Movie Maker : Windows Live Movie Maker Wave 4 Video Maker

With Microsoft Movie Maker Wave 4 Beta, the Windows Live team has done the seemingly impossible—they’ve made video editing  simple, yet powerful enough to create fresh productions. From import to edit to output, the program is a snap, including one-step uploading to online video hosting services like YouTube.

The team behind Movie Maker studied what users were doing with the software, and in the interest of simplifying, consciously cut features most people don’t use. But the app isn’t totally basic: You do get intros, lots of transitions, text overlays, and special effects. Just don’t expect the fancy tricks like key-framing and picture-in-picture. For those, you’ll have to spring for an app like our Editors’ Choice Adobe Premier Elements 8. [Read more...]