Video editing software?

<br><br>Nice turns!<br><br>Yes, WMM always breaks up video clips, and you have no control over in what manner it does so. Can be annoying. <br>

It doesn't break up video clips if you turn that option off

WMM is all I have used thus far for the videos I've made. It has become very tempermental and recently unusable/unstable. Now when I launch the program, it crashes...everytime! I googled the topic and it appears to be a fairly widely known bug(s) in the software. The last video I made (Maude North Face), took me 4 days to finish because the program kept crashing and losing most of my work. I have begun the search for better software and will likely end up with Sony or Adobe.<br><br>When it worked, it was very easy to use (even a Hummel could do it ). I'd gladly continue to use it for basic web productions, but unfortunately it's time has past...at least for me.

oh yeah...and the other frustrating thing is that you can't re-download it from Microsoft without the entire service pack 2! &gt; They should make it a separate download so that people could at least try to re-install it and attempt to get it to work again.

I have been using Adobe Premiere for several years. After a while, using the lower end programs, you just get to where you want something that works!<br><br>WMM, for example, is weak on incorporating stills -- you cannot pan and zoom. Then there is transparency fades, picture in picture, key framed effects, color correction, complete control over slow or fast motion (including backwards motion), and on and on. There is so much more you can do than line up shots and accompany them with music and cheezy transitions!

oh yeah...and the other frustrating thing is that you can't re-download it from Microsoft without the entire service pack 2! &gt;  They should make it a separate download so that people could at least try to re-install it and attempt to get it to work again.

<br><br>There is a fix for the most common crashes in MM2.0 in MM2.1. <br><br>Yes the Movie Maker team did decide that the only way to get MM2.1 was to install Windows XP Service Pack 2. <br><br>This is a bit of a PITA, However since service pack 2 fixes so many other problems in Windows (including a reasonably effective pop-up blocker in IE) those of us here in Redmond really want to encourage people to install Service Pack 2.<br><br>If you have a broadband internet connection you may download Service Pack 2 from this URL: update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdate/v6/default.aspx?ln=en-us

If you don't want deal with that giant download -- MS will ship you a CD with Service Pack 2 at no charge:
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/up...r/en_us/default.mspx