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Windows Movie Maker and .mp4 file issue

Split from this thread. First, the link in the last post does not exist. Second. I know for years I was able to output from windows movie maker a multitude of file formats MP4 included. That was before I upgraded from wi …

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

Movie Maker 2012 Win 8.1

Hello, I started a movie project and, likely, overloaded the file with a bunch of movies etc. as playing the project started to get botched up, I saved, quit and tried to reopen the project. Now no items appear on the ri …

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

Windows Movie Maker (Or windows essentials)

Hello, I wan't to know where the downloads are for windows movie maker. But the whole windows essentials is fine if I cant just download one. I did search Windows essentials on this website and found nothing. Searched Mo …

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

Windows Movie Maker

Hi there I have Windows Movie Maker, but suddenly, when I want to publish the files, it is taking me to windows-movie-maker.or and asking me to buy the software. Surely this is not correct? Is this legit? Thanks, Kirsten

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

How do I undelete Movie Maker?

I accidentally deleted Movie Maker and, since removing and adding Windows features aren't so user-friendly anymore, I cannot seem to "undelete" it. Please help.

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

How do I undelete Movie Maker?

I accidentally deleted Movie Maker and, since removing and adding Windows features aren't so user-friendly anymore, I cannot seem to "undelete" it. Please help.

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Movie Maker blurry and huge video

Every video that I import into MovieMaker (windows 10) is blurry and distorted. I have converted the MTS files to avi and wmv and mp4 and nothing works. I have also adjusted settings to reduce file size on my cameras and …

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

Windows movie maker

I make a movie on my Nikon Key Mission 170. Looks great on the computer. Transfer it to Movie maker and it looks like dog do. I try everything and can not make it sharp or vivid. The thing is it looks perfect playing it …

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

Movie Maker

How do I import a YouTube video into My Movie Maker? Thank you.

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“Error 0x80048008”

Hi, I have had this problem for a while. Whenever I try to publish or save my movie to any format, it gives me the error 0x80048008. I am currently using Windows Essentials 2012 movie maker, because I do not believe ther …

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

Windows Movie Maker/Essentials

Now that support for Windows Essentials/Windows Movie Maker has ended and it is no longer available for download, what will replace it? The entire reason I use Windows is for video editing, and having Movie Maker was ext …

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Windows Live Photo Gallery replacement

Does anyone have a replacement suggestion for Windows Live Photo Gallery? Been using it for a long time. Over 60,000 pictures all with tags. Had to do a clean install of Windows 10. When I went to reinstall Windows Live …

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

Movie Maker?

I am aware that the Windows Essentials Suite was cancelled on Jan 10th, but I was wondering if there is a download link for Windows Movie Maker available anywhere. I've become quite dependent on it and my computer got wi …

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

ends of clips cut off after exporting video

Hello everyone, I have edited a video using Windows Live Movie Maker with several clips cut together, when I play the video in WLMM everything is fine but when I save it as a movie in wmv format each part where a clip en …

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

windows 7 photo gallery

when I open photo gallery in windows 7 the home page choices in the ribbon at the top are not being displayed, i.e. "manage", "quick find", "share" "email" etc. Also, when a photo is selected there is no big red X in the …

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