Dear David,
Consider Win Movie Maker as an incomplete attempt (God knows why!) of MS and
forget all about it. Turning footage into movies requires an effort
particularly time consuming and H/W - S/W demanding, at least, to create
something good enough, to justify time and effort.
For years now I have been using Ulead Studio (S/W) and Pinnacle (S/W and
H/W). I even dedicated a PC just for processing my footage. Well, after
processing -- according to my records -- some 384 hours of footage 'till now,
I am about to say "Far enough!" due to myriads of problems of Ulead and
Pinnacle S/W. The forum here and the forums of Ulead and Pinnacle are a proof
of my saying.
I teach my students how to take everything out of their camera or camcorder
and soon they realize that raw footage from the hands of an expert is better
from the processed one (with filters, enhancers, etc.). But then, if you want
to have a real movie, you have to anticipate for the time and effort it
includes.
In my country, Greece, the processing of footage for one hour movie (a 4.7
Gb DVD) to most shops of the kind, costs about 50 euros or $ 62 and for each
copy after the first, plus $ 0.62.
Concluding, I have to agree with "… Movie Maker is a basic video editing
program not a DVD authoring program", written below; to only add that it
sounds like getting on a basic moving "thing" that takes you nowhere -- since
it takes you (if and ever) where it wants.
