Story Remix Gives Amateur Film Makers A Great Option to Express Their Creativity on Windows 10

After the loss of Microsoft Movie Maker, Windows users will now get a built in option to express their creativity with videos using music, images and recorded content.

Richard Hay, Senior Content Producer

May 15, 2017

2 Min Read
Story Remix Gives Amateur Film Makers A Great Option to Express Their Creativity on Windows 10

By far during the Day Two Keynote at Microsoft's Build 2017 developers conference, the demo of Story Remix by Lorraine Bardeen, a Partner Program Manager and Software Engineer on the Windows Team, was the most popular of both keynotes.

I am basing that on the audience reaction throughout her 12 minute presentation on the keynote stage. Just go check it out here and watch the demo and hear the reaction of the developers in attendance.

Story Remix is integrated into the Microsoft Photos app and it is available in Windows 10 Redstone 3 Build 16193 which Microsoft released last week after the keynote.

This is an early build of Story Remix so right now it is only possible to place pictures, videos, and music into your stories and then save them as video files for sharing or uploading to social media. The features demoed such as inking on elements of the story, anchoring other graphics to the video, adding special effects, and tracking a specific individual throughout all of the content in the story are not yet available. They will begin to appear as builds of the Fall Creators Update are released to Windows 10 Insiders.

I will be doing a video tomorrow to give you a walkthrough of what is currently available in the latest build but in the interim here are two Story Remix videos that I created - each in less than five minutes, based on images I took last week at Build.

The first video shows you some of the activity on the Build 2017 Hub and Showcase floor and then the second one is from my Microsoft Underground Tour I took on Friday around the Microsoft Campus.

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About the Author

Richard Hay

Senior Content Producer, IT Pro Today (Informa Tech)

I served for 29 plus years in the U.S. Navy and retired as a Master Chief Petty Officer in November 2011. My work background in the Navy was telecommunications related so my hobby of computers fit well with what I did for the Navy. I consider myself a tech geek and enjoy most things in that arena.

My first website – AnotherWin95.com – came online in 1995. Back then I used GeoCities Web Hosting for it and WindowsObserver.com is the result of the work I have done on that site since 1995.

In January 2010 my community contributions were recognized by Microsoft when I received my first Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award for the Windows Operating System. Since then I have been renewed as a Microsoft MVP each subsequent year since that initial award. I am also a member of the inaugural group of Windows Insider MVPs which began in 2016.

I previously hosted the Observed Tech PODCAST for 10 years and 317 episodes and now host a new podcast called Faith, Tech, and Space. 

I began contributing to Penton Technology websites in January 2015 and in April 2017 I was hired as the Senior Content Producer for Penton Technology which is now Informa Tech. In that role, I contribute to ITPro Today and cover operating systems, enterprise technology, and productivity.

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