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Windows Live Movie Maker in Win 7

September 4, 2009

Movie Maker is alive!

Movie Maker has an interesting biography, a road filled with continuous growth, acceptation and rejection by the users. This tool has been included as a predefined system tool in Windows OS versions, and it’s the same case with the new Windows 7. But let’s start from the beginning. It first appeared in Windows Me edition. This edition was primarily for those users that wanted to use their computer for running multimedia tasks. Hence, it was perfectly expected that Microsoft will offer software that will help users create and edit short video clips in an easy way. The version 1.1 appeared in Windows XP and it allowed saving the video clips in some of the most popular formats. Later on, the second version flourished with functions and opportunities. Windows Live Movie Maker 2.5 was included in Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005. This much improved version offered abundance of options when editing the materials (in a way of transitions and animations) and introduced the feature of burning the material on a DVD right after the process was finished.

Then Vista appeared. It was a time of HD video and cameras that recorded in high resolution so it was perfectly expected that the newest Movie Maker will be upgraded in order to support the newest technologies. Adding a whole set of new functions that greatly improved the reputation of this tool resulted in higher hardware requirements as well, which proved to be a problem for Vista users that didn’t have powerful machines. Things are quite different with our old buddy, Windows 7.  The creators of Movie Maker changed the visual looks completely and, after adding a wide array of new options, placed it as a part of the group Windows Live Essentials. WLE is a set of software applications that is much needed to every user that wants to communicate, share and stay in touch in way that is both easy and fun. Now, the name of the program is Windows Live Movie Maker; the program is out of beta testing and is the first program that is specifically developed for Windows 7. We need to make a difference, though, between the expressions compatible with and developed for. On one hand we have a program that’s adjusted in order to be correctly recognized by the system so that users can perform tasks with it, and on the other, we have a program that’s primarily developed for certain version of OS and later on adjusted to be compatible with the older versions of the OS.

Because of the ribbon, the new design of Windows Live Movie reminds of the redesigned Paint and Notepad, but of course, it’s superior in functions. WLM has user-friendly interface and it’s the perfect solution for all video enthusiasts that’d like to edit the pictures and videos they’re fond of. When you add the files into the program you’re faced with two options. The first one, AutoMovie, automatically joins the files with transitions and animations and leaves you to just edit the title and finish the process. For those that’d like to experiment little, there’re a lot of intuitive tabs that can additionally edit the video.  After everything is finished, all that’s left to do is sharing. In order to do that, you have three modes: YouTube, HD Video, and DVD format. The first option allows you uploading the video to YouTube, the second lets you export the video in high quality HD material that can be, later on, easily distributed in several ways. The last mode allows you to burn a DVD together with a menu and a lot of other interesting functions.

As we’ve mentioned before, just by knowing this program has been developed for Windows 7 lets us safely assume that it will cooperate to the fullest with the system in terms of the speed, stability and security.

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