Now that you have got video in your timeline, you are probably ready to add music or sound effects. In order to do that, you simply go to file, import into collections and then browse your files (mine is in my document). Now, one thing to note is that windows moviemaker accepts mp3 files. However, in my experience the application has crashed every time I try to use mp3. So, if you have the same problem you can convert your mp3 into a different format. There are instructions for doing that.
So, I import my file and it is going to process and it appears here in the workspace and I just drag and drop it onto the timeline. Now, you may need to stretch the timeline up in order to see all the tracks – my audio is right here. And I can manipulate this audio just the same I can videos. So I can drag it around, I can click up here on the timeline and use clip split to break the audio track into pieces. I can shave the front or the back of a track by clicking on it and using those red arrows. And if I decide I want to change the sound level on the clip, all I need to do is right click the clip and this gives me the access to the controls for that individual clip. So I change the volume, fade it out, fade it in or mute the entire thing.
Those are pretty much all the basics to audio and windows moviemaker. So you can move on to the next section whenever you are ready.
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