Free Movie Maker is the free version of software used to edit or create videos in various operating systems such as Microsoft Windows XP, Vista and Me. It consists of features that include transitions, effects, audio track, Auto Movie, titles/credits and timeline narration. By utilizing the XML code you can easily modify the existing transitions and effects as well as you can create new transitions and effects. It is also sometimes referred as editing program for basic audio track. Effects on audio tracks include fade out and fade in. These audio tracks are then exported in sound format rather than video format.
Movie Maker for windows was released for different operating systems based on the need and requirement. It started off with Windows Me, along with Windows XP, considering other editions of XP. The sequential release and its features are as mentioned below:
Windows Me: The first and foremost release of free movie maker for Windows was done in year 2000 with Windows Me, but this movie maker was not accessible in Windows Me(2000) although it was also released in the same year.
Windows 2000:In Windows 2000 you do not have Free Movie Maker, but you can still run the Movie Maker for version Windows Me on Windows 2000. In order to run Movie Maker perfectly in Windows 2000, you need to copy the Movie Maker files from Windows Me and pasted in Windows 2000. The version feasible for this application is version 1.2.
Windows XP: In the next year, that is 2001, version 1.1 got introduced with the support provided to create WMV 8 and DV AVI files. Further to this, in November 2002 version 2.0 got released having an updated version and additional features. In Windows Service Pack 2 a minor update was released with version 2.1. Another version of Free Movie Maker for Windows which was relatively new, version 2.5 was introduced in Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 which supported DVD burning and more transitions.
Windows Vista: As for Windows Vista version 2.6 of Free Movie Maker for Windows was released which included new transitions and effects, and support Windows Media Center television records which is in DVR-MS file format.The wizard to capture uses HDV files in order to create files of DVR-MS type. However, this Windows Movie maker’s version does not permit importing from any video source of analog type that includes VCR, camcorder or Webcam.
Windows 7:The latest version of Movie Maker Windows in Windows 7 is no at all equivalent to its opposed Windows Live Movie maker whose basis is on distinguished base code and is completely different where functionalities are concerned. However the Free Movie Maker version available in Windows Vista can be transformed in to Windows 7 and run smoothly. This method or procedure is applicable to all types of Windows Movie Maker versions as well as DirectX version with the condition that the computer’s hardware is feasible to take up the task of supporting it.
Free Movie Maker version for Vista 2.6 is highly compatible with Windows 7 and highly recommended by expert video editors even though it does not associates video capture.
