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/e...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.




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- MUCH better than WMM and made for both PC and Mac.