Creating Titles

There are four steps to creating a title in Movie Maker: choosing the title location, inserting the text, customizing font and font characteristics, and choosing an animation scheme.

By now, you're probably working primarily in Timeline view, at least during these latter production stages. If not, note that if you attempt to insert a title into the Title Overlay track from Storyboard view, Movie Maker will automatically switch to Timeline view and then insert the title. For this reason, I recommend that you work in this view now.

To insert a title

1.
If necessary, click the Show Timeline button to switch to Timeline view (Figure 13.2).
Figure 13.2. Click the Show Timeline button (if necessary) to switch to Timeline view.
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