Movie Maker, Sarah Fraser gets dragged and dropped PDQ (click for larger image)

They took Windows Movie Maker out of Windows 7.  However, you can add it back.

Why should you care? Windows Movie Maker is a simple and free video editor added in Windows XP way back on 9/11.

Yes, we were in a Microsoft XP release meeting in Halifax when the World Trade Centre Towers were destroyed on September 11, 2001. The hotel showed the horrible event on a huge screen in the meeting room next door. No one was paying much attention to the Microsoft presentation. We quickly left for home, shell shocked.

Movie Maker wasn’t fancy but it worked for quick and short jobs.

Adobe Premier is a large program to fire up and editing simple videos is simpler on Movie Maker.

For some people, Movie Maker is all they need. For others, one of the many programs they use in editing and publishing videos. I have more than ten different programs for differing situations.

It took me a few minutes to figure out Microsoft had removed Movie Maker from Windows 7.  A little more searching and I found an obscure site where you can freely download it for Vista or Windows 7.  Download site.

My last story has taken me an extra hour because I had to find Movie Maker to import the Compass asf file. Adobe does a terrible job of rendering Compass and I do not know why.