free video movie making software

The top professional movie making software for the PC may be Adobe Premiere Elements and Sony Vegas. These movie making programs are not free and cost a lot fortune. Here free movie making software will be introduced.

Slide Show Movie Maker- It is a free movie making software that can create an AVI-file from a series of .bmp or .jpg images. Images can have professional-looking fade-in and fade-out effects, plus attractive text overlays. This movie making software has a clean-looking interface which is logically laid out; you should become productive within just a few minutes of running it. Slide Show Maker lets you choose to save output using any one of your system's installed .avi codec.

The Pros: Free movie making software from Germany. For friends first-time use movie maker, it provides a wizard to create your first video using this free movie making software. With only 3 steps, a SSMM (Slide Show Movie Maker) project is ready. And then you can Press F5 to start movie making. It's just so easy and without any cost.

The Cons: Too much text on the interface, not so user-friendly as >DVD Slideshow Builder . Frankly, I have a little bit of scare of this kind of interface. It makes the settings too complicated. In addition, compare to DVD Slideshow Builder, the SSMM supports much less input image and video formats and the output could only be AVI format, using external video codec. At last, the movie preview is not convenient at all, which affects most the experience of movie making.

Apple iMovie '08 - I Movie ’08 makes movie making as intuitive as enjoying your photos. A built-in library automatically organizes your home movies, so all the movies you’ve captured and movies you’ve created are just a click away. With its revolutionary interface of this free movie making software, iMovie makes it quick and easy to browse your library and create new movies.
The Pros: It's a free movie making software, meanwhile, it's more like a movie management program. With the help of Library, locating and using clips to make home movie is just a snap. Instant polish in real time gives movie making loads of fun.
Windows Movie Maker 2 - This movie making software is an XP-only download that gives you the tools to create, edit, and share home movies. Compile and edit a movie from video clips with drag-and-drop functionality.

The Pros:
• Free movie making software
• Started to work and works fine under Windows XP Home and Pro
• Transition effects are not bad
• Support narration and caption
• Good for movie making beginners

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