Neo's Movie Maker Portal

A hot new movie making resource has just hatched out on the web courtesy of www.windowsmoviemakers.net forum member "Neophyte" . Neo very kindly responded to an invitation to say a few words about the site:

First, I would like to thank Al for featuring my website in this article and for providing me the opportunity to tell you more about it.

One of my early discoveries at the forums at windowsmoviemakers.net was a series of Particle Illusion clips created by forum member "kathokatho" that could be used to add special effects/visual interest to my movies. While I was able to find and download a fair number of her clips, I was disappointed to find that many of her clips were no longer available.Over the subsequent months, I encountered several re-occurrences of this situation - clips or other resources created by forum members that were no longer available.

From the disappointment in not being able to find these materials evolved the concept of creating a more permanent web archive for resources created by forum members. That concept subsequently evolved into the current "Neo's Movie Maker Portal" site, which allowed me to make available other materials that I felt might be of interest to Movie Maker users.

Today Neo's Movie Maker Portal features a "Clip Archive" which, with the agreement of the creators and the support of other forum members, has grown to include over 330 free, downloadable clips. It also includes a listing of free video conversion programs to assist users in finding a converter suitable for converting clips into a Movie Maker compatible format, self-installing executable files for the master list of custom XP titles, effects and transitions compiled by forum member "fishycomics", free website hosting services for Movie Maker users... and more.