Windows Movie Maker is a video creating/editing software application, included inMicrosoft Windows Me, XP, and Vista. It contains features such as effects, transitions, titles/credits, audio track, timeline narration, and Auto Movie. New effects and transitions can be made and existing ones can be modified using XMLcode. Windows Movie Maker is also a basic audio track editing program. It can apply basic effects to audio tracks such as fade in or fade out. The audio tracks can then be exported in the form of a sound file instead of a video file.

The first version was available for Windows Me in 2000, followed by Windows XP in2001, including other XP editions.

Development of Windows Movie Maker was abandoned after the release of Windows Vista; its replacement, Windows Live Movie Maker, is included with Windows Live Essentials, a free download from Windows Live;^[1] that does not have the same features as Windows Movie Maker.^[2] Windows Movie Maker 2.6 for Vista is compatible with Windows 7 and recommended by video editors,^[3] although Windows Movie Maker 2.6 is a stripped down version and does not include video capture.