I have Windows 7 and have had Windows Movie Maker (from Essentials 2012) installed since last year.

I can add photos to a project fine but when I add ANY type of video I get the message "Movie Maker Transcoder" has stopped working.

This was working fine before (the same version)

I know it's not the codecs because windows media player will play all the video formats fine. (MOV, WMV, mp4 etc)

I am completely stumped.

I tried reinstalling Essentials 2012 (just moviemaker) but to no avail.

The only thing that changed was I intalled and uninstalled a third party product "EZVid" to compare with Movie Maker.

Nothing I do seems to fix this problem. I tried restarting windows. uninstalling and reinstalling Movie Maker 2012.

Perhaps the install of ezvid corrupted the registry somehow?

Help!!!!