Chapter 3. Getting Started With Movie Maker

As a journalist who specializes in video-related topics, I get a lot of email asking basic questions about digital video, editing, and video production in general. Sometimes, late at night when I'm answering these queries I fantasize about bundling them together on my www.doceo.com Web site. I could label them the Jan-FAQs (pretty catchy, eh?), attract a gazillion eyeballs from interested readers, start accepting advertising, and then sell the whole thing to Donald Trump.

Until then, however, it strikes me that since Movie Maker is the prototypical “first video editor” used by many editing newbies; many readers of this book may share some of the same questions. So this chapter begins with an abridged ...

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