If you've ever watched a friend or family member's home movies and
wished you were home doing the laundry because it would be much more
exciting, then you might find this book useful. If you've ever watched
your friends and family members try to stay awake, fidget, and watch the
ceiling fan spin while watching one of your home movies, then you might
find this book useful, too. Either way, there is always room for
improvement when it comes to homemade movies. While you have no control
over other people's movies, you do have control over your own. There are
plenty of computer applications out there that will allow you to edit
your movies, add music, pull in special effects, and tweak opening and
closing credits. But not all of them are easy to use or easy to afford.
The easy applications always seem to come with a high price... and the
complicated ones seem to come with an even higher price! Well, not
anymore. While Microsoft continues to charge for its newest and most
popular operating system, Windows 7, and its productivity suite, Office,
it does occasionally give away some really nice software. And one of
those freebies just happens to be a great little video editing
application called Windows Live Movie Maker, or Movie Maker for short.
