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Movie Maker

Is it possible to change the defaults in MM? i.e., the font used, or the video or audio duration?

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

URGENT: WIndows Movie Maker 8.1 bad quality video

Lately I've been having problems with Movie Maker. They are: - Videos appear green whenever they are split, even though I still hear the audio - Videos have a strange wavy/scratchy look to them when they are put into the …

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

Cannot save Movie Maker file

After 34% of project is saved using recommended settings, a message pops up that there are missing or unusable files in my project that are preventing the movie from being saved. I verified that the File Preparation is e …

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

wlmm delete text box

How to delete the text box "add text here" in windows LIVE movie maker. Also how to capture a still off a video and save as a jpeg

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

wlmm delete text box

How to delete the text box "add text here" in windows LIVE movie maker. Also how to capture a still off a video and save as a jpeg

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

movie maker

running windows 7 and using microsoft lifecam. When trying to record a movie with movie maker, I get an error message saying that it cannot access audio and video from the webcam, although it sees the camera and lists it …

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Windows Live Movie Maker not responding

My son is trying to post a few videos to YouTube that he has recorded with Open Broadcaster screen capture software, saved as .flv files. They post fine to YouTube, but he'd like to edit them, and that seems to be where …

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Family Saftey can not be connected from my PC

I downloaded windows live family safety with windows essentials 2012 on my win7 PC. However, when I tried to login family safety website using my windows ID, I failed. The message shows error 803D0010, family safety can …

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Uploading a file from PhotoGallery to Flash Drive

Thank you for prompt reply to my first question. It was correct info and all went well. I need to transfer pictures from one folder out of Photo Gallery to a Flash Drive so I can continue to add pics (flowers for instanc …

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Movie Maker won’t save my movies

Making the movie is easy, but when it comes to saving, Movie Maker will get stuck in this state forever: "Saving movie Step 1 of 2: 0% complete" The thing is that for other movies, there's no problem, but this particular …

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

No puedo abrir mi archivo de movie maker

Buenos días. Estuve trabajando con Microsoft Live Movie Maker mi proyecto, pero despues trabaje con Microsotf Movie Maker, y ahora que quiero abrir el archivo en Microsoft Live Movie Maker me sale una pantalla que dice M …

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

Windows Movie Maker 2012 – Music is not playing

I am editing a video slideshow on Windows Movie Maker 2012. I have added several .MP3 files to the video as background music, however when I preview the video there is no sound. They are correctly placed in the video, wi …

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

wondows photo callery

recently windows photo gallery stopped working as my screen saver. i am using all my photos under settings. have set to any rating with a random selection at medium speed to shuffle. <Moved from Windows Vista Apps forum>

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