Time for action — adding our opening credits
To make the movie even more interesting, let's add an opening credit and a closing credit.
1. From the list on the left, choose Make titles or credits.
2. Choose the option Title at the beginning, and type in the title of the movie:
3. Watch it in the preview screen.
4. To change the way it runs, click on the Change the title animation link.
5. To change the type, color, and size of the text, click on the Change the text font and color link.
6. Click on Done, add title to movie.
What just happened?
We used Windows Movie Maker's titles and credits feature to add a beginning to our movie. We learned how to type in our own text and then personalize its color, font, size, and the way it runs in the movie.
Note
Did you notice that when you first clicked on titles and credits there were four options? Although we are just creating opening and closing credits here, you can also add captions to the actual images, or before each individual image. This is perhaps...