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Adding Text To Slide In Movie Maker

I have Windows 7 and Windows Movie Maker Version 2012. I want to be able to add separate text boxes on one slide so that I can change the size of the font and styles. I am only able to use one text box. Please help. I am …

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Installing Windows Live Writer – W10

I've tried installing Windows Essentials and Windows Live Writer but none of them seem to work. I upgraded W10 a couple months ago so I cannot recover to W8.

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Query on fitting Music

Under the Project Tab in Movie Maker, the sub-tab "Fit to Music" appears blurred and thus fitting music to a movie is not possible. I was making a short movie of about 8 minutes from an original 60 minute movie. I edited …

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Movie Maker Caption Text Improvement Inquiry

I am inserting caption text to each image/individual photo in my movie and have chosen bold Arial, bolded the font, increased it to 36 point, changed the color and it is still too meek to be read over most of my images. …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 14, 2016

Movie Maker pixelation/artifacting issues

Lately in Movie Maker 2012 I've been exporting videos only to find that the end results come out with some sections being pixelated, or artifacts are present. I've made sure all my codecs are up to date and I tried repai …

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Movie Maker To Encoder

I edited a video on Movie Maker, I wanted to put some overlaying images so i tried to import the Movie Maker video to Encoder but it says that the file type isn't supported, what do I do?

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how to stop syc of photos between computers

I am running 2 computers, ones a laptop, both 8.1. on same Microsoft account. When I delete a photo on one, it deletes from the other. I have turned off home groups sharing, & One drive, & in settings in everything to do …

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My calendar page display

This is the message I get when I open my calendar: "Calendar error: The event or task you are retrieving was already deleted. Please refresh the browser to update your calendar." I have tried everything I know to correct …

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Essentials download to my new laptop makes me nervous.

Forgive me ahead of time for sounding ignorant. I finally have my own laptop. I need windows essentials but I've read too many negative reports. I have a modest HP 360, 32/64 with Windows 10. Should I ? Can a tech help m …

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Essentials download to my new laptop makes me nervous.

Forgive me ahead of time for sounding ignorant. I finally have my own laptop. I need windows essentials but I've read too many negative reports. I have a modest HP 360, 32/64 with Windows 10. Should I ? Can a tech help m …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 13, 2016

Photo uploading

I like many others can no longer upload photos from my Photo Gallery to Facebook. This used to be a simple operation,Click on the Facebook symbol and it happened. What has changed? I have read that Microsoft no longer su …

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Photo uploading

I like many others can no longer upload photos from my Photo Gallery to Facebook. This used to be a simple operation,Click on the Facebook symbol and it happened. What has changed? I have read that Microsoft no longer su …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 13, 2016

Movie maker pause problems.

Original title: Miriam Pinto Hi, I have a very strange problem with my movie maker. When I am doing a music clip, i try to put some legends, and when I do pause the video, to write more legends, start the video again, it …

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Miriam Pinto

Hi, I have a very strange problem with my movie maker. When I am doing a music clip, i try to put some legends, and when I do pause the video, to write more legends, start the video again, it does not start in the point …

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pictures are pixeliating

dear all i am trying to make a video on movie maker live. i have some high resolution pictures and when i edit those pictures on cs6 and then bring it to movie maker, it pixeliate!!! kindly let me know how to resolve thi …

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Movie Maker Text Glitch?

While making a video containing text everything seems fine however when I finish the video and save it, there are some bits in the text that are not fading away when when the text has finished, I want to ask is there any …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 12, 2016

Movie Maker Text Glitch?

While making a video containing text everything seems fine however when I finish the video and save it, there are some bits in the text that are not fading away when when the text has finished, I want to ask is there any …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 12, 2016

Cannot use Movie maker to view/ edit WAV files

I use an action camera to record videos in .WAV format. But when I drag file into Movie maker (v 2012 16.4.3528.0331) the following happens: At first, I can see the first frame visible in the browse (?) area and I get a …

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Can’t connect facebook to movie maker

Everytime I click on Facebook, while in movie maker it asks for size. That is fine then it goes to connect to facebook and then says not signed in. Sign in again. I am signed in with both facebook and microsoft and it ju …

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Windows Movie Maker cannot scan more than one file

So I just spent all night putting together a movie using .MP4 files, jpg, captions, .MOV files, and .wav files. Each was imported one at a time. I noticed when I was close to completion that one of the previously success …

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