Windows Live Movie Maker lets y'all trim individual clips — remove pieces at the beginning or cease of the prune to make information technology shorter. Trimming a clip in Windows Live Movie Maker allows you to use only the best part of a clip in your movie.

Windows 7 doesn't include Windows Moving-picture show Maker automatically. You lot need to become online and download it as function of the costless Windows Alive Essentials Pack from the Windows Live Web site.

  1. Open the project containing the prune you want to trim. Click the Edit tab and and then the Trim icon.

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    You see the Trim window.

  2. Click the clip you want to trim, and and so click the Play push.

    Notice the slider moving along as the clip progresses.

  3. When you reach the point where y'all want to trim, click the Pause push button.

  4. Move either the starting or catastrophe trim indicator against the slider, depending on whether you desire to trim the beginning or end of the clip.

    You can drag the slider left or right at any time to locate the trim points precisely

    To trim both the beginning and the end of a particular prune, set the left trim indicator using the method above. Then click Play over again and when you come to the betoken you want to be the stop, click Intermission again. Slide the correct trim indicator against the slider.

  5. When y'all take the trim points set with the trim indicators, click the Save and Close icon in the upper-correct corner.

    WLMM displays your trimmed clip, but it as well keeps the clips intact. So, if yous ever change your mind and want to "un"trim the clip, repeat Steps 2, 3 and iv merely slide the trim indicator dorsum to its original location.

To adjust the length of time that a even so (photo) appears in the motion-picture show, click on the still, click the Edit tab, and in the Duration drop-down box, select the length of time that you desire the still to appear.

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