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    Windows Live MovieMaker & DVD Maker

    This appendix, written by Abe Handler, is designedto accompanyW : T M M.

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    Movie Maker

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    Tip:You need a Windows Live ID to use Movie Maker. If you dont have one, the Note on page 468explains how to get set up.

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    Installing and Opening Movie Maker

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    Note:When your computer is installing Movie Maker, youll see a dialog box that recommends you goahead and install allthe Windows Live Essentials programs. But if youre not going to use them, theres nopoint in letting them hog space on your hard drive. To decide which ones you actually want, check out thedescriptions on pages 266 and 267.

    If you just want a few, in the installation dialog box, click Choose the programs you want to install, andthen turn off the checkboxes next to all the ones you dont need. (You automatically get Photo Galleryalong with Movie Makeryou cant download one without the other.) The good news is that, if you dontinstall them all now, you can always go back to the Live Essentials download page (http://tinyurl.com/

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    What Happened to the Timeline?

    Movie Maker has been around since the days of Windows

    Me back in 2000. If youve used a previous version, youll

    notice that the current version of Movie Maker looks

    nothing like its predecessors. Thats because Microsoftsimplified the program for Windows 7 to make it easier

    for novices to create films.

    The biggest difference: In the XP and Vista versions, you

    added content to the collections pane and arranged the

    files on the timeline panel; now, you just add clips and

    photos directly to the storyboard (see Figure 1-1), and

    then overlay an audio file. That means theres no longer a

    built-in way to make precise, frame-by-frame edits to your

    movie. So if youre used to doing serious video editing in

    Movie Maker, youre out of luck. Fortunately, you have a

    couple of options:

    If youre ready for the big time, consider shelling out

    for a full-featured video editor, like Adobes Premiere

    Elements (www.adobe.com), which costs around $100.

    If you just want your old Movie Maker back (and

    youre technically inclined), try Googling for How

    to add Vista Movie Maker to Windows 7. Folks like

    you have found ways to get Vistas version of Movie

    Maker into Windows 7. Heres one of many online

    tutorials to get you started:http://tinyurl.com/2fqlz3b.

    Importing Pictures and Video Clips

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    Figure 1-1:Like most Windowsprograms, Movie Makerhas a ribbon across thetop that stores all your

    tools. The storyboardholds the clips and imagesthat make up your movie(clips are displayed as

    static images with filmborders; pictures just showup as thumbnails). And thepreview pane gives youa peek at what your final

    movie will look like. Theslider bar ties these three

    sections together: Drag itto a spot in your movie to

    preview and edit that partof the film.

    Previewpane

    Oval slider Playbackcontrols

    Clock Videoclip

    Slider bar

    Stillimage

    Ribbon

    Storyboard

    Note:The oval slider (Figure 1-1) and slider bar are always at the same spot in your movie: When youmove one, the other moves accordingly.

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    Tip:Ever wanted to make a picture from a video? You know, so you can have a snapshot of that split-second when your buddy realizes that heand his tuxedoare about to end up in the pool? Movie Makerhas got the tool for you: Click the Home tabs Snapshot button to take a picture of the image shown inthe preview pane. Movie Maker saves the picture as an image file (itll ask for a filename) and then addsit to the storyboard right after the current item. In Figure 1-1, for example, clicking the Snapshot buttonwould take a picture of the dog shown in the preview pane.

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    Importing from a Phone or Camera

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    Figure 1-2:The first step in importing a clip or image

    from your phone or camera is to connect thedevice to your computer. Then youre ready

    for Movie Makers slightly misleading Importfrom device command. When you click theMovie Maker menus icon (circled) and thenchoose this command, Windows takes files

    from the phone or camera, sends them toPhoto Gallery (page 484), and then displays apop-up box with brief instructions on how toget the images into Movie Maker. See Makea Slideshow Movie on page 516 for details.

    Tip:Sometimes images are upside down or sideways when you import them from a camera. To fixthem, go to the Home tabs Editing section and click Rotate right or Rotate left. Movie Maker spins theselected items until theyre right-side-up (also handy for wacky shots of Uncle Larry).

    Recording with a Webcam

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    Figure 1-3:When you record a clip witha webcam, Movie Maker

    saves your recording as avideo file (itll ask you for

    a filename) and adds it toyour movies storyboard.The controls in the upper

    left of the window are allyou need: Click Record toget started, and click Stopwhen youre feeling shy.The Cancel button takes

    you back to the main MovieMaker window.

    Note:Movie Maker displays an error message if you try to record video but dont have a webcam. If you dohave a webcam but youre still getting this message, it means that Windows doesnt see your camera. Makesure everything is plugged in and, if necessary, check out page 611for help with troubleshooting the problem.

    Changing Your View

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    Figure 1-4:The View tabs Zoom

    buttons make editingeasier.

    Click Zoom in andMovie Maker makeseverything in your

    storyboard biggerso you can makesecond-by-secondadjustments. Forexample, in the top

    image here, Zoomin has been clickedonce, so the

    30-second clip getsfive boxes instead ofthe standard four.

    Click Zoom outwhen you want to

    look over all theitems in your movie.

    In the bottom image,Zoom out has beenclicked once. Now this

    same 30-second clipis smallerit getsonly three boxes inthe storyboard. Youcan also skip the Viewtab and zoom usingthe buttons in the

    storyboards bottomright.

    30-secondclip

    Fiveboxes

    Change thumbnail size

    Zoom out Zoom in

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    Working with Clips and Images

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    Figure 1-5:Items in the story-board play in left-to-right order in yourfinal movie. You candrag an item to a new

    spot, or right-click itand choose Removeto cut it from your

    movie.

    Previous framePlay

    Next frame Slider bar

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    Tip:You can preview your movie anytime by clicking Play in the preview pane (Figure 1-5) or pressingthe spacebar. Movie Maker plays your movie in the preview pane, starting from wherever your slider baris. In Figure 1-5, for example, the slider bar is 3.86 seconds into the film.

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    Editing Items

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    Tip:If youre in a hurry and want to create a polished-looking movie in a jiffy, Movie Makers themes cando most of the work for you. Flip to page 20 of this appendix for details.

    Duration

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    Tip:If you want to change the duration of allthe photos in your movie, just head to the Home tab andclick the Select all button (it looks like a checkbox, but it doesnt turn on). Then go to the Edit tab andset a value in the Duration box, and Movie Maker applies your change to each image in the movie (dontworry: even though youve selected allyour items, the change only affects imagesnot clips). Thats wayeasier than changing the durations one by one, right?

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    Tip:Feel free to play around with video clips as much as you like. Movie Maker creates a copy of anyvideo files you import into it, so your changes wont affect the original footage.

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    Figure 1-6:The Trim tool can take

    some getting used to. Toavoid getting confused,

    remember that the

    ribbons Start pointbox and the left-handrectangular slider bothindicate the same thing:where the trimmed clipwill begin. This meansthat the value in theStart point box andthe position of the

    left rectangular slideralways correspond:When you change one,the other changes, too.

    (The same goes for theEnd point box and theright-hand slider.)Oval

    slider

    Rectangular sliders

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    Tip:You can use the J and L keys instead of the Previous frame and Next frame buttons (respectively).Just keep pressing the appropriate key to hop one frame forward or back. (If you forget which key to use,point your cursor at the button and a tool tip will appear with its keyboard shortcut.)

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    Tip:If you change your mind about shortening a clip afteryouve trimmed and saved it, just import theoriginal video into Movie Maker again (see page 2 of this appendix).

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    Figure 1-7:If you click Set endpoint here, MovieMaker will trim off thefootage to the right ofthe slider bar so thatthe clip is shortenedto 1 minute,

    21 seconds.

    Slider bar

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    Transitions

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    Figure 1-8:Transitions determine

    how images firstappear onscreen.

    Here, the dog pictureis transitioning ontothe screen, taking over

    from the cat video.

    Turned page graphic

    Selected transition

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    Tip:Click Apply to all to add the selected transition to all items in the storyboard (click the Undo button inMovie Maker windows upper left if you change your mind right away). Heads-up: The Apply to all commandsometimes misses the first item in your storyboard, so be sure to double-check how it did after you use it.

    Toremove all transitions, click the No transition icon (its at the top of the transitions list) and then clickApply to all.

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    Pan and Zoom

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    Note:To get a preview of a pan or zoom, put your cursor over its icon. Movie Maker will give you a littlelook at what to expect.

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    Figure 1-9:Panning and zoominggives the impressionthat the camera is

    moving across anitem in the story-board. In this figure,the camera is panning

    from left to rightacross the pictureof the dog. Just likewith transitions, youcan add the selected

    pan and zoom toall the items in the

    storyboard by clickingApply to all.

    Pan andzoom boxes

    Selected pan andzoom effect

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    Tip:Panning and zooming is sometimes called the Ken Burns effect, in honor of the documentary film-maker wholoves to pan and zoom. Check outhttp://tinyurl.com/4rpa7ob for details.

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    Figure 1-10:Visual effects changethe appearance ofclips and images

    in all kinds of neatways. In this case,the Posterize effect

    has been appliedto the photo of the

    snowbound dog. Youcan control how lightor dark the photo orvideo is by clicking

    Brightness and drag-ging the slider thatappears.

    Selected effect

    Visual effect boxes More button

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    Figure 1-11:To add more than one visualeffect, click an item in theAvailable effects list and thenclick Add. Movie Maker applies

    the effect and adds it to theDisplayed effects list. Repeatthis process to apply moreeffects. Movie Maker addsthem to your image or video,one after the other, starting

    from the top of the Displayedeffects list.

    Here, Movie Maker will add asepia tone to the image, thenblur the image, and then makeit black and whiteso the sepiatoning is lost. The final result: a

    blurry, black-and-white image.If you wanted the final imageto be sepia toned, youd needto reorder the effects using theMove up and Move down

    buttons.

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    Adding and Editing Audio

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    Figure 1-12:

    Movie Maker adds the MusicTools tab (circled) after you

    import music to your movie,but this tab is only visible whenthe slider bar is at a point in

    your film where audio will play.For example, in this movie, thesong Kalimba will play whilethe second and third items areonscreen (you can tell becausethe audio bar is over them).That means the Music Tools tab

    is only visible when the slider

    bar is in the second or thirditem; it would disappear if youmoved the slider bar to thefirst item.

    Audio bar

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    Tip:You can only play one audio file at a time in Movie Maker. You can add multiple audio tracks to a film(each one gets its own audio bar), but you cant layer their sounds.

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    Split. C c b b : Mc f b bc c, c f bc .

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    Set start point/Set end point. T b cp ff p f c c bf f b, pcy. Ty y b f y f cp ( p 10f ppx).

    Start time. T bx c c . Y c

    j by cc p yp p E.

    Start point/End point. T bx b p f c. U p yp .

    Tip:Theres a difference between a songs startpointand its start time. Start time is the spot in yourmovie when the song begins to playat the very beginning of the flick, 1 minute into it, or whatever.Start point, on the other hand, is the place in thesong where Movie Maker begins the tune. So if you seta songs start point to 30 seconds, Movie Maker lops off the first 30 seconds of the track and just playsthe rest of it. (Same goes for the end point: If a song is 2 minutes long and you set its end point to 90seconds, the song will cut off at that point.)

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    Note:If the shape of the clips and images in your movie doesnt match the shape of the screen whereyoure going to watch your flick, your masterpiece might look distorted come showtime. Use the Projecttabs aspect ratio buttons (labeled Widescreen and Standard) to make sure your movie looks its best. ClickStandard if youll watch it on a square screen (like a traditional TV), or Widescreen if you plan to watch

    it on a rectangular screen (like a widescreen TV or monitor). If youre curious about the technical details,check out http://tinyurl.com/mhmah.

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    Changing the Audio in Clips

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    Fade in/Fade out: Cc by pc f y f b . Y c pc , , f f, N bpy, f .

    Adding Text

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    Caption. Cc b x bx c ().

    Credits. T b c p f y . F 1-13xp ff yp f c p y c c f.

    Tip:Use a caption to add text over an existing image or video. Title and credits pages add text over aplain-colored background.

    Figure 1-13:Click the little arrow beside the Credits buttonto open this drop-down menu, which lets you

    pick different types of credits pages. Dontworry too much about picking the rightone: Theyre all pretty much the same, they

    just have slightly different text (like Directed

    by or Filmed on Location), which you canedit as explained on page 19 of this appendix.

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    W y cc f b, M M b text barb ffc yb p Tx T b p f p. J b, y c x b , b y b ffb-cc x b p Tx T b.

    Note:The Text Tools tab is only visible when the slider bar is over a part of the movie that contains text.Double-click a text bar to go straight to the tab.

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    Figure 1-14:In addition to lettingyou adjust the sizeand font of your text,

    the Text Tools tab hasbuttons for addingtext effects (basicallyanimations) that

    make your text movearound the screen

    in various ways. Youapply them the sameway you add visualeffects (see page 13of this appendix).

    This tab also lets

    you customize thebackground colorof title and credits

    pages. Just click theBackground color

    button to choose theperfect shade.

    Text color

    Text box

    Resize boxes

    Text effect

    Clipboard. T b y c, cpy, p x, j -pc p.

    Tip:Theoretically, you can use Movie Makers Clipboard buttons to move text, music, and items aroundin the storyboard. (Thats why the Clipboard tools are on the Home andText Tools tabs.) Cutting, copying,and pasting works well for text, but clicking these buttons (or using their respective keyboard shortcutsCtrl+X, Ctrl+C, and Ctrl+V) to move songs, clips, or images around is cumbersome. Youre better off usingthe techniques described on page 16 of this appendix (for audio) or pages 89 of this appendix (forpictures and videos).

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    Font. T c x f, z, f (b c),c, z. Ty f f y Mcf W. F qc f c b , p y c (b cc).

    Tip:Changing texts color is a little tricky. You have to click the little arrow to the right of the A in thecenter of the Font section, not the A itself.

    Paragraph. Cc Tpcy M M py b y x -. T c b y x f, , c f bx .

    Adjust. T c c y f :

    Edit text. Cc b M M py text box( c - b) y x b . IF 1-14, x bx W Dy? Cc bx b, c- c ( y -pc p). Oc c pp, py yp c x.

    T p x, y c f x bx f- bx. Y cz x bx by y f z b(F 1-14).

    Tip:Normally, Movie Makers preview pane is for watching your film, not editing it. But if you click the

    preview pane while text is onscreen, Movie Maker pauses the preview, puts a text box around the text,and opens the Text Tools tab so you can tweak your writing.

    Background color. Cc b b p c p c .

    Start time. Ec x pp c .T j , cc bx yp ( c) cc f bx.

    Text duration. J p , c x cf c f . T c , cc bx yp c.

    Effects. Tx ffc y x, fp c. Appy x ffc j ppy ffc(p 13 f ppx).

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    Tip:If you dont like the look of a theme youve applied, just click another theme to try it out, or click theDefault theme (Figure 1-15) to take away all pans, zooms, transitions and effects. (If you also want to getrid of the title and credits pages the Default theme adds, simply select them and then hit Delete.)

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    Saving and Exporting Your Movie

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    Tip:Be sure to save your movie as a project file whenever you close Movie Maker so you dont lose anyof your hard work. Fortunately, if you forget to save your project and try to close the program, MovieMaker reminds you to save.

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    Figure 1-16:Clicking Save project saves all of your items,

    music, and text as a Movie Maker Project file.When you want to work on your movie again,

    simply open this file to pick right up where

    you left off.

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    Figure 1-17:The Save movie

    menu lets you createvideo files that aredesigned to be watched

    on certain gadgets,like Windows Phonesor Zunes. These kindsof files are calledoptimized files, sincetheyre speciallydesigned to play wellon a certain kind of

    screen. To save yourproject as a fancy-schmancy optimizedmovie file, click thebottom half of the

    Save movie button,and then choose thetarget gadget (see the

    box on the next pagefor details).

    Click here to save a WMV version ofyour movie on your computer.

    Click here to see more saving options,like sending your movie to DVD Makeror creating a version of it for a specifickind of cellphone.

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    Optimizing Your Video

    Not all video files are created equal: Some play better on

    certain types of gadgets than others. For instance, a videofile that contains really big, detailed images might be great

    to watch on a high-definition monitor, but itd be a huge

    pain to download and watch on your cellphone (since the

    file is so large).

    Thats why Movie Maker lets you create video files that

    are specifically designed for playing on different kinds of

    devices, for emailing to others, or for watching on a com-

    puter. To do so, click thebottom halfof the Save movie

    button (Figure 1-17), and then click the name of a device.

    After asking what to call the file and where to save it, MovieMaker creates a WMV file thats perfect for watching on the

    device you picked.

    If you really want to geek out, hold your cursor over a gadgets

    name in the Save movie menu, and a little pop-up shows

    the specs that Movie Maker uses to create a video for that

    device. You can also click Create custom setting to design

    your own video file.

    DVD Maker

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    Note:Windows 7 Starter Edition doesnt include DVD Maker, but that doesnt mean you need to get outyour plastic and pay for an upgrade. There are plenty of good, free programs available that let you burnDVDs. Ashampoo Burning Studio (http://tinyurl.com/26my3x3) is a popular pick.

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    UP to sPeed

    DVD Formats

    Making video DVDs can be frustrating. There are many

    different kinds of DVDs, each written in a slightly different

    format, and not all DVD players and burners can use every

    kind of DVD. That means you need to buy discs that work

    with both your DVD burnerandyour DVD player.

    Figuring out what kind of discs work with your DVD player

    is fairly straightforward: Check the manual or search for

    the model number (like XPS 720) on the manufacturers

    website. Look for a line something like, Playable formats

    include DVD, DVD+R and DVD+RW. Then simply jot downthe various types and consult your list when you buy discs.

    Things get a little trickier when it comes to finding DVDs

    that work with your DVDburner. On most PCs, the burner

    is hidden inside the computers caseso you wont have a

    model number or a manual. Fortunately, the Final Notes

    section on page 171 explains how to find the name of your

    burner, which tells you the kinds of discs it can burn.

    For help deciphering the alphabet soup of DVD types,

    head tohttp://tinyurl.com/4tbkqg2. And if youre sure you

    have the right kind of DVDs and your discstillwont play,

    http://tinyurl.com/4v7ozpvhas troubleshooting tips.

    Note:You cant use DVD Maker to change a movies audio, make a scene run in slow motion, or makeany of the edits that you can in Movie Maker. So get each movie the way you want it in Movie Maker

    before adding it to DVD Maker.

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    Note:Each item in the DVD Maker list will become ascene on your finished DVD. Youll be able to jumpto each scene on the disc via the discs scenes menu, just as you can with any DVD of a Hollywood movie.

    Figure 1-18:

    You can drag clipsand slideshows into

    new positions, or usethe arrow buttons(circled) to move the

    selected item(s) tothe right spot. If youdecide you dont wantto include something

    you added, select thatitem and then clickRemove items to

    give it the boot.

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    2. Make sure your items are in the order you want.

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    Tip:On the screen where you reorder the photos in a slideshow, DVD Maker includes a Duration columnthat indicates how long each photo will appear onscreen when you play the DVD. You can ignore that fornowyoull have a chance to change the duration in the next part of the DVD-creation process.

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    if you pick certainstyles.) If youre reallyimpressed with yourhandiwork, click Saveas new style (circled)to have DVD Makeradd your custom styleto its Menu Style list so

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    Tip:If you want, you can use still photos as your foreground and background videos to keep yourDVDs menu screen from having too many moving parts. Simply choose image files rather than videofiles.

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    screen lets you addmusic and tweak thelook of your slide-shows. After makingchanges, click Preview

    to get a sneak peekbefore you burn yourdisc.

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    Figure 1-23:The Preview your

    DVD screen showswhat youll see when

    you play your DVD

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