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Windows Movie Maker Basics: Features & Interface

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Windows Movie Maker has a name that says (almost) everything about it, but there's always more to find out from us than what you already know.

Windows Movie Maker's History

Windows Movie Maker has been around for 7 years now, since its first version shipped with Windows Millenium, back in 2000. A year later, version 1.1 was included in Windows XP, having support for creation of AVI and WMV8 files. This version also featured DV video support.

In the meantime, the version number jumped from 2.5 to 6, to match the player’s version number with the operating system’s. Windows Movie Maker 6 comes with all Windows Vista editions, with only one exception, the Starter one.

Now that you know some things about the past of this program, let's see what Windows Movie Maker has to offer at this time.

Getting to know Windows Movie Maker

Windows Movie Maker is a video editing program included in Windows Vista that makes movie editing and deployment easy for every user. When talking about movie deployment, apart from sharing your movies online, the ability to burn your DVD movies fast is a nice feature to have, and Windows DVD Maker is exactly the little tool designed to help you with this task.

Although Windows Movie Maker is available in almost every edition of Microsoft's last operating system, its companion, called Windows DVD Maker, can be found only in Vista Home Premium and Ultimate. To make a short story even shorter, you have to know that Windows DVD Maker was designed to enable the creation of DVD movies in Windows Vista.

The interface of this program is nicely done and well organized, containing a storyboard/timeline, collections for organizing the imported videos and, of course, a preview screen.

Now, check some of this program's features

  • Windows Movie Maker can work easily with the next file types: WMV, JPEG, GIF, PNG, WMA, WAV, and MP3.
  • Capture from HDV type camcorders is supported.
  • Windows Movie Maker comes with over 130 titles, effects, transitions and credits built in, ready to use at once using a drag and drop interface!

 

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