Auto Movie Making

Easily import directly from your video or digital camera and start editing straight away to make a beautiful photo movie or slideshow. With a few clicks, you make a great-looking photo movies that includes transitions, titles, captions and a music soundtrack, so that you can directly upload movie to Youtube or burn movies to DVD. If you are exploring Windows Live Photo Gallery, automatically make photo movie from selected photos and video by clicking Make a Movie.

One-click to Match Contents

In the old Windows Movie Maker, it's difficult to sync photos and videos with soundtrack. Now by one click, you perfectly match movie contents to soundtrack.

Easy Transitions and Effects

Windows Live Movie Maker provides smooth transitions to make your video flow seamlessly between photos and videos and you could add more motions (pan & zoom) to your photo movie creation. Before apply transitions effects, preview them in real time to get brief glimpse.

Titles, Captions and Credits

Compared to the previous Windows Movie Maker, Live Movie Maker has greatly improved in Titles, Captions and Credits. Now you can easily tell a movie story with titles screen and end credits without complicated editing.

Burn Movies to DVD

Want to share the professional movies with others? The latest Windows Live Movie Maker allows you to directly burn Windows Live Movie Maker movie to DVD and play with any standard DVD player.

Share Videos on Youtube, Facebook and more

TWe make photo video for sharing. Windows Live Movie Maker best know what we need. It enables you directly upload movie to youtube provided you already have a youtube account. Moreover, with Facebook plug-in, you could also share videos on Facebook. The best video sharing experience is brought to you by Windows Live Movie Maker, totally free, fan, easy.

Windows Live Movie Maker Help - WLMM FAQs

1. Where to download Windows Live Movie Maker?

Free Download Windows Live Movie Maker Here: http://download.live.com/moviemaker

Windows Live Movie Maker also works under Windows Vista. You could replace your Windows Movie Maker 2.6 with Live Movie Maker. Otherwise, if you like Windows Movie Maker 2.6, you could use it on Windows 7. Download Windows Movie Maker Here: http://download.microsoft.com/download/f/8/6/f869f03b-c17a-4419-be47-bd08fff676fa/MM26_ENU.msi

2. How do you get a windows movie maker video on Youtube?

Answer: a. Click the icon on the leftmost, and then click "Publish movie", Publish on Youtube.
b. In the resulting dialog, input your Youtube Username and Password to sign in and download movie to Youtube.

3. What can I do if I failed to upload movie maker video to Youtube?

Sometimes, you will be prompted that the video files is not acceptable by Youtube. In such case, you are recommended to save Windows Live Movie Maker video into high quality WMV files and open Youtube.com and upload movies manually. If needed, you could also convert Windows Live Movie Maker video to any format you want with video converter.

4. How to add music to Windows Live Movie Maker?

Answer: Generally, you can click the "Add music" and select the song of your choice, and press Play button to preview. You could also click the little triangle button and select "Add music at the current point" to selected place.

To get iTune songs into Windows Live Movie Maker, burn an audio CD in iTunes then rip it back as mp3 format. Or you can download a DRM Remover.

5. How to make fast and slow motion videos on the new Windows Live Movie Maker?

Answer: The Slow down, Half and Speed up, Double effects are only available in the 2.6 version of Windows Movie Maker. It's not a feature in Windows Live Movie Maker. But you can add Slow motion effect in Windows Movie Maker, then saved the video and used it in the Window Live Movie Maker. Learn how to use vista Windows Movie Maker in Windows 7.

6. How to split video in Windows Live Movie Maker ?

Answer: Two ways are available: a. While playing the video, select the point on progress bar and right click the video followed by selecting "Split" item. b. Select the point and go to Edit -> Split.

Useful Computer Tips and Tricks

For Those Don't Like Windows Live Movie Maker

Both Windows Movie Maker 2.6 and 2.1 are available on Windows 7, you could free download movie maker and install Windows Movie Maker 2.6 (Vista) or 2.1 (XP) in Windows 7 for the familiar features and operations.

Free Download Windows Movie Maker 2.1 (XP) and install in Windows 7
Free Download Windows Movie Maker 2.6 (Vista) and install in Windows 7
Or if you want to upgrade to Windows Live Movie Maker, click the link below to download first.
Free Upgrade to Windows Live Movie Maker for Windows Vista and Seven

This article also shows you how to directly copy Windows Movie Maker files from old operating system to the latest Windows 7 system. The reason is: Windows Live Movie Maker, part of Windows Live Essentials, is an extremely easy to use movie making tool to put together photos and home video on your Windows computer. However, it does lack some features users of good old Windows Movie Maker enjoyed.

Using Vista Movie Maker on Windows 7

1. Locate Windows Vista Movie Maker 6.0 Files
You need to find a computer with Windows Vista Movie Maker installed, usually locates under C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker 6.0\ folder.

Windows 7 Movie Maker Note: If you are going to install Windows Movie Maker on a Windows 7 64-bit, make sure that the old Windows Movie Maker files you will use came from a 64-bit version of Windows Vista.

Install Windows Movie Maker 6 for Windows 7

2. Copy Windows Vista Movie Maker 6 Files
Copy the entire movie maker folder to a new folder, say the default location: C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker 6.0\

3. Register DLL Files to Make it Work (like WMM installation )
Download and run the following registration file below to finally install Windows Movie Maker 6.0 on Windows 7.

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It's the batch file from an elevated command prompt. It includes commands to register copied dlls required for running Windows Movie Maker 6.0. You could make it yourself and run as administrator. Just copy the following text and save as a *.bat or *.cmd file under C:\Program Files\Windows Movie Maker 6.0\. Finally double click and follow the on-screen instruction.

regsvr32 wmm2ae.dll
regsvr32 wmm2clip.dll
regsvr32 wmm2ext.dll
regsvr32 wmm2filt.dll
regsvr32 VideoMediaHandler.dll
regsvr32 Pipeline.dll

Register Windows Movie Maker 6 for Windows 7

4. That's it! Now You can launch old Windows Vista Movie Maker 6.0 on Windows 7 instead of Windows Live Movie Maker.

Using Windows Movie Maker 2 on Windows 7

Windows Movie Maker 2.1 is the default version of Movie Maker for XP. It supports all kinds of 3rd party and user tweaks of effects, transitions and title overlays. If you want to use these custom resources on Windows 7, you may have to transfer Windows Movie Maker to Windows 7. Here is how to move Windows Movie Maker to Windows 7. It's similar to installing Windows Vista Movie Maker in Windows 7.

1. Locate Windows Movie Maker 2 Files, it usually locates under C:\Program Files\Movie Maker\ folder.
2. Copy Windows Movie Maker 2 files to a new folder, C:\Program Files\Movie Maker\ is required if you using the provided registration script below.
3. Register DLL Files. Download and run "install-movie-maker-dlls.cmd" below. Please run as Administrator and follow the instructions.

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You could also paste the following text to a *.bat or *.cmd file under C:\Program Files\Movie Maker\. Finally double click and follow the on-screen instruction.

regsvr32 /s qdv.dll
regsvr32 /s quartz.dll
regsvr32 /s wmvcore.dll
regsvr32 /s wmvadve.DLL
regsvr32 /s shimgvw.dll
regsvr32 /s msxml.dll
regsvr32 /s msxml2.dll
regsvr32 /s msxml3.dll
regsvr32 /s "%ProgramFiles%\Movie Maker\wmm2fxa.dll"
regsvr32 /s "%ProgramFiles%\Movie Maker\wmm2fxb.dll"
regsvr32 /s "%ProgramFiles%\Movie Maker\wmm2ae.dll"
regsvr32 /s "%ProgramFiles%\Movie Maker\wmm2filt.dll"
regsvr32 /s "%ProgramFiles%\Movie Maker\wmmfilt.dll"
regsvr32 /s "%ProgramFiles%\Movie Maker\wmm2ext.dll"
regsvr32 /s "%ProgramFiles%\Movie Maker\wmm2clip.dll"

4. That's all! Now You can run old Windows Movie Maker 2 on Windows 7 instead of Windows Live Movie Maker.

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