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Audio wont record in Movie Maker

I got the Movie Maker for 8.1 and it loads and plays videos very well however when I go to add Audio voice I clock the record bitton and it starts and you can see the bar where it lays in the audio however when you play …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: May 12, 2015

Windows Forms

what hapend whit WMV form?, Movie Maker is working with MPEG4 only and this form is the same MP3 & JPEG a tiny form for save entertaiment files :/

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: May 11, 2015

how to repeat a movie?

I have used Windows Live Movie Maker version 2011 to make a movie. Copied the movie to a flash drive and plugged into our Vizio HD Smart TV. We can open the movie and play it but when it ends it stops and we don't know h …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: May 10, 2015

Movie Maker issue

I'm trying to make a DVD of a collection of photos with background music. Is there a way to edit the length of time that each photo is shown?

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: May 10, 2015

Cannot update live essentials.

Split from this thread. I know this is old - and I am not the person who had the original issue - however this is the only thread I have found that is not from 2012 or older - I get the same error - and have been using M …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: May 9, 2015

error message when i try to import video from device

hi I have a canon vixia 30 and getting this error message in movie maker that the device is currently in use. using firewire card and device is recognized. I am not using device in any other place. Please help I have win …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: May 9, 2015

Not all photo’s show thumbnails in Photo Gallery

Hi, I'm facing an issue with Photo Gallery. (Windows Essentials 2012; Windows 8.1 on a Surface Pro 3 i7) Most of the pictures are shown with an icon instead of a thumbnail. In Explorer however, the thumbnail is shown cor …

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Windows Live Movie Maker

I create a project but the problem it is that when I burn it in a mp4 or wmv format you can only listen to the music added but not the pics. Thanks

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: May 7, 2015

Not seeing all my photos/folders in Photo Gallery

I have Windows 7 and use Photo Gallery not Windows Live Photo Gallery When I open a picture, on the top left, I can click "Edit, organize, or share" When doing this, as I want to edit - (usually to crop or brighten a pho …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: May 7, 2015

Burn a movie maker project to dvd

I am trying to burn a movie maker project. I have followed the steps from HELP but can not find 'BURN TO DVD' in the share tab. Could someone please help me. Thank you :)

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: May 7, 2015

photo gallery not compatible.

I just bought the HP AMD A8 laptop windows 8.1 and can't get photo gallery to run smoothly.I've tried to repair it by using the programs and features and even uninstalled it and reinstalled it,also tried the trouble shoo …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: May 6, 2015

Transfered MP4 file only plays on Quicktime

Hi, I had recently moved some home videos from mac to pc to free up some space and burn them to DVD. However, one of my movies comes up with an error every time I try to open it in windows movie maker or windows media pl …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: May 6, 2015

Windows Movie Maker: Edits and Thumbnails

I do hope I'm not asking something that's been asked before. I have tried to check past comments for answres/solutions to my queries but I'm new to this so apologies in advance if I'm mistaken. I'm just looking for some …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: May 5, 2015

movie maker no video windows 7

I have read everything, followed other fixes, downloaded and converted files and my videos are still black screen. I have .mp4 videos that I need to rotate, I used a google Nexus 5 phone and all I get is audio no video, …

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Effects Files Corrupted in Movie Maker

I realize this question has been asked and answered several times. However, so far ............I have repaired Windows Live. That didn't help. Then I downloaded the latest version of the video driver. That didn't help. T …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: May 5, 2015

Windows 8.2 and Movie Maker don’t open .MPG files

I am having trouble getting Movie Maker to open .mpg files. When it opens them, there is no video - just sound. Sometimes I get the error saying that Movie Maker cannot start. It appears that I have all system requiremen …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: May 4, 2015