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Windows Movie Maker is a video editing software that is included with Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Me. It was originally created for Windows Me as a response to Apple Computer's popular iMovie program, and the current 2.1 version is included in Windows XP SP2.

The program itself contains features like effects, transitions, titles/credits, audio track, timeline narration, and Auto Movie.

The layout is simple. It consists of a storyboard/timeline (click the Show Timeline or Show Storyboard icon to toggle), collections (for organizing imported video), and a preview screen. When in Storyboard view your "project" (the video you are making) appears as a film strip showing each scene in clips. When in Timeline view you not only see your footage, you also see an audio bar, a music bar, and a title bar.

When importing footage into the program you can either choose to "Capture Video" or "Import into Collections" to import existing video files into your collections. The accepted video, image, and audio formats are avi, wmv, jpeg, gif, png, wma, wav, and mp3.

There are over 130 effects, transitions, titles, and credits available in the program. They apply by a drag and drop interface from the effects or transitions folders. For titles and credits you have the options to add them as stand alone titles or overlay them on your clip by choosing to add them onto the selected clip. Titles range from static (non-animated) titles to fly in, fading, news banner, or spinning newspaper animations. Due to the flexible interface programming custom effects and other content is possible for version 2.0 and higher by implementing xml coding into the program's files.

With Microsoft's forthcoming Windows Vista, Windows Movie Maker will get DVD authoring and HD encoding abilities akin to those of Apple's iMovie and iDVD, though early previews suggest the feature set is relatively modest.

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