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why is my moviemaker saying theirs an error on uploading on the web

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Tags and ratings not showing up in Photo Gallery

Hi there, I am an avid use of Photo Gallery. I recently reimaged my Windows 7 Ultimate machine and installed the latest version of Live Essentials. I am running Photo Gallery successfully, And I was able to point Photo G …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 2, 2014

Can’t see any image on Movie Maker

Whenever I try to add something to Movie Maker (video, image and even a title), nothig appears on the video, I can only hear the sound (when it's a video): I have the Movie Maker 2011 I wanted to know if there's a way to …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 2, 2014

Can’t see any image on Movie Maker

Whenever I try to add something to Movie Maker (video, image and even a title), nothig appears on the video, I can only hear the sound (when it's a video): I have the Movie Maker 2011 I wanted to know if there's a way to …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 2, 2014

yvonne

I have movie maker taken the video clips from the camera I can preview the movie but I cannot get the movie on a disk - I have tried for 2 weeks now and I feel taking all the clips out of my camera. can anybody help - I …

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Windows Live Movie Maker video limits

I am making a video about a girl who died. It is somber, so I am having the pictures show for 10 seconds each and adding transitions. Her father wants one long video of all the pictures he has. So far I have put in about …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 1, 2014

Windows Live Movie Maker video limits

I am making a video about a girl who died. It is somber, so I am having the pictures show for 10 seconds each and adding transitions. Her father wants one long video of all the pictures he has. So far I have put in about …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 1, 2014

Trouble installing Windows Essentials 2012

Hi, I have a brand spanking new Acer computer. Windows 8 64 bit. 8 gigs of ram, 2.00 GHz processor, 1 terabyte of HDD. Should be plenty of everything for installing Windows Essentials. Here is the problem: I run the inst …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 1, 2014

movie maker won’t work after 8.1 update

Please help! Since updating to 8.1, movie maker won't work at all. I can open it but it soon stops working and says 'a problem caused the programme to stop working' and it closes. I've updated my graphics driver, checked …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Nov 30, 2014

How do I save a music file to my hard disk drive?

I downloaded a song from Freeplay music and I saved it to my computer in the music file. When I go to open it in my movie maker it says "One or more files can't be added to Movie Maker. Copy the files to the hard disk dr …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Nov 30, 2014

Movie Maker freezes upon video playback attempt

Hi, I have Windows Movie Maker 2012, running on a Windows 7 64-bit PC. When I play pictures and audio in a MM project, everything works fine. When there is a video in the project, the preview window is black and MM freez …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Nov 29, 2014

Issue with mp3s added in Movie Maker?

I don't know quite how to describe my problem. When I add an mp3 file to a video, the music is kind of out of sync with itself. Like, when I play, pause, then play again from where I pause it, the music kind of skips bac …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Nov 29, 2014

Publisher vs Photo Gallery

Why do my publisher files show as photo gallery files. In order to open them I have to use "open with" instead of open

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Nov 28, 2014

Animation “apply to all”

How can I uncheck the icon "apply to all"? I do not like the same transition in all my slides. I want variations. My OS is Windows 8.1 and I have Movie Maker 2012.

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Nov 28, 2014

Windows Live Photo Gallery Libraries

2 Questions: First why won't Window's Live Photo Gallery let me add the My Pictures folder as a library? It says its hidden, but its not. Same with some other folders I have attempted as well. Also, how do I change setti …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Nov 28, 2014