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A problem with Movie Maker. Help please.

My Windows Movie Maker warps the videos I save. I'm not sure what version of Movie Maker but the videos are MOV format from my iphone. After the editing is done and saved, some clips are warped and stretched out. Why doe …

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Movie Maker 2.6

Someone wrote that there were able to obtain a copy of Movie Maker 2.6 from a member of the Community Forum, this being the last secure version apparently. Don't know whether that's true, but would like to get it if so. …

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Movie Maker Errors

Hello, I have been struggling to get windows live movie maker to work. Every time I upload a video into it, I have a black screen and it plays no audio. I have checked to see if there are any updates for my laptop, I hav …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jun 17, 2019

Story Remix vs. Movie maker

I have just tried using Story Remix, and there are a lot of cool things (mostly animated effects), but it seems to be missing things Movie Maker had. Maybe, I am missing something here. You seemed to be able to do a lot …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jun 9, 2019

Movie Maker

I started a photo video project in Movie Maker and saved the project. When I reopened it to continue working on it, all the photos were gone, and there were yellow triangles with exclamation points in them. How do I get …

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HD Movie Maker Pro

I have been using this to make a video of our church sermons forever! The files that I import are the same, nothing has changed however now when I try to download my videos into Movie Maker it says "Importing Metadata" w …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jun 3, 2019

Movie Maker Not supported

I have a couple of video projects that have been developed in Movie Maker I want to finish, but I have just found that I can not open or edit them. I am running Windows 7 on my computer. Do I have to get Windows 10 to be …

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Movie Maker….

How would I delete one of the songs in my Movie Maker project? WP

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my windows live gallery

I was away for awhile and had a lot of personal stuff stored on live gallery and now im back and need to retrieve it if possible ***Moved from category Windows 10 / Windows update, recovery, & backup***

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: May 25, 2019

Movie Maker Problem

When I place the cursor line to the left of the first slide, the slide shows up black on the large screen to the left of all the small slides. Also, when I play the show all the captions are not in sync with the designat …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: May 24, 2019

Movie Maker on windows 10

I am experiencing a problem with movie maker where it shows that i do not have any videos inside the program but still displays the time of the videos that i do have inside it.

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Windows Live Photo Gallery

Yesterday when I went into my photo gallery to look for a photo, all of the photo icons had changed to flowers. Since most of my photos are just saved by the number my camera puts on the photo, it is next to impossible t …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: May 11, 2019

Movie Maker 2.6

Movie Maker 2.6 will not save my project as a movie file. I need it to be an avi file, but cannot get it to save as movie file in order to convert to avi file.

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: May 11, 2019

new version of Windows Photo Gallery?

Do you know if Microsoft is preparing a new version of Windows Photo Gallery? The last is, I believe, from 2012. It is fastest and most efficient for quick edits (straighten, crop, lighten, darken, etc) that I have found …

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Microsoft HD Moviemaker Pro

I purchased HD moviemaker Pro and have made a movie from photos in my camera and Samsung phone and now want to make a DVD. I can't find the files on my computer,and how do I go about transferring to a DVD?

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: May 9, 2019

movie maker

Hi movie maker F11 to enlarge the screen not working pls advice.

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Movie Maker 2012 no longer showing waveforms

So i've been using Windows Essentials Movie Maker for a few years with no issues. Suddenly the waveforms for all videos no longer show on the timeline. The waveform option is selected in the view tab but i've no idea how …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: May 8, 2019

Stabilization

Hello My question is why in window movie maker which I still have in 2019 why was the stabilization button removed in movie maker. How can I make my video stable in movie maker without the stabilization button, or do you …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: May 6, 2019