Can you add a clip of a song to a movie on Windows Movie Maker?

Answer 1

Yes, but its not easy.

In order to be able to use a video clip in movie maker, you will need to have it saved on disk as an avi, mpeg, wmv, asf or any other video format supported by movie maker. There are a few firefox plugins made specifically for saving YouTube videos to disk, but the legality of doing so is questionable. Additionally, youtube goes out of its way to limit the functionality of these plugins & thus restrict you from saving the videos to disk.

I have had very limited success with these plugins.

The best option is to contact the person who posted the video and ask if its okay for you to use it in this way, and if so, if they wouldn't mind sending you the video in its original format.

Answer 2

Yes! I do this all the time. First, import the song that has the clip you want, then play through the song until you get to the start of the clip you want. Right then (this can get tricky) you push pause. Now, on the right of the play/pause button, there should be a picture of what looks like a rectangle split in half that says "Split". Click that. Now, push play again and pause when you get to the end of the clip you want. Do the same thing as before. After this, there should be three copies of the song you are cutting the clip from. It isn't actually copies, it's the pieces you split the song into. The one you want should be in the middle, but you may want to play it to be sure. Hope I was some help!