Movie maker is windows XP's movie maker. If you haven't yet tried it on your windows XP PC, we would like to tell you where it is in your programs. It is under accessories and entertainment.

What is move maker?

In the age when digital camera and MPEG video is common, movie maker is your program to capture video and audio to your computer from video camera, web camera, or other video source. You can use these captured content in the movies you are making.

You can also import existing audio, video, or still pictures into Windows Movie Maker to use in the movies you create. After editing the audio and video content in Windows Movie Maker, which can include adding titles, video transitions, or effects, you can then save your final movie and share it with friends and family.

Writing your work to the CD:

You can save the movies you create to your computer or to a recordable (CD-R) or rewriteable (CD-RW) CD (depending on your CD recorder). You may also choose to share it with others by sending the movie as an attachment in an e-mail message or by sending it to the Web. If you have a digital video (DV) camera connected to your computer, you can also choose to record the movie to a tape in your DV camera and then play it back on the DV camera or on a TV.

Computer Performance & Other Software:

Pinnacle Micro and other such products do the same as movie maker in a much more extensive manner. In their midst movie maker may not be the best performer. However as the program that's available right in windows and as a free application, movie maker can be your program to start with experimenting move making.

PC performance & Movie maker.

There will be a fairly good hardware performance requirements with regards to using movie maker. In this context we advise you to refer our PC performance guide.

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