operating system that you’ll wonder why it seemed so difficult before. You’ll have a few hardware issues to tackle, but once you’ve resolved them, you should be making movies easily. Get your camera, put on your creative hat, and let’s roll tape. ...

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