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This will be the official topic to explain how to make music videos. (necessary because of the new music video section)
As I'm not a specialist of that, I'll let you explain how to make them, and answer to the questions.

First thing : DO NOT SEND .MSWMM FILES!! These are NOT the videos themselves but the Windows Movie Maker project files! Instead, use the "export" or "save the video sequence" option in the "File" tab.
Valid video files should have the .avi or .wmv extensions.

Well you need to have a program called windows movie maker, you will have two choices to make a movie with slides you get/make or you can import the video from a video camera o your computer but you will need to have speciall cables for that.

To make a movie with your pictures you obviesly have to get the pictures once you do that you can save them in paint power point or werever you like but personally I preffer power point once you have them you look for a text that says "import picture" click on it and a box will apperar click on "my documents" once you are there look for the file in chick you put the picture highlight them all with your mouse and click "import" once you inmport the you will have to put them in their places manually and once you have them all in place it's time to make the speed in wich you want them to be, this will also have to be done manually.

Look for a button that says timeline you can soom in to make the time for each picture shorter and you can soom out to make them longer before you click on the pictures a little box will appear next to your cursor wich will say the duration and name of each the clip your cursor is on.
If you have a microphone you can add a narration or voices by connecting it and clicking on a little picture of a microphone and start you narration or wathever you are going to do.

To add music you need to have it saved in your computer, to put the music in your movie click on import audio look for the song yo want to put to your movie and click on it it will be added to your timeline.

To give Video effects to your movie click on viddeo effects and there will be samples of each effect when you have chosen an effect dragg it a let it go on the picture you want that effect to be.
And it's the same thin with video transitions.

Finally you can add credits by clicking on credits the kinds of styles and moving ways of credits are up to you.

Yay it's finally the big time publishing to web. There are 2 ways to puclish a video to web one is clicking on a button that says publish to web and fillinf in all the question that will appear in the box.
Or
You can save it got to putfile.com or anysite that let's you put videos and publish to web and there you go!

Cool, thanks, i'll try that!

yeah me too, thanks

yeah i've been trying to how to get clips from the dvd?

I keep making videos but always more than 20mo! Can tell me what to do?

Compress them more (use another compression method maybe, such as windows media video or divx), and try to reduce the length.

Well, the only one I have received is the one that is already on the site...

Um.....mine, i cant get it onto any site to get it on a url, it's just, there.....can i like, send it to u through e-mail or something?

I was wondering if someone could make music vidoes for these songs:

Poison, Alice Cooper

Pain, Jimmy Eat World

Wake me up when semptember ends, GreenDay

Please make at least one of these someone!

No, and I received emails without any attached file.

I've added this in my first post because so many people do this error :
DO NOT SEND .MSWMM FILES!! These are NOT the videos themselves but the Windows Movie Maker project files! Instead, use the "export" or "save the video sequence" option in the "File" tab.
Valid video files should have the .avi, .mpg or .wmv extensions.

I cannot take the video out of the VCD...(I had try the save but it turn out the same cannot work) It become a DAT file.

Try to rename the video.DAT file in video.MPG
(VCDs are in fact MPEG 1 files)

Thank You so much! Now I can make more videos!