Today we’re working with the newest version of Windows Movie Maker. This is the one that comes with Window 7 or 8/8.1, the version that you downloaded with all the ‘Live’ components. It’s a dumbed-down version that does not allow for separate audio tracks. The older version, 2.6, let you have two audio tracks and you could switch between them. Apparently Microsoft thought this was too complicated for its users and they came out with a simpler, less confusing WMM.

Don’t despair, however. You can still do some fairly fancy editing with the new version. This video shows you how to add a full audio track to an previously edited video. In other words, you can’t do this all in one step. Edit the video first, then add the full sound track. Hopefully this video we just made explains it all.
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We did a video just now that we’ve put on Youtube. It’s all about inserting a photo (or video clip) into a video. That seems easy but we show you how to keep the soundtrack from the video constant throughout, including the section where the photo is.

 
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We’ll do more videos on Windows Movie Maker in the future, including one on how to do this with the current version of WMM. We used an older version of Movie Maker, version 2.6, that you can download here: Windows Movie Maker 2.6 (came with Vista but you can install it on Windows 7 or 8.1. It’s free, too.

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