Using Movie Maker programmatically or from command

Question

Does anyone know if I can programmatically hook into Movie Maker and therefore make a movie through an API or other form of command line ?

I found this Command-line Options for Windows Movie Maker but there is no export command to export the video.

Answer 1

If you don't mind doing some programming and have Windows 7 or later you can use Microsoft Media Foundation: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ff819476(v=vs.85).aspx

Answer 2

This one would be the official API: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb288384(v=vs.85).aspx However I found nothing on exporting either.

http://avisynth.nl/index.php/Main_Page Looks like a powerful alternative though (my guess is you don't mind being stuck on windows anyway in this case).