Dean Rowe's WebLog
Expression Encoder with little bits of MovieMaker and DVD Maker.
Editing files with Encoder V3
I’d written a previous post about editing files with Encoder v2 in the SDK however in V3 we changed...
Date: 04/13/2010
Expression Encoder 3 Visual Basic Samples
We shipped Expression Encoder 3 with a bunch of samples that demonstrated various aspects of the...
Date: 02/28/2010
What’s New in the Expression Encoder 3 SDK?
Just posted a little article talking about the Expression Encoder 3 SDK over on the Expression...
Date: 07/30/2009
Microsoft Expression Encoder 3 is now available for download
Check out the details on the Expression Encoder blog. Download it and tell us what you think. Link
Date: 07/22/2009
Coming Soon: Expression Encoder 3
James has just updated the Expression Encoder blog with details of Expression Encoder 3. The product...
Date: 07/10/2009
Editing files with Encoder
In Encoder V2 we added the ability to edit multiple sections out of a video/audio file and this can...
Date: 03/16/2009
Metadata
When encoding files using the Expression Encoder SDK, you may find there are times when you want to...
Date: 12/13/2008
Expression Encoder 2 SDK Updated for Service Pack 1
I’ve just uploaded a post to the Expression Encoder team blog that talks about the new updates to...
Date: 11/13/2008
Bingo
The other day my wife had volunteered to help out with the Halloween festivities at my son’s school....
Date: 11/12/2008
Expression Encoder 2 SP1 SDK
As you may have heard Expression Encoder 2 SP1 is now available to download. We've been putting the...
Date: 11/10/2008
Expression Encoder 2 SP1
If you’ve been wondering what we’ve been doing for last few months we’ve now announced Expression...
Date: 09/24/2008
Expression Encoder and VB.NET
As James recently posted on the Expression Encoder team blog, we’ve just released an update to...
Date: 07/29/2008
Expression Encoder 2 SDK released
We released the Encoder SDK today. You can download it from the following location. Microsoft®...
Date: 06/03/2008
Intellisense and Help file for Expression Encoder 2 Object Model
Just posted a link to the Intellisense and Help files for the object model to the Expression Encoder...
Date: 05/02/2008
Expression Encoder 2 is released
Expression Encoder 2 is now available. Click on the image to go to the Expression Encoder page where...
Date: 05/02/2008
Changing the output profile
Once you've created a MediaItem, you're probably going to want to specify which video and/or audio...
Date: 03/13/2008
Overview of Expression Encoder 2
The session that our very own James and Charles did at Mix this morning is already online. I...
Date: 03/07/2008
Basic code to encode a file
Here's a very small snippet of code that uses the Expression Encoder object model to create a job,...
Date: 03/07/2008
Expression Encoder 2 Beta now available
Our very own James has done a great job listing all the new features of Expression Encoder 2, over...
Date: 03/06/2008
It's alive
The Expression Encoder team blog is now live. Watch for more content coming over the next weeks....
Date: 03/01/2008
Cool mention of Windows Vista Movie Maker and DVD Maker
https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2193575,00.asp Yes I know it's a little gratuitous :-), but I...
Date: 10/12/2007
More Expression Encoder stuff
Hot on the heels of the release of the Expression Encoder, Ben Waggoner has worked on some training...
Date: 09/09/2007
Expression Encoder now available
Expression Encoder (formally called Expression Media Encoder) is now available to download....
Date: 09/05/2007
RAW Support
I'm not sure how well known this is, but we did work in Windows Movie Maker and Windows DVD Maker to...
Date: 05/31/2007
Microsoft Expression Media Encoder Preview now available
You can now download the free trial preview of the Expression Media Encoder. We still have a bunch...
Date: 04/30/2007
Top 10 Questions about Expression Media Encoder
Sean Alexander has just posted a list of top 10 questions (and answers) on Expression Media Encoder....
Date: 04/19/2007
Expression Media Encoder Demo
Just spotted that the Channel 9 video of James demoing Expression Media Encoder is now up. Here's...
Date: 04/17/2007
Microsoft Silverlight
Today we announced Microsoft Silverlight a new cross-platform, cross-browser plug-in for developing...
Date: 04/16/2007
Windows Movie Maker 2.6
My old team has just released Windows Movie Maker 2.6 for Vista. If you're running Vista on a...
Date: 04/16/2007
Moved teams
I've been meaning to write this post for a while. For those that don't know I recently left the...
Date: 03/13/2007
Helping Chris Pirillo
I managed to come across Chris Pirillo's post where he said he was breaking up with Vista. Well his...
Date: 03/09/2007
Windows DVD Maker Command Line Options
As well as the SDK, which you can use to build your own custom DVD menus, you can control which...
Date: 03/01/2007
Windows Movie Maker and Windows DVD Maker SDK Released
Looks like we've now got the Windows Movie Maker and Windows DVD Maker SDK available on...
Date: 02/21/2007
New Camcorders
A colleague from the Movie Maker team recently sent an email with the following list of Camcorders...
Date: 02/20/2007
Windows Vista and Office 2007 launched
Cool to finally see the launch of Vista and Office 2007 and nice to see the mentions and the flashes...
Date: 01/30/2007
Windows DVD Maker demonstrated in Billg's keynote at CES
It’s always cool to see something you’ve personally worked on being demonstrated to a bunch of...
Date: 01/08/2007
Windows DVD Maker and Aspect Ratios
You may have noticed an innocent little setting in the options dialog called DVD aspect ratio. It...
Date: 11/15/2006
British pensioner becomes star on YouTube
I just love this story. He also happens to use Movie Maker for his videos which is always nice to...
Date: 08/16/2006
Try Windows Vista Beta 2
Most of you have probably already seen this but just in case, you can now download Windows Vista...
Date: 06/12/2006
Vista Beta 2
Today, we announced the release of Vista Beta 2. It’s very cool to know that the new versions of...
Date: 05/23/2006
New Windows Vista Team Blog
The Windows Vista team blog was recently launched and includes posts from Lorrin Maughan who is a...
Date: 04/27/2006
4:3 - Now with extra pixels
On my previous post, Rehan noticed that the 4:3 thumbnail didn't quite have the correct aspect...
Date: 04/23/2006
DvdMaker and a little widescreen love
I've always been a little frustrated with applications that don't support 16:9 content or don't...
Date: 03/17/2006
Happy Pi Day
Tomorrow is 3/14 in the USA date format, so happy Pi day to everyone.
Date: 03/14/2006
Goodbye capture, hello file copy
Well maybe not quite yet, but there are more and more cameras coming out that no longer use tape....
Date: 02/27/2006
Windows Movie Maker on Vista
We're releasing more details about Windows Movie Maker on Vista. Check out the following link for a...
Date: 02/16/2006
More blogs from the Movie Maker Team?
Well it looks like some others on the team are starting to think about blogging. There may even be a...
Date: 02/06/2006
Windows DVD Maker
I know I haven't posted much recently, but I'm hoping to fix that, especially as more and more...
Date: 02/02/2006
Xbox 360 launch titles announced
They’ve finally announced the list of titles that will be available for the Xbox 360 launch. I was...
Date: 11/14/2005