Windows Movie Maker in Windows 7

Hi Papajohn,

I read your comments regarding not being able to install Photo Story 3 in Windows 7 Ultimate, and I was disappointed. However, before reading your comments, I had already installed it on my Win 7 Home Premium, and it seems to work fine.

I did a clean install from Vista Home Premium to Windows 7 Home Premium. As expected, I had to reinstall all of my applications, including PS 3. I do not know what version I have, but I did not get it from Microsoft Digital Image 2006 suite, as far as I know. The file showed that the content was created on 11-11-2004, I believe.

I guess there has to be a an explanation for this, but what? As I write this, I'm beginning to wonder how clean my install was. What I meanis that there was a folder called Windows.old that was generated in case I need to go back to Vista. I expected at the time that my clean install would be like essentially reformatting the hard drive.

But, the fact remains PS 3 is running on my Windows 7 machine. ?????

Don S.

I was wondering what happened to Movie Maker and spent 20 minutes looking through the program menu for this. Finally did a Google search and found your blog. Answered my question.

Hi Felix... I'm still studying PS3 on Windows 7. It worked fine thru all the beta versions but the final release of Win 7 doesn't let it install.

I upgraded a Vista laptop that had it, and it continued to work after the upgrade, but then I lost it when I did an uninstall of PS3 followed by a reinstall, which it wouldn't do.

Will PS3 run on Windows 7 ???
I am about to buy a laptop dedicated only to PS3 and Moviemaker projects.
Thanks, felix

Movie Maker doesn't make DVDs.... when there's a DVD option it passes the disc making task over to DVD making software.... and no it doesn't use Word, PowerPoint, and Excel files. You would need to convert such files to pictures or video clips before bringing them into a Movie Maker project.

I have been told Movie Maker will allow me to create a DVD using Word, PowerPoint, and Excel files. Also add audio. I had Vista and Movie Maker was not functional. I just upgraded to Windows 7 and before I download Movie Maker need to know will it do what I want. Thanks

i think google picasa is more convenience than WMM

Gothikaboy, I don't know which version of Movie Maker you're referring to... maybe the newer Windows Live Movie Maker?

Steve, MPEG-4 is a high level video standard and there are and will be hundreds of specific implementations (read as codecs). None of the classic versions of Movie Maker were developed to work with MPEG-4. The new Windows Live Movie Maker will handle them but how well depends on the codec(s) needed, which are often under the control of the codec developer, not Microsoft. The variety of codecs being rolled out continues to ramp up as online video gets more popular.... so file conversion will continue to be the fall-back for files that don't work in Movie Maker directly. Bottom line... 'try it first' and if it doesn't work 'convert it'.

Will any version of WMM work with MPEG-4 formated videos?

The reason could be that movie maker stinks
compared to other software.
But this is by far the fastest one...
At least you can install it again :)

Windows 7 ftw.