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Movie Maker vs. Sony Movie Studio

I have Movie Maker on my computer. It seems basic. I want to put a movie or small project on YouTube. Maybe some family trip videos also. I'm not real sophisticated with movie making but can do a fairly good job if I tak …

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Movie Maker

I made several movies with Movie Maker while running Windows 7. I have since upgraded to Windows 10. I re-installed Movie Maker through Essentials as advised. Now, some of the movies I made previously will not play when …

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Playback/Editing

Hi, I mostly use Movie Maker to make lyric videos. I have recently encountered a problem which makes Movie Maker very hard to work with. I am using an Asus laptop running Windows 8 and Movie Maker worked fine for the fir …

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Windows movie maker

I am using Windows movie maker and trying to convert my project to a file but when I do this my movie is blank - any ideas?

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Windows 10 and Movie Maker

I have recently gotten a computer with Windows 10 and Movie Maker is absent. I searched up why and it was revealed to me from Microsoft that Movie Maker is no longer supported by Windows 10 but I could search in the stor …

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No video on movie maker

I have windows 10 and I'm trying to upload videos that are on an sd card. They are loading as an .mpg file and the video won't play on movie maker. Is there anything I can do to fix this?

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Feb 19, 2016

Installation Error

I received the error 0x80040800 when I attempted to download Moviemaker. It says a previous download requires my computer to restart.

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Movie maker webcam

No audio device was found. The webcam works with Skype. The device is enabled. The webcam is showing in the box but no audio device is linked to the webcam. How can I do this? I have reinstalled and downloaded updates fo …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Feb 19, 2016

Movie maker outputs videos that can’t be watched

I am having this problem, but just with one, single, video. I take the MP4, which can be watched in other programs and watched and edited in Microsoft Movie Maker. I then open it up in Movie Maker and add an additional a …

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Photo Gallery stopped working

After moving videos to thumb drive on Windows 10 windows photo gallery stopped working tried running fix but doesn't help help

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