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Default Settings

Using Movie Maker 2012. I want to change the default picture duration from 7 seconds to 4 seconds and also the default caption size from 24 to 16. So far I have had to make these changes on each picture but I have too ma …

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Cannot save on Windows Movie Maker 2.6

So, recently I began making book trailers. I just finished one that's polished and I like it, but Windows Movie Maker 2.6 isn't letting me save the file so that I can upload it to YouTube. It keeps telling me "Windows Mo …

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Windows Essentials 2012

Hi all! I have just recently downloaded and installed the Windows Essentials 2012 but limited it to the Photo Viewer and Movie Maker only. I can't seem to locate it. I'm certain that it was successfully installed since i …

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Webcam

I guess this is a two parted question, I obviously have a built in webcam but video/photos are very "slow" it takes a while to "catch up" to my movement (is there anyway to fix that) but since that happens I use a webcam …

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Movie Maker Memory Issue with Large videos

I've made a video on Movie Maker cutting a 2 hour long video down to 1 hour 40 min. I had a few random errors during this process saying the file was corrupt during the saving process but after lowering the Kbps down eve …

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Error message on Windows Live MovieMaker on .MOV files

I am trying to complete an assignment, and just as I finished, half of the video clips have an error sign on it. I clicked on it, and it says that it is error: 0x80070057. I am using Windows 7, and my video clips are rat …

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Movie maker split button is duplicating the clip

Hello, I have a pretty serious problem here. The split button always worked before this, in fact it was working yesterday but today when I click it it duplicates my clip instead of splits it. I don't know what to do. Tha …

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All photos lost quality.

I just finished making a 2 minute movie in Movie Maker. It is simply 2 minutes of music with 93 photos scrolling through as a slide show. The pictures look great small in the creation screen, but when I make it large scr …

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Trouble with Movie Maker

I have been using Movie Maker in conjunction with FRAPS to create videos to post on Youtube. Previously, up until around a month ago, I simply recorded the video with FRAPS, imported the file into Movie Maker, and edited …

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Live Gallery error 0x8007000b

Please Help!!! I have read the different discussions about this error but hasn't help. Libraries are no where on my computer. They are not on the left side. They are not listed on users/roaming/libraries steps that I hav …

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Windows Live Essentials

I downloaded WLE to my desktop, it synced to my Laptop. Both are running Windows XP pro w/sp 3. The Photo Gallery works perfectly on the laptop, but is a mess on desktop. So I removed the desktop program in Add/Remove Pr …

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Movie Maker split is cutting off the end of my video

I have a great video of my friend wiping out on his skis. His wipeout starts at 1:30 and goes until the end of the video at 1:36 (6 seconds later). I'm trying to put the last part of the video in slow motion (of course : …

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Windows Movie Maker

Only seems to allow adjustment to brightness... no contrast, tone or color. What can I do to adjust those?

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Movie Maker error 80070057 File Corrupted

I have been working on a movie for a month. I pressed save many times and have closed and reopened the program to work on the video before with no issue. This time when I closed the program and tried to reopen the file ( …

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Windows Movie Maker cuts pc Sounds

Hello. Im trying to record a video where i need to speak. My sound and mic are 100% OK and im not using any external audio/video clip in my video. All im doing is adding images and titles and then i comment on them. The …

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