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Movie Maker started showing only 6 Transistions

WLMM started showing only 6 transitions. I did a web search and found a plethora of comments and solutions in regard to this idea. I tried all of them and have had no luck. I repaired, and uninstalled, and reinstalled, a …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 22, 2015

Photo Gallery-Cropping

OK, I cropped some scanned photos, a group of 4, to separate them into singles. Now I can't find them! The single cropped, nor the original group of 4. Now,, I have done this before with no problem. I don't get it. Plus, …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 22, 2015

Where does MovieMaker keep its original video clips?

MovieMaker somehow imported years worth of video clips and saved them all together as one huge long movie but I can't find all the original video clips? I didn't mean for them to get pasted together. I've looked in Photo …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 22, 2015

Photo Gallery

Hi, world. I had installed MS Home and Student and Photo Gallery worked fine. Then I tried to upgrade it and Windows seems to have downloaded the essentials photogallery version. Now phto gallery does not open anymore: e …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 22, 2015

PLEASE HELP! MOVIE MAKER PROJECT FILE CORRUPTED!

Hello! So after spending DAYS working on my Movie Maker Project, it suddenly crashed. When I tried to reopen the project, Movie Maker said: Sorry, Movie Maker can't open this project file. The file might not be compatibl …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 22, 2015

Movie Maker Disaster! Need help ASAP!

Hello! So after spending DAYS working on my Movie Maker Project, it suddenly crashed. When I tried to reopen the project, Movie Maker said: Sorry, Movie Maker can't open this project file. The file might not be compatibl …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 21, 2015

Movie Maker stops

Hi, I Recently downloaded windows essentials. When I start movie maker, it loads just fine until I try to load a video clip from my computer. All I get is a message that "Movie Maker has stopped working, the program will …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 21, 2015

windows Movie maker stucks at 0%

Split from this thread. I did all that and still had problems so found a work around. This issue should be fixed! The work around was from someone who said they saved the movie into smaller parts and then used a 3rd part …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 21, 2015

Editing in Movie Maker

Hi -- New to Movie Maker, so please bare with me if this seems simplistic, but with such a large number of Animation and Visual Effects available, I can't seem to find a simple fade in and fade out. All I want is for a s …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 21, 2015

Movie Maker Keeps Crashing

I am trying to start a new movie. Have a Quicktime intro video I am trying to import and I get an error message "Movie maker has stopped working" then "Movie maker has restarted" and the .mov has not imported. Happens ov …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 20, 2015

I can’t get Movie Maker installed for Windows 7!

I have uninstalled and re-installed Windows Essentials 2012 about half a dozen times already this morning. According to the installation, Photo Gallery and Movie Maker have been successfully installed. However, when I cl …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 20, 2015

import newest photos only

using windows photo gallery and Olympus camera how to import only latest photos taken? Photo gallery now importing all photos on camera. it used to only import newest

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 20, 2015

Movie Maker will not split clips

As of about an hour ago Movie Maker stopped being able to successfully split clips. It was working fine up until this point. Now whenever I hit the split button either nothing happens or all the other clips in my movie d …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 19, 2015

Why doesn’t my Window Media Player work anymore?

Hi, I have been using my Window Media Player for the last 2 years in editing and adapting Youtube videos for educational purposes. Lately, about 2 months ago, it couldn't work anymore. Everytime I tried to open it, it co …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 19, 2015

Corrupt Movie Maker file – can anyone help?

Hello, The movie file I've been working on saving regularly for hours has suddenly become corrupt, and I can't open it. Does anyone know how to fix this? The link is here: https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=B16904E7BD …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 18, 2015