[LM_NET] HIT: Movie Maker Audio Help

[Susan Hanlon <hanlons@NWLEHIGHSD.ORG>]

Original Post:
Has anyone ever used Movie Maker?  I am having trouble adding music to my movie.  
It seems as if my music, which was downloaded from iTunes is not an audio file.  I 
can't figure out how to save it as a audio file (.wav? .snd? not sure) to be able 
to import it into Movie Maker.  Can anyone shed some light?  I'm getting frustrated!
 
Responses:
 
In my experience, the music you use with Movie Maker has to be stored on the 
computer you are using to create your movie. Normally these are tracks from a CD 
that you have copied to your computer (don't get me started with the copyright 
legalities with this!). Usually music that is saved on your computer as a .WAV file 
will work fine. I'm not sure how you convert from iTunes.
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Try opening the music in Media Player, then ripping it from there.  That's how we 
use music from CD's.  We may also have had to burn a CD from ITunes, then rip it 
using Media Player.  We use Movie Maker once a year and then I seem to immediately 
forget all of the details.  If you get different responses, I'd love to know about 
them.
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I just took a class on movie maker and they said to
use audacity. It's a free tool you can download from
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ 
<http://owa.cliu.org/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://audacity.sourceforge.net/> .
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To convert your iTune music to a .wav file you will have to burn the music
to a disk and then open it up in Windows media player or any other media
player. Then you can save it as a .wav and add it to Movie Maker.

I added sound to a ppt this way, & it took me 2 days of hair pulling, then I
asked my nephew & got the answer in 2 minutes!


 
Susan Hanlon
K-4 Librarian
Northwestern Elementary School
6493 Route 309
New Tripoli, PA  18066
hanlons@nwlehighsd.org
 

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