In an article for the Washington Post by Rob Pegoraro with the above title, Rob gives us a peak at what is going on in the consumer video arena for Windows. He points out that Microsoft often is touted as taking three tries to get it right. This appears to be the case with Windows Movie Maker.
Us Mac users have long had an acceptable movie editor with iMovie and it has continued to get better. But Movie Maker had a lot of issues in its life.
As Rob puts it “Movie Maker began life as a largely ignored part of Windows Millennium Edition and wasn’t much better when XP arrived — it couldn’t even burn a DVD of your footage, instead limiting you to a proprietary, soon-abandoned multimedia disc format. Its Windows Vista incarnation added DVD output but offered little help with publishing videos online.”
But Microsoft’s new Windows Live Movie Maker — a free download for Windows Vista and its upcoming replacement, Windows 7, but not Windows XP.
According to Rob, the new program leave out some features of its predecessors as iMovie ’08 did. But it also incorporates a rewritten interface and adds more useful set of video-sharing options.
Live Movie Maker can open video clips and photos already saved on your computer
Microsoft advertises that in Windows 7, you will also be able to grab video from a Flip camcorder or an iPhone. It will also allow uploading direct to You Tube.
Download “Windows Live Movie Maker here:
http://download.live.com/moviemaker
Read the full story here.
