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Movie Maker changing clip settings!

HELP! I'm putting together a great Mother's Day movie where I've spliced together a number of kids' interviews into coordinated segments. The project itself looks and sounds great while in Movie Maker, it saves as a proj …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: May 4, 2016

Movie Maker changing clip settings!

HELP! I'm putting together a great Mother's Day movie where I've spliced together a number of kids' interviews into coordinated segments. The project itself looks and sounds great while in Movie Maker, it saves as a proj …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: May 4, 2016

Viewing photos in photo gallery

I have Windows Vista and am not very computer literate. I have just imported some photos from my camera to photo gallery and they appear there as thumbnails. When I click on each photograph to view it all I am getting is …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: May 3, 2016

Empty Screen

I have been trying to convert a .wlmp file into an .mp4 file or to .mwv file but unfortunately all I got is a blank (or black) empty screen. I'm using windows 7 Home Premium on my laptop and followed the Opening project …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: May 3, 2016

Movie Maker

I have windows 8.1 and whenever I go to add a video it says it is corrupt. I can view and play my videos in windows media player, but when i try to add it to movie maker, it will not work, I have tried so many options an …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: May 2, 2016

How do you remove centrally located parts of a movie?

I want you remove parts of a video movie that I recorded while I was kayaking down the Kern River. There is a bunch of dead time that I want to cut out of the video but as far as I tell, there is no option to do this ins …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: May 1, 2016

video volume now inaudible

Hi :) I recorded some videos with Movie Maker, uploaded them to different sites online and everything was fine for a month or two. But for the past month, the volume of the videos I already made and uploaded has become s …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: May 1, 2016

Windows Live Photo Gallery

The Tag and Caption pane located on the right side, is missing the date and time that used to appear under the "Descriptive Tags". Does anyone know how I can get it back?

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: May 1, 2016

Movie Maker Crash

I have Windows Movie Maker 2011 and it crashes every time I try to save a video as mp4. What can I do?

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Apr 30, 2016

Movie Maker Crash

I have Windows Movie Maker 2011 and it crashes every time I try to save a video as mp4. What can I do?

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Apr 30, 2016

Movie Maker Audio

I am using Windows 7 and just downloaded essential's to create a video with narration. After completing the video I recorded a narration and saved it as required. But on playback there is no sound. I have gone through al …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Apr 29, 2016