I don't know if this qualifies as a "pet" peeve, because anyone who ISN'T peeved by this is either 1) Insane or 2) Actually a computer disguised as a human --
WINDOWS MOVIE MAKER. Yeah, I know, you get what you pay for, I should go out and buy a real program, etc. But nevertheless, it came free on my computer, and I am really agitated that this piece of shit garbage program is even included on the computer.
Anyway, I opened the program and clicked “New Project.” Is there some part of “New Project” That this fucking program does not understand!??? Listed in the “collections” pane is the 30 or so clips I used the LAST time I worked on a project. I DO NOT WANT THOSE THERE! That is why I clicked NEW PROJECT!
Sure, I could delete them, but why are they there at all? OH, and of course, they decided to make THIS one of those oh so rare kinds of lists where the SHIFT or CONTROL buttons do NOT work to highlight a string of files for multiple move or deletion all at once. Instead, I must click EACH ONE and press delete? Are you fucking serious?
Now, I import the video clips I actually want to use for my project. But instead of putting them in “collections” as the single files they were, it breaks each file up into 8 pieces! Even though these files are only a few minutes long to begin with! Why the fuck would it do that!? And not at regular intervals, like 30 seconds each, but at random times, some as short as 4 seconds, with no discernible pattern.
Now the part that really galls me – I merge the files back into their original form so I can begin editing my project. I decide to break the clip in half or 3 parts of something so I can add different effects and exclude certain parts. But when I do this, the video goes black on the newly partitioned clips!
AAAAAAAAAARGH! WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY. And the help menus are of no use; they were obviously written by a deranged psychotic fucking lunatic bent on exacting revenge on mankind by further obfuscating already confusing scenarios and situations.
Lastly, if I ever get this finished, there is the issue of Movie Maker only being able to have ONE soundtrack for the finished movie – Either the actual audio from the clips, or an added MP3 file. I cannot have the clip Audio for some parts and an added MP3 track for other parts? Come on!
