Windows Movie Maker vs Live Movie Maker
Windows Live Movie Maker has finally released on August, 19 2009, have you upgraded your Windows movie maker to it, or just stick with the old one? If you don't know which one you need, this comparison article of Windows Movie Maker and Windows Live Movie Maker will help you make the decision. Just learn what's new in Windows Live Movie Maker, and find it out in this article. This article compares these two software in four aspects: Layout, Video input, Editing and Output.
1. Interface
Window Movie Maker: The layout consists of a storyboard view and a timeline view, collections for organizing imported video, and a preview pane. When in Storyboard view, the video project appears as a film strip showing each scene in clips. The storyboard/timeline consists of one 'Video' (with accompanying 'Audio' bar), one 'Music/Audio' bar, and one 'Titles/Credits' bar.
Windows Live Movie Maker: In addition to a lighter color scheme, Windows Live Movie Maker works differently through and through. You won't find previous functionality such as a Storyboard, drop down menus, and a time lines. Windows Movie Maker used a Task based approached to creating a movie, Windows Live Movie Maker introduces a clean design with most tools and functionality revealed through the innovative Scenic Ribbon which displays common functionality once buried under drop down menus and wizards in a gallery of easy to identify icons.
2. Video input
Window Movie Maker: When importing footage into the program, users can either choose to Capture Video (from camera, scanner or other device) or Import into Collections to import existing video files into the user's collections. The accepted formats for import are .WMV/.ASF, .MPG (MPEG-1), .AVI (DV-AVI), .WMA, .WAV, and .MP3. Additionally, the Windows Vista Home Premium and Ultimate editions of Movie Maker support importing MPEG-2 Program streams and DVR-MS formats.
Windows Live Movie Maker: With this totally new Windows Live Movie Maker, you can add video files, photo files and audio files. There are much more video formats will be supported with Window Live Movie Maker. The supported types are .WMV, .ASF, .WM, .M2TS, .M2T, .MOV, .WTV, .MP4, .MOV, .MOV, .M4V, .MPEG, .MOG, .MPE, .M1V, .MP2, .MPV2, .MOD, .VOB, AVI.
3. Editing
Window Movie Maker: After capture, any clip can be dragged and dropped anywhere on the timeline. Once on the timeline, clips can be duplicated or split and any of the split sections deleted or copied using the standard Windows keyboard shortcuts or clicked and dragged to another position. Right-clicking any clip brings up the range of editing options. An AutoMovie feature offers predefined editing styles (titles, effects and transitions) for quickly creating movies.
Windows Live Movie Maker: Previously, in Windows Movie Maker, your videos would require that you drag and drop into the Story board and edit in the Time line. Windows Live Movie Maker does the opposite. Task like re-arranging or cropping a video clip are more visual and interactive. In fact, one of the lovely highlights is the actual display of multiple frames in a clip. You can use the video cursor bar to scan through a video clip and see additional sequences within the video itself. The cursor bar itself is an important element of the software and allows you to accomplish many of the common tasks you would do in the previous Movie Maker time line.
4. Output
Window Movie Maker: Windows Movie Maker can only export video in Windows Media formats or DV AVI. Earlier versions of Windows Movie Maker did not support direct burning of DVDs. The project had to be first saved as an AVI file, and a separate authoring program used to produce and burn the DVD. The Windows Vista version of Windows Movie Maker passes the video project to Windows DVD Maker to burn DVD-Video discs. Movie Maker also allows users to publish a finished video on video hosting websites.
Windows Live Movie Maker: As to output, there is an absolute plethora of choices for you to make concerning your completed Movie, you can just save it as a normal standard definition file, or a HD 720 or even a full HD 1080p file! Videos are for sharing, so Movie Maker makes it easy to share online with a few clicks. Post your video to YouTube right from the main menu, or add a quick plug-in and easily publish to Facebook. We will be adding more plug-ins to popular sharing sites in the future. You can also burn your creation to a DVD or save it in high definition to play on your TV. Save it down to a smaller format and transfer it to a mobile device or send it via e-mail.
In conclusion, we highly recommend Windows Live Movie Maker, here are a few reasons I think you will enjoy the new-and-improved Windows Live Movie Maker:
1. It's easy to create beautiful videos.
2. More customization features easily add polish to your movie.
3. It's simple to share your movie.
4. It works great with Windows 7.
If you are not used to Windows Live Movie Maker to edit video and burn DVD, there are much better third party software for alternatives out there. We recommend Video to DVD Burner which is a professional DVD burner and easy to use. It combines video editor and video burner together.
First of all, it supports almost all kinds of video formats, such as AVI, MP4, MPG, MPEG, 3GP, WMV, ASF, RM, RMVB, DAT, MOV and HD video formats: MTS, M2TS(AVCHD H.264), TS(MPEG-2), HD MKV(H.264, MPEG-2 HD), HD WMV(VC-1), and HD MOV(H.264, MPEG-4).
Secondly, it provides powerful video editing function, such as crop, trim, adjust video effect, add watermark, etc. Also, there are 42+ menu templates and 60+ transitions effects for you to choose from. Thirdly, Windows Live Movie Maker can only generate WMV files directly, which DVD Creator supports burn video to DVD disc, DVD Folder and ISO file.
