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Windows Movie Maker Overview

What is Windows Movie Maker?

With Windows Movie Maker, you can quickly turn your photos and videos into polished movies.

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With Windows Movie Maker, you can quickly turn your photos and videos into polished movies.


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Year Founded
1975
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Redmond, Washington
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MSFT
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$204,090
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Every company has a mission. What's ours? To empower every person and every organization to achieve more. We believe technology can and should be a force for good and that meaningful innovation contributes to a brighter world in the future and today. Our culture doesn’t just encourage curiosity; it embraces it. Each day we make progress together by showing up as our authentic selves. We show up with a learn-it-all mentality. We show up cheering on others, knowing their success doesn't diminish our own. We show up every day open to learning our own biases, changing our behavior, and inviting in differences. Because impact matters. Microsoft operates in 190 countries and is made up of approximately

8,000 passionate employees worldwide.

Recent Windows Movie Maker Reviews

Raine C.
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Raine C.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"The Excitement Of You Tube Accelerating ... COME WMM!!!!"
WMM (Windows Movie Maker) unlocked so many doors with such ease and transparency toward the simplicity of aiming at the incredible and then being E...
Alaide P.
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Alaide P.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Old product but still evolving when we talk about integration"
Movie Maker is an old product that is widely used by Windows users. The integration with Stream works very well. I can edit the videos I record dur...
Rahul R.
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Rahul R.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
3.0 out of 5
"Movie maker review"
simple tool for editing videos images from windwos itselt
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Venkatesh Kumar S.
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What do you like best about Windows Movie Maker?

I like that it is lightweight, it won't take too much ram consumption. It is pre-installed in previous versions of windows till windows 7. For the beginners this application is the right place to start editing, video mixing, making video with photos and adding a background music for that images. It's is built and developed by Microsoft. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Windows Movie Maker?

It might be great if it provides online webapp just like ms office. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Windows Movie Maker solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have created some demo videos with some background score on it using windows movie maker. These demo videos includes a prototype flow for the projects before they actually get into developers hand. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Windows Movie Maker?

The easy interface and user friendly customisation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Windows Movie Maker?

Could provide more mode to edit and accuracy for tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Windows Movie Maker solving and how is that benefiting you?

We've used it to edit our Youtube videos and some other clips for professional use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Windows Movie Maker?

It is free and easy to learn how to do something. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Windows Movie Maker?

You can't drag a project into a project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Windows Movie Maker solving and how is that benefiting you?

Movie Maker helps me to edit my videos for youtube. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Megan R.
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What do you like best about Windows Movie Maker?

I needed to edit a video quickly. Since I filmed the video in a different orientation, the software we usually use would not format the video correctly. Windows Movie Maker came through for me, and I was able to quickly and easily edit my video. Also, the software was free to use! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Windows Movie Maker?

I wish there were a few more features available with Windows Movie Maker, or at least more apparent. For example, I was trying to figure out how to do transitions between video clips but could not find a way to implement a fade. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Windows Movie Maker solving and how is that benefiting you?

I was trying to edit and upload a video filmed in a vertical orientation. Our standard software would not format the video correctly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Windows Movie Maker?

In windows movie maker, the best part is that it's really awesome to be able to create a movie with just a simple and user friendly platform that can blow your mind away and makes you feel like a real movie maker. Also the ability to add audio, muting the extra noise from the background, adding images, videos and also being able to convert to different formats and other best features are:

-User friendly feature

- Easily editable

- HD quality movies can be saved Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Windows Movie Maker?

There is nothing to dislike about windows movie maker. This is because it has:

-Title Customization Tool.

-Credit Customization Tool.

-Auto Movie Options.

-Timeline Narration.

-Special Effects Options.

-Transition Overlays.

-Extensive Audio Track Selection. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Windows Movie Maker:

I would like to recommend windows movie maker due to its amazing features like:

-Name Tool for Customization.

-Resource for Credit Customization.

-Movie Choice Auto.

-Narrating the Timeline.

-Options for Special Effects.

-Overlays for Transformation.

-Extensive Audio Track Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Windows Movie Maker solving and how is that benefiting you?

Problems that I am solving are:

-Video editing problems

-Adding audio

-File conversion to HD quality and other formats

-muting the background when required

-Easily adding images

- adding multiple videos together while controlling the timeline.

Benefits of movie maker are:

-User friendly feature

- Easily editable

- HD quality movies can be saved Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Windows Movie Maker?

Handy tools for Video editing

Able to add audio as per requirement Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Windows Movie Maker?

Fewer options to add any visual effects in your video. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Windows Movie Maker:

Indeed this is the best available primary option for your simple projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Windows Movie Maker solving and how is that benefiting you?

Creating good videos by combining multiple videos and audio files Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Windows Movie Maker?

The ability to drag and drop files is very easy on movie maker. Cropping videos and editing them is easy with the snippet tool and adding music is very also simple! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Windows Movie Maker?

Interface is slightly outdated, would like to see some improvements in the user experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Windows Movie Maker solving and how is that benefiting you?

Ability to create short videos and quick editing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Marisa-RIGAL K.
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What do you like best about Windows Movie Maker?

I like the top menu which permits me to add text, music, and even impacts, for example, HQ video pix and high contrast "layers", basically by clicking once on the ideal decision. Windows Movie Maker collects, This extraordinary video supervisor lives for its swarm of clients and can be downloaded, in every case gratis, from believed sites I truly accept that video altering is simple when I use Windows Movie Maker. Basic and instinctive, it is ideal for joining photographs into recordings or appending portions of recordings. There are a few impacts, exchanges, expressive impacts (pencil \ outskirt \ watercolor impact) and it is conceivable to add sound documents. There is likewise the MINIMUM chance of amending the splendor of the video and additionally photograph a little Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Windows Movie Maker?

The main activity is that short recordings of not exactly a couple of megabytes can defer the software and it will require some investment. In some cases I am gone up against with breakdowns, which implies that I need to restart the get together cycle. Wmv is its default record format to work What I don't care for is that it's just at the WMV design, it's substantial on the off chance that I attempt to alter enormous video documents and I can't trade different resources, however it permits numerous advances and pleasant impacts, which gives an individual effect. What you need to pass on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Windows Movie Maker solving and how is that benefiting you?

An amazing software offered by windows for people who are in need of basic and simple video editing since it is awesome and extraordinary realized video altering program second to none, all around executed capacities for basic and instinctive altering. a very useful and friendly easy to use software for basic knowledge using people. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Windows Movie Maker?

Everything is pretty intuitive. You don't have to be a professional video editor with experience in high level programs to use this. The interface has a lot of different options to play with and the timeline look let's you see how things are looking as you go. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Windows Movie Maker?

Taking files from Movie Maker to an offline media like DVD can be a little challenging and cubmersome. I also wish overlaying audio was a little bit easier to do. The ease of use of the platform also takes away some of the advanced functionality you get from other programs. A bit of a trade off really. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Windows Movie Maker:

Don't go into it thinking you'll get the final product you would with a more expensive and user intensive product. There are limitations. However, for a quick and easy experience this is a great option. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Windows Movie Maker solving and how is that benefiting you?

I use this mostly for doing videos for family and friends. It's easy to take photos and videos and turn them into keepsakes, or something that people can have to remember the event. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.