Brian Hall, General Manager for Windows Live, just has announced via the Windows Live Team Blog that the new Windows Live Movie Maker is now available. The new version of Windows Live Movie Maker is part of an update to Windows Live Essentials – available for download here. I’m currently running the new version of Windows Live Movie Maker on Windows 7 RTM and it will also run on Windows Vista too.
For more information on the new Windows Live Movie Maker, see Brian’s blog post or this awesome resource website which includes demo, HD samples and deep product info.
Sorry for such a short post, but I’m off to make me some movies!
The layout of Live Movie maker is a lot different than movie maker on XP but I have not found the Timeline where you layout the video, pictures, transitions, and audio for your presentation. How do you compose the movie to have the composition and flow that you want or do you just throw everything into a pot and let Movie maker do whatever it wants?
Bill Walter
Hi Bill, there is a new "timeline" feature in the final release that lets you drag and drop videos and photos and arrange them and add transitions to them. It's on the right-hand side of the application. If you see the above screenshot, you can see I have a video and image added to my timeline in Windows Live Movie Maker. It might take some getting used to but I've been able to do some pretty complex videos with it to-date.
If you're not seeing this, you may not have the final release. You would need to go to download.live.com to get the final release.
But you certainly can compose videos to your needs as well as use Movie Maker's new AutoMovie feature.
Hi Brandon,
I'm happy WLMM now accepts WTV files, but...
Can't get a short Win7 WTV to save as WMV. Get stuck at the very start of the progress bar and all i can do is kill WLMM ! (not using processor ressources nor HDD, just freezing)
(Win7 RTM Fr x86 installed today !)
Jean-Marc
Thanks Microsoft Amazing release, but is in English,
now my live suite in in English :(
Ok no problem but .... Italian release ??
Doc XP, let me see what I can find out for you. I don't have a WTV file here with me to try and edit myself to see what happens unfortunately. This is something I actually haven't tried yet.
When will it support exporting to formats compatible with more computers and devices, like H.264?
I don't like that you cant capture video from a web cam like you could with Movie Maker for XP.
5 attempts to install it now - and associated compulsory updates of Messenger/Gallery/Writer. It gets to 100% complete, and then starts rolling back the entire installation. Then it shows a very unhelpful error "Programs were not installed because the installation was canceled. aborted:0x80004004)
The associated online help topic (covering only XP and Vista) seems to assume the only reason this happens is because the Cancel button has been pressed.
I've seen these same errors in previous releases of Windows Live products but there's nowhere to go for help. Would love to know who was responsible for reviewing the ugly error text and associated help.
hi brandon
looks great :)
however before i gonna install this one i want to make sure:
this can be installed concurrently with the existing vista ultimate (64 bit) movie maker hd and will cause no problem to it whatsoever?
thx
tp
All I wanted to do was download the Movie Maker, but have to use the websetup installer.
First it said I already had the movie maker. So I had to manually remove the older version.
Then the install said that besides installing the Movie Maker, the other programs needed to be updated. No way to say no... so I preceeded with the process. It said I only needed to download 160+ MB. No problem I have 2Mbps download should only take a few minutes.... I had it run for several HOURS!!!! The progress bar moved very slowly. Finally, I gave up... I don't want to leave my notebook running all night unattended as it gets too hot.
Microsoft, please give me a way to download the whole package as a single .msi and let me install it offline.
hitmouse:
The error you are receiving is the same as mine. For me, I wait hours for it to download just a small percent... then I must hibernate the computer and go to the office or come home. When it comes out of hibernation, it jumps to 100 percent and then rollsback. Basically, if the connection is broke this will happen. I waited 4 hours and it only got to 20 percent... and that was on a high speed connection.
Features request:
1. Apply random Transition to all my photos (we already have an automatic pan and zoom feature).
2. Auto rotate! For some reason Windows 7, Windows Photo Viewer, & Windows Live Movie Maker do not auto rotate images. Other programs like Google's Picasa3 have no trouble auto rotating my images.
3. Sort pictures by name, date taken, date modified, etc from within Windows Live Movie Maker.
The "timeline" isn't of much use because for DivX or other MPEG-4 movies, I'm only getting a completely black timeline with no previews of the video! Also, I need more export formats, do you MS, DVD isn't dead yet nor is VCD, nor is AVI. I need to be able to export to AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MP4 container (H.264+AAC) and MOV before I even consider using this crippleware. Microsoft should call this Windows Live WMV Maker. Still very very very disappointed with this app. The feature people want is maximum export formats since people have to deal with them in real life, not just WMV, if you can't give that (no import only support please, we want export support), your app is useless.
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What in the world? The previous editions of Movie maker were intuitive. You only needed to side down and play a little and in no time, were creating decent movies. This one looks like a learning curve (a really steep learning curve) is needed to master it, and it will be hard to edit and fine tune (if at all possible) movies and videos. I haven't even tried yet to learn what other capabilities this program has, but so far.......am really disappointed.
I'm having the same problem as Doc_XP. It hangs forever when trying to export an edited WTV file.
My source WTV file is a 720p recording from a Hauppauge HVR-2250 QAM TV tuner. After removing some scenes, I tried to use the "Burn to DVD" option in WLMM. It hangs forever and there are errors in the Event Log.
I've stored about 7 items since January that I need to be able to record and free up the storage space on my Media Center. I don't believe Microsoft is going to fix this issue and I can't do ANYTHING with these WTV files.
Even the built-in "Convert to DVR-MS" function in Windows 7 produces files that crash WLMM. I'm stuck.
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