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Windows Live Movie Maker: coming this year (but not yet)

Posted Jun 05 2009, 01:59 AM by Kip Kniskern with 9 comment(s)

The Lead Program Manager on the Windows Live Movie Maker team (and as it happens one of LiveSide’s oldest friends, from back in the MSN Spaces days), Mike Torres, posted on Windows Live Wire today with a status update for Windows Live Movie Maker.

As you may know, Windows Live Movie Maker will be a completely rebuilt replacement for the Windows Movie Maker product that has shipped with Windows since Windows ME (but won’t be shipping in Windows 7).  It was included as an early beta with Windows Live Essentials, but as Torres admits:

People were surprised (or shocked, rather!) at the limited number of transitions, effects, and overall functionality in the program. We wanted to release the beta to start the conversation about the use of the ribbon and some of the overall changes to the software model, but in hindsight, the application just wasn’t useful enough for that.

While there’s no timeline for when we’ll see an updated version of WLMM (except for “this year”), Torres offers some glimpses of what to expect from a new version, including more rich-editing capabilities (more transitions, trim, split, multiple soundtracks are all feedback requests), “some sort of a timeline”, and a simple interface that would “(a)llow more experienced people to go deeper when they need to”. 

What won’t be available in v1 is support for Windows XP, as Windows Live Movie Maker is built on the new graphics capabilities in Vista and 7, including DirectX.

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mrmckeb wrote re: Windows Live Movie Maker: coming this year (but not yet)
on Fri, Jun 5 2009 2:37 AM

Thankyou, this news is what I wanted to hear.

Alber1690 wrote re: Windows Live Movie Maker: coming this year (but not yet)
on Fri, Jun 5 2009 3:11 AM

I'm with "mrmckeb" on this and immensely pleased to see attention brought to this issue :D!!!

When I saw Windows Movie Maker completely dissapear from Windows 7, I was devasted because all I could picture was the made-for-2-year-olds Windows Live Movie Maker as the "alternative." But finally, I have renewed hope that Windows Movie Maker might actually have a decent replacement in Windows 7.

JohnCz wrote re: Windows Live Movie Maker: coming this year (but not yet)
on Fri, Jun 5 2009 8:58 AM

this is good news...trim/split editing is crucial for even the simplist of home video.  and I can't imagine composing anything longer than 5 minutes without some kind of time line.  i'm happy they are addressing these.

efjay wrote re: Windows Live Movie Maker: coming this year (but not yet)
on Fri, Jun 5 2009 9:30 AM

Please pass on the message NOT to forget Windows Mobile phones, its really sad to see some great software from MS that does not work or does not even consider WM users. Doesnt stop devs from developing for other platforms (as i know pretty much everyone has an iphone) but seriously, interface aside WM is one of the mose powerful mobile OS's available and its ridiculous to see MS themselves constangly ignoring it.

andrew19ao wrote re: Windows Live Movie Maker: coming this year (but not yet)
on Fri, Jun 5 2009 11:32 AM

Finally. Even Windows Movie Maker in XP did not have enough capabilities.

JohnCz wrote re: Windows Live Movie Maker: coming this year (but not yet)
on Fri, Jun 5 2009 11:39 AM

@efjay, phones and portable devices are great for communication, gathering (ex. camera) and consuming content on the go.  i think editing content (ex. Movie Maker) would be fairly painful.  however, perhaps a very basic feature set, like adding titles and geo/tagging could be useful.

hamiltonguy wrote re: Windows Live Movie Maker: coming this year (but not yet)
on Fri, Jun 5 2009 5:25 PM

Thank god, that beta was an unmitigated disaster.  I dont care about uploading to youtube.  I want to dress up my home movies.

efjay wrote re: Windows Live Movie Maker: coming this year (but not yet)
on Sat, Jun 6 2009 3:28 PM

@JohnCz; I actually meant the capability to convert a movie to a WM device compatible format, including taking into account the screen resolution. With Movie maker now the only res for PPC's/WM is 320x240 which is only 1 of the resolutions supported now by WM phones meaning having to resort to 3rd party software just to get a playable file. However you are most likely to see an option for an ipod which will convert and play back much better than on MS's own mobile OS.

calum-cook wrote re: Windows Live Movie Maker: coming this year (but not yet)
on Mon, Jun 8 2009 11:19 AM

What do you mean, pretty much everyone has an iPhone? Last time I checked, WM still had a deservedly higher market share.

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