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Movie Maker

II hope someone can help me! I am trying to make a movie by combining small clips and trimming them. My problem is my clips are there and then they are not and have the yield looking symbol with '!. My guess is I am not …

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Movie Maker

II hope someone can help me! I am trying to make a movie by combining small clips and trimming them. My problem is my clips are there and then they are not and have the yield looking symbol with '!. My guess is I am not …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Mar 27, 2014

Problems with Windows Live Movie Maker using Windows 8

Windows 8; Live Movie Maker 1) degrades photos randomly (they get wavy on playback), 2) Auto pan zoom does not recongize full image even after size is manually adjusted back in Photoshop; it cuts off edges not related to …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Mar 26, 2014

Movie maker upload to youtube

Hello everyone, i tried uploading some gameplay from fraps to movie maker, then i uploaded to youtube in nice 720P but it said 66 hours to upload???? So i saved it as a youtube file and then it only took 40 minutes... bu …

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Movie Maker from Vista to Windows 8.0

New computer now with windows 8. It does not display my movie maker projects I worked on in Vista. Only plays music, no pics. Indicates that some portions of movie maker are not compatible. Can you help? I hate to lose m …

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Imported pictures breakup or fragment

Hi, I'm trying to make a movie in moviemaker. I have imported several pictures which have been OK when put into the timeline. However, I have tried to import other pictures and then place in the time line only to find th …

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Photo Gallery : Sharing tagged images

I have a considerable number old family photos that I have tagged using Live Photo Gallery. I want to distribute these images with the tagging to my family. I have tried to burn the images to a CD / DVD but when opening …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Mar 26, 2014

movie maker problem

hello iam huda i need help i do a project on movie maker and i try it it works great, but when i save it to my computer , and then i try to open it , it opens but sound without pictures , it doesn't show pictures that i …

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Windows Photo Gallery has stopped working

Hi, Sorry for my bad translation but here in France, I do not find effective help for this problem... I was delighted to Photo Gallery and I wanted to push a little further. I tried to connect to @live.fr with my nicknam …

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

How to change the display language

I have just installed Windows Essential from a pre-install on my new laptop. The application are in a non English language. I can't follow the help or prompts. How do I reset the apps to English?

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Photo Gallery

I have been using a new PC with windows 8.1. When Photo Gallery is opened a lot of photos I downloaded from my old PC don't open. Specifically MIX and PDD. I have looked all over the web including Microsoft and can't fin …

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

Two bugs in Microsoft Live Write

Since there doesn't seem to be any formal way to report bugs in Live Write, I'll just mention these two easily reproducible bugs here and hope someone passes them on on. This is Windows Live Writer 2012 Build 16.4.3522.1 …

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Windows Movie Maker problems

hi, i am doing a project on movie maker on windows 7, and i saved it, put it on a usb, and brought it to school. my school only has windows xp, and when i tried to play it, it didnt work. the file was a .wlmp file if tha …

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Movie Maker ( 2011 )

I am still having trouble trying to import pictures into Movie Maker. When I try to import pictures I get a drop down that tells me that the location is unavailable. It is an old folder that was deleted. I can not find t …

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

Movie Maker – Film speichern

Ich habe einen kurzen Film (1 min, 7 sek) mit Movei Maker erstellt und als Projekt gespeichert. Mit Movie Maker kann ich ihn auch problemlos anschauen. Wenn ich ihne aber mit Film Speichern in eine mp4- oder wmv-Datei sp …

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