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How to remove black bars from video??

Hi! I am currently making a video and although everything looks fine on windows movie maker when I export the video a black border appears around it. I have tried exporting in both aspect ratios but it looks exactly the …

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Windows live movie maker

Hello there, I am trying to install windows live movie maker on my desktop. I currently use it on my laptop. Where do I find my registration code so that I can enter it on the desktop as well? Thank you

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Windows Movie Maker for Windows 10

Under my desk, my old laptop with Windows 7 will still run Windows Live Movie Maker. My newer Windows 10 system of course doesn't have it. Is there a method by which I can get the application program from my old laptop i …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 31, 2017

Windows Movie Maker

I recorded a video in Movie Maker, through the webcam on my computer. When I ended the video, I saved it to my computer as a WMV file. When I try to open the video it says that the file type isn't supported. In Movie Mak …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 31, 2017

windows live movie maker

In windows live movie maker when i drag a video in and play it, the movie play while i just have it s audio. what should i do?

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Windows Photo Gallery

I wish to move to another photo organiser now that Microsoft is no longer supporting this one. It is essential that all the tags - face recognition or my selection; goetags; descriptive tags and all meta data is transfer …

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Video Movies and Sound with Microsoft Movie Maker

I have imported video with sound from my iPhone to my PC. It happened to be rotated 90 degrees. I rotated the view in Movie Maker, and saved the file. I see both the original file and the saved, rotated file. I played bo …

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

Video Movies and Sound with Microsoft Movie Maker

I have imported video with sound from my iPhone to my PC. It happened to be rotated 90 degrees. I rotated the view in Movie Maker, and saved the file. I see both the original file and the saved, rotated file. I played bo …

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

Movie Maker makes hissing sound in my saved videos

I have been using Windows Movie Maker (the 2012 version, not sure if it's the latest) to edit my videos and upload them on YouTube. I have noticed that the YouTube videos that I uploaded after editing them with Movie Mak …

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

PHOTO GALLERY

I used to have photo gallery & was able to make collages to post on my selling page but due to no fault of mine but windows 10!!! it all had to be re-installed on my laptop, I lost everything but managed to keep my docum …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 28, 2017

Movie Maker Windows Essentials

Why is Movie maker in Windows Essentials missing some great features from Photo Story 3? Some good ones I would like to see in the next Microsoft Essentials update is, the ability to remove black borders from portrait im …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 28, 2017

Geo tagging in photo gallery

I have windows 10 and have photo gallery, which I have used many times. After the early August 2017 upgrade, the auto geo tagging is not working, nor will it allow me to enter new locations. I get the message, "NO CONNEC …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 28, 2017

install windows live movie maker on windows 10

Hello I used to have windows 7 installed on my desktop but decided to upgrade to windows 10. I didn't upgrade the os as I had to replace my hard drive. I play games online and used live movie maker to edit the clips I re …

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Movie Maker

I have prepared a movie using Movie Maker project. I lined up the music with the photos and videos perfectly to avoid music being played over videos where I wanted to hear the sound of the video. I also placed captions i …

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Windows Live Photo Gallery

I have used windows live photo gallery for a number of years, tagging, commenting and organizing my photos. I want to continue on my new computer however the download is no longer available and it is no longer supported. …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 26, 2017

Movie maker

Is there a way in movie maker to add more menus that wont auto play? like an "Extras" menu that you can click on to see the unedited version or add a slide show of photos.

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 26, 2017

Photo Gallery- Geotags no longer supported

Split from this thread. The problem is that they don't continue to work. Photo Gallery no longer supports geotagging. The only geotags you can use are ones that are already in your database. The big problem here is that …

Unanswered Windows Essentials Archived 0 answers Last activity: Aug 26, 2017