How to Make a Movie for Christmas on Mac and Windows?

Christmas is coming, if you want to make a movie for Christmas and share it with your family to celebrate this festival, you should not miss this article! There are 2 parts in this article: choose a powerful movie making software for Mac and Windows and how to make a Movie for Christmas with this software. When you finish reading this article, you will absolutely know how to make a Christmas movie on Mac and Windows.

Part 1: Choose a Powerful Movie Making Software for Mac and Windows

MovieMator Video Editor Mac Download	MovieMator Video Editor Windows Download
Mac OS X 10.10 +	Windows 10/8/7, 64-bit

I will highly recommend you MovieMator Video Editor which is a simple but powerful video editing software to make a movie for Christmas. It not only allows users to do all basic editing work like trimming, cropping, splitting, rotating and more, but also provides 20+ dazzling transitions and 40+ professional filters. Real-time preview feature ensures what you see is what you get, even beginners can quickly get started and freely edit videos as they want. Making a movie for Christmas has never been easier!

Part 2: How to Make a Movie for Christmas with MovieMator?

If you want to make a movie for Christmas to celebrate this festival, you need to prepare some Christmas video clips, photos and music files firstly and then edit them to a wonderful Christmas movie on Mac and Windows with MovieMator Video Editor. This step-by-step guide will teach you how to edit videos to a Christmas movie with MovieMator.

MovieMator Video Editor Mac Download	MovieMator Video Editor Windows Download
Mac OS X 10.10 +	Windows 10/8/7, 64-bit

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1Import your Christmas videos/audios/photos to MovieMator

After running MovieMator, click on “Open” button on the main interface to choose your Christmas video clips, photos and music files. Or you can also directly drag the target files from Finder to this app.

2Add the target elements to the representative track on the timeline

Directly drag the Christmas videos/audios/photos to the representative track on the timeline for editing. You can also select the target clip firstly and click on "Append" and "Insert" button to add it to the correct track on the timeline. Video clips and photos can be placed on the video tracks and audio files can be placed on the audio tracks. Moreover, you can always freely copy, cut, paste, move and delete any clip from the timeline.

3Edit Your Christmas Videos/Audios/Photos to Make a Movie for Christmas

• * To split a clip into two parts: Click on the clip on the Timeline and move the playhead marker to the point where you want to split it. You can also locate a particular part of the video by playing it in the preview window. Next, there are 3 ways to split the video clip into two parts. One is to click on “Split” button on the interface, the second one is to right-click on the video clip and choose “Split At Playhead(s)”, the third one is to directly press "S".





• * To trim a clip: Hang your mouse at the edge of the video clips until the trim icon shows up, then drag it forward or backward to the ending points of the unwanted part to trim it out.





• * To Add Filters: There are plenty of professional-looking filters for you to choose.





• * To Add Transitions: Drag the clips to create overlap firstly, then can right click on the green rectangle and tap “Properties” to choose your desired transition. When the transition is selected, it is a good idea to custom the softness of this video transition and to choose your favorite audio transition.

4Export the Christmas Movie for Playing

Once you have finished editing video and making movie for Christmas, click “Play” button to preview the Christmas movie. If everything is OK, click on ”Export” button on the main interface to export this Christmas movie. Moreover, adjusting the parameters such as resolution, aspect ratio of the output Christmas movie is avaiable.