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Importing too many photos and videos!

I now use a Sony Xperia Z Ultra for all my photos and videos, previously I used a Sony Cyber-Shot and I had no problem importing. Now, when I import, even though I have only a few photos or videos on my mobile, the compu …

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

Movie maker wont work, Directx 11

I have a Dell Latitude D610, Windows 7, a Directx 11 graphics drive, and a 32 bit operating system. I tried to install Windows Movie Maker using Microsoft Essentials 2012, but when I open it it says that Movie maker can' …

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

Windows Movie Maker – not enough memory

For over a year I have been using Windows Movie Maker to edit videos. For about 4 months, the videos were filmed on an iPhone. For the past 8 months, they have been filmed on a Cannon Rebel T3i camera. The saving and pub …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 8, 2014

Windows Live Essentials 2012 Update

Hi, I have installed Windows Movie Maker 2012 16.4.3505.0912 with command line - wlsetup-all.exe silent /AppSelect:MovieMaker /noceip /nohomepage /nolaunch /nomu /nosearch /notoolbarceip /norestart /nomu - i was sure tha …

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Movie Maker won’t let me add some .avi videos

Movie maker won't let me edit some videos. They all seem to have a FMP4 codec. I can convert them all if I need to, but I'd rather not. Is this an incompatible codec? Or is there another possible problem I should investi …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 7, 2014

How do you set up movie maker to make videos?

This seems to me the most obvious FAQ, but it is not there. For example Can you set different quality, so that videos use minimal space. There doe not appear to be an preferences option for setting light levels sound lev …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 7, 2014

movie maker help!

Hi my name is Brenda and I used windows Movie maker to send to Face Book. The only thing is I made a mistake in the text on move maker. How can I correct and send this to Face Book.

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 6, 2014

Movie maker has no video after saving movie

I have edited a movie in Movie maker and plays fine within movie maker. When I save edited movie using recommended settings the file has audio and no video. (black screen) I have tried saving in both Mp4 and windows medi …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 6, 2014

Splitting Audio From Movie Files

Is there any way to take just the audio from a movie clip in Windows Movie Maker? I want to show pictures over the audio during certain parts of the movie clip.

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 5, 2014

Splitting Audio From Movie Files

Is there any way to take just the audio from a movie clip in Windows Movie Maker? I want to show pictures over the audio during certain parts of the movie clip.

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 5, 2014

Movie Maker narration problem

I created narration for a video in movie maker. I saved it and closed the window. Later when I opened Movie Maker I couldn't hear the narration even though my speakers work ok and the the narration boxes were there so it …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 5, 2014

Windows Live Photo Gallery + Coppermine Problem

I am using WLPG with a gallery script called Coppermine. There's an option to use Web Publishing Wizard or the order prints option to upload my photos to my Coppermine gallery. Lately, I have been having a hard time uplo …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 5, 2014

Widows 8 / Movie Maker problems

Hi all, hope someone can help me with this. Am running Windows 8 and want to download Windows Movie Maker. Go to the MS website, find the download, click on it(either Save or Run) and it just returns me to the previous s …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 4, 2014

Removing a folder

How does one remove a folder from the Photo Gallery [PG]...so it's contents won't show up in PG. I don't want to delete the folder, just remove it from displaying in PG. I've tried right clicking the folder but don't see …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 3, 2014

Need Help with Unusable File

Hello, My windows movie maker project stopped working in the middle of the project, so I could use some help with the file to get it up and running. I noticed within WMM that a row of video disappeared, so I saved the fi …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 3, 2014

Flashing black screen

I've just installed Movie Maker 2012 from the Microsoft host site itself. It installed without a hitch, but when I open it to make a video of any kind, I'm confronted with this: http://i.imgur.com/PU55za0.jpg When I load …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 3, 2014

date on file chanes

Whenever I open my pictures in Photo Gallery, whether or not I change anything or even look at the photo, the date stamp is changed, so when I want to only backup my changed photos, my backup software shows that all the …

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