Dean Rowe's WebLog

For those that are interested in checking out the DirectShow GraphEdit tool as talked about in the So what’s the difference between a filter and a codec? post, you can download it as part of the DirectX SDK . Once installed I believe a menu shortcut is...

These are two words that are probably used more than most on the Movie Maker newsgroups and sometimes you’ll notice the words are used synonymously. So is a filter the same as a codec or not? Well in actual fact they’re not exactly the same as I’ll try...

Not quite happy with the supplied transitions and effects in Movie Maker? Well for all you developers out there, you can create your own custom effects and transitions for use in Windows Movie Maker. Just check out the following article in MSDN which...

In a previous post I wrote about how we've now fixed DV Pass-Through in Movie Maker 2.1. Subsequent to that post we've now published an article on capturing video in Windows Movie Maker 2.1 by using DV Pass-Through which gives a nice overview of how you...

Eric Gunnerson starts with the Movie Maker team today and I'd like to give him a warm welcome to our team. Eric is a long time blogger and brings with him lots of C# and C++ experience to the team. Welcome Eric.