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upgrading to build 16.4.3522.0110

I upgraded windows Movie maker to the latest build ( 16.4.3522.0110) from (16.4.3505.0912) and right away I noticed that all of the transitions except for 5, disappeared . At the same time Messenger Live got installed... …

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Movie Maker says: “MFC71.dll is missing”

I have: • Virus scanned. It is clean. I have Bullguard (lastest) • I uninstalled Movie Maker / Windows Essentials 2012 Then I did a restart - and as expected, Movie Maker not showing • Then I Installed (reinstalled) Wind …

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MOVIE MAKER SNAG

I have been working on MM for many days and suddenly when I open a movie and the video clips are grey with a "!" symbol on each. JPEG inserts are still there Please help Thanks

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

movie maker – lost clips

After working on MM for a few days I open to find all my clips are grey with a "!" symbol JPEG inserts are OK

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Movie maker is not open

I want to know why movie maker is not open in my computer if open they say "sorry, movie maker can't start. Make sure your computer meets the minimum system requirements before trying to start movie maker again,and then …

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Slow Mo + Fast Motion Change

Hello! For Windows Movie Maker, when you make something Slow Mo/Fast Mo, it looks all glitchy and it shouldn't be like that. It should be nice and moving smooth like Adobe After Effects. Can you please add this in the up …

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Movie Maker animations issues

When I attempt to add an animation between two clips on MM, it mixes the audio of the two as well. All I want is a visual transition between the clips without a mix of the two audio tracks. Help, please!

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

Live Photo Gallery Win8 – sorting issue

I would like to sort photos in a file by the time they were taken as they were taken with different cameras. I have tried sorting by date, but it sorts it in two groups, one for each camera. There was a question similar …

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Movie Maker: Error 0xC946001E setting audio to video.

Trying to set some music to a slide-show video. Go through 'add music to video' using WMA audio file but it wont accept the audio, keeps giving me an error code 0xC946001E (either corrupt file or not suitable format). I …

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Movie Maker

With the XP version the timeline shows each individual picture of the video. With the Win7 version the timeline only shows the very first picture of the movie. Is there a way to get the win7 version to display like the X …

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Email Outlook disappeared

Outlook totally disappeared from my computer. Had a notice to update Windows Essentials. Did so and now my icon and also email have disappeared. Need the info that comes along with Outlook such as addresses and some fold …

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

grey boxes in photo gallery

I have grey boxes where I have copied some photos to an external memory and can not delete them. This is annoying as I can not click through my photos and have to close each file and then open the next one. How can I sol …

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Cannot open my project in live movie maker

I spent weeks working on a project and finally finished it. I then saved it in the usual fashion I had been. The next time I tried to open the project it would open but immediately stopped and showed me an error message …

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