It’s not showing under “import from device” so there is no way to capture. Now I have a newer computer with Windows 7 and Movie Maker 2012 does not work with it – it does not even recognize the device. I have Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit with a KBworld USB 2800D attached to a VCR to capture VHS tapes. I spent days researching and trying to resolve the problems with Windows Movie Maker. To make a program more “user-friendly,” more “streamlined,” means making it easier and/or quicker for a user to do what they want.

It does NOT mean restricting the user’s ability to do things their own way. “User-friendly” means letting the user do what they want. Either that or make them better instead of worse. Please make things work the way they did before. Premiere Pro doesn’t even let me import video files of any kind (FRAPS or otherwise), thus rendering it less than useless. Can’t actually “edit” anything but at least I can import stuff. *I also have Adobe Premiere Pro which is even more worthless and just as incomprehensible. Note: Users who’ve been accustomed to the film ribbon format for years find the new format completely alien. This was a necessary function to allow split-second editing.Ĥ: Redesigned format is incomprehensible. In older versions, it was always in the same place on the “film ribbon,” allowing the user to zoom in and out as needed. Note: If there’s a zoom tool, I’m not seeing it. Also, I’m not seeing any fade-out options.ģ: No split-second precision editing options due to lack of zoom. Note: This means it’s impossible to ensure that the audio is the same length (or intended length) as the video. Note: This alone renders a video “editing” program useless. Since I have a regular job, that’s not an issue, but what if I might some day want to make YT vids for a living? I’d have to buy a whole new editing program, most likely Sony Vegas (and even the cheapest version of that is too expensive to justify since I have two editing programs* already). If I made a living making YT videos, this would have interfered with my ability to do that.

Sure, I could make an unedited video in the new version of WMM, but it would be pointless since advanced editing is half the fun (the other half being coming up with and recording the material itself). Now it’s been over a month and a half since I’ve been able to make a video. I hate this 2012 version of Windows Movie Maker! It’s completely incompetently designed! Over the past four years, I’ve barely gone a day without making a YouTube video and the older versions of WMM were able to allow me to do that just fine.

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