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  • simplest free compression for newbies Win Movie Maker?

    Posted by Bob Cole on August 21, 2008 at 10:33 am

    A client wants its customers around the country to submit videos to be edited into a presentation for the annual customer meeting. The customers are managers with no video experience, probably near-100% on Windows.

    I’ve recommended that they offer two methods: (1) submit actual camera tapes, or (2) upload to a special FTP site set up for this project.

    I use professional software for my videos, and have no idea what to recommend in the way of free software. Criteria: ease of use, quality, and preferably already on a Windows computer.

    Windows offers an “automatic” route for uploading video from a camera into a computer, using Windows Movie Maker.

    https://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/getstarted/DLmovies.mspx

    Quality if secondary to ease-of-use. Is WMM the best solution?

    Thanks!

    Bob C

    Bob Cole replied 18 years ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Daniel Low

    August 21, 2008 at 3:19 pm

    On the PC I haven’t seen anything free (or indeed shareware) that’s anything like as easy to use as WMM.

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  • Bob Cole

    August 23, 2008 at 3:07 am

    Thanks very much — I agree but I didn’t know what I didn’t know.

    bc

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