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Movie maker

I want my song to stop and have no audio following it. The song stops and then starts again. I need it to not restart.

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Movie Maker Problems Preparing Videos

Split from this thread. Hi, im new to these forums. I am having difficulty with windows movie maker. Movie maker wont prepare the files I want to use for youtube. I have other videos that will prepare no problem. but the …

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MovieMaker Loads AVI Files on Win8 But Not Win7

I began using MM last year on a Win7 Home desktop, which had MM pre-installed, & had no problems making projects with AVI files. I installed 2012 manually via Essentials on a Win8 (now 8.1) laptop, & again, had no proble …

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Trouble Importing Music into Movie Maker 2012

Please help! I don't remember all these issues with previous versions of Movie Maker. I have ripped a CD into Media Player, as I cannot import the same music directly from ITunes (or any other songs from ITunes for that …

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Movie Maker update or adding software

I am using the Movie Maker 2012 putting together a family slide show including photo's and video's. The video's want to use were originally 8mm movie's which were converted to dvd ...... In many instances the images are …

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Getting a list of Pictures used in a slideshow

I just wanted to share something that I discovered the other day. I created a Birthday Slideshow for my future Daughter In Law. I had some pictures but we have only known her for 2 years, so nothing from before that. I g …

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No sound in Moviemaker

When MP4 files downloaded from my camera and from YouTube are loaded into Moviemaker the sound is not audible. They play fine in Media Player and if I save the movie the sound is there in the finished product, so why is …

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Sound is not audible in the Moviemaker

Original title: No sound in Moviemaker When MP4 files downloaded from my camera and from YouTube are loaded into Moviemaker the sound is not audible. They play fine in Media Player and if I save the movie the sound is th …

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Publishing to YouTube from Movie Maker.

I can't seem to post a video to you tube. In movie maker, the box on the top right says I a signed in (although it doesn't show my profile picture) and I can click on the links to go to 'view my profile' and 'view accoun …

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Publishing to YouTube from Movie Maker.

I can't seem to post a video to you tube. In movie maker, the box on the top right says I a signed in (although it doesn't show my profile picture) and I can click on the links to go to 'view my profile' and 'view accoun …

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movie maker not saving the project.

i made a movie project on movie maker but i am unable to save it as a windows media or the other type, it starts its saving but the laptop restarts after it saves 5-10% i have to send that movie tommorow , please help!!! …

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Copy pictures without losing tags in photo gallery

HI everyone, I tagged hundreds of pictures using photo gallery but when trying to copy the folder to another disk/computer all tags are lost in the process; is there a special procedure to export pictures without losing …

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Movie Maker links Windows 8

I have completed my movie on MM in Windows 8. On the small screen to the left of added frames the movie plays back great,but when I switch to full screen it stops when there is a join between stills & video although musi …

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