@sphbking I still have the old movie maker 2.6 it may be slower and buggier but i think it get the job done better than the friendlier Live movie maker
@Rapol I agree with you, but alas Windows 7 doesn't have access to the old Movie Maker. I prefer Movie Maker over Live Movie Maker any day. For some reason they removed a ton of features in Live Movie Maker. Makes total sense to me!
@sphbking Just tried out the new Live Movie Maker today and it's so bad, it's insulting. It's actually harder to make edits since you can't really scrub through a timeline. You can't even perform a simple fade in on the middle of a clip. The preview window doesn't do full-screen. The way it is right now, it would be counter-intuitive to work with multiple video clips if you needed to do any semi-serious editing. Probably extremely easy to use, but it too much to ask for video editing a little more useful than imovie for iphone ?
@Damaga Agreed. The new movie maker seems more geared towards making slideshows. That's cool and all, but actually doing basic editing to videos is much, much harder than before.
That being said, they are otherwise doing an amazing job with this suite. The rest of the apps are well made, and have great polish. Movie Maker still has a way to go in my eyes. I have a feeling they have a different vision for it than I do, so I'm not sure if it'll get there.
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Live Movie Maker isn't updated? Pity. It may be severely limited, but it does what it does excellently.
@sphbking Yes it is updated.
@georgeangelo
You're right. Installing now, but it didn't show up in the pre-install list for some reason.
Anyway, beta....
@sphbking I still have the old movie maker 2.6 it may be slower and buggier but i think it get the job done better than the friendlier Live movie maker
@Rapol I agree with you, but alas Windows 7 doesn't have access to the old Movie Maker. I prefer Movie Maker over Live Movie Maker any day. For some reason they removed a ton of features in Live Movie Maker. Makes total sense to me!
@georgeangelo
You can copy the folder from the Program Files folder of a Vista Premium/Ultimate installation.
I've done it and it works just fine.
@sphbking Just tried out the new Live Movie Maker today and it's so bad, it's insulting. It's actually harder to make edits since you can't really scrub through a timeline. You can't even perform a simple fade in on the middle of a clip. The preview window doesn't do full-screen. The way it is right now, it would be counter-intuitive to work with multiple video clips if you needed to do any semi-serious editing. Probably extremely easy to use, but it too much to ask for video editing a little more useful than imovie for iphone ?
@Damaga Agreed. The new movie maker seems more geared towards making slideshows. That's cool and all, but actually doing basic editing to videos is much, much harder than before.
That being said, they are otherwise doing an amazing job with this suite. The rest of the apps are well made, and have great polish. Movie Maker still has a way to go in my eyes. I have a feeling they have a different vision for it than I do, so I'm not sure if it'll get there.
@Damaga Lol, "semi-serious editing".