No, not independent and not separate from the video. As you probably know, when you start a video in VLC, it displays the name of the video, as entered on the details tab of the properties. In all of my videos, I edit the title fields of both the General and Details tabs to have identical names. The personal name appears at the same time as the video title with a hyphen separating them.
I said that the personal names were probably the uploaders, but after Googling, I found that at least one of them is a director. Either way, I have no desire to have anything other than the video title appear.
I'm not familiar with Windows Live Movie Maker, but I will try it out to see if it might solve the problem.