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Making movies on Windows 7
While I love Windows 7 as an improvement over Vista, I am flabbergasted by its inability to natively import Video from my movie camera to edit and create DVDs. This is a MAJOR step back from Vista. Out of the box it recognizes my video camera but can do nothing with it.
The issue I encountered was simply that there is no Movie Maker. The choices are download Windows Live and use the beta version, which is missing quite a few features that are in the Vista version of MM, or download the 2.6 version that was in XP about 4 years ago. I can't even believe MM in Windows Live doesn't import video, you have to go to Photo Gallery to do it!
Microsoft supposedly spends all this effort on usability, who really thinks up this stuff? "Gee, we can remove import from Movie Maker, and we can put it in another program so then they have to work with 2 programs to get the same job done." Don't they have better things to do then rearrange the deck chairs on the ship? Did it really work so poorly before? Couldn't that effort be better spent on some other new functionality?
Junior programmer in the back of the room says "Why don't we just create a download of the Vista version of MM, or put that in the install package, until we have something better to improve the user experience? (six very large managers quickly and decisively remove junior programmer from the room, never to be seen again).
I swear, the usability scenarios that Microsoft must come up with for using some of these tools are not what any normal user would be doing. Sheesh.