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Movie Maker

When I accidentally drop a file into the program, I can't delete the original file because "This file is open in Windows Movie Maker. Please close the program and try again.", even though I deleted the file from the Movi …

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Cannot Insert an Image in Windows Movie Maker Video.

I am trying to insert a still image into a series of still images in a Windows My Movie project. The image will not insert no matter what method I try. The same image has been inserted elsewhere in the timeline, however, …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 16, 2017

Movie Maker

I had Movie Maker and it still shows up on list of programs. When I try to run it tells me the path does not exist. When I try to reinstall it I get a message that it is already installed. I tried to uninstall it but it …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 15, 2017

Movie Maker audio problems (0xC946002C and 0xC946001E)

Here's where the issue started: When I tried to save a video with quite a lot of sound effects in it, it caused the background music to contain a few glitches in the final video. I tried to fix this issue by saving only …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 15, 2017

Movie Maker Quality Concerns

I am noticing a drop off in quality between the Movie Maker file I create with downloaded video, and the final product converted from Movie Maker to mp4 format. I am routinely getting a lot of extra static on the audio, …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 14, 2017

Movie Maker Winter Fun Pack

I used to use utilise the snow effect in my Xmas videos when I had Windows XP running Movie Maker 2, but now that I have a new PC running Windows 10 with Movie Maker 2012 (Build 16.4.3528.0331), it does not seem to work …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 12, 2017

Windows Live Movie Maker 15 minute limit??

I used to make videos longer than 15 minutes on Live Movie Maker, but this week it crashed when I tried to save it. I had to reduce the video to less than 15 minutes to get it to save. WLMM warned me in a pop up window t …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 9, 2017

This seems to be a problem, please fix it!

OK, so my computer AND Movie Maker worked fine, until yesterday. What is going on? There is now an error that says my computer is incompatible with movie maker and I REALLY need it to open. "is either not designed to run …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 7, 2017

microsoft movie maker

I really need to download Microsoft Movie maker, for course work. Is it still available and if not which app would you recommend?

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 6, 2017

movie maker

when i was opening movie maker it shows that MF.dll is missing and then shows movie maker has stopped. what should i do?

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 4, 2017

Windows Live Movie Maker –

After spending many hours compiling, editing, adding animations etc, etc of photos & movie files into Windows Live Movie Maker (which I haven't done for a couple of years now), I then tried to burn it to a dvd only to fi …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 2, 2017

no audio after saving movie maker project mp4

Completely frustrated making a simple slide show Can I have the six hours of my life back lol Any help would be appreciated. In movie maker you have the share option, great if it worked I keep saving to ,mp4 and the slid …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 2, 2017

Movie maker

I loaded pictures and went to add music. Somehow added something I didn't want and can't figure out how to delete that . Also want to add titles to some of the slides so folks know what they are looking at. Help. Thanks.

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 1, 2017

Movie maker changing colored movies to black and white

ok so my issue is in the middle of editing colored movies (splitting and removing content) it will randomly change everything to grey/ black and white. Why is this happening and how do i fix it? [Moved From: Windows / Ap …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Dec 1, 2017