Microsoft Windows Movie Maker 2: Visual Quickstart Guide

Appendix B. Creating Movies in Photo Story

As described in “Editing Still Images” in Chapter 9, Movie Maker can create slide shows from your digital images, complete with narration and background music. What Movie Maker can't do is add pans and zooms to the images, like those popularized by Ken Burns in his Baseball and Civil War documentaries (and often called Ken Burns' effects). For this, you need a product like Microsoft Plus! Photo Story, a component of Microsoft's $19.95 Plus! Digital Media Edition (DME).

Photo Story is designed solely for creating slide shows, or stories, as Microsoft likes to call them, from digital images. With it, you can publish your slide shows as stand-alone movies, convert them to Video CDs you can play on a DVD ...