Tutorial for Windows Movie Maker (Part 2)

How to cut a clip?

You put the video file you want to cut into the storyboard or timeline area, and you play it. When you reach the point where you want to cut, you press the “cut” button (black arrow in the capture), and then, you have two clips created in your storyboard or timeline (red arrow on the capture). Look on the following capture, the scene was cut in two.

You right click on the clip that you don’t want in your video, and a new menu appears. You click on “suppress” (“erase”, “delete” – I don’t know how I need to translate that in English), and the part of the clip that you cut is erased from your video project.

How do I let dialogues from some of the clips, and erase the sound from the others video clips?

First, you need to be in the timeline presentation of your project. Y default, the clips of your video have sound. So you select the clips you want to delete the sound. (Red arrow – see, here, my selected clip is framed in white).

Then, you open the “Clip menu”, and then you click on “Audio” and a new menu appear with 4 choices:

1- The first line is to make the selected clip mute

2- The second and third line are some audio effects that you can add to the clip

3- The last line is to adjust the volume of the sound

So, to delete the sound of the clip, you click on “Mute”

You do that for all the clips you don’t want the sound, except for the clips you want to keep the dialogue.

In the timeline presentation, you have the symbol + besides “Video” (red arrow). You click on it, and you have two more lines that appears on the timeline. One is for the transitions. The other is for the sound of the video clips.

As you can see pointed by the green arrows, I muted the sound of all the clips except one. So, when I play the video, I have only the music until the scene where I choose to keep the dialogue. Here, I hear both the music and the dialogues, and then, only the music anew.