Last week, Microsoft started rolling out the modern Photos app on Windows. While the modern Photos app has several new editing tools, it removes the built-in “Video Editor” and replaces it with a web-based Clipchamp.
If you’ve lost track of how many different photos applications Microsoft has shipped for Windows and what features they don’t and do have – the linked article has a good, if Microsoftian convoluted overview.
I have not understood (and perhaps not eve then) moviemaker in ME..
All i know is that it is utter garbage, and there is a 3rd party market för those applications and people pay out of the ass fer sure.
The good and cheap used to be PS, kdenlive Davinci resolve and similar products but i do not edit videos any more. I know davinci spouted hardware rendering back in the day.
I don’t remember the one in ME, but I spent many hours and had lots of fun creating videos with Windows Movie Maker from XP and then the one from Vista.
Generally, nobody cares about the bundled Windows apps. Even Vista’s apps, which were supposed to compete with MacOS X, had all kinds of weird issues such as Windows Movie Maker being unable to export in MPEG-2 and only exporting in WMV (which meant that if you clicked the “burn to DVD” button in Windows Movie Maker it would export in WMV and then Windows DVD Maker would encode it again to MPEG-2), and Windows DVD Maker itself didn’t support common formats such as mp4 or srt subtitles.
And it’s been downhill since then: Metro apps are so barebones and get replaced so often that nobody even bothers to care.
And this point, the value proposition of Windows is the win32/win64 API. This is Microsoft’s strategic mistake: If someone (Valve) provides a good enough win32/win64 implementation, Microsoft risks losing massive chunks of the market. Meanwhile, Apple has not only its API but several high-quality bundled apps, their App Store, and Continuity with iOS that someone would need to replicate in order to offer a comparable product.