The interface can be resized to give more space to this timeline or to the preview window, but it’s frustrating that the other controls are bunched up at the top of the screen.
It’s an unconventional approach but it works well. The revamped timeline takes its inspiration from Apple iMovie, with a series of thumbnails that spans multiple lines like a word processor rather than the scrolling multi-track timelines used elsewhere. Windows DVD Maker can generate PAL discs but Windows Live Movie Maker sends it the wrong sort of file.Īnyone who is unaffected by these limitations will find a simple, friendly editor with a lot going for it. Once again, though, discs conform to the 30fps NTSC standard, rather than the 25fps PAL format used by European video cameras.
This simple but functional authoring tool is included with Home Premium, Professional and Ultimate versions of Windows 7 and Vista. That’s fine for most stills cameras’ and mobile phones’ video modes, but less suitable for European video cameras, which run at 25fps, plus the various stills cameras that record video at 24fps.Ĭhoosing DVD from the Sharing section generates a WMV file and send it over to Windows DVD Maker. It failed to import various other cameras’ footage, too.Īnother frustration is that exports are always at 30fps, regardless of the original footage. AVCHD is listed as a supported format when running on Windows 7, but searching forums suggests that lots of other people have experienced problems getting AVCHD working in this editor. We tested footage from five AVCHD cameras, and although we could edit these clips, the audio was muted. Exports are limited to Microsoft’s own WMV format, although the templates include 720p and 1080p – again, an improvement on VideoSpin.ĪVCHD clips’ Dolby Digital soundtracks weren’t recognised on our Windows 7 Home Premium test PC, though. Unlike Pinnacle’s free VideoSpin, it supports MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 as standard, albeit only for import. It’s a free download for Windows 7 and Vista users. For Windows 7, the bundled application has been dropped in favour of a new one with the word Live shoehorned into its name. Windows Movie Maker first appeared bundled with Windows Me.
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