Video:Windows Movie Maker Export

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Transcript:Windows Movie Maker Export

Hi, I'm Isaac Brody for About.com Computing. Today I'll teach you how to export your movie for the web using Windows Movie Maker.

Once you've created your movie in the timeline you may want to export your movie. We can export our movie for the web, and in other formats. To export go to File, Save Movie File.

Where to Save Windows Movie Maker Export

Under location select My Computer and click next. I'll enter a file name, and click Browse to choose a place to save my movie. I'll choose the desktop and click, OK. Now I'll click Next.

High Quality Export

Now we'll set our export settings. I'll click the first setting for best quality, and click on Next. It takes a little time to export, so be patient.

When it's done make sure the, Play movie when I click finish, box is selected and click Finish. And there's our project at full video quality. This is useful if you want to import your video into a DVD authoring program.

Windows Movie Maker Export for Web

Now I'll show you how to encode and shrink your film for the web. I'll close the movie file and again go to File, Save Movie File.

I'll select my computer and click Next, I'll name the file Movie web. Since I just saved to the desktop its still listed, so I'll click next. Under Movie settings click Show more choices. And then click Other settings.

When I click the dropdown menu I see lots of choices for exporting. I'll click High quality video large.

Web Video Sizing

If you look at the setting details, the display size is 640 by 480 pixels. This setting is good for high quality web video. I'll click the dropdown menu and click High quality video small.

When you look at settings, the display size is 320 by 240 pixels, half the size of the high quality setting. This setting maintains high quality with a smaller filesize. I'll use this one and click Next.

Now it's exporting. After its finished I'll click, Finish to watch it. That looks pretty good to me. And that's how you export your video from Windows Movie Maker.

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