Does the newest version of Windows come with a basic video editing tool?

Factual Questions
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I’ve been a Mac person since 2003. This morning I signed for an HP laptop. I had no choice. Now, during down time I’d been planning to do a very basic video editing project of my own. With iMovie, I knew what I could do.

I’m so unfamiliar with Windows at this point, I’ve no clue what comes with it. What might I find in the software package that will let me edit video, and is it at all analogous to iMove?

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It cones with a “Video Editor”/Movie Maker. I never tried it, but if it is not analogous to iMovie you can just download any of a number of freewares like Da Vinci Resolve, Kdenlive, etc. that are known to let you edit clips and render videos.

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Just what I was hoping to hear. This is real meat-and-potatoes kind of video editing. I’d suspect that any embedded software would do the trick.

Thanks !!!

4

Here is the official link describing it:

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The video editor app works fine and you may not need anything more, but I think the old Windows Live Movie Maker from 2012 has better tools and functionality. It’s still available for download for free on several websites–I’ve downloaded it on both my Windows 10 laptops and it runs without any problem.

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If you need more power than the built-in editor provides, there are other free options, such as:

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Many thanks. I’m encouraged.

In the same vein, the next question:

All of the media for this project, which we will call " HowTu ", will reside off of the machine. I have no choice; it’s not my machine and this isn’t a work project. I know I will have a ton of downtime for the first few months of this gig. I plan to use it to edit this personal project. ( My new overlords won’t care, as long as I’m Johnny-On-The-Spot when I’m needed. This from past experience with them. )

Do I have to go and buy an external HDD? Most of mine have room, but are formatted to be read by my Mac. My Dearly Beloved™ plugged one into her ThinkPad and it didn’t even see it as being plugged in.

Not to be cheap, but is there a reason why I cannot park the, say, 15-20 Gigs of video/audio on a thumb drive? Do thumb drives not “read/write” fast enough for me to use them to edit onto/off of?

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Not all flash drives (USB or card) are created equal.

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I don’t have much direct video editing experience, and definitely never used a flash drive to do it.

However, I find that USB 3.0 or above thumb drives can be read as fast as old hard drives. Writing is somewhat slower, but I don’t think that will be a huge problem, as I understand write speed is not very important. At most, it would make it take longer to render the video (saving it when you are finished editing), but I suspect that the rendering itself will be the bottleneck.

Here’s a link to the 64GB USB3 drive I purchased that I’m basing this on:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07BPGF6N3

(Note that, if your computer only has USB 2.0 drives, then it runs at about half that speed. Still, that’s faster than many hard drives.)

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Thanks for that link !! I have a few thumb drives around already but do wonder about their “speed”. As for the USB onboard the machine issue, it’s sitting in the box next to me unopened. I’m not allowed to open it until Monday for Onboarding.

Since it’s a brand new machine, I have to assume it has USB 3.0 slots !