Though ME proved to be a failure, Microsoft didn't give up on Movie Maker and also included it in Windows XP among its' launch in 2001, and then two years later upgraded Movie Maker with some handy new features.īut like I said, even with a decent titling utility and a good amount of video transitions and effects, Windows Movie Maker was still pretty limited compared to Apple's iMovie, or competing consumer video editing applications of the time (many of which often came bundled with a PCI IEEE-1394/FireWire card for installing in a Windows PC tower that didn't already have a FireWire port).

You may recall me mentioning how way back at the turn of the millenium when in response to Apple introducing the iMovie consumer video editing software for their IEEE-1394/FireWire-enabled Macintosh computers (such as the iMac G3 DV and the PowerMac G4), Microsoft responded with bundling a very rudimentary video editing application with their infamous Windows ME operating system: Windows Movie Maker.

(Though since I took that photo last year, I've re-aligned the taskbar icons onto the left, since I'm so used to it that way from prior versions of Windows, rather than having them centered ala the Chrome OS.) This is what I use at work, along for some other tasks requiring an Intel/x86 processor.īut anyways, 1 1/2 years ago, Microsoft acquired the Clipchamp web-based consumer video editing application, and now bundles it with Windows 11, along with it being available as a free download for Windows 10 users.

As I mentioned before, I actually have Windows 11 installed on a 2015 Retina 15' MacBook Pro! I can't believe that prior to last autumn I was unaware of the new video editor Microsoft bundles with Windows 11: ClipChamp! Of course, I don't use Windows as often as the MacOS, but I do use it at work for certain tasks (like our software we use for logging Chromebooks and iOS devices we wipe/reset), and I also use it for some certain Windows-only software I still use for media production (like Wrapper/GoAnimate, Speakonia, and the beloved Microsoft 3D Movie Maker).

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