
On the rare occasion that our testers made it to the storyboard, the program would freeze when adding one of the numerous effects. If importing worked, Movie Maker 2 would quit responding when clips were placed on the storyboard. The program typically froze while importing MPG video files. The plain interface promises simplicity with drag-and-drop storyboard options, though during testing, it was more like drag and freeze. It gives the user no input on program location or other options. From the get-go, you get the feeling that this isn't going to be an easy program to like Microsoft's installer doesn't play nice.


Windows Movie Maker 2 is so easy a child could use it-an incredibly patient child born to filmmaker parents who didn't mind restarting this application every few minutes.
