Alfred Thompson blogged today about this “how to” video on YouTube (nod of thanks to Alex’s blog) that goes through how to make a movie with Windows Movie Maker 2 (aka MM2). It’s amazing what you can accomplish with this simple, free app.
I use other commercial apps, including Adobe Premiere Pro v1.5 and Pinnacle Systems’ Studio v10 (which is bundled as part of Microsoft Digital Image Suite PLUS) but I find that MM2 is very fast for “sketching” out videos and titles for work and home. I spent some time this summer trying out Studio, which has some nice built in features and more advanced title management and creation. I’ve been using Premiere since it first came out so I’m partial to Adobe for more advanced work, and I’ve always liked the workflow and layout. But I do the bulk of our stuff at home in MM2.
You’ll also find a good set of tutorials on Movie Maker at Mightycoach, and high-level lessons available at Presentationsoft.
- For basic videography, take a look at Videomaker Magazine’s FAQ, the Videoguys excellent DV editing handbook, the on-line Video 101 course and Homevideo 101.
- For more on DV, see the great coverage on DV Magazine and the Videoguys blog.
And of course, these links from a past post…
- Create home movies with Windows Movie Maker
- Make Movies Like a Pro (Instructional Video)
- Free streaming video tutorials on using Movie Maker
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Movie_Maker
Tags: Microsoft, Windows, Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere Pro.
5 replies on “Help on making movies with Movie Maker 2”
Oh well — your last four tutorial links must be an "internal" Microsoft thing . .
But compared with that "iMovie" (or how that tool on OS X is called) I used once, Movie Maker is really 10 versions behind.
Oh, and your Wikipedia-Link is wrong :-).
I agree: Apple has a very good, movie making app in iMovie bundled with their OS. IMHO, the new version of MM in Vista should consider iMovie the minimum bar. (For an initial look, see http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/features/forhome/moviemaker.mspx. I haven’t spent as much time as I should with the new version on my Vista dogfood machine at the office – and finally have a machine at home to be dedicated to the latest beta.)
And I fixed the links (which I copies from a previous post – many thanks for the heads up, Uwe and Blake.
This in today’s mail… " How should I edit video on my computer? " First, a suggestion… want to know