Jim Bianco

Does anybody out there know if this program is totely free or do you have to pay for it later? I want to make a DVD video with some pics I have and want to get a free program to do this.I looked online and saw this program,they said it was free to download but I am not sure if I trust them.Help is needed to see what you guys think.Thanks Jim Bianco The program is Windows Movie Maker, I googled it.

SqBear Loc: Kansas, (South Central)

Jim, I am running Windows 7 pro and there is a "Windows DVD Maker" already installed with Windows. I believe all of the windows searies have the same or very near the same DVD type program. Click on your "Start" button and then open "All Programs" and look the list over for the Movie Maker or DVD maker program. It's fairly easy to make a "movie or slide show" from the program. You might want to go to you tube and search for Windows Movie Maker. No doubt thaty have several such clips.

Good Luck
Dave

PaulR01 Loc: West Texas

Jim it is still free. I downloaded it last week on my new lap top

Jim Bianco

Thanks, but I have windows Vista,old HP laptop.

Jim Bianco

Thanks you guys for your quick replys. Jim Bianco

bdk Loc: Sanibel Fl.

its free, it should be on your system.

rook2c4 Loc: Philadelphia, PA USA

Not necessarily - Microsoft stopped including it as part of the OS package quite a while ago; I'm not sure if XP or Vista was the last OS version to include Windows Movie Maker before it was dropped. It is definitely not included with 7 and up.

puku8849

It is free in Windows 10.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

My sons seems to be working on videos all the time, generally with Power Director. At timers he uses the Windows program for different effects. It works very well.

Bill Hancock Loc: Wausau, WI

If you are using Vista, it should already be there. I used Vista for years and it was on mine.

JBruce Loc: Northern MN

I just looked at my year 2010 Win 7, and there it is just waiting to be used. I'm glad you asked, or I would have never looked.

CPR Loc: Nature Coast of Florida

The old XP version is very much better than the cutdown crap version they will send for Win10. The new one is almost impossible to use compared to the older version. I think some of the software makers got on them for giving away a good FREE product so they made it bad.

don26812 Loc: South Bay of Los Angeles, CA

It is a little harder to get Movie Maker now since MS no longer supports it as of January or February of this year. As others have pointed out, there are multiple versions, the latest is Movie Maker 2012. Many people prefer the older versions that use to be a part of Windows.

But, no version of Movie Maker produces a DVD directly. In Windows 7 and earlier versions, like Vista, MS included a DVD burning program called DVD Maker that linked semi-automatically to Movie Maker. I really liked this program. It is no longer available in Windows 10, and another DVD burning program is required to burn the DVD from the file that is exported from Movie Maker.

I do use Movie Maker 2012, but I also use Adobe's Premiere Elements 15, which has the capabilities to burn DVDs, including Blu-Ray DVDs. I often use both programs on the same video project.

There is a popular Facebook group called Movie Maker. Its administrator and routine contributor is PapaJohn Buechler. He is the total expert on all aspects of Movie Maker for all versions. Here is the link to his website.

http://www.papajohn.org/

MtnMan Loc: ID

It works great with Windows 10 and older. It is totally free.

It may be a little hard to find the free download. But it is out there. Microsoft doesn't support it but it works great with Windows 10. Much better than the Lightroom slide show feature plus lets you include video.

I recently learned about it at a free program on a cruise. The instructor downloaded it to one of my spare camera cards for me.

sodapop Loc: Bel Air, MD

I have Windows 10. It came with movie maker, did not have to download it.