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For the last installment here, I will be going over publishing your final project in Windows Movie Maker. As a quick review, in the first article we went over setting up your project by importing video, audio and picture files. In the second article, we went over basic editing of your project including simple fades and transitions, and overlaying a second audio track.

At this point, all of our editing should be completed. if you’re not sure about how your project will look or feel, this is the time to do a final review. Using your preview pane in the upper right side watch the video all the way through to see how the finished project will look. The idea is to look at the project from the end viewers perspective. Does it take a long time to fade in to the video? If multiple video clips were put together to make the project, do the clips flow well with each other? If the volume on your computer is set to medium, does the audio in the video crackle or boom out too loud? If you added secondary audio, does it match up well with what’s going on in the video? All of these things can put a real damper on the final product if they feel out of sync. as a best practice, I usually preview the video in full screen mode to see how it looks before I publish it. Especially if I will be publishing it in a full screen format.

Once you are satisfied with the final project, it’s time to publish! At the top of the screen, you will see the “Publish Movie” button. when you click on this, you will see the various options for output of your video – your computer, DVD, recordable CD, email and digital video camera. For our purposes, we will be publishing to the computer, so that the video can be uploaded and shared.

The next screen gives us the options of what to name the video and where to save it on the computer. As with any file, you want to give it a unique name that has some reference to what the video is. The drop down menu option will let you navigate to a recently used folder, or you can use the browse button to navigate to any folder on your computer and if desired create a new folder to save the file in. for those of you who are using Windows Vista – I recommend that you save the file in a new folder in your public documents. this will keep you from having issues with uploading the file to the internet for sharing, as Vista’s built in security features may ask you repeatedly for administrator permission to upload this from your regular documents folder. As a best practice, I will generally create a master folder (such as videos for upload) and then create a new sub-folder for each video project I am saving.

The next screen let’s you set the quality settings of the output video. by default, it will choose best quality for your computer. The second option is to select a specific compression for the file. This is more for advanced users, and it is very possible to really degrade the final video if you are not careful with this option. The last choice let’s you decide on a specific format that it will be saved in for playback. Since the file is meant to be shared, this option will be best. these presets will automatically compress your video and set the output quality. Lower quality will mean a smaller file size and quicker download, but it will also be just that – a lower quality playback. I recommend that you use the DVD quality option. This will create a file that is manageable to download even by people using a wireless air card or dial up modem, and still produce a good quality video.

Once you have selected your output option, click on the publish button. Depending on how long your video is and the speed of your computer, it will take anywhere from five minutes to an hour. Most videos will complete the publishing process in twenty to thirty minutes. Once publishing is complete, remember to view the final product. I can’t tell you how many times I thought I had a video project exactly the way I wanted it, only to send it out and have the end user contact me to say that the playback was horrible or jumpy.

As always, I am happy to answer any questions that you may have. I do hope that this article has helped make your project a little more bearable. I will be putting out some new articles on photo editing soon, and would also be happy to take suggestions for dealing with other software for video editing. Have a great day!!!