How to save a windows live movie maker file for YouTube

Windows Live Movie Maker has a button to directly upload your project to YouTube. Sometimes however there might be technical reasons and the button might not work. The workaround is that you save your movie in a YouTube accepted format and then use the YouTube upload link to directly upload your movie. There are a few steps to follow to save your WLMM project in .WMV format. This is a format that is accepted by YouTube. When you hit the upload button on YouTube - you will be able to upload your video without any problems. This post will be a guide on how to save a windows live movie maker file for YouTube. This way you're all set to get your videos up and running on YouTube no matter what.

How to save a windows live movie maker file for YouTube
1. Go ahead and create your video project
2. When it comes time to save click on
3. The drop-down on the top
4. Choose 'Save Movie'
5. Now choose 'Recommended for this project' and hit save
6. You're done.

This way you can quickly save your movie in a YouTube accepted format and directly upload the same. There will be no hassles and everything will go smooth.

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Please view video below if you'ed like the visuals
http://youtu.be/8c2s5DdU-RY

How to add a Watermark to Windows Live Movie Maker

If you PC or device is a Windows machine and you like to make videos to upload to YouTube or other sites like Facebook. Windows Live Movie maker is easy to use and can be create to create your movie. You can add and join movies together, add pics, text and music and there you have it an original movies created by you. Once your movie is ready for upload, you would like to give yourself credit for the whole thing. One of the ways is to the 'credits' feature at the end of your movie and upload it. Another way is to add a watermark to your entire movie. This way credit will always remain in your name. If you are uploading the movie to YouTube then you can add your username to the watermark. A watermark is something that stays constant at the bottom of your screen throughout the entire movie. So if you want to watermark the movies and films you create using Windows Live Movie Maker -- here is a simple way to do it.

Adding a watermark to your video or film using Windows Live Movie maker.

1. Open Windows Live Movie Maker
2. Click on Add Videos and Photos
3. Choose the video and click on open
4. Your video is now open in WLMM
5. Now Click on Captions
6. Enter the text you want displayed
7. Now enter text duration - this will have to be entered in seconds and cover the entire length of your video.
8. You find 'text Duration' under 'Text Tools'.
8. Set the length in seconds and hit 'Save' and you're done.

Check the video below for the visuals
http://youtu.be/Fqh1HaEskRg