Video Editing Links
Useful Video Links & Tools

 

 

Windows Media Encoder Tools (Free)

Broadcast, encode video for multiple bitrates within the same file, de-interlace and add 5.1 & 7.1 audio tracks
Windows Virtual PC For Vista (Free) If you have issues running FMV on Windows Vista (Usually due to security \ UAC issues)  - Run FMV in a Virtual PC
Windows 7 XP Mode (Free) If you have issues running FMV on Windows 7 (Usually due to security \ UAC issues)  - Run FMV in XP Mode
Windows Media Showcase (Free)
Great source for Royalty free HD video content to test with. 1080p & 720p full HD source footage.
Microsoft 5.1 & 7.1 Audio tools (Free) 
Free tools to Create 5.1 & 7.1 audio tracks from mono sources. Merge multiple audio channels into single multi-channel containers.
DivX Codec & Downloads  DivX freeware and HD pro codecs. If installed, FMV will use the HD version
SGI's Video Converter (Free) Convert most format of Video including MOV to DV \ other formats.

VideoserviceThief - MP4 & 3GP convertor (Free)

Download and Convert video webstreams (YouTube, Facebook etc). You can then edit these video clips with FMV
FOURCC.org - Codecs and how to identify them FMV identifies video formats based on the FOURCC code embeded in the header. FMV uses these video codes for the identification.
Microsoft DirectX Runtime Download (Free) If you are unsure if you have the latest version of DirectX use this.
Microsoft Graphedit & why FMV uses DirectShow What you can do with a Filtergraph and how DirectShow \ DirectX uses hardware whenever possible.
How FMV offloads processing to your GPU More on DirectX DXVA2, EVR and GPU video off-loading technology used in FMV
FMV on Cnet \ Download.Com Alternative FMV download site
FMV's Spyware and Trojan Report Verified by Cnet \ ZDnet \  DoDownload.com \ Kaspersky
Video Editing On Wiki Video editing history and info on Wikipedia