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Why was Windows Movie Maker taken off WIndows 10?

I went to use Windows Movie Maker for a project, but when I looked for it, it had disappeared. I further researched this and it said it had been taken down. Does anyone know why? It really annoys me as this project is ur …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 9, 2018

How do I go from Movie Maker to DaVinci Resolve 14

I have used Windows Movie Maker for 10+ years as a volunteer producer to provide my community TV with outdoor videos to play for our town. Now that Movie Maker has no support and has stopped being updated, I need to lear …

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WAV Files not supported by Windows Movie Maker

Hi, I started making covers so bought Windows Movie Maker but as i try to add the audio file, it does not detect WAV files but does pick up mp3. I would definitely want wav files in audio and see everywhere that WMM supp …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 7, 2018

Resizing Photos

I have recently purchased a new laptop. I want to resize photos and have read, Photo Gallery as a suggested software. However, upon additional review I understand this product is no longer supported but is usable. I woul …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 6, 2018

Windows Live Movie Maker Saving Issues

So I went to go save a 20 second video in this software, and when I pressed save, nothing responded. It made me close out the program and I lost the edits in the video. PLEASE HELP!!!

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 5, 2018

Black Screen Halfway Through Video

As I know Windows Movie Maker is long gone, I am getting a new editor soon, I still need help with it till I get a new editor. Windows Movie Maker was working perfectly fine saving videos and such, until I decided to mak …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 4, 2018

Black Screen Halfway Through Video

As I know Windows Movie Maker is long gone, I am getting a new editor soon, I still need help with it till I get a new editor. Windows Movie Maker was working perfectly fine saving videos and such, until I decided to mak …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 4, 2018

Windows Live Movie Maker

When I open Windows Live Movie Maker and add a clip it shows up on the display screen black and when I press play the clip is black for the entire thing. I would appreciate some help

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 4, 2018

Imported video is verylow quality

The video itself is in very good quality, but when imported to Movie Maker, it's very blurry. What's causing the problem and how do i fix? thank you so much.

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 4, 2018

Windows Movie Maker, Exporting won’t work

I have used Windows Movie Maker before, but never encountered this problem. Every time I try to Export something, for any format, it pops up saying that I need to purchase a registration code. I have never had this probl …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 4, 2018

I need it back! Please help!

I bought The Full version of movie maker the other day and I deleted it by accident. I am desperate to get it back as i use it very often and I dont want to get it off any sketchy websites. Please reply soon! HELP!

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 3, 2018

Windows Movie Maker

I've been trying to create videos for YouTube for a while now, however, the main issue I seem to be having is with Windows Movie Maker. What happens is when I use Movie Maker to edit a video, it always lowers the quality …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 3, 2018

Windows Movie Maker corrputed file

Hi! I was making a movie in Windows Movie Maker when the program blocked while I was splitting one of the imported videos. I closed the program, clicked "save changes" and when I tried to reopen my project I got the mess …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 2, 2018

Movie maker does not let me save a video

I have been trying to save a video and it keep telling me that there is an error in it. It says that the data is lost or something like that. Everytime I try to save it it keeps showing the error in diferent part of the …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Jan 2, 2018

HP Office Jet 3830 printer-

Yesterday I was able to print from my photo Gallery but today when I try to print it wants to sent it as a fax and asks for a fax cover and phone? I don't know how to turn of the jfax options. I never set it up to do tha …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 30, 2017

Publishing a Movie Maker video on YouTube

I have done this every Dec. for years. Now, when I try to publish a slide-show video/movie, I get the error message"YouTube returned a bad response. Try again." Please help!!

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 29, 2017

Cannot Open Windows Movie Maker Files – Help

I had my old 2003 Windows laptop recovered by the Microsoft Store last year (all my files and documents), and some of the more important items on there were old movie project files that I edited on Windows Movie Maker (t …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 27, 2017