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Q: Why is WeVideo a good Windows Movie Maker alternative?

WeVideo gives you all the editing tools to tell your story, whether you're making a Hollywood-style blockbuster or an internal comms presentation for your boss. You don't need to download the Movie Maker app or worry about updating clunky software. Just hop into our video editor from your browser and make the magic happen. All video editing projects save automatically to our secure cloud, and depending on your plan, you can seamlessly collaborate with other users, too. Visual effects, motion titles, background music, scene transitions, voiceover — all are built in and very easy to use.

From family slideshows to social media ads, make professional-looking videos on your Windows machine with WeVideo's video editor. No separate app or video editing software needed!

Two work colleagues sitting at a Windows computer to edit videos.

The Windows video editor for every need

Whether you're an in-house marketer, a busy educator, or a home video editing enthusiast, WeVideo is for you. It's as simple as booting up your Windows machine and hopping into WeVideo!

Binge-worthy YouTube content, compelling product ads, student-centered assignments, slideshows with music... make 'em all in minutes from any Microsoft or Windows device.

Start editing your footage

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All the assets for show-stopping videos

What takes a video from 8/10 to 10/10? The picture-perfect imagery, video footage, or audio, of course. And our video editor for Windows has all three!

Bring your story to life by choosing from over 1 million stock assets, available right from our video editing software. Fade in a mood-setting music clip, play picture-in-picture, or add animation to emphasize your point. Easy.

Try editing on Windows

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Start with a template, finish with a bang

When you're on a video editing time crunch, the last thing you need is the dreaded blank canvas. So start with a template from our video editor instead!

Windows 10, Windows 11, doesn't matter — any Microsoft user can find a professionally created template to kickstart their video and audio editing. Grab a starter design and customize it in minutes.

Find a video template

Collage of five video creation templates from WeVideo.

Why use our Windows video editor?

Movie-making magic

With our beginner-friendly video editor, you can trim, split, merge, and layer footage to create a compelling visual story. Make it as simple or complex as you want.

For Microsoft + more

WeVideo isn’t just the top video editor for Windows. Our video editing software also plays well with Macs, PCs, Chromebooks, iOS, and Android for cross-platform editing.

Great for teams

Businesses, schools, and other organizations love our video editor! Share project libraries, save a Brand Kit, and have your staff collaborate — no need for Windows Movie Maker.

Resize for social

Do all your editing just once and then quickly reformat your clip into the most popular video aspect ratios: square, horizontal, and vertical. Perfect for social media posts!

All kinds of audio

Not just a movie maker, we're an audio expert, too. Add music and sound effects from our built-in stock library, fade in and out, boost volume — anything you need to be heard.

Done in the cloud

Forget about Windows Movie Maker, Microsoft Photos, or random Microsoft apps. Our browser-based video editing software requires no download and auto-saves to the cloud.

How to use our video editor for Windows

From any Windows PC or Microsoft device, open your browser and start a new project in WeVideo's online video editing software. Upload your video file (along with any other assets like photos or audio clips) and then drag them to your Timeline to begin editing.

You can upload files directly from your Windows machine or from a number of platforms including Facebook, Google Drive, and Microsoft OneDrive.

Our video editor makes it easy to jazz up your video clip! Add animation video effects, throw on a filter, record voiceover, add a logo watermark, select from pre-made motion titles, merge clips together... anything to make your video pop.

For more advanced features, give green screen or custom transitions a try.

All done with our video editor on Windows? Then wrap up your project by exporting your video.

Choose your desired resolution (ranging from 720p to sleek 4K) as well as your export destination: your Windows device, Microsoft OneDrive, social media, and more.

UI mockup of dragging a video clip to start creating a video.

"WeVideo gives us the ability to scale our video offerings without extensive staff training or design experience. For example, a social media manager is empowered to create simple videos using the templates we establish in the system, and this allows more people within the agency to be video creators."

David Tisdale Marketing Director, Vx Group

"As an avid content creator, I have tried numerous video editing tools, but none have come close to the versatility, user-friendliness, and feature-richness that WeVideo offers. A standout feature of WeVideo is its collaborative capabilities. WeVideo's real-time collaboration feature allows multiple users to edit a project simultaneously. This collaborative environment promotes seamless communication, enhances productivity, and streamlines the entire editing workflow."

Zita Joyce Primary Years Program Coordinator, Stonehill International School

"We needed a tool that would be straightforward and suit everyone, regardless of their technical expertise or hardware. The biggest benefit we’ve seen implementing WeVideo is now hundreds of reporters are editing video that previously were unable to. By expanding our video production capabilities even further, we hope to grow our 50% share of digital news subscriptions of Norwegian households."

Tord Selmer-Nedrelid Head of Video & Audio Development at Amedia

"The video content I’ve created with WeVideo has added credibility to my work and has helped me scale my business. It has completely freed up my time so that I’m able to take on more. I went from having the capacity to service five clients at one time to 25 clients."

Cara Heilman CEO of Ready Reset Go

"I teach with projects, and WeVideo is an excellent platform for students to work collaboratively on video projects. While most teens have some ideas about video from their cell phones, [WeVideo] takes their creativity and skills to a whole new level, allowing them to find their voice in new and exciting ways."

Peter De Lisle Academic Director, Inanda Seminary

FAQs about editing videos on Windows

Windows 7, Windows 10, Windows 11, even Windows Vista! Unlike the Windows Movie Maker software, WeVideo does not require any app. All you need is an internet connection, which means you can do your video editing from any device, Microsoft-based or not. (Yep, even Macs are fair game here!)

No, Microsoft has discontinued Windows Movie Maker, which was a built-in video editing software available with Windows Essentials 2012.

You can still find websites offering a free download of Movie Maker, but Microsoft warns that these sites are not legitimate and instead recommends creating movies in the Photos App of Windows 10. Of course, the best Windows Movie Maker alternative we'd suggest is WeVideo!

WeVideo gives you all the editing tools to tell your story, whether you're making a Hollywood-style blockbuster or an internal comms presentation for your boss. You don't need to download the Movie Maker app or worry about updating clunky software.

Just hop into our video editor from your browser and make the magic happen. All video editing projects save automatically to our secure cloud, and depending on your plan, you can seamlessly collaborate with other users, too. Visual effects, motion titles, background music, scene transitions, voiceover — all are built in and very easy to use.

Our video editor supports the following audio files: AIF, MP3, M4A, OGG, WAV, and WMA. We also support the following video files: 3GP, 3GPP, AVI, DIVX, DV, FLV, M4V, MJPEG, MKV, MOD, MOV, MP4, MPEG, MPG, M2TS, MTS, MXF, OGV, WEBM, and WMV.

You can upload any of these files from your Windows device to start your project.

Yes! The free version of our video editor gives you all the same professional-quality editing features including voiceover, green screen, motion tiles, slo-mo, multi-track editing, and more. Please keep in mind that our free video editor does include a few limitations, like limited video publishing time and a WeVideo watermark on exported files.

To create a video without a watermark and without limitations (on Windows 10, 11, you name it), upgrade from the free version to one of our paid plans. You can always start with a free trial to give it a go!

Microsoft recently introduced ClipChamp as their online video editor. However, WeVideo is also compatible with Windows 10 and Windows 11, and even Windows 7 and Windows Vista! In the past, Microsoft has also released software that requires a specific app, but WeVideo is all web-based, so you don't have to download anything new. All you need is an internet connection to edit your videos from any device, Microsoft-based or not.

Online Windows video editor

The Windows video editor for every need

All the assets for show-stopping videos

Start with a template, finish with a bang