It uses the same timeline-based interface, but gives you far more control and is packed with filters and effects that look great and are actually useful.

If you miss Movie Maker, Shotcut (opens in new tab) is a free video editor that shows what Microsoft’s app could have become, given love and time to blossom.

The last version was released in 2012, but the program was still available to download until earlier this year, when Microsoft hammered the final nail into its coffin by pulling the Windows Live suite from its site. Microsoft delivered the coup de grâce Monday to its dying Encarta encyclopedia, acknowledging what everyone else realized long ago: it just couldn’t compete with Wikipedia, a free, collaborative project that has become the leading encyclopedia on the Web. (Earlier versions have a direct link in the main menu, later versions hide it behind the Ctrl-Z shortcut.) In MindMaze, while reading Encarta, the player is transported back in time to break the curse on King Miser the First's castle. Included, from Encarta 94 to Encarta 2007, with minor user-interface variations between versions, is the educational game MindMaze. Sadly, Movie Maker suffered a slow demise as a result of neglect. Microsoft Encarta is an encyclopedia program by Microsoft Corporation. Good old Windows Movie Maker was once the easiest way to throw together a quick video using clips of footage, photos, clip art and ugly text frames.Įarly versions caused my parents' PC to judder to a halt, but in later years Movie Maker was perfect for getting videos ready to upload to upload to a new and exciting site called YouTube.

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