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Once you make a page of wallets, is it possible to save the page instead of printing it?

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Cannot open a movie maker project file

Well, I was working in a movie maker project, in fact I was able to create the final mp4 file in my computer. However, not sure why, but the file cannot be opened now. Movie maker says that the file is corrupted. I've se …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: May 25, 2014

Audio only, no video when trying to publish or export

I just downloaded Movie Maker for Windows 7, and created a 5 1/2minute video with clips of videos as well as added overlapping music. I have published, saved, etc etc endless amounts of times, only to find every result e …

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I cannot save my movie on Windows Movie Maker

I have made a movie on Windows Movie Maker and I'm ready to save it. However, when I click the save button it immediately does step 1 of 2 but will not continue onto the second step. I have left it like this for over 24 …

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Movie Maker – save film as MPEG4?

I'm trying to use windows movie maker to save the movie in a MPEG4 format, it only saves in MP4, how do you save with the proper codec to get an MPEG4 film?

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Photo Gallery error 802800006

I have been trying to download Photo Gallery alone or w/Movie Maker if I must. Each time it downloads the entire Essential package. I am getting an error that it couldn't install 802800006, downloaded file is corrupted a …

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Movie Maker Live 2011 – Arghh!!!

HI, I have created a project in Movie Maker Live 2011. Video is mix of mp4 and .mov files. Audio is mp4 also. Its about 5 mins long. It plays back perfectly well as a project. However, when I publish it as a single movie …

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How to Export Still Clips from WLMM Video Clips

In the older version of WMM I used on Windows XP there was a function that allowed the exporting of still JPG photos from individual frames of a video clip or movie. With the Windows 7 version of WLMM, I cannot seem to f …

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Windows Live Movie Maker- No sound for some videos

Hi. I have a problem with windows live movie maker 2011 and my computer is windows 7. For a very long time the movie maker have worked very well but lately when I import videos to make movies out of them, I see th visual …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: May 24, 2014

Exclamation point Icon in Movie Maker

I just finished editing several videos a couple of days to combine into one movie. Well, this morning I attempted to open those very same files in Movie Maker and all I get is an icon with a yellow triangle w/an exclamat …

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Photo Gallery Windows 7 Help

Is there a comprehensive tutorial for Photo Gallery. I am wasting hours spinning my wheels trying to understand something that should be pretty straight forward and simple. I want to import my pics from my camera, edit a …

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

Movie maker file corrupted/not compatible

I tried making a movie twice and both times I'm getting the same error message. The first time I had saved the movie on a couple of occasions, but then the program shut down. After that I couldn't open the file anymore. …

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retviving deleted photos… any chance?

my daughter accidentally managed to delete all the picture in our windows live gallery, is there any way of retrieving them or is that just wish full thinking? thank you in advanced Eleanor

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Mirror Image & Go Manual?

Q1 Using Windows Essentials Photo Galley on Windows 8 how does one create a 'mirror' image of an existing photo? I have made a copy of a couple of photos, which I want to create a 'mirror' image of, then merge the two ph …

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Windows 7 Photo Gallery – Resize a Photo

Help. Is it possible to resize a photo, using Photo Gallery, for use on eBay and other Web sites that require a certain size? I need photos to conform to certain required sizes. It appears my options in Photo Gallery are …

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movie maker file compression?

I made a movie by editing together about 6 gigabytes of video clips (.mov) and saved the final movie but the final movie is 2 gigabytes. The original file is 16:9 at 30fps at 1920x1080. The data rate is nearly 20,000 kbp …

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

Can’t add more clips to my Movie Maker project

Hi. I've been using Live Movie Maker for some time now, without any significant problem. I've made and published in Youtube numerous videos and I can say I have some experience using it. However, since yesterday I've bee …

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Why does Movie Maker take so long to save the video?

Whenever I use Movie Maker it takes so long to save the finished video. If I use other software, it does it in a few seconds. Movie maker takes about 10 minutes. Not only that but Movie Maker takes more process power and …

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Windows 8 – cannot download Windows Essentials

Two days ago I began to experience a problem where I can't open a new e-mail to compose and send. I tried to repair windows essentials, no difference, so uninstalled essentials and now cannot re-install it. I get the mes …

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