Making the movie

After you have added at least one video or picture file to your movie project, you can have muvee autoProducer make the movie.

The muvee autoProducer program makes a movie by combining the video, picture, and music files you have selected, along with the style of movie, and puts together all of these pieces into a professional-looking movie with just a few steps.

To make a movie:

1Click the make muvee button. Click OK as required.

2After making a movie you can preview the movie in the muvee autoProducer Preview window. Use the controls in the Preview window to play, pause, and stop the movie preview:

•Each time you make a change to a movie project, you need to click the make muvee button again to add that change to your movie.

•You can revise and preview the movie as often as you want to experiment with different styles and the content of the movie.

Previewing the movie

After you have made the movie, you can preview how the movie looks and sounds and take snapshots of frames in the movie.

To preview a movie:

1Click the Start Playback button. The movie begins playing.

2Use the Stop and Previous Frame/Next Frame buttons to navigate through the movie.

3Click the Take Snapshot button to save the current frame as a picture file (.jpeg, .bmp, or .gif).

4Click the Locate Shot button to open the MagicMoments window. See “Adding videos” on page 95 for more information on using MagicMoments.

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