Windows Live Movie Maker Part of Windows Essentials
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Turn memories into movies
Movie Maker is the easy, fast way to turn photos and videos into great-looking movies and slideshows you can share—on the Web or on DVD.*
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Screen capture demonstrating Make a movie in minutes
Make a movie in minutes
AutoMovie automatically turns your videos, photos, and music into a great movie! You provide the raw materials, and MovieMaker fits it all together, including titles and transitions.
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Sharing is simple
Share your videos on DVD and on YouTube in just a few clicks! You can even transfer your movie to your mobile to take it on the go.
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Edit in a snap
Customize your movies with easy-to-use editing tools. Trim your video clips to show only the part you want—add titles, transitions, music, even zoom and panning effects!
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Import in a flash
It’s easy to transfer your photos and videos from your camera and onto your PC! MovieMaker offers HD support and works with video formats from most cameras and camcorders.
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Windows Live Movie Maker
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Photo Gallery
Bring your memories to life! Select photos and videos from within Photo Gallery and in just two clicks, you can transfer them to Movie Maker to create a compelling movie with titles, captions, and a soundtrack.
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Movie Maker features
- Basics
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Just getting started?
With MovieMaker, it’s a snap to transform your favorite photos and videos into movie masterpieces. Ready to get started? Check out these features and step-by-step instructions to turn you into a first-rate filmmaker.
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Import Photos and Videos from your PC
Use the photos and videos on your PC to make new movies in a flash.
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AutoMovie
Quickly and easily create polished movies from your videos, photos, and music. You add your assets and AutoMovie does the work, including transitions, titles, and music.
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Post to YouTube
Video is for sharing! Post your movies to YouTube with built-in publishing.
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Easy transitions and effects
Get professional-looking transitions between photos and videos, without a whole movie crew!
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- Sharing
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Post to YouTube
Video is for sharing! Post your movies to YouTube with built-in publishing.
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Burn movies to DVD
One of the easiest ways to share your movies with your friends and family is on a DVD—and MovieMaker helps you burn DVDs with just a few clicks.
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- High Def
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Go High Def
Movie Maker supports High Def, so you can create a great viewing experience by saving your movie in 480, 720, and 1080 high-definition formats.
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- Importing
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Import Photos and Videos from your PC
Use the photos and videos on your PC to make new movies in a flash.
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Import from your camera or camcorder
With Windows 7 and Movie Maker, it’s easy to get your photos and videos from your device and into a movie. Just plug in your camera to start the process.
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Add photos and videos from Photo Gallery
You can quickly, easily add photos, video, and slideshows to Movie Maker from Photo Gallery. Just click the“
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- Editing
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Easy transitions and effects
Get professional-looking transitions between photos and videos, without a whole movie crew!
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AutoMovie
Quickly and easily create polished movies from your videos, photos, and music. You add your assets and AutoMovie does the work, including transitions, titles, and music.
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Video editing
Not every moment captured on camera should make the final cut. Movie Maker’s video editing tools are easy to use, so you can find your perfect moments in each video clip.
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Photo effects
Make your video an action flick by adding panning and zooming to the photos in your movie—and add variety to your video with easy-to-apply visual effects.
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Add and edit audio
Tailor your movie’s soundtrack to set the mood. You add your music then use Movie Maker’s easy audio editing to get the background music just right.
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Titles, captions, and credits
Give credit where it’s due by adding title screens and end credits. Or add detail to your story with text captions that overlay right on the video.
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Learn more from people like you
Check out what our bloggers have to say about Movie Maker
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The improved Windows Live Movie Maker coming is HOT!
7/24/2009 9:49:36 AM, Andre
The folks over at Windows Live enthusiast LiveSide web site managed to get a hold of some of the major improvements that are coming in the next update to the new Windows Live Movie Maker first introduced with this years release of Windows Live Essentials. ...
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Windows Live Wave 4: Sooner than we think?
9/7/2009 11:27:14 AM, Michael
I have been expecting Windows Live Wave 4 to beta around about the time that Windows 7 goes on sale on October 22nd and then be finally released in the new year, however a few things have made me rather more hopeful about its release date. One factor is ...
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Ribbon UI and Windows Live Writer
8/18/2009 8:42:50 AM, mynetx
Ribbon is everywhere. Originally introduced as new way of using User Interfaces in Office 2007, today I see it in Windows user tools, such as Wordpad and Paint, as well as all the Office applications, of course. Windows 7 has made a big move in ...
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Windows Live Wave 4: Video SP1
9/9/2009 3:56:23 AM, Michael
This article needs to be read after reading my Windows Live Wave 4: Video article. I found the other day that Microsoft Hardware had released drivers and software to get their LifeCams to work on Windows 7, something that was long over due. For quite a ...
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Windows Live and You: “Making my views known on behalf of the ‘little everyday user’” (Technogran)
8/21/2009 8:00:58 AM, mynetx
Talking about Windows Live always means talking about its users—the tech-savvy ones as well as the “normal” users. Today I am talking with Technogran, a ‘geeky grandma trying desperately to keep up with it all’, as she describes herself. She lives in ...
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A new version of Windows Live Movie Maker.
8/19/2009 1:16:59 PM, Technogran
At last the new version of Windows Live Movie Maker has been released! Complete with the new easy to use ‘Ribbon’ interface, it has gone through a complete overhaul by the team, who decided to scrub the previous incarnation of Movie Maker and start from ...
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