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Windows Lie Movie Maker won’t play any of my footage

I'm currently using Windows Live Movie Maker for windows vista to produce a film for a project but when I add movies/videos only 7 seconds of it appears and it is all black. I have previously used WLMM in January and it …

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movie maker shows a black screen

i have windows 7 home basic 32 bit recently i have formatted the laptop and installed the movie maker it started working good but whenever windows get update the black screen comes on movie maker that is only audio comes …

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image printing

A few days ago, I finally updated windows live essentials 2011 to the windows essentials 2012. Since then, I have been unable to print any images from either photo gallery or from the windows photo viewer. Documents prin …

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I can’t save my video

hi, I am using windows 8 and windows movie maker 2.6. I made a movie project, it is perfectly displayed in the preview but I couldn't save the project as a video. I don't know what to do.

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Windows Movie Maker video volume greyed out

I cannot click the Windows Movie Maker video volume in Edit. The button is there, but I can't click it, it is 'greyed' out As a a result, when I play my audio back, it is really quite, how can I turn it up?

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Imported WMV files have audio but no video

i downloaded windows movie maker yesterday and here's the issue: i can import wmv files (i converted all my video files to wmv via freemake which i thought would be fairly reliable; i even converted all the ones that are …

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Windows Movie Maker corrupting files!

So basically I spent an entire hour filming a video. It's actually quite important. I have tried to edit 4 times and EVERY time it corrupts it all. It's the second time I have filmed the video just to make sure there was …

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Photo Gallery error

keep getting photo gallery error-- 0x8000000a message when trying to pull up video from usb

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Problem with finished

I recently downloaded latest version of Windows Movie Maker. I downloaded a holiday video from my camcorder & edited it - cutting out unwanted frames & putting in some titles & captions. When playing it I noticed that th …

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Windows Movie Make r problem

I have recently downloaded the latest version of Windows Movie Maker. I downloaded a recent video I have taken, and edited the clips - cutting out parts I didn't need. & also added some titles & captions. When playing ba …

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audio-video miss-match

i added some photos from my pc to movie maker &then i added some music , when i tried playin the video , it was showing the photos by an order different than that they were put at,. i can see the audio is streaming well …

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Editing in movie maker

I've spent enormous amounts of time trying to trim my movies without success. I know how to cut the start or the end off a video but how do I trim multiple bits in the middle? Any help would be appreciated Paul

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Creating a Folder But the Photos Change Order

Hello I am trying to create a photo album on my laptop using the Photo Gallery programme, using photographs downloaded from my iPhone. These are the only photographs on my laptop. The album is a daily record, however des …

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Can’t blog from Windows Live Writer

Please help me! I'm logged in to WLW, made an blog post but now blogger won't let me in via wlw! It's a window asking for username and password to blogger. I've been blogging from wlw to blogger for five years, and tried …

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Latest Version Photo Gallery

I have Windows Photo Gallery 2012 on a Windows 7 operating system. Build 16.4.3522.110. Is there a later version? (Not looking for a live version)

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How do I get my slides to play?

I was working on a video at school using Windows Movie Maker, I wasn't finished but I emailed it to myself so I could finish it at home. When I returned home and downloaded the file, it worked fine. When I opened the fil …

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Windows Recovery Caused Mess with MovieMaker

I have read through a lot of the peoples' posts regarding a yellow triangle with an exclamation point. My problem is that I recently had to use a recovery disk on my Dell computer. I had to re-download all my programs wh …

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my microsoft essentials photo gallery, windows 8

first i am trying to design my own family tree in windows word 2010,i have all my family photos in photo gallery, now i need to take out a person head and face from a crowd ,then send this person to my microsoft word ,so …

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Movie Maker – Loss of Picture Resolution

Hi. I'm having problems with a significant loss of picture resolution on my final Movie Maker project and wondering if someone can help. I've read through most of the posts with the same issue and it doesn't sound good, …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Mar 19, 2014