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Windows Movie Maker 2.6 available for Vista, Windows 7
Those of you who have run a recent Windows Live installation may have seen Windows Live Movie Maker. It's an attractive update, and a very simple way to put put together home video on your Windows computer. It does, however, lack some features users of good old Windows Movie Maker enjoyed.
If you've been waiting for an updated version to appear, you're in luck.
Microsoft has made version 2.6 of Movie Maker available for download, and it runs on both Windows Vista and Windows 7. While advanced users are likely using a more sophisticated video editing program, there's no denying that Movie Maker is an excellent, full-featured option for the average home user.
[via Channel 10]
If you've been waiting for an updated version to appear, you're in luck.
Microsoft has made version 2.6 of Movie Maker available for download, and it runs on both Windows Vista and Windows 7. While advanced users are likely using a more sophisticated video editing program, there's no denying that Movie Maker is an excellent, full-featured option for the average home user.
[via Channel 10]
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Subscribe to commentsEminemdrdre00Feb 11th 2009 2:17PM
Does this one also lack HD options?
dtmaFeb 11th 2009 2:39PM
The Vista version didn't lack HD options.
BundyFeb 11th 2009 2:56PM
What he means is, does this support AVCHD. The high def encoding that HD Camera's use. Movie Maker for Vista does not support this format, so if you want to easily edit HD video, you have to turn to other software.
Eminemdrdre00Feb 11th 2009 3:30PM
Actually when I said "Does this one also lack HD options?" I was comparing it to the Live Movie Maker, which lacks HD export options. So essentially this is just the Windows Movie Maker that was included in XP? No HD features?
JasonFeb 12th 2009 8:26AM
Worse. It's basically the XP version with some of it's features stripped out; in other words this sucks. This will run on XP if you copy the files over, so I thought cool a free upgrade. Found out it was actually a downgrade. Very lame Microsoft.
AAFeb 11th 2009 6:09PM
The download's dated 2007
bambooFeb 11th 2009 5:10PM
Ummmmmmmm...........why is this news?
Did you read the publish date at the link posted:
"Date Published: 4/6/2007"
Ben HollisFeb 11th 2009 11:25PM
How is this better than the WMM that shipped with Vista? I think this is only good for Win7 users who don't get WMM installed with the OS.
JasonFeb 12th 2009 8:28AM
It's actually worse than the version in XP. I don't know what they were thinking.
File4matFeb 12th 2009 1:46AM
"Movie Maker 2.6 is for Windows Vista users whose computer cannot run the Vista version of Movie Maker"
That with the 2007 release date should answer all questions above ;)
MattFeb 18th 2009 6:19AM
Windows movie maker is probably the worst video editing software out there, sorry guys.
maztrrApr 16th 2009 8:21PM
when I try to run this on Windows 7 I get "Windows Movie Maker cannot be used because the required audio hardware cannot be found on your computer." How do I fix this.
YaredMay 26th 2010 9:51AM
what would be a good video editing tool to make Movies that can playback in DVD Players. I already have ULead but isn't getting the job done for me. May be some one could help me out by suggesting other editing tools.
Thanx.
Charles O. SlavensJun 1st 2010 11:04AM
I'm shooting 1980x1080 HD with my Canon 5d MKII. Is WMM a program that I can use to edit files produced by this camera? Also, does it have the capability of reducing the size of the files so they can be published on the web? Thanks for your help..............
frankJun 23rd 2010 4:32PM
Does anyone know why some versions of the "Windows Movie Maker" have the option to "Publish to DVD" but some don't? I downloaded the WMM 2.6 and it still does not has that option. I have Windows Vista Home Basic. Thank you.
jimboJul 1st 2010 9:30AM
I heard that MM2.6 would run with Windows 7. I downloaded it and spent an hour or so creating a movie clip with quite a lot of edits. When I tried to save it to my computer it just wouldn't save no matter what I tried. I used to use MM to make videos like this all the time on my old computer with XP. MM did used to crash a lot back then when I did a lot of edits but I never had trouble saving a movie before. Anyone else have this problem with Windows 7 or know how to fix it?
jimboJul 1st 2010 9:40AM
Oops! Forget all that...it works fine now! The problem was that the WMV file I was using had been converted with a new file converter I had just downloaded. When I checked I was surprised to discover that the only WMV file format used by this 5 star rated converter was actually WMV2!(?) After converting the file to WMV7 with another converter my re-edited movie saved just fine. Traps for new players.
madisonnickoletJul 12th 2010 2:09AM
i love windows movie maker! me and my friends make movies on it all the time! its sooo fun!