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How do I add 2 text boxes in one clip: Movie Maker???

I am trying to add 2 text boxes in one clip, i have googled a few ways to find it, but the only way i have found is to export the video, then add the text to THAT video. THIS DOES NOT WORK FOR ME! Mainly, because i am ma …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 14, 2014

How do I add 2 text boxes in one clip: Movie Maker???

I am trying to add 2 text boxes in one clip, i have googled a few ways to find it, but the only way i have found is to export the video, then add the text to THAT video. THIS DOES NOT WORK FOR ME! Mainly, because i am ma …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 14, 2014

How do I add 2 text boxes in one clip: Movie Maker???

I am trying to add 2 text boxes in one clip, i have googled a few ways to find it, but the only way i have found is to export the video, then add the text to THAT video. THIS DOES NOT WORK FOR ME! Mainly, because i am ma …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 14, 2014

Windows Movie Maker Split causes error

After I attempt to split my video, (total length is roughly 3 hours) the video is deleted and only an hours worth of footage is saved. The remaining 2 hours do not appear after the split as they should as if they were ne …

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Screens Differ in Photo Gallery with the Same Build #

Why should the "editing" screen be different on two computers when the build number is the same (16.43528.0331)? My screen shows editing adjustments: brightness, contrast, highlights and detail along the right side after …

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photo gallery

Photo gallery on my old Vista computer allowed me to tag photos, and then sort my photos by the tag, for example I'd tag a picture cat and then, no matter what folder the pic was in if I chose the cat tag, all cat pics w …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 13, 2014

How to retrieve a set of pics based on tags

Photo gallery on my old Vista computer allowed me to tag photos, and then sort my photos by the tag, for example I'd tag a picture cat and then, no matter what folder the pic was in if I chose the cat tag, all cat pics w …

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WMM Blank Screen only when Previewing Edited Footage?

I just got a new computer that's running Windows 7. Previously I used XP, and had no problems (well, no unsolveable problems anyway!) with my Windows Movie Maker. Now I've transferred all my files to the new laptop, and …

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Cannot install Windows Essentials 2012

For some reason I can no longer use my Windows Essentials. I did read that programs can be lost due to system restores. This may have been the case with mine. Even so, I have not been able to reinstall and download it to …

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Windows Movie Maker won’t open

I'm running windows 8, and I'm trying to open movie maker. When I click on it, it acts like it's going to open, but never does. There's no error message or anything, it just never opens. When I run task manager, I see th …

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Tags and captions on Raw files

Windows Live Gallery allows me to add Captions and Descriptive tags to all types of photo file that it recognises (eg .jpg and .rw2), and all filters etc work on all of these. When I look at the properties of a .jpg I se …

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

Windows Live Movie maker won’t play sound

Basically, I just recorded a video using my Logitech webcam (which according to my windows control panel has a microphone that works just fine) and I played it back and it has no sound. The sound on the rest of my comput …

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

Video distortion when using Windows Movie Maker

I cannot for the life of me figure out what is happening to my videos! I take video that saves to an SD card. I upload them onto the hard drive, with "avi" extension. They play back perfectly in Windows Media Player. Whe …

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

Windows Movie Maker Not Bringing Up Saved File

I worked for hours on editing a video, and saved it when I was finished. I then tried to save it in a video format, but my computer has been messed-up and it was basically frozen, so I shut it off. When I turned the comp …

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

Photo Gallery Problem

I loaded photos from my camera, with no error messages displayed, so I assumed the import process went OK. however, they do not show up in Photo Gallery. I can use Windows Explorer and see them, but they do not display i …

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Import photos do not display in Photo Gallery.

I loaded photos from my camera, with no error messages displayed, so I assumed the import process went OK. however, they do not show up in Photo Gallery. I can use Windows Explorer and see them, but they do not display i …

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Live Essentials Install Problem

Problem 1: I'm having an issue with Live Essentials 2011. I found out that the latest version of Movie Maker that supports my video card which is an ATI Mobile Radeon series, was 2011. I had gotten the first error that s …

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No sound in windows movie maker

Yesterday I was working on a movie maker file and the sound worked perfectly. I came back after work and now it wont play at all. The only thing that comes up is that I changed a file name to the main picture I am using …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 10, 2014

Windows Live Movie Maker won’t open on Windows 7

Hi, I have two problems, one which a lot of other people appear to have had, but I can't find any satisfactory solutions. I downloaded Windows Essentials Movie Maker but can't open it. The message I get is 'Sorry Movie M …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 10, 2014

moviemaker crashes with ATI mobility Radeon hd5470

Hi, I've been trying to work this ou for 1 wk but can't find a solution. Movie Maker crashes each time when opening a video file. I do have the lastest version of MM downloaded V2012 (Via essentials). I have also uploade …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 10, 2014