I am pretty sure that full featured online video editing is not far away? Youtube have just announced that you can now ‘Edit in the Cloud‘ and thats fun, but its also limited and perhaps ‘rough around the edges’ but promising, offering the ability to;
- Combine multiple videos you’ve uploaded to create a new longer video
- Trim the beginning and/or ending of your videos
- Add soundtracks from our AudioSwap library of tens of thousands of songs
- Create new videos without worrying about file formats and publish them to YouTube with one click — no upload necessary
In the meantime, our students are still fighting with Windows Movie Maker. We have looked for cost effective alternatives but there is not much out there in our price range (FREE). It seems to be the case that whilst Movie Maker does the job, its difficult to justify any expenditure however after another frustrating term, our patience is wearing thin.
So, Windows 7 Movie Maker Live Essentials. Is up to the job, our technicians seem to think so. Our plan is to test it over the next few weeks (given time) as a stand alone installation, before we make the move to a Windows 7 environment in Sept. We will let you know what our students think.