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Moviemaker – Batch removal of video & image clips.

I have a Dell 780 dual core 3ghz with 4gb ram. I have Moviemaker 2012. I have created a very large & time consuming project involving over a thousand video & image clips. It is about 2 hours in length and about 7gb in si …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Oct 23, 2014

Movie Maker Narration

Hello, Is it possible to add narration, or other sound effects that aren't "music" files?

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Oct 22, 2014

Movie Maker

I am a new user of Movie maker and am trying to convert a movie (.MOV) from my Ipad to place onto a USB for watching on my TV. I've tried creating mp4 versions but they are not recognised by the TV. The TV manual says th …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Oct 22, 2014

Burning to DVD

My movie maker program under the save movie option does not have a burn to DVD option to select and I do have a functioning drive. What are my options to achieve this.

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Oct 21, 2014

Movie Maker sytem requirement problems

Hi, I am having a problem that I want to fix. I downloaded Widows essentials 2012, so I could have an updated version of movie maker, but after it was down downloading, it would not launch. I looked at the system require …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Oct 20, 2014

movie maker error 0x80070643

i tried one million times but failed to install movie maker on my windows 7. points to be noted. - Firewall is turned ON. - Windows is completely updated. - No antimalware currently active. - Browser settings already res …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Oct 20, 2014

Black bars on **random** pictures in Movie Maker

I am trying to create a timelapse video in Movie Maker but i am getting some weird behavior. I am importing 250 photos at once and then changing the duration on all of them - nothing crazy. The problem is that random pic …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Oct 20, 2014

movie maker captions

Is there any way to change the font color of a caption from white to some other color? or to fill in the text box that contains a caption so that it stands out? The outline options just don;t suffidce/

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

Windows8 Photo editing

I bought a new laptop and unfortunately I had to upgrade to Windows 8 I had XP version and used microsoft windows to edit my photos there is nothing but garbage out there to use for editing my photo's how do I get Micros …

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

Windows8

I bought a new laptop and unfortunately I had to upgrade to Windows 8 I had XP version and used microsoft windows to edit my photos there is nothing but garbage out there to use for editing my photo's how do I get Micros …

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

Problems opening WLMP files in Movie Maker

Split from this thread. Hi - this is crazy. I have 80 mp4 video's from a scuba trip using a gopro. I took each mp4 file, opened it up in movie maker, edited it, then saved EACH as a project file (using same name as mp4) …

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

Trouble playing video created using Movie Maker

Hi All, I have created a movie using windows movie maker and saved it on my computer in both .mp4 and .wmv formats. But the issue is when i play the video in media player or VLC i can only hear the audio and cannot see t …

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