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Working With Windows Movie Maker Clips

Working with Clips The movies you create with Movie Maker can contain any combination of clips from any combination of collections. Before you put a clip into a movie, you might want to preview it, and possibly trim some material off the beginning or end. To preview a clip, just click its icon in the Collections area. If it’s a video clip, the first frame appears in the Preview area. You can then use the tools beneath the Preview area to play the clip. To see the name of a tool, just point to it. You can choose from the following tools: Seek bar: Drag the pointer on the seek bar to the left and right to move frame-by-frame through the video. Play: Plays the video, or resumes play if the video is paused. Pause: Pauses playback at the current frame. Stop: Stops playback and removes the clip from the monitor. Back: Moves back one frame if the video is paused. Previous Frame: Moves forward one frame if the video is paused or not playing yet. Next Frame: Jumps back to the firs

System Requirements for Windows XP

System Requirements for Windows XP To install Windows XP, your computer must meet certain minimal requirements. To simplify matters, Microsoft has designed the following “non-technical” system requirements: Preinstalled with Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional or Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition operating system Displays the Designed for Windows 2000 or Designed for Windows 2000/ME logo More technically, your system needs to meet these requirements: A minimum of 64 MB of RAM, although 128MB is much preferred. XP can handle a maximum of 4GB RAM. 233 megahertz (MHz) Pentium or equivalent microprocessor. A 2 GB or larger hard disk with at least 650 MB free space available. VGA monitor. Keyboard. Mouse or compatible pointing device. CD-ROM or DVD drive. Those are the official specs as I write this. However, I’ve found on my systems that once installed, Windows XP eats up about 950 MB of hard disk space. It also seems to eat up more than 64MB of RAM most of the time. S