Windows Live Movie Maker is a functional, free, and powerful tool (Windows Live - Movie Studio) from Microsoft, designed for creating movies and impressive video clips from photos and videos. You can add transitions, colorful effects, record audio tracks, titles, and more.
Program Features
Created projects can be sent via email, saved to optical media, recorded as high-resolution video for PCs, various mobile devices (Zune, Windows Phone), and published online (YouTube, SkyDrive, Flickr, Facebook, etc.). The program's integration with social networks enables sharing videos online with family and friends.
Windows Live Movie Maker is completely free with an intuitive interface and is designed for the average user. It includes all the necessary tools for creating various effects, video transitions, and audio editing. Videos created in the program can be easily sent via email.
The program has many capabilities. With Windows Live Movie Maker, you can create high-quality title captions, slideshows, cut, edit, process, and convert video, add simple animation effects, transitions, and adjust time intervals.
There is an option to save the movie to a camcorder and adjust the quality of the created movie. The project can be saved in formats such as AVI and WMV.
Advantages and Disadvantages of the Program
The program features an intuitive, modern interface design, making it easy for beginners to learn. It supports the most common video file extensions. The program is equipped with its own library of video effects. It has a function for saving video images and photos.
Additionally, the program can be used to create vibrant presentations from photos, add effects, voiceovers, and music. Special effects and animation transitions can be previewed. The modern Windows Media compression technology helps maintain good image and sound quality.
Advantage
The program is easy to use, but it has a few drawbacks. It has limited editing capabilities for imported video files and supports a small number of video extensions.
The program cannot cut specific parts of a video. It is an excellent tool for creating both amateur and highly professional videos.
Supported formats: JPEG, TIFF, GIF, Windows Media Video (WMV), Windows Media DV-AVI, Microsoft Recorded TV Show, 3GP, 3GPP, MPEG2, MPEG1, Motion JPEG, Bitmap, PNG, Quick Time .mov, .qt, AVCHD, MPEG4.
Main Features of Windows Live Movie Maker:
- Ability to add effects, text, audio, transitions, etc.
- Edit video/audio.
- Import video and photos from a camera directly into the program.
- Features a Ribbon interface.
- Preview special effects and animation transitions.
- Publish videos on social services and video sharing sites.
- Auto-compose a video file from media content.
- Record video in high definition (480, 720, 1080p).
- Set of editing tools: special effects, audio file fragments, music mixing, cutting unwanted parts, slowing down and speeding up the movie, splitting into parts, artistic effects, adding titles and captions.
- Integration with Windows Live Photo Gallery.
Note!!! The Windows Live Movie Maker program is part of the Windows Live package and is presented as a unique web installer. During installation, you need to select the desired components. To download Windows Live Movie Maker, go to the "Choose programs to install" section in the web installer panel, then check only "Photo Gallery and Movie Studio".
Attention: The Windows Live Movie Maker program is not compatible with Microsoft Windows operating systems released before Windows Vista.
