Developing Strong Nonlinear Editing Skills
A great tool, like our metaphorical hammer, does little good if you don't know how to use it. The rest of this book will give you the details. Even while you're shooting, however, you should understand Movie Maker's most valuable capability so that you can make the best use of this tool.
Simply stated, Movie Maker, like all computer-based video editors, is a nonlinear tool, which means that you can move video scenes around freely, like checkers on a checkerboard. Consider Figure 2.1. At the upper left is the Contents pane, which contains the scenes in the order that I shot them and later captured them on my hard disk. At the bottom is the Storyboard, where I can assemble all the scenes that I want in ...
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