Evaluation of Movie Maker and Avidemux

I chose Windows Movie Maker because it was the top choice in Desktop-Video-Guide and I have to agree with them. Windows Movie Maker is a free video editor that comes standard with the newer vision Windows XP or it can also be downloaded from Microsoft website. Windows Movie Maker can add video effect such as fade in, from white effect, from black effect and move clips up or down. However, projects that are done on Movie Maker can only be save as Windows Media Format, but you can imports asf, .avi, .m1v, .mp2, .mp2v, .mpe, .mpeg, .mpg, .mpv2, .wm, and .wmv files types. Audio can also be add in aif, .aifc, .aiff .asf, .au, .mp2, .mp3, .mpa, .snd, .wav, .wma file type and narration from a microphone is also available. Also, only one audio track can be record with the video. Finally, the interface is very user-friendly and ideal for beginners with the storyboard view and timeline to review and modify clips.

I wanted to chose another video editor that was not on the list, so I google and found Avidemux. Avidemux is a free open source video editor that works on multiple platforms like Linux, BSD, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows. Projects done on Avidemux can be save or converted to as .avi, .flv, .mpeg, .mp4, .mkv and .ogm by drop down list on the left-hand side because of the built-in encoder. However, many file types could be imported, including .avi, .asf, .wmv, .wma, .mkv, .flv, .mpeg, .mp4, .mov and .ogm because of the built-in decoder with multithreading availability. In addition, Avidemux can handle dual audio tracks, but only one internally. The interface is not as user-friendly as Windows Movie Maker because it has more option like multiple preview option with a navigation bar, deinterlacing videos and encoding animation. Finally, Avidemux can be use as standalone MPEG-4 player and it can also save audio or video files only.

In my past learning experience, I never used any video editor and closest thing I have used was Microsoft Photo Story. Thus, all of this was a new learning experience for me. Microsoft Movie Maker was the simpler of the two. It is great to create video for beginners, while Avidemux is for more advance users because of all its options.
Also, I can see video creation impact future lifelong learning by asking students to create video projects and teachers posting video lesson on-line for students. Finally, I will do a podcast powered by podbean.

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Desktop-Video-Guide. (n.d.). Top 7 video editing software programs for beginners. Retrieved on April 12, 2009, from http://www.desktop-video-guide.com/top-7-video-editing-software-review.html