


It uses the same timeline-based interface, but gives you far more control and is packed with filters and effects that look great and are actually useful. If you miss Movie Maker, Shotcut (opens in new tab) is a free video editor that shows what Microsoft’s app could have become, given love and time to blossom. The last version was released in 2012, but the program was still available to download until earlier this year, when Microsoft hammered the final nail into its coffin by pulling the Windows Live suite from its site. Microsoft's Encarta Encyclopedia wasn't just a CD-ROM full of reference material, it had a slew of Interactivities to explore This video focuses on its fond. Sadly, Movie Maker suffered a slow demise as a result of neglect. Good old Windows Movie Maker was once the easiest way to throw together a quick video using clips of footage, photos, clip art and ugly text frames.Įarly versions caused my parents' PC to judder to a halt, but in later years Movie Maker was perfect for getting videos ready to upload to upload to a new and exciting site called YouTube. Was Dante in fact playing Encarta Mindmaze and just being overly poetic This exploratory quiz game is a phenomena rarely encountered by the post- Wikipedia generation, only in the days when Encarta came lumped with your old 90s PC, in a desperate bid for some entertainment value, did many bored and unsuspecting PC users inadvertently stumble.
