Computer gurus. Some Movie maker questions.

[Mosh]

I have a Vista Based PC,and a Windows 7 laptop.
I just tried using Windows Live movie maker on 7.

It plain out sucks..I dont like it.

So what I want to know is, is there a way to get windows Classic Movie maker for vista on windows 7?

I have been researcing and found that Movie maker 2.6 version will work on Windows 7 without conflicts.
Is Version 2.6 the same as The vista version?

[3wheelsinPA]

Windows Movie Maker 2.6 for Vista
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=d6ba5972-328e-4df7-8f9d-068fc0f80cfc&displaylang=en

From the page: "Movie Maker 2.6 is for Windows Vista users whose computer cannot run the Vista version of Movie Maker." Whatever that means!

[Mosh]

I was able to download and install the Vista 2.6 Movie maker on windows 7.
It is a little harder to navigate than the base Vista version. But nothing that wont take some getting used to.
The only thing it does not do is capture video from a device. But it uploaded off the SD cards fine after I saved the vids to the PC.
Also another drawback is that the vid viewer is kind of pixelated when you are editing and previewing in the 2.6 version. But once I saved the vid and played it on windows media, the pixelation was gone. This vid was taken with a 2 year old Cannon Powershot still camera at standard resolution.

I did this vid on windows 7 with the 2.6 Vista version.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m65Bsv7uWAQ

So it does work.

[86trizinger]

They have a way to run your your PC using the MAC operating system. Basically turns a PC into MAC. Works great for editing video.

[twitch101]

using a virtual machine you can do what zingers talking about but if your not cimputer literate and unsure of how to come upon a "cheap" mac os set then your probably good with what you have.

[Xpress]

I often use WMM for tossing videos together, but I seem to prefer the newest version that was released not too long ago. Has quick upload features, ontop of custom frame rate settings and so on and so forth :)


They have a way to run your your PC using the MAC operating system. Basically turns a PC into MAC. Works great for editing video.

This can eventually lead to system instability on any windows machine, so I for one do NOT recommend it.

If you ask me, a great video editing software that's not going to break the bank is Pinnacle Studio Ultimate (http://www.pinnaclesys.com/PublicSite/us/Products/Consumer+Products/Home+Video/Studio+Family/Studio+Ultimate+14.htm)- MUCH better than WMM and made for both PC and Mac.