Hands on with Windows Live Movie Maker

Posted By: Nic Fillingham | Aug 19th @ 12:18 PM | 57,998 Views | 32 Comments
As of today, Windows Live Movie Maker is officially out of beta and available to download for FREE as part of the Windows Live Essentials suite.

Victor Santodomingo, Windows Live Movie Maker Engine Development Lead, joined me in the studio to demonstrate the new Movie Maker in action and to discuss how his team developed a brand new engine that processes in 3D space to take advantage of Direct X capabilities and GPU effects.

If you have any comments or questions about the new Windows Live Movie Maker please leave then in the comments section below and we will follow up with Victor and his team. 

More Info: http://windowslive.com/Desktop/MovieMaker
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#Aug 22nd @ 10:30 PM
pokeystuff
pokeystuff
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I belive I have found a reproducible bug when using the *.wtv files that Windows 7 Media Center Produces for recorded TV shows.

 

The can be imported into WLMM and edited but once you try to Encode the end video. It just pauses on the beginning of the progress bar and the program must be killed via Task Manager! Cancel button does not work. I have tried this on two test systems.

 

Source of Video (*.wtv file): Windows Media Center running on Windows 7 RC x86.

 

Test systems for WLMM: Windows 7 x64 RC & Windows 7 RTM x86.

 

It would be disapointing of WLMM cannot use this file as some people may obtain Home Videos from camcorders this way. The only product that seem to deal with this file format successfully is the old Windows Movie Maker included in Windows Vista. (NOT Windows Movie Maker 2.6!)

 

Cheers.

#Aug 22nd @ 10:37 PM
pokeystuff
pokeystuff
www.PokeyStuff.com

Suggestion:

 

It would be nice to have an "Advanced" button for the final encode. Just some simple advanced options for WMV like: Output Resolution, Bitrate, and Dual / Single Pass encoding options. This program comes 95% of the way to fullfilling my requirments for simple editing tasks and so far I love it!

#Aug 24th @ 7:22 PM
staceyw
staceyw
Before C# there was darkness...

@PeterF "Actually it can do that. So what would I need to capture it?"

 

Cool.  So what I would do is get Encoder 3 and a Blackmagic hdmi card to capture and encode (or stream) the live feed.  I am not 100% sure yet the blackmagic works with encoder 3, but looking at the boards for someone that has it working.  So your saying the 5D outputs the live stream down the hdmi without recording it first?  Many cameras can record then output via hdmi, but I have not found one that outputs the live feed.  tia

#Aug 24th @ 8:20 PM
staceyw
staceyw
Before C# there was darkness...

So as WMM seems to be reducing features and Encoder is not really an editor as such.  Is there something planed to fill the gap?  Is Encoder going to be the pro editor platform going forward?

#Aug 25th @ 1:57 PM
PeterF
PeterF
Early Adopter

I still need to very this, I didn't yet order an HDMI cable online that is compatible with the camera. They use a type of mini connector that I cannot find in any hardware shop here around.

 

I was trying to find a link where I saw a movie shooting setup with a TV screen attached. Instead I found a link to the behind the scenes shooting of the promotion video for the Canon :

http://blog.vincentlaforet.com/2008/09/23/behind-the-scenes-video/

 

Thanks for the tip for the Blackmagic card. But before I spend money on it I will wait for Nic's answer on whether he was able to import into Movie Maker, or if they have plans to fix it Wink

 

Regards,

Peter

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