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Trying to Burn a DVD Using Windows Movie Maker

I am trying to burn a movie I made on Windows Movie Maker. When I get to about 50% complete, I get an error stating, "There isn't enough memory available to sav this file. Try saving it at a lower resolution." I have ple …

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Photo gallery problem

How can I inport pictures using live photo gallery from nexus 7 android without getting all sorts of graphic files? After import, I have to delete all sorts of non-photograpgh items.

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 18, 2014

Movie Maker 2012

I am running Windows 8.1 on an Intel (R) Core (TM) i5 CPU @2.67 GHz with 4GB of RAM. When I try to convert my project to a movie I get an error message saying insufficient memory try a lower resolution. Each time I try a …

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Movie Maker 2012

I am running Windows 8.1 on an Intel (R) Core (TM) i5 CPU @2.67 GHz with 4GB of RAM. When I try to convert my project to a movie I get an error message saying insufficient memory try a lower resolution. Each time I try a …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 17, 2014

Windows Movie Maker Stops Working

I have saved a project after editing a video and adding captions. It is 34 minutes long as is 282kb and is a .wlmp file. Now when I try to re-open it to make add music and burn it to a DVD it stops working. I get a messa …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 16, 2014

.avi file ?

I'm recording videos using Sims 3 video recorder which is .avi file and I'm putting it into movie maker and it say's it doesnt support it? I've updated movie maker to the latest version?

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Windows Live Movie Maker

I got all my pics and music in Movie Maker and thought I was done. Now several of my pictures are turning themselves?? When I rotate them, they are distorted. Help?

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Windows Photo Gallery

I have a Gateway desktop running Windows 7 Home Premium. I am trying to download some photos from my cellular phone to my computer. My computer does not recognize when I connect my AT&T Z221 phone to the USB port on the …

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Windows Live Photo Gallery need to reduce size of pic

I simply want to make the picture smaller so that I will be able to use it on an I.D. card. I see the two magnifying glass icons but clicking on them does nothing. I must be doing something wrong. First I cropped the pho …

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Movie maker freezes up during cut-editing

I've got three or four short videos i'm stringing together ( has worked many times) they are all the same type of file. Durinf the editing process, i , trying to cut out the dead areas. I can get through about 3/4 of the …

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Movie maker buzzing issue

Hi guys, I am fairly new to this forum but I am glad to be a new member I usually upload Youtube Videos and to edit those videos I use Windows Movie Maker. I know it's not the best for video editing but it gets the job d …

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windows live photo gallery

Hi, I download photos from my canon power shot sx40hs to photo gallery on windows 8.1. Until recently the ALL pictures have been "full screen". Now most but no means all pictures are approx. 5"x2". the others are still f …

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Movie Maker errors

Load files. Edit files, trim, add titles. Different things keep happening. Files will start to display as the whole thing but will not play the last few seconds - If you go to trim that file, it will play and show to the …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 12, 2014

Windows essentials

I am trying to run a full scan.It has been "stuck" on 11.50 for 2 days .Nothing is occurring ,but I cannot cancel or turnoff Th ordinay protection seems to be still running

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Photo Gallery on Windows 8.1

There are obviously many people having issues with this product and no resolution. Why are we not getting answers, I see a few people have quit asking. Do You recommend another product, the default program in windows 8.1 …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 12, 2014

Windows Live Movie Maker files

I understand that when you create a project it links the photos and videos to the folder where the file is kept. However, after you've created a project, how can you move photos to a better location (for future organizin …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 11, 2014

Window movie maker project challenge

I created a wlmp file with Window Movie Maker on laptop #1, which latter failed to save the project as MP4 file due to "insufficient memory". I then transferred the wlmp file to another laptop(#2) which was loaded with W …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 11, 2014