Windows Live launches Movie Maker allowing people to create their own movies from photos and videos
windowslive.com.au
Sydney, Australia, Thursday 20th August 2009: Windows Live launches its newest feature today –
Windows Live Movie Maker – a free program allowing people to create movies and slideshows from digital photographs and video files.
The first Windows Live feature to be optimised for Windows 7,
Windows Live Movie Maker includes editing, animation, visual and sound effects functionality for people to easily turn photos and most video files* into movies they can share online or burn to DVD.
Raphael Aquino-Jose, Windows Live Product Manager, said: :
Windows Live Movie Maker is one of the significant additions to the new Windows Live suite of features and services. People often have hundreds of photos and small video clips in their personal collection, and now
Windows Live Movie Maker provides a quick and easy way to package and share these in a slide show or movie format. Anyone can become a movie director with
Windows Live Movie Maker!"
Windows Live Movie Maker features include:
- Simple photo and video import: Once the camera, phone or recorder is plugged in, Windows Live Movie Maker takes people through each step.
- AutoMovie: Transitions, effects, titles and a music soundtrack can be added to create a movie in a few minutes.
- Live Preview: When the video is hovered over with the mouse, Movie Maker previews the transitions and effects so it’s quick and easy to decide which features to apply to each movie.
- Share on YouTube & Facebook: The finished movies can be uploaded to YouTube or shared with a plug-in on Facebook.
- Video and audio editing: Videos can be cut or split and music can be added to create a soundtrack.
- Visual effects and photo animation: Options for black and white, artistic, mirror, motion and other visual effects can be added as well as panning, zooming and transition effects to photos. Also includes text effects and brightness adjustments.
- Storyboard: Elements of videos, photos and audio can be laid out, moved around, added and removed in a story board format – just like the professionals.
- HD support: Movies can be saved in high definition formats: High Def 480, 720 and 1080p.
- Titles, captions and credits: Text captions, comments and credits can be overlaid to each video.
People can download Windows Live Movie Maker today from windowslive.com.au
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*Windows Live Movie Maker is compatible with the majority of photo formats including JPEG, TIFF, GIF, Bitmap, PNG, HD and more. Windows Live Movie Maker is compatible with the majority of video formats including Windows Media Video (WMV), Windows Media, DV-AVI, Microsoft Recorded TV Show, 3GP, 3GPP, MPEG-2, MPEG-1 and Motion JPEG. With Windows 7, Windows Live Movie Maker also supports QuickTime .mov and .qt, AVCHD and .MPEG4 files.
