Windows Movie Maker 2 Zero to Hero: Leveraging Java Open Source Technologies

All the authors gave great info and saved me lots of time in learning the software. Movie Maker 2 works great and I've made two 30 minute DVD movies within three months using camcorder video, pictures, music, transitions, titling, and credits. The editing process is easy and fun to do as pointed out in the book. For the price and knowledge given by these experts, you can't miss making a great movie. I do suggest having enough computer RAM (at least 512 MBS for 30 minutes of CD or DVD video and lots more if all camcorder video is used or longer movies are made) to make the process easier.

Movie maker is harder than you think if you really want to edit. This book gets you going but the process is not "easy". It is a time eater. The book is helpful - the process of using the program is frustrating.

This book will give you all the info and help you need to successfullyuse Movie Maker 2. The examples are excellent. The website of the authorsis useful. I recommend it to anyone going or trying to use MM2. It would be difficult to master without some help.

I highly recomend this book alog with MS Movie Maker 2 for anyone who wishes to use Movie Maker.I found it easy to read with many color photos.I read it and then I use it for referencing.I would be lost without these books.

The book was advertised and sold as I expected. I will be using this product for a long time to come.

This book is exactly what I needed: a complete and thorough explanation of Movie Make in easy-to-understand language with plenty of examples and illustrations.

I bought this book because Movie Maker 2 is a fairly complex movie editing program, and therefore, not intuitive.I have to agree with some of the other reviewers that this book contains almost too much material, but for the user who really wants to use Movie Maker to make a near professional product, all the tools are covered.I am new to the world of digital video and this is the approach I used with this book. Read the first chapter to get an understanding of the nature of digital video, then quickly read the chapters covering collections, the story board, and the time line. Finally, skim the rest of the chapters, to get a general idea of what else you can do with Movie Maker 2. Now go to the 3rd project in the back of the book, on making a video of your vacation, and following the outline there, create your own movie from what ever clips you have in your collection. Refer back to the appropriate sections of the book as necessary. Its only by working with the program that you're ever really going to learn it.There are two good reasons for buying this book. Number 1 is that it does cover all the features of Movie Maker 2, and number 2 is that friends of Ed will answer your questions. I bought this book about a month ago, and have submitted questions to Ed's website twice. On both occasions I got the answer I needed within 24 hours.TIP: For those of you with a lot of quicktime and real media clips that you want to edit in Movie Maker 2, you will need quicktime pro ($29.00) and RM Converter v2.21 ($28.45) to convert these movies into a format that you can use with Movie Maker 2.

I cannot honestly recommend this text to you. It is just a mess crammed full of material that is poorly organized. We don't need to learn Movie Maker from scratch. It's a task-oriented program! Don't spend time telling me what the File menu is, tell me how to add a transition between two frames quickly! I just don't think the approach in this book is useful for the true Movie Maker user. I'd look into a more general-purpose digital video book that focuses on Movie Maker 2 as the primary software to get the job done easily (such as Perry's Digital Video in a Snap (ISBN: 0672325691)). Unlike a program such as Excel than an investor or financial planner will want to master in great detail, the Movie Maker user needs to know how to do select things at any one time depending on the job they have to do.

The text does not flow and adjust to the screen size, and it does not rotate so that lines fit more easily on the screen. Consequently it is unreadable on a smartphone.

I bought the above book as second hand from the States and could not believe how quickly it came. It was packed very well indeed and was not crushed or battered from its journey. The book itself was in 1st class condition, in fact you would be hard pressed to find any blemish on it at all. i thought it was brand new. Excellent

useful for knowing how to sue what is a free software on my system