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question for movie maker-merging videos

Can I merge 2 videos together(one overtop the other) in movie maker? I'm trying to make a countdown....I have a countdown video (green screen) and a background video. Please help! Thanks, Crystal

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Windows MovieMaker Cuts My Sound Out COMPLETELY

Since downloading Windows MovieMaker, every time I open the program the sound on my computer dies. When I close the program, it comes back on. Unbelievable. I have read this is a problem with other peoples' computers as …

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Resize photos in photo gallery

I too cannot resize in photo gallery and the "help" isn't helping. Custom size doesn't allow putting in the size I need for web photos 823 x 310. The "How do I edit photos" does not cover truly resizing photos. Is there …

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Windows live photo gallery

When I go into see my pictures on windows live photo gallery, when I click on a photo, a box comes up stating "an error is preventing the photo or video from being displayed". How can I fix this?

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Photo Gallery

Is Photo Gallery compatible with Windows 8.1? I was using Photo Gallery successfully until updating to Windows 8.1. Now I can't go from one folder in My Pictures to another when using Photo Gallery. Whatever folder is op …

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Photo Gallery

Is Photo Gallery compatible with Windows 8.1? I was using Photo Gallery successfully until updating to Windows 8.1. Now I can't go from one folder in My Pictures to another when using Photo Gallery. Whatever folder is op …

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Windows Live photo Galllery

I am suddenly having a problem with uploading pics from my Canon SX 120 IS digital camera using Windows Live Photo Gallery. Up till recently, I would open up Windows Live, click on the icon "import pics" & then I would c …

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My Movie Maker 2012 with Windows 7

I have created a movie in My Movie Maker 2012 with Windows 7. I had everything complete with video, jpegs and credits and music. I discovered an error in my text, once I had saved it, but now I am unable to correct the e …

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Window Movie Maker 2012

I am trying to run Windows Movie Maker 2012. The audio works when I upload music, but when I upload pictures the preview screen is black. I have uninstalled 2012 and installed 2011 and this resolves the pictures problem, …

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Movie Maker and Windows 8.1

I am having issues with Movie Maker and adding audio files to it, apparently the "Microsoft Fix-it" tool doesn't work on Windows 8.1... I have changed my audio files to .wav or to Mp3 and I can see the waves, but no soun …

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WINDOWS LIVE MOVIE MAKER EFFECTS

I don't know about everyone else but I use WMM a lot. I can't afford any of the professional programs like Vegas but i'm eventually gonna buy it if Microsoft doesn't make new updates. Although the interface is easy to us …

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How to see One Drive photos in Photo Gallery

When using Windows Photo Gallery the only folders I am allowed to access are My Pictures or My Videos. While I do keep my complete photo collection on My Pictures on my desktop, I also keep a subset of these photos on On …

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i cannot download my video file from my go pro

i have tried already several times to download my video file from my go pro camera. i was able to load one file but the other longer one does not load at all. it is 19:53 long it says that movie maker cannot support the …

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Thumbnails corrupted — how do I regenerate them?

Hi, I'm using Windows 8.1 pro and photo gallery 2012. The issue I'm having is that one out of 10 or so images will have a corrupted thumbnail. The top part of the thumbnail will be right, but then the bottom half of the …

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Windows 8.1 Movie Maker audio problem

I am having major problems with audio on my Movie Maker. Before I updated to Windows 8.1 it seemed to work fine, but after updating when I'm editing in Windows Movie Maker the audio will sometimes disappear. Not just in …

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