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windows live gallery

hello I want to know what the new verison of windows gallery is. I had windows 7 and windows live gallery is installed. I also wanted windows gallery if I install it it takes windows live away. which is the newest one. a …

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Window Movie Mker

I have been working on a project in Movie Maker, put in a lot of time. Before I continue putting in more time I decided to Burn it to a DVD to check out my work so far. The Help Web Site says to go to 'Share, Save Movie, …

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Photos with Unknown Dates

I have a bunch of scanned photos that I do not know the date to. In Windows Live Photo Gallery these photos are sorted by the date they were created even though the date taken tag in the photos metadata is empty. Is ther …

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Blank preview when creating and saving

I have looked and looked on here for an answer for my problem, tried multiple things suggested by others, and I can't figure out nor fix my issue! I had been using the Movie Maker fine, then it just stopped working! When …

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Want to have portrait video in Windows Movie Maker

Hi, I've shot a dance video on my phone, in portrait, long and thin. but when I upload it to windows movie maker it automatically changes it to fit the landscape square shape, so squashes my video into the square and mak …

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MOVIE MAKER

I am new to Movie Maker. I have read everything on these discussions and I don't see my problem. I have videoed a program and no sound comes out. so I tried recording which I can do. Then I saw the recording (sound narra …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 14, 2014

Window Movie Maker 2011 — Exclamation Mark “!”

I am currently running Windows Movie Maker 2011. I'm having problems opening a saved project. For example: I load in 8 video clips file type AVCHD (.m2ts) at a about 4 minutes long for all the clips added together. I do …

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Movie Maker Problem Please Help

Hi, I have spent the past 3-4 hours editing a highlight/montage/action reel not quite sure the definite definition but i had quite a lot of content on that project and so i would save every 3 bits of editing as using mov …

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Windows Essentials and Photo Gallery

I teach unpaid, in retirement, an IT workshop for mature students at the intermediate or below level. I concentrate almost entirely on MS software. WLPG is/ has been a very popular product. I tell my students to download …

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Windows Movie Maker 2012 and GIFs

Hi! I have a windows eight computer with windows movie maker 2012 on it and I'm trying to add GIFs to my movie but they just play out as photos? Any way to fix this that doesn't require changing every file individually? …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 13, 2014

Movie maker problem

I made a video with movie maker and added a song. I now want to delete the song, how do I do it TIA

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Video clips are black and silent in Windows 8.1

The title pretty much says it all, all video clips that I import to Movie Maker area black and silent. On the right in the storyboard, it's all normal except that after the first frame, it's all grayed out, like it's una …

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digital movie clip

my old laptop a dell running windows xp crashed and I was able to save off my old digital movie clips from my old pc and restore them on my new pc running windows 8 When I open the movie clips in window media player or m …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 12, 2014