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Movie Maker

I used the Add Photos function to add photos on the movie maker and also added some music. While on the movie maker it saves properly and previews, when i save it as a movie, Only the music plays and the video is a blank …

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Cannot Edit in Windows Movie Maker

I cannot edit in windows movie maker. The area to edit in windows movie maker is shaded in gray and does not give me access to edit my project. When I open up a picture file, fade-in, fade-out and speed are not available …

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Color correction in Live Movie Maker

I purchased a Go Pro camera and went Scuba Diving for the first time. Unfortunately, I did not purchase the filters for the camera so the underwater scenes have a strong green hue to them. Is there a way to do color corr …

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How do I save movie in MP4 version ?

I'm using Windows 7 and Movie Maker Version 2011 (Build 15.4.3555.0308) Whatever option I try to save my movie as, it defaults to WMV format and can't see how I can change the saved format anywhere.... Must be missing so …

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Windows 8.1 Photo Gallery

I am not able to send a photo via Windows Mail. 1. The program does not ask me to resize the photo. 2. My message is: There's a problem sending messages right now. Help . . . until recently, I was able to send photos!

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Movie Maker

Every time I try to use movie maker when I click on it in photo gallery a box comes up to tell me that movie maker can't start. It asks me to check that my computer meets the minimum requirements but my computer has over …

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HELP I cant even download Movie maker

Help please.I cant download Movie maker from this website http://windows.microsoft.com/en-sg/windows-live/movie-maker#t1=overview At first.I download it and it works well.After a while.I wanted to make a video and it was …

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Opening photos in Photo Gallery

When I click on a thumbnail and open a single photo in Photo Gallery and then click on Edit, Organize and Share so I can retouch that photo, it opens a thumbnail of every photo on my computer and I have to scroll thru 10 …

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I can’t get my wlmp file to open in Movie Maker

I spent two weeks completing my video file using movie maker for my husband's birthday surprise, but when I tried to open it last night in window movie maker it gave me the error ""Sorry, Windows Movie Maker can't open t …

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Singling out sounds in the audio

I just made an interview with a friend in a cafe with my camera and am able to open it in Windows Movie Maker. I'd like to keep the content of what she said, but there is a lot of background noise (waiters talking, dishw …

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VOB files on Movie Maker

I have a new laptop that came with Windows 8.1. I downloaded Windows Essentials and Windows Movie Maker Version 2012 (Build 16.4.3508.0205) won't play the video from VOB files. The Audio does play. I had Windows 7 previo …

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Can’t Download Windows Live Movie Maker

Whenever I try to download Windows Live Movie Maker here http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-live/movie-maker#t1=overview I get Windows Essentials. The first time I downloaded that, but afterwords, I couldn't find …

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windows dvd maker gets stuck at 99 percent please help

My son is trying to create a dvd with windows dvd maker. The file was downloaded MP4 and converted to wmv and then my son downloaded a custom font and installed it. He customised the menu and the preview worked fine but …

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Movie Maker ‘Transcoder’ stopped working

Hi Having a few issues with Movie Maker, recent one being with the 'transcoder' stopping to work while MM is 'preparing the file' so it is usable in MM. File is MP4 video and 246Mb in size. I need to rotate a part of the …

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Windows Live “Movie Maker” NOT showing on computer

Hi Needed to rotate part of a video taken with a phone in vertical and then the owner twisted/rotated to landscape. I went to use the 'pre-installed' Live Movie Maker on my computer and opened the program but it kept cra …

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