Windows Movie Maker

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Titles and credits can be added as stand alone titles or overlaying them on the clip by adding them onto the selected clip. Titles range from static (non-animated) titles to fly in, fading, news banner, or spinning newspaper animations. And, because of the flexible interface, programming custom effects and other content is possible for version 2.0 and higher using XML. The Windows Vista version supports Direct3D-based effects. Microsoft also provides SDK documentation for custom effects and transitions. Since the effects are XML based, users can create and add custom effects and transitions of their own with XML knowledge.

Reception and criticism

Movie Maker 1.0, introduced with Windows Me, was widely criticised for being “bare bones” and suffering “a woeful lack of features”; and saving movies only in Microsoft’s ASF file format. However, critical

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