Microsoft Windows Movie Maker 2: Visual Quickstart Guide

Customizing Transitions

Customizing transitions in Movie Maker is exceeding easy, primarily because the only thing you can customize is duration. Of course, if you're really adventurous, Microsoft has provided documentation that allows you to create your own transitions, but programming is required. You can access the documentation at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwmt/html/moviemakersfx.asp

I've looked over the materials, and they seem more like a problem for a beginning class on programming than a practical way to extend Movie Maker's transition capabilities.

So for us nonprogrammers, duration changes will have to do. Let's get to it.

To modify the transition duration

1.	Select the target transition. A trim ...