Windows Movie Maker is a free Microsoft utility for Windows that lets you create and edit video files. But the recent version of Movie Maker lack essential features like timelines, adding text on videos, audio edits, the ability to capture video from external devices, have been removed from this new version to make the application simple and easy to use.
So one developer decided to create a portable version of Windows Movie Maker based on Movie Maker 2.1. Portable Windows Movie Maker not only lets you use the missing features on Vista and Windows 7 systems, but it includes the missing transitions and effects from Windows XP, as well as several additional features to boot.
You can use it when you need removed features, like analog capture, without messing with your current version of Windows Movie Maker. Portable Windows Movie Maker is freeware. You can run Portable Windows Movie Maker on any computer with Windows XP, Vista, or 7. And since it's portable, you can run it from a USB flash drive or a folder on your hard drive without installing it.
Download: Portable Windows Movie Maker
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