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Trim unwanted portions of a video clip

This is also an important thing in video editing. And this is a basic thing. Let's do it with Windows Movie Maker. There are also two main ways to do this with  Windows Movie Maker by the splitting method and the trimming method. First of all open  Windows Movie Maker and import some video clips to it. 

Now we are looking the first way. So add the imported video file to the Timeline. Get the cursor near to one end of the video clip on the Time line. You can see the cursor in different icon. So click it and drag trim inside. And it will trim your video clip. But your video cannot expand outside of your video. If your video has trimmed and it can be expand as same way to the outside up to its original length. And you are finish with trimming.

The second way is by splitting method. So first add the video clip on to the Timeline. Then select the video clip on Timeline and adjust the indicator to the place you want to split. After that click on the split button or press ctrl+L.Left hand side picture shows the indicator on the Timeline and splitting button. Like that you can remove unwanted parts from your video.

Slow down or speed up a video using Windows Movie Maker

Windows Movie  Maker is just easy to do editing in videos. It's simple. But it can't do many more editing. Windows Movie  Maker is more suitable for beginners to video making industry. In one of below post describe about Editing playback speed of a video clip using Ulead Video Studio. Now I'm going to explain how to do this using Windows Movie  Maker. Go through the below points.

1. First open Windows Movie  Maker and import a video or a movie file to it.
2. Drag and drop it to the Timeline.
3. Go to Tools menu and click on Video Effects or click on View Video Effects subtitle under the Movie Tasks.
4. If you want to slow down the video clip, so drag and drop Slow Down, Half video effect to the Timeline. After that your video runs more slower than past.
5. If you want to speed up the video clip, so drag and drop Speed Up, Double video effect to the Timeline. After that your video runs more faster than past.

Are you finish with the speed of your video? So you can go through other editing and finalize your video. Finally you can save your video as normal or save it as WMV (Windows Media Video) format.