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Windows Live Movie Maker

Submitted by semtido on April 23, 2009 to Annoyance, Usability

Basicaly, windows movie maker as it is now, is a good program for doing absolutely nothing.

I can't edit a video on that: its just impossible. Come on, if you don't wanna work, just bring the old movie maker back: it was way better.

Copy i-movie. I dont care what you have to do: just give your users a good fast responsive video editing program, because i've simply never seen one.

I want to edit a video on windows what do i use? This pathetic movie maker isnt even an option. Premiere pro is like killing a fly with a bazooka.

A simple yet powerfull program. Will you ever learn anything from apple?

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Discussion (10 comments)

.Chris wrote on April 23, 2009, 11:14am

time line view is a must

semtido wrote on April 23, 2009, 1:46pm

Its not only the time view... It must be more complete: even the movie maker in vista is not enough. Much less a downgrade.

digitalcircuit36939 wrote on May 2, 2009, 2:02pm

+1
If Microsoft does not change it, I wonder if there might be a way to copy the Vista Movie Maker to Windows 7...

Calum.Cook wrote on May 17, 2009, 8:41pm

Has anyone seen the new transitions and animations in PowerPoint 2010? I hope some of them are added to Movie Maker.

Navarr wrote on May 29, 2009, 1:48am

The Windows Team had this to say:

@MSWindows The original beta was limited in scope. That team is working on a new release that we hope you'll try and hope you'll like. ^MS

.Chris wrote on May 29, 2009, 4:17am

It must have time line view or we wont like it. Microsoft is trying to be like apple. Not cool not cool at all

semtido wrote on May 29, 2009, 5:02am

No, microsoft is not trying to be like apple (or if it is, is failing miserably). Apple usually gets stuff right, and would never make a program that's good for doing absolutely nothing, like this poor excuse for a movie editor.

Apple software just works, and the way they want it to, which is different than just working doing nothing (or not working at all for that matter).

So, no, i don't really like apple, but give me apple software everyday if the alternative is crappy microsoft software.

.Chris wrote on May 29, 2009, 10:30am

Have you used iMovie? No timeline view same general idea as WLMM.

Calum.Cook wrote on May 29, 2009, 10:36am

@OP: Why the hell would they need to learn anything from Apple? Apple omits features with the sole justification that His Majesty Steve Jobs doesn't like them, resulting in crippled products. Microsoft usually throws everything you could ever ask for in and, recently, have worked really hard to make the UI easy to use. Office 2007 is a brilliant example. Sadly, Windows Live Movie Maker is a brilliant example of the Apple design philosophy taken to the extreme.

nyp wrote on August 20, 2009, 12:47pm

Fixed in final.

nyp wrote on February 12, 2010, 11:29pm

Changed status from [Not fixed] to [Fixed]

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