Looking For a Good WMM Replacement

[obscurebookwyrm]

   So, once upon a time I used to fanvid. I'd kind of like to get back into it, but I have run into a problem: I can't seem to find a good Windows Movie Maker substitute. Y'see, for all its flaws, the old WMM had one thing that made it easy to use. It had that awesome video library thing where you could import a large video file (like an episode of

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[futuresoon]

Speaking as a fellow WMM-migrant lazybones, Adobe Premiere Elements is the thing for me. Premiere proper doesn't seem to have the same feature, which is baffling, because I suspect the full software probably has some things I miss--an easy way to do fades, for example--but Premiere Elements has a great autoclip feature. It does make smaller clips (generally the length of a given shot), but I've never had any problems with that beyond it taking longer to do the initial process. Hope this helps!

[dulcineah1]

I started out on WMM as well, and found that Pinnacle Studio works well for creating clips. Its splitting is just as good as WMM's, IMO, and it has a lot of other cool features as well. Definitely my number one choice for fanvidding! =D

[amnisias]

Pinnacle has a feature like that, but you pay a heavy price for it in that it's known for stability problems, is a linear editor, and very limited FX functions.

[valika56]

As I know, WMM still exists, for Vista and for Windows 7, too. You can download them from the Microsoft site free.:)

If you want to try a new editor besides WMM, I can offer you Magix Movie Edit Pro - I use an older verion of this for years. It has the function of automatic clip creation, it's stable and has lots of editing tools. You can download a 30 days free trial of this, if you wish.

[sorcha_r]

Hi! This is an extremely belated response. I just got back into vidding and am using Magix Pro Plus 16. I was using it before but only with TV shows. Now that I'm working with movies, I'd like to use the automatic clip creation, but I can't find how to do it. Can you help me?

[valika56]

Hi my fellow Magix user! Here it is: after importing the movie into the editor, right click on it at the timeline. A dialog box will appear. Click on the "scene detection". Then you can start the automatic clip creation process in the new opening dialog box. There are some presets option, set them as you require before starting the clipping. Please note, that the clips created by Magix Movie Edit Pro are only virtual ones, just like the so-called takes. Now I use a newer version, than yours now, but hopefully this will work in the same way in your Magix, too. Good luck!:)

[obscurebookwyrm]

I'm glad someone was able to answer that question. I don't vid much these days, but might give Magix a try. Thanks for the tip!

[sc_fossil]

Corel Video Studio Pro does clips but I have to say, I'm very disappointed in X5. It crashes constantly. I've had to revert to X3 which works just fine but I like some of the upgrades in ProX5.