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To start a project and begin creating your movie, you need to add any imported or captured video, audio, or pictures to the storyboard/timeline. The clips on storyboard/timeline become the contents of your project and future movie.

You can use the storyboard/timeline to create and edit projects. The storyboard and timeline both display your work in progress, but each provides a different view of your work:

• The storyboard displays the sequence of clips.
• The timeline displays the timing of clips.

You can switch between the storyboard and timeline as you work on a project.

After you add clips to the storyboard/timeline to create a project, you can do the following:

• Rearrange the clips in the sequence you want.
• Create transitions between clips.
• Add video effects to video clips and pictures.
• Trim the clips to hide unwanted segments (on the timeline view only).
• Split and combine clips.
• Add narration that synchronizes with the clips (on the timeline view only).

As you work on a project, you can preview it in the monitor at any time to get an idea of the end result. You can save your work-in-progress as a project and return to work on it again.

Before you can send a project as an attachment in an e-mail message, to a Web server, or record it back to tape in a DV camera, you must first save it as a movie.

Related topics

• To switch the view of a project
• To add a clip to a project
• To remove a clip from a project
• To clear the storyboard/timeline
• To create a new project
• To open a project
• Zooming in and out
• Moving and copying clips
• Undoing actions
• Using AutoMovie
• Using Windows Movie Maker