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Importing Photos into Movie Maker

I have used Movie Maker in the past with success but now I want to start a new movie when I import the images they are being duplicated X 5. I have tried importing from the images straight from Photo Gallery and also My …

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

lose audio positions after finding missing audio file

hey guys! i've been using movie maker for a long time to edit my videos and its given me 0 problems at all despite some minor ones. i'm getting ready to move all my data including my videos that i'm in the process of edi …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 8, 2015

This is about Movie Maker v 2012

I have about 40 photos which I want to show in sequence. After putting them in Movie Maker, they play good until I burn a DVD and then the photos show up randomly. What am I doing wrong?

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 8, 2015

Unable to play photos in sequence using Movie Maker.

OT: This is about Movie Maker v 2012. I have about 40 photos which I want to show in sequence. After putting them in Movie Maker, they play good until I burn a DVD and then the photos show up randomly. What am I doing wr …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 8, 2015

Movie Maker Glitches

When I first tried to use Movie Maker, it would only show a black screen for the picture I uploaded. I finally got it to show up and now the text isn't showing up at the time I set it to. It's kind of like it's lagging, …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 8, 2015

Tags are not shown on OneDrive web

Hi. My photos are saved on my OneDrive folder on my PC (Windows 7, Windows Photo Gallery 2012). I can then see my photos on the online OneDrive. I update the pictures with person and descriptive tags in Photo Gallery (sy …

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

Error “Photo gallery has stopped working.”

OT: Photo Gallery shuts down. I have Windows 8.1. Photo Gallery was working fine until I downloaded Windows Essentials 2012. Now, every time I open photo gallery a box opens that says "PHOTO GALLERY HAS STOPPED WORKING. …

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

Photo Gallery shuts down

I have Windows 8.1. Photo Gallery was working fine until I downloaded Windows Essentials 2012. Now, every time I open photo gallery a box opens that says "PHOTO GALLERY HAS STOPPED WORKING. A problem has caused the progr …

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

Black preview screen on movie maker!!

I have recently bought this laptop (HP pavilion windows 8.1). My problem is that when i add my videos to Movie Maker 2012 the audio is playing however the picture is plain black! Please do not recommend Microsoft FixIt a …

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

Movie maker12 will not open

I use to be able to run Movie Maker, don't remember what version. I have several movies created with Movie Mkaer but canot use it now. I have tried Drivers and Update with no success. Thier must be something I am missing …

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

Movie Maker

I am unable to open any video Files , when I click on Browse or add video nothing happens. existing projects will not save, and if I open it directly from a file it will edit but not save. this has also effected 2 other …

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

Audio isn’t working on Window’s Movie Maker

So, I have my own vocals for Window's Movie Maker, and I have only one picture I want to use. But it wont play my audio. It's saying something like my audio won't play until the end, click here to fix that. Those probabl …

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

Combining existing Moviemaker videos

I have just finished creating 10 Moviemaker videos for each of the songs on an album I just released. Now I want to combine portions of each of the existing videos to create a combined video for promotional purposes. I t …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 3, 2015