Movie Moments is a free app that comes installed on all Windows 8.1 hardware. The first way to edit videos on Windows 8 is with Movie Moments.
Here’s how to edit videos using free software for Windows 8. Thankfully, Windows 8.1 users have two choices when editing videos. Unfortunately, it’s just not as user-friendly as new video makers might want. For example, tools like Premiere Elements are the standard by which all other video editing apps are judged. Sometimes these software tools cost hundreds of dollars and weren’t really that user-friendly. It integrates with Windows Explorer and if you’re new to the service, you get 7GB of free space.It used to be that completing everyday tasks on devices running Microsoft’s Windows operating systems required users to download all sorts of software and tools. While SkyDrive is included as a default app in Windows 8, this makes the storage service easy to use from the desktop. Microsoft SkyDrive - Now Known as OneDrive Now you can upload videos directly to Vimeo from Photo Gallery or Movie Maker. Now you can add music from AudioMicro, Vimeo Music Store, and the Free Music Archive.
While it’s weak compared to professional tools like Adobe Premiere or Final Cut Pro on Mac, it’s a perfect free tool for creating your own personal short videos to share online. It’s received some enhancements like Video stabilization, new effects and easily adding background music to your videos.
This was introduced in the first version of Live Essentials as a replacement to Windows Movie Maker in XP. If you do have Outlook installed on your system it also includes the Outlook Connector Pack to manage your Hotmail account. It will manage your Contacts, Calendar, RSS feeds and of course your messages. If you want a more robust client for managing your mail – without dealing with Outlook, Windows Live Mail is a solid choice. It’s still called “Live Mail” probably so it’s not confused with Windows 8 Mail included in the OS by default. It’s our software of choice for publishing articles here at groovyPost. It’s dead simple to use and lets you upload your posts with pictures and video. It works with all of the most popular blogging services like WordPress, Blogger, TypePad, and more. If you’re a blogger or thinking of starting, one of the best publishing apps to use is Windows Writer (formerly Windows Live Writer). It lets you connect to your IM contacts as well as Facebook, LinkedIn and support for audio and video chat. The familiar Windows IM client works as it always has. It also lets you create panoramas, photo collages, and supports popular online photo sharing services – including a new partnership with Vimeo.
This is an app to organize and manage photos on your computer. We’ll be covering them in more detail in future articles, but this will give you an idea of what to expect. Here’s a quick look at each of the apps included in Windows Essentials 2012. Then you’ll find the Windows Essentials programs on the Windows 8 Start screen, but they all run in desktop view. It installs in the desktop view.Īfter it’s done, you’re prompted to agree to the Microsoft Services Agreement. To select only what you want, click Choose the Programs you Want to Install.īecause I want to test and show each of the apps on Windows 8, I’m installing everything.
You don’t have to install everything, even though it’s recommended. Here’s a look at installing the package on Windows 8 and what’s offered. The software suite has been renamed and some new features have been added to Movie Maker and Photo Gallery. Microsoft recently released Windows Essentials 2012 for Windows 7 and it includes support for Windows 8. It reached end of support on January 10, 2017, and it isn’t available in Windows 10. We’re no longer offering the Windows Essentials 2012 suite for download, but if you already have it installed, it will continue to work as it does today.