The big deal this time around, though, is sharing. But when you output the finished product, it works off the original content. The application also works with very high-bitrate original content, and utilizes an auto-transcoding feature so that it works with a lesser version of the content while editing for better peformance. If you want more control, it's there for the taking: Movie Maker supports content "scrubbing" in the timeline view so you can make very precise edits if needed.
The new Movie Maker features a number of built-in AutoMovie themes-black and white, cinematic, contemporary, pan and zoom, fade, and sepia-and a gorgeous full-screen preview that lets you instantly see how your masterpiece is progressing.Īdditionally, the themes, animations, pan and zoom effects, and visual effects all offer live previews, so if you mouse over one of these options in the ribbon, the effect is previewed, live, in the playback window. Just drag in the content you'd like you use-which can be a collection of photos, video clips, or a combination of both, and you're pretty much halfway home.įrom here, most people will simply want to create an AutoMovie, perhaps with an audio soundtrack (like an MP3 song) or, perhaps, a voice over audio narration. With the new Movie Maker, you can be up and running fairly quickly.
Movie Maker, as usual, is what most people are really looking for. There are more full-featured video editing solutions, I guess, but they're also so much more complex that few would ever bother trying to figure them out. Plus, there are some cool new features this time around. This is a simple application, but it does provide nice titling, captioning, and credits functionality, solid transitions, pan and zoom effects, visual effects and audio capabilities, and exactly the kind of sharing tools consumers should expect. As the first Essentials application to get the ribbon treatment ( see my review of that version), Windows Live Movie Maker has changed the least, in many ways, but it continues to offer what I feel is the right mix of consumer friendliness and functionality.
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