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/CodenameFlux Windows 10 Jun 12 '25 edited Jun 13 '25

Windows Movie Maker was official discontinued on 10 January 2017. That's 8 years, 5 months, and 2 days ago. Even before that, it wasn't included with Windows 7. Instead, people had to install it as a part of the Windows Live suite.

The reasons for discontinuation are: (1) Competition, and (2) the guy who maintained it left Microsoft during a layoff.

Please try the following instead:

  • LosslessCut (open-source, specializes in lossless trimming and merging)
  • MiniTool Movie Maker
  • CapCut
  • Clipify
  • DaVinci Resolve (feature-rich and complicated; it's the best)
  • Flowblade
  • Kdenlive
  • OpenShot
  • ShotCut
  • VidCutter
  • VSDC

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u/Euchre Jun 13 '25

DaVinci Resolve is to OpenShot as GIMP is to Paint.NET.

You can have powerful and free application at the cost of heavy learning curve, or you can have a still very capable application that doesn't require much learning time to achieve results.