Customizing Your Timeline View

You've probably already noticed that as you place additional videos on the Timeline, the big picture gets increasingly difficult to see. Fortunately, Movie Maker supplies several tools that help you control your Timeline environment.

First, Movie Maker provides a slider bar at the bottom of the Timeline that you can use to move easily through your production. In addition, you can stretch the Timeline so that it represents a longer period (and thus shows more video clips or longer stretches of a single video clip) to provide a high-level view. Or you can shrink down the Timeline to a second-by-second view, which is helpful when you're synchronizing production elements such as audio and the main video.

To move around ...

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