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WL Movie Maker's progress window has wrong icon, doesn't show progress in taskbar.
Title says all.
Although these "problems" are small compared to the general un-usability of the program. Even my Sony Ericsson phone has better basic video editing options :p
I hope it's an early beta.
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Discussion (8 comments)
Nice!
@Calum.Cook - I hope they really keep their promise since the final version of Windows 7 is going to be released on October 22.
For those who want the Vista version of Movie Maker...
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1286251/Movie%20Maker.zip
@nyp: works great. Thanks very much. Somehow, I think I'll be using this version even after Windows Live Movie Maker goes final...
Also, it's only 16.5 MB? Wow. So all that stuff in the press about Windows 7 being less bloated because some of the apps have been removed was just in the imagination of the "journalists"? Who'd have thought it? ;)
@Calum.Cook - They kept their promise. It does really work in its final form.
Now the icon in the title bar is worse in final, has some icon of users with a image in the back.
And it still doesn't show progress in task bar.
Calum.Cook wrote on June 10, 2009, 12:24pm
It is an early beta. Here it is, verbatim, from the Windows Live Team:
"You’d like more transitions, more effects, multiple soundtracks, and more video editing features like trim and split. As movie makers ourselves, we’re in the same boat as you are. We want those fun “shatter” transitions and “warp” effects just as much as you do! We’re definitely working on improving this and plan to have a range of rich-editing capabilities in the first official version.
You’d like something resembling a timeline in the product. In the Movie Maker beta, the storyboard didn’t have the ability to represent time like a traditional timeline would. We’ve heard you say that you’d like to be able to drag and drop clips to get them to start and end where you want, and that you’d like to have music and text that span multiple photos or video clips. We’ve also heard that you’d like to – at a glance – see which clips are longer than others, which clips have effects applied, and which clips have transitions. Now, I don’t want to give too much away just yet (we still have work to do!), but we’re definitely aware of these limitations. We’ve developed a new approach that we think will help address some of the shortcomings of the beta and will scale well from novice to experienced users without requiring people to switch views in order to get things done. "