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Movie Maker

I have a movie with music, slides, and pictures (jpegs). I have added all the slides and have inserted all the pictures. However I want certain pictures to appear at certain beats to the music, and it will not let me mov …

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Movie Maker won’t open AVI

I am running XP SP3, and when I try to open an AVI file that plays in Windows Media Player, it says I need a codec. Gspot says the codec I need is 0x0055 MPEG-1 Layer 3. Where can I download it? Or is there another issue …

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SOUND AND GLITCH PROBLEM please help!

So with movie maker i do nothing special besides crop a few videos and while doing so ill either go one of two things first problem is that when i open movie maker and play a video my speakers wil start blasting a loud b …

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Windows Movie Maker

I tried downloading Windows Movie Maker to my laptop. it's a dell with windows 8 on it. I don't know if windows movie maker was already included? I tried to use it and while it did let me import and add pictures to my st …

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Movie Maker preview pane not working

I've been using Movie Maker for 2 years and have made a bunch of great videos. I am trying to make one now and I can add photos and videos to a project, but the preview pane for editing is black. I get sound for the vide …

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Movie Maker Problems Preparing Videos

I've been trying to upload some videos for editing that I shot from a GoPro 3+ (MP4). When I try to play the videos MM only plays a black screen with no sound for the duration of the video clips. At the bottom where is s …

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No Audio in Movie Maker

I just downloaded Movie Maker for Windows 7. The audio button is not active. I can insert pictures, but no audio track.

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Windows Live movie maker breaks sound

Hi, Whenever I try to use Windows Movie maker - even if I don't load any files - my computer immediately stops playing any sound at all and I have to reboot it to get it to work. Does anyone know why this is happening? I …

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screensaver won’t start

I have a recurring problem with Windows Live Photo Gallery. Every time I restart my computer, the screensaver will no longer start. The only solution I have found is to delete Windows Live Photo Gallery and it's associat …

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Publishing to Facebook

I published a slide show to facebook with my own photos and music in the background and Facebook removed it, saying that it was in breach of copyright. I asked them why and they haven't replied. If Movie Maker has an ico …

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How do I get permission to access file location?

I have an external drive that I keep most of my photos on. I have a particular folder on the external drive I want to access. When I click on that folder it opens, but instead of thumbnails of each photo, all the photos …

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Lost metadata on Windows Live Photo Gallery

Recently I worked with Microsoft help to roll back my windows 8.1 update to 8.0 and reinstall 8.1. as a consequence I had to reinstall Microsoft Live essentials. When I reinstalled windows live photo gallery I realized I …

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Push Play in Movie Maker stops speakers from working

I open a project in movie maker and all sounds stop working. I checked the sound mixer and saw that Movie Maker and Google Chrome were making noise, but it didn't show output on my speakers. The speakers are in my laptop …

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

Sync multiple videos in Windows Movie Maker

I have 3 videos of the same show but not all starting and finishing at the same time. But there is a part that the first and second video have together, and a part that the second and third video have together that I cou …

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Disappearing tabs in Vista Photo Gallery.

Hi, does anyone know how to retrieve tabs in Photo Gallery in Vista? Using it lately, I found 9/10ths of my picture tabs have disappeared. This is not helpful when you want to find one picture in thousands. Microsoft onl …

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