Nick White published an article on Movie Maker and DVD Maker in Windows Vista
The other week I sat down with Program Manager Chris Hugill from the Windows Live team to discuss his involvement in the design and development of Windows Movie Maker and Windows DVD Maker, technologies found within Windows Vista that are his primary area of responsibility. What I learned really blew me away, as I thought I knew most of what there was to know about these applications!Movie Maker and DVD Maker in Windows Vista
In particular, Chris brought me up to speed on the design intentions behind Windows Movie Maker, stating that the team's main goal from design-time forward was to create a user-centric application that made it incredibly easy for people like pre-teens and moms to create a movie and offload it to a DVD in no time. In fact, one of the design metaphors underlying their original thinking was to create an application akin to Notepad – think of it as a “Mediapad” in terms of its simplicity and ease of use. The application was envisioned to work out of the box with little to no set-up or tweaking and a minimum of ramp-up time to get started actually producing a movie. In other words, to make creating a DVD Video pretty much as easy as printing.
