r/windows • u/TheCelestialDawn • Jun 12 '25

General Question What happened to Windows Movie Maker?

It's the only movie software program I needed. Now it's gone?

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u/robster98 Windows 10 Jun 12 '25 edited Jun 12 '25

It was discontinued 16 years ago with the release of Windows 7. Back then, Microsoft were really pushing their “Windows Live” suite of apps available as a free download, including Windows Live Movie Maker. Unfortunately this was very stripped-down, even compared to the original XP/Vista Movie Maker and is now also discontinued.

Windows 10/11 has Clipchamp available to download from the Microsoft Store which is probably the closest Microsoft-made equivalent to Windows Movie Maker nowadays, but I would recommend you opt for the industry-standard DaVinci Resolve if you’re looking for free video editing software.

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u/brii_ckk Jun 12 '25

I used clipchamp for a while and it's decent. Highly recommend davinci resolve though

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u/AsrielPlay52 Jun 12 '25

Just use Clipchamp, recommending Davinci is like recommending someone a BMW when they only need a Subaru Swift

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u/brii_ckk Jun 12 '25

Yeah but Davinci is a free BMW

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u/TacosForThought Jun 12 '25

Yeah, probably more equivalent to a tank. People know how to drive a BMW, but the learning curve for something like Davinci is not nothing.

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u/wunderbraten Jun 13 '25

People know how to drive a BMW,

Seeing how people drive a BMW, no. Just no.

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u/TacosForThought Jun 13 '25

That's fair, but it may be easier to drive than Davinci, or, i mean, a tank.

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u/vip17 Jun 13 '25

but if you just want simple video concatenation like movie maker than Davinci Resolve is absolutely learnable in a few minutes

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u/TacosForThought Jun 13 '25

I haven't really tried recently. I'm not sure if that's the tool I used (but I think, maybe?) Certainly there's tutorials you can find, but I don't remember it being as straightforward/intuitive as something like movie maker, though.

Like, maybe you can watch a "few minutes" of video, but if you're only editing video once every couple years, you might have to rewatch the tutorials every time.

But .. maybe it's easier than I remember.

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u/TrustLeft Jun 13 '25

and doesn't require using the cloud right?

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u/The_B_Wolf Jun 12 '25

You can learn DaVinci Resolve in a couple of hours just by watching YouTube video. I did. I came from iMovie on Mac.

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u/Alikont Jun 12 '25

DaVinci is actually great and kind of friendly. And free.

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u/cjdacka Jun 12 '25

Subaru Swift?

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u/ruintheenjoyment Jun 12 '25

He meant to say Supermarine Swift

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u/TrustLeft Jun 13 '25

climpchamp is cloud only, it is NOT THE SAME!! You have to log in to online MS to use. Davinci seems harder but if it works with local account with no login then F champclip