3D Movie Maker It’s the latest application released by Microsoft under an open source license … and there are already a few, yes, old, no ones that many of us would like. But something is something, and if they do it that way, it’s just to persevere and study. However, with 3D Movie Maker, they did so by acceding to the community’s request.

For the rest, 3D Movie Maker is just another example of a list of Microsoft applications that have followed the same path, although there is no need to generalize: there are very recent, powerful and popular development trends that are also open source, such as Visual Studio Code, Powershell or PowerToys, although they have done so with these and not with others, is always to the benefit of society. Nothing new under the sun.

Going back to 3D Movie Maker, its name may sound familiar to you, because Movie Maker was a very popular video editor many years ago, but no, 3D Movie Maker is a different and much older application. Developed by Microsoft Kids, the division of the company responsible for creating educational software, its original launch dates back to 1995. and its path lasted barely ten years, even though there were enthusiasts who used it later … I’m not saying there are those who still use it.

3D Movie Maker has enabled, in keeping with its name, that “users are creating movies by placing 3D characters and props in pre-rendered environments, as well as adding actions, sound effects, music, text, voices, and special effects«, Describes the application article on Wikipedia in detail, because there is not much more. Apart from the fans, there were a few left and one of them launched a petition.

A request has been accepted from Microsoft and other stakeholders, on which important components of 3D Movie Maker depend, and without further ado, the 3D Movie Maker source code is now available in its own GitHub repository as open source. Specifically, a license was chosen to issue it HAVEvery common with this type of derivatives of proprietary origin.

Hi friends – we have opened the code for Microsoft 3D Movie Maker from 1995 https://t.co/h4mYSKRrjK Thanks @jeffwilcox and the Microsoft OSS office, as well as our legal friends and those who continue to endure that I am nudzh. Thank you @foone for an idea! Enjoy. https://t.co/6wBAkjkeIP

– Scott Hanselman 🇺🇦 (@shanselman) May 4, 2022

But make no mistake: just because 3D Movie Maker code is open source doesn’t mean you can download and compile it by hand, let alone install it like any other current application. It is very old code that needs to be updated to get there. Of course, that’s what software publishing is about for so many years in a row.

Just watch the project and sooner rather than later you will have an installer such as Bill Gates commands. In the meantime, all information about 3D Movie Maker is available in the repository referenced above, including compilation instructions and the necessary dependencies to make this happen.