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Movie Maker split view scenes

I am comfortable with 'Pinnacle' to create videos from various clips, where I can see split scenes of a file once it is selected for editing. Where as in the latest version of Windows Movie Maker with Windows 8.1 I do no …

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Movie maker

I have my video almost done and one part of it that I downloaded from a home video is showing that error !!!!! sign for that part. How do I get it to work?

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windows live essentials error 0xc0000022

windows live essentials vs error 0xc0000022 I have not been able to install windows live essential 2012. I have tried many times and I always obtain the following message: "msnmsgr.exe. application error. Your applicatio …

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

Movie Maker won’t open!!

Someone please help. Whenever I open Movie Maker it comes up with an error box saying it won't open and refers me to system requirements pages. I tried reinstalling it/fixing it with Live Essentials but keeps doing the s …

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Can No Longer Hear Music In Project

I created a movie consisting of photos and videos and then added music that I purchased from itunes. It worked perfectly at first, but when I reopened the file to add more photos, the music shows in green, but no sound. …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jun 9, 2014

My Titles and Credits are not working?

I have made a film on movie maker but when I tried to add credits to the end, it wouldn't show them. I could type in all my credits but I have no preview in the panel on the right as you usually get. It also has a black …

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Movie Maker preview and published videos are different

Hello Windows Users! I have been making a memorial video for a deceased family member, and movie maker is not working well for me. When I watch the video in the small preview screen that is embedded into the storyline, i …

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

Trouble installing movie maker on windows 8.1

I've tried numerous times to download and install microsoft movie maker on my windows 8.1 machine. The installer consistently gets to 34% and the freezes. I've been able to install and use it on other Windows 8.1 compute …

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

Trouble installing movie maker on windows 8.1

I've tried numerous times to download and install microsoft movie maker on my windows 8.1 machine. The installer consistently gets to 34% and the freezes. I've been able to install and use it on other Windows 8.1 compute …

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

MP3 not supported in Movie Maker

I download music from the internet (the bbc theme song). All of my music files are .mp3 but when i try to add music in movie maker it says it does not support the music file. Original title: Music

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

Music

I download music from the internet (the bbc theme song). All of my music files are .mp3 but when i try to add music in movie maker it says it does not support the music file.

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

movie maker has audio but only black screen for video

I have Win8.1 and Movie Maker 2012. I am trying to open mod files in MM and at first it would come in but when played it would only be static. under options i turned off the advanced stabilization/processing and then i c …

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How to keep source video format in Movie Maker 2012

Hi, All I want to do is shorten a video and keep the format exactly the same as the source video. I want the same resolution, bit rate, audio, etc. etc. There is no obvious way to do this as Movie maker clearly keeps cha …

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

How to keep source video format in Movie Maker 2012

Hi, All I want to do is shorten a video and keep the format exactly the same as the source video. I want the same resolution, bit rate, audio, etc. etc. There is no obvious way to do this as Movie maker clearly keeps cha …

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

Movie Maker

I installed Movie Maker. Hit Home/Add Videos and then selected the video to work on (mp4 file). I see a frame from my movie over in the right side but the edit screen is blank. when I hit the play button, nothing happens …

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