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Movie Maker Crashes

Hi! I have been trying to edit a video, and every time i go to split something, it crashes. plz help!

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Windows Movie Maker

Why has MS tried to remove this from every download site going ? Surely - if it aint broke - it should have been left - until the replacement is ready ? It was deemed too old in January 2017 with no replacement, planned …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Sep 13, 2017

Windows Movie Maker

Why has MS tried to remove this from every download site going ? Surely - if it aint broke - it should have been left - until the replacement is ready ? It was deemed too old in January 2017 with no replacement, planned …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Sep 13, 2017

Movie Maker Sound

I add music to my movie and it plays back quite OK. But after I save the movie (still in movie maker format) the music no longer plays. Any ideas please

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Unable to burn DVD using Movie Maker

Split from this thread. I followed your instructions to burn a DVD of my Photostory 3 project (Windows 7), but Movie Maker doesn't want to burn the DVD after I click on burn DVD. It will only continue to save and resave …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Sep 11, 2017

Windows Movie Maker won’t start up

Hello Experts, I'm trying to get my Movie Maker going however I am getting an error, "The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b)." My Windows 10 is up to date.dll issue is already fixedscanned and repair …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Sep 10, 2017

movie maker error

Hello! I just edited down a seven hour stream to 3 minutes of footage. I added different music and various captions to this video, and with lots of effort finally finished. MM crashed several times during the editing (i' …

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

Windows Movie Maker Audio Issue

Hello all. This Windows Movie Maker watery-distorted noise issue seems common but Google search and fiddling on my own have done me no good. (Yes, I'm aware WMM is no longer supported by Microsoft but I figured I'd give …

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

How to reinstall Windows Live Photo Gallery?

Split from this thread. I have Windows 10 and I deleted the Windows Live Photo Gallery because it appeared to be crapware. Apparently it's not. It no longer appears as an app that can be reinstalled. Is there any way to …

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Movie Maker

How can I transfer a movie from windows movie maker to my flash drive ?

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Sep 5, 2017

Movie Maker

Hi! I am having some issues using Movie Maker on Windows 7. I would like to add two effects to my video: fade in and fade out. But when I add the fade out, it cancels the fade in, and vice-versa... What should I do to ke …

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Windows 7 Photo Gallery

Hi. When I try to Edit pictures-on the right side, slide bars appear saying Highlight, Contrast, Shadow, etc. I don't know why, but I clicked on the little x just above that on the right. It took them away. Now, I don't …

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Windows Live Movie Maker for Windows 10

I spent many hours adding and editing videos, photos and audio for my home movie. I saved the project regularly and, when completed, saved the movie on an external hard drive in the high definition aspect. After watching …

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Windows movie maker

I have purchased today for £24.51 the full version of Windows movie maker and entered the given registration code to up grade and burn video DVD etc and nothing new has happened, I can only do what I did before and reach …

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Windows Movie Maker Converting Problems

Every time that I convert my movie "project" in to an mp4 movie so that I can then use it for other purposes, jump cuts completely change. For example, if I said "Hi guys, I love pepperoni, how are you today?" when I cut …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Sep 3, 2017

Movie Maker is unable to open

I understand that Microsoft has quit with windows movie maker, but i'm wondering if they disabled it across every device that has it? i am using windows 8, so i am unable (as far as i know) to get story remix since that …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Sep 3, 2017

Movie Maker won’t install- Error 0x800c0006

Split from this thread. Yes. From what I've read what other people said, yes, it works on Windows 10. I don't use Windows 10 myself so I can't speak from personal experience... it cannot be success. 0x800c0006 error code …

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