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Windows Movie Maker saving corrupted files

I have been trying to save a roughly 30 minute movie that I edited with no success. When I save the movie, everything works as it should, but when I go to the saved file there is no thumbnail and the movie cannot be open …

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Movie Maker

Help?!? I have downloaded a piece of an old VHS tape. to my PC. It is now an MPEG. When I put one into my Windows Movie Maker program I get the audio but the screen is black (no image). Anybody know what I'm doing wrong?

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How to enable hardware accelerator?

Windows 10 upgrade, movie maker 2012 video played is less attractive or not sharp graphics. PLs. guide me how to enable hardware/graphic accelerator for movie maker. Is this effect of codecs? Or what is the cause of vide …

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movie maker does not seem to work

My computer is still working on windows 7, my movie maker does not seem to work. I can create movies but when I go to save and publish I only get black screen and audio only. How can I get the original movie maker versio …

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Movie Maker

My computer is still working on windows 7, my movie maker does not seem to work. I can create movies but when I go to save and publish I only get black screen and audio only. How can I get the original movie maker versio …

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Problem with windows live movie maker

When I open the movie maker project the photos are perfect in preview. So soon I make some changies for project the photos will become very unclear in preview. After closing the project and opening it again the preview i …

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Movie Maker Black vertical black lines

In movie maker i have a PICTURE (not a video!) with vertical black lines between it. I tried to fix it in paint and make it wider but it just kept the same picture! Please Help! (also it did not say picture in the topic …

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full screen

When I try to show my movie in full screen on movie maker, it stops and shows a black screen between each section and won't move on. Please help!

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Movie Maker

I have organised my photographs in a file according to date but when I try to import them into Movie Maker they are in a different sequence . Why ?

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Movie Maker

I have organised my photographs in a file according to date but when I try to import them into Movie Maker they are in a different sequence . Why ?

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HD videos to Windows Movie Maker

Hi everyone. Need help. I downloaded HD VIDEOS from youtube and now when I add these HD VIDEOS to my movie maker movie, they will not play. They are viewed in a thumbnail but when I hit play. They are blank. Any solution …

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Movie Maker

Is there any way to put automatic stops in movie maker? I want it to stop at certain places and then start again when I tell it to.

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windows movie maker

I made a movie, which saves as .wlmp. When I save it for email, only the audio is saved, no video. I have tried to convert but can't. Any help?

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Editing Added Music In Windows 10 Movie Maker

I'm trying to make a movie of all my video clips and photos from my recent trip to Vegas and accidentally added the wrong song. How can I fix that? In fact, I'd like to remove all the music I've added and start over. How …

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In movie maker

After I click to split, how do I add a short space, (or a pause so that I can transition to the next scene)? This is not shown in the explanations. Thanks.

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How to download photo’s

Look - I'm sorry about this but I'm just trying to download some photo's from my camera to my computer. The Help Desk said "Open Photo Gallery" but how do I do this ? where is photo gallery ? what does it look like ? how …

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