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Missing Back Button

I have Windows 7 Home Premium and latest version of Windows Movie Maker. I have added a video and can't find the storyboard or the timeline in my previous version of Movie Maker. Is there a way I can add titles overlayin …

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Windows Movie Maker lost clips

I am using Windows Movie Maker with my Windows 8.1 operating system. I was able to make the wlmp file including titles and video clips and sound. I was able to convert that to mp4 format and show the final product. But t …

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Movie Maker just hangs when I try to open my project

I started a project in Movie Maker. I came back the next day, opened it up and it played through fine. When I tried to open it the next time, it just hangs...the movie icon is in the middle of the screen....in the bottom …

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Movie Maker

I have tried 3 different formats to save my video with Movie Maker... WHY does it convert to the video with SOUND ONLY? No pictures or video, when it is saved to ANY format??!!!!

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Issue With Youtube Plugin in Windows Movie Maker

Before I upgraded to Windows 10, I used the Windows 8 OS and I uploaded videos to Youtube with Windows Movie Maker. Now that I have Windows 10, it doesn't let me upload videos to Youtube using the Youtube Plugin on Windo …

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Windows 10 Windows Photo Gallery – re-import photos

I'm using a Canon SX600 HS. I downloaded photos to my laptop, but did not erase them from my camera. I accidentally erased the photos from the laptop and want to re-import, but using Window 10 Photo Gallery it does not g …

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Why movie maker 2012 causes blue screen

I want to use pictures to make one video, I knew movie maker is a good choice I downloaded it from official website (movie maker 2012) and installed it, it causes my computer to be blue screen 2 times in 20 minutes The b …

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Windows 10 photo gallery

After editing photos, I get a message that I don't have permission to save the photo and try to make a copy. When I press the copy button, I get the same error message. Does any know how to fix this problem? I am the onl …

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Movie Maker Issues

Help! I'm a Steven Universe Fan, and I'm trying to make a remix of "Amalgam" on Movie Maker, but when I play the video, I hear no audio! I tried turning up the volume all the way both on my computer AND Movie Maker, and …

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Windows Movie Maker Anti-Shake Not Publishing

Hello, I have compiled a video of 3 .MTS video files shot with a digital camera. This makes a roughly 30 minute long movie. I added some captions and a title and ending shot, and finally added high anti-shake to each vid …

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Sharing photo gallery pictures

I have Windows 10 and for some reason I am not able to share my photo gallery pictures in gmail. I click on the pic to share, then select the share button and try to put in the persons email account, then I get a message …

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Photo gallery live crashes upon startup in Windows 10

Hi, I'm running Windows 10 on a new Dell laptop. I depend upon photo gallery to manage over 32,000 photos on my laptop and my WHS. After I upgraded to Windows 10 (from Windows 8.1) in late July, photo gallery crashes a f …

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no audio on movie maker

windows 10, latest windows movie maker, using wmv. video files. No original audio on move maker, but after editing and saving, the sound is perfect, just not whilst editing.

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Windows Live Movie Maker Corruption Problems

I am making a video for my YouTube channel, using only picture files, mp4 files and the in-software narration tool, and I started to work on the video and when I load the project, it re-loads all of the files and says th …

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Movie Maker

How do you burn a DVD from movie maker to work in a regular DVD player to watch on TV? I am running Widows 8.1

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Photo Gallery

I have just started using Photo Gallery after several years using Picasa for quick editing of my digital photographs, and must say I am very pleased so far with the results. The one thing I miss is the ability to produce …

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Audio unsyncing after saving in WMM.

Hello! I'm having a problem with a video I'm making. Basically, I had a video (.wmv format) open in Movie Maker, and I put an audio track over it (.wma format). In the Movie Maker preview it is synced perfectly. I saved …

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Windows Movie Maker 2013 (Version 6.0.6002.18273)

How do I import (or convert to *.MSWMM file format) a Movie Maker Version 2012 (Build 16.4.3528.0331) [*.wlmp] file into Windows Movie Maker 2013 (Version 6.0.6002.18273)? Also .jpg, .png photos and .mp4 videos do not im …

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