Microsoft Windows Movie Maker 2: Visual Quickstart Guide

Customizing Movie Maker's Panes

One of Movie Maker's unique strengths is a highly flexible interface that you can customize for every phase of production. For example, when you're working with your collections, you can expand the Collections pane to show as many clips as possible. When editing, you can expand or shrink the Storyboard or Timeline to better suit your needs, or expand the Monitor to display your video larger than life.

Here's how it works. All four windows are separated by a thin blue line. Simply hover your pointer over the blue line, and it turns into a two-headed pointer you can use to drag and either expand or shrink the window.

Let's start with the screen shown in Figure 3.44.

Figure 3.44. Let's make the Contents pane larger ...