Creating a Photo Story

Tips on Creating an Instructional Video

Tip #1- I experienced some problems because I recorded with a device that puts out video formatted in MOV and the programs on my computer could read that format so I had to go through a long process of converting all the video clips to WMV, so moral of the story is to create a video that will come out in the format that your computer programs can read.

Tip #2- Using Windows Movie Maker, if you have video that is segmented, before you worry about cutting and how to put them together,just put them all in to one project and then use the splitting tool to cut out the parts you don't want. This requires pretty good timing on your part, but it is doable.

Tip #3- The use of transitions between segments is great, as I watch my video now though, I think that I used too many transitions where they weren't necessarily needed and it feels a bit cluttered, so just beware of that.

Tip #4- When saving it, don't just push the save button, on my computer the automatic save button saved my movie as a random WSMMV or something like that, and I had to go through another conversion process to get in into WMV.