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Windows 7 Photo Gallery & Movie Maker (video)
You can see the video demonstration of both Photo Gallery and Movie Maker below.
Photo Gallery lets you capture, manage and share images. There's also built in uploads for Windows Live and Flickr, and plug ins let you easily upload to Facebook, SmugMug and Picasa Web also. A Twitpic plug in doesn't exist yet that I know of, but that would be a natural extension. The fun starts when you pull some of these images into Movie Maker and hit "auto movie." You can toss a little music behind the images, and voila, you've got a video slide show of a trip, a night out, scenic views. Now this is mostly what Movie Maker is intended to do, and you can easily upload these movies to YouTube right from the application (at varying levels of quality), but there are some other nice features as well. For example, you can add visual affects to the pictures (select ones or multiple), create titles and lower thirds with transitions that you can customize with simple tools Microsoft has provided. You can bring in actual movie files and mix that in also -- and those movie files can be quickly edited right inside the application. You can output these movies as Windows media files. Movie Maker probably isn't going to be your tool for industrial strength video editing, but it's a very nifty way to edit some images together for a nice video.
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