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Movie maker full screen blank

I have created a movie using the latest version of Movie maker under Windows 8.1, using photos and video clips from my camera. The movie plays in normal "creation" mode (with the small picture to the top of the screen), …

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Movie maker live shuts down

I have been using the Live Movie maker for a while now on the same computer. I have windows 8.1. I made two movies the other day with no problems. Today I started to make one and after putting a few movie clips into the …

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Windows Essentials stuck at 79% when installing

Hi, I'm trying to install Windows Movie Maker 2012 for Windows 8, so I downloaded Windows Essential from Microsoft website. I only want to install Windows Movie Maker so I just chose to install that program in the Window …

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Running Photo Gallery on more than one PC

I recently migrated to Photo Gallery (PG) . On my desktop PC I've tagged, captioned, corrected dates, flagged 'problem images' for all of my pictures. I then copied my entire My Pictures folder from my desktop PC to my l …

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

video stabilizer and movie maker has stopped working

i'm on windows 8 and movie maker constantly closes, so i run in in windows 7 compatibility mode. but I noticed that this causes movie maker to lose some features, which i don't really mind, but i need to use the video st …

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Windows Movie Maker audio and video don’t match

I am trying to edit a .wmv file. When I either trim or split/delete in movie maker, it seems to work fine. However, once I save it and play it in media player, the video jumps forward at the point that I edited it and do …

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Windows Movie Maker

Hi, Does anyone know if you can add a facecam to the top right hand corner of the screen in a video. If anyone knows can you tell me how or link a video showing how to. Thanks

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Movie Maker problem

Help please. I just finished converting a file in Movie Maker but when I go to play it I'm told Windows Media Player can't play it. The file shows as MP4 Video (.mp4). I have other files I've done in Movie Maker that als …

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Rename in Photo Gallery

Hi Team In Office Picture Manager there was a comprehensive rename facility How can I achieve the same in Photo Gallery? Thanks John

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Movie Maker needs help

no, a complete overhaul. Always a problem with this pile. Skipping and jumping while editing...spitting and sputtering...Inevitable error codes on projects that are WMV files. Projects that develop problems areas and for …

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

Windows Movie Maker & .png files

Hello, so I'm using Windows Movie Maker for a video score of a composition that I want to post later on. It doesn't take .pdf, so I changed the file to .png. It takes it, but they show up as black screens instead of the …

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Windows Movie Maker Problem!

Hello, so my problem is lets say i record some footage from my computer, it might be me and my friends in a Skype call and we are playing a game or whatever, my recording software records all that perfectly, but then whe …

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Windows Live Writer odd behavior

So for some reason, if there is a word with quotes or an apostrophe before it, and it's at the end of the margin and would rollover to the next line, it takes the word before it with it. So this sentence: Yonk nods by ra …

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MOV files not compatible with Windows Live Movie Maker

I just tried to add a .MOV file to a Windows Live Movie Maker project, and I get the error "The file might be corrupted or in a format that Movie Maker doesn't recognize." I accessed the supported file types web page, an …

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Movie Maker publishes my video without my changes!

I'm trying to publish my movie project but not all the changes I've made to the video and audio are saving when the video is published. Eg. The audio in a part of my movie is playing when I had muted it. In the preview b …

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picture size in moviemaker

Moviemaker seems to cut off the top and bottom of my digital photos. I'm working in a 16:9 format. The pictures look fine when imported into moviemaker, but are clipped when saved in the HD recommended mode. I looked at …

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Movie Maker 2012 – audio pixelation ??

Windows 8.1, WMM 2012; regardless of what was used to record the video. Various low level background sounds such as fountains/running water, (or even, absent any foreground dialog, just the ambient audio background) is o …

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photo gallery stops working

used photo gallery on 7/7/ 2014 worked ok went to use it on the 17/07 /2014 and get after 15 seconds get message photo gallery stopped working close program also when I open it all tags are open using windows 8.1 on lapt …

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