HP m7250n, m7248n, m7246n Creating Movies Using muvee autoProducer, Basic Steps to Make a Movie

Creating Movies Using muvee autoProducer

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Creating personalized and professional-looking video movies is simple with muvee autoProducer, a software program on your PC.

Basic Steps to Make a Movie

The basic steps to produce a movie with muvee autoProducer are:

1 Capture digital video: Capture live or recorded video to your hard disk drive directly from a compatible digital video camcorder (only from the desktop muvee autoProducer version).

2 Add videos and pictures: Select video and picture files from your PC folders. You can easily add videos and still images to your movie production. You can use these video and still image file types in your movie project:

File extension	File type
.dv	Digital video
.avi	Audio Video Interleaved
.mpeg-1	Motion Picture Experts
	Group video playback
.mpeg-2	Motion Picture Experts
	Group DVD video playback
.mpeg-4	High-quality video format
	(for Web streaming,
	wireless devices, etc.)
.mov	QuickTime movie
.wmv	Windows Movie Video
	(only in the desktop version
	of muvee autoProducer)
.asf	Advanced Streaming
	Format
.jpg, .jpeg	Joint Photographic Experts
	Group, still image
.gif	Graphics Interchange
	Format, still image
.bmp	Bitmap, still image

3 Add music: Select music files on your PC to add to your movie soundtrack.

You can use these music file types in your movie project:

File extension	File type
.aac	Advanced audio coding
.mp3	MPEG Layer 3
.m4a	MPEG-4 audio layer
.wav	Windows audio
.wma	Windows Media audio

4 Select a style: Apply a movie style editing template for different effects and picture transitions in your movie.

5 Add captions: Personalize your movie with opening titles and closing credits.

6 Make the movie: Automatically analyze the videos, pictures, music, movie style, and captions you added to your movie and save your movie to your PC hard disk drive, CD, or DVD.

7 Burn to disc: You can burn a video to DVD, VCD, or SVCD only from the desktop muvee autoProducer version.

The following sections contain detailed instructions.

Creating Movies Using muvee autoProducer 101