I've used Windows Live Movie Maker for several short movies. The UI has
a different look than most other movie editing packages. I believe in
an effort to simplify, MS probably should have stuck to a more
standardized look but it will take a little getting used to. On the
plus side, I found LMM to handle our Sony hard drive based video cameras
which MM could not-mpeg2 format was incompatible with MM. I haven't
measured resource allocations, but LMM is more efficient with resources
where MM would crash. Our students do an animation unit and MM was
problematic whenever the number of imported images exceeded 300. We've
been using MM on desktops running WinXP Pro w/ 2 GB of ram and it was
still a problem. LMM on the other hand has been working great for me on
the Acer Aspire One netbook running Win7 w 2 GB of ram. Also, by adding
a 2GB flash drive to the netbook, one adds 2GB of ram which only made
rendering movies that much smoother-a nice side benefit of Win7. We're
moving to Win7 next year on netbooks for our middle school and I will
most definitely be installing LMM as well.
Hiram
Hiram E. Cuevas
Director of Academic Technology
St. Christopher's School
711 St. Christopher's Road
Richmond, VA 23226
(w) 804.282.3185 x5627
(c) 804.347.2338
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[mailto:ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Dickenson, Steven
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 11:43 AM
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Subject: Simple movie editing on Windows
We've been using Pinnacle Studio 9 for years, and more recently have
begun using Windows Movie Maker for simpler projects. With our upcoming
transition to Windows 7 this summer, combined with the age of our
Pinnacle version, I'm looking for alternatives.
What are Windows schools using these days for simple to intermediate
non-linear video editing projects? Has anyone used the new Windows Live
Movie Maker and do you have any feedback on that? My communications
office is playing with Premiere Elements, but it hardly seems simple.
Thanks,
Steven
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Steven Dickenson <sdickenson@keyschool.org>
Computer Network Manager
The Key School, Annapolis Maryland
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