Microsoft offers some good tips on making movies at home using Windows Movie Maker, a free video editing software.

Cell phones, digital cameras, webcams — they can all create compelling footage. But for creating truly high-quality images, digital camcorders are your best bet. Not only can you record video in a user-friendly format, but you need only connect a camcorder to a computer with a FireWire cable to easily import footage into Movie Maker.

Artful editing of your footage is the next step to creating a top-notch mini-movie. Windows Movie Maker offers a huge selection of transitions to place between video clips including the fade (a cross-dissolve between two scenes) and the wipe (a major change in location).

Instead of overloading a friend’s e-mail inbox or taking the time to burn a movie to a DVD, today’s amateur filmmakers are turning to video-sharing web sites such as Windows Live Spaces, YouTube, Revver and Viddler to share their masterpieces. You can also store and share large files, including videos, using Windows Live SkyDrive.

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