Lost all sound in WMM 2012/Windows 7

12. June 2014 · Write a comment · Categories: Uncategorized · Tags: , ,

I am using WMM 2012 version 16.4.3528.0332 with Windows 7.

I have been editing a video over the past few days in WMM. I'm using MP4 files. Everything (audio and video) has been working fine, though I have lost all sound a few times in WMM while in the middle of editing functions, but have been able to restore the sound by closing and restarting WMM. Now I have suddenly lost all sound (including original video audio as well as music tracks I have added that previously worked fine) and restarting the program does not restore any sound to the video project.

All other sound on the PC works fine, such as Windows Media Player, ITunes, etc. The disappearance of all audio is only occurring in WMM. The music files I have added to the video project, as well the audio indicators on the original video clips are showing up on the video timeline just as they did when I had full audio on the project. I have checked all audio and music volume controls in the WMM program and on the PC itself and nothing has changed to cause the loss of all project audio.

How do I restore the audio to WMM so I can complete my editing project? 

Windows Movie Maker Error 0x887A0005 gives extremely incorrect feedback about cause of error.

12. May 2014 · Write a comment · Categories: Uncategorized · Tags: , , ,

I get this error on WMM a lot. I see other people getting it also. But the Error message doesnt give correct feedback.

I get this error when my RAM gets over 90% full. Other applications can still read the files.

Can WMM have better error feedback?

I had to go to Task Monitor and watch the processes and graphs to work out the real source of the error.

Also it would be good if WMM could manage RAM runout by using HDD cache and being patient.

Ive only got 4gb RAM, so In order to make my movies, i have to create pieces about 1o seconds long out of images (im doing timelapse), then take the pieces of the movie and put them into a single project to save them into one movie.

WMM can handle long videos if the pieces are pre-processed video, but it totally cant handle images.

it really blows out my editing time, and means i have to interact with my computer a number of times to make one movie, that should only need one interaction at the start.

FREAKY! Won’t play audio on WMV files; WMM disabling audio

27. April 2014 · Write a comment · Categories: Uncategorized · Tags:

I am trying to make a movie in WMM. BTW, I have a brand new HP Pavilion laptop w/Windows 8.1. I have never used WMM on this computer before. I did try to make a movie w/WMM on my old Windows XP-running desktop; that was a painful experience I'd rather forget.  ;)  All I have in my project so far is a single, 3 minute .wmv clip. WMM will play my .wmv video, but no audio. Video volume setting is fine; nothing is muted. I checked the Volume Mixer on my computer, and nothing is muted (I checked both the master volume and the Movie Maker application volume).  My mute button is not lit on my keyboard.

Freaky part: My audio works fine on iTunes, internet, etc. until I attempt to play the .wlmp file in WMM. Once I try to play this file in WMM, no audio will work ANYWHERE on my computer. Not on iTunes, Windows Media Player, YouTube, or anything. When I restart the computer, all sound is restored everywhere on my computer.  

Before I discovered that restarting would restore all audio, I ran some kind of Microsoft audio diagnostics tool, which didn't find any problems. I attempted to update my audio drivers, but they were all up to date. I even downloaded all the optional updates in Windows Update, in case anything was missing.  Really, though, none of this seemed to be necessary because the audio was restored every time I restarted anyway.

If I play the original .wmv clip through Windows Media Player, the audio is fine, and my other programs using audio are not affected.  It is only when I play it through WMM.  Here's an example of what I've tested:

1- Play song in iTunes; audio works fine; pause mid-song.

2- Play YouTube video; audio works fine; pause mid-video.

3- Play original .wmv file in Windows Media Player; audio works fine.

4- Go back to iTunes; unpause; song plays fine; pause.

5- Go back to YouTube; unpause; video/audio plays fine; pause.

6- Attempt to play .wlmp project in WMM; video plays, no audio.

7- Go back to iTunes; unpause; no audio when song should be playing.

8- Go back to YouTube; unpause; no audio with video.

9 - Restart computer; all audio restored.

I have performed the above steps in various combinations and have concluded that the audio only disappears after I attempt to play the WMM .wlmp file. Nearly every time, there is no audio in WMM, but the last time I tested it (same clip), there WAS audio. However, when I did my iTunes/YouTube/other tests immediately afterward, the audio disappeared everywhere!

FWIW, both the video clip and WMM project are on an external hard drive, not my main computer (laptop).

I will try to make a new .wlmp file in WMM with a completely different video clip and see what happens, then I will update.

UPDATE: Just started a new WMM project. Used a .MOV video clip from an SD card, not the external drive. Video played, not the audio. All my audio has disappeared from every app/program on my computer. Restarting. Sigh . . . 

Anybody have a clue what's going on, and how I can fix this?  Many thanks!!!!  

FREAKY! Won’t play audio on WMV files; WMM disabling audio

27. April 2014 · Write a comment · Categories: Uncategorized · Tags:

I am trying to make a movie in WMM. BTW, I have a brand new HP Pavilion laptop w/Windows 8.1. I have never used WMM on this computer before. I did try to make a movie w/WMM on my old Windows XP-running desktop; that was a painful experience I'd rather forget.  ;)  All I have in my project so far is a single, 3 minute .wmv clip. WMM will play my .wmv video, but no audio. Video volume setting is fine; nothing is muted. I checked the Volume Mixer on my computer, and nothing is muted (I checked both the master volume and the Movie Maker application volume).  My mute button is not lit on my keyboard.

Freaky part: My audio works fine on iTunes, internet, etc. until I attempt to play the .wlmp file in WMM. Once I try to play this file in WMM, no audio will work ANYWHERE on my computer. Not on iTunes, Windows Media Player, YouTube, or anything. When I restart the computer, all sound is restored everywhere on my computer.  

Before I discovered that restarting would restore all audio, I ran some kind of Microsoft audio diagnostics tool, which didn't find any problems. I attempted to update my audio drivers, but they were all up to date. I even downloaded all the optional updates in Windows Update, in case anything was missing.  Really, though, none of this seemed to be necessary because the audio was restored every time I restarted anyway.

If I play the original .wmv clip through Windows Media Player, the audio is fine, and my other programs using audio are not affected.  It is only when I play it through WMM.  Here's an example of what I've tested:

1- Play song in iTunes; audio works fine; pause mid-song.

2- Play YouTube video; audio works fine; pause mid-video.

3- Play original .wmv file in Windows Media Player; audio works fine.

4- Go back to iTunes; unpause; song plays fine; pause.

5- Go back to YouTube; unpause; video/audio plays fine; pause.

6- Attempt to play .wlmp project in WMM; video plays, no audio.

7- Go back to iTunes; unpause; no audio when song should be playing.

8- Go back to YouTube; unpause; no audio with video.

9 - Restart computer; all audio restored.

I have performed the above steps in various combinations and have concluded that the audio only disappears after I attempt to play the WMM .wlmp file. Nearly every time, there is no audio in WMM, but the last time I tested it (same clip), there WAS audio. However, when I did my iTunes/YouTube/other tests immediately afterward, the audio disappeared everywhere!

FWIW, both the video clip and WMM project are on an external hard drive, not my main computer (laptop).

I will try to make a new .wlmp file in WMM with a completely different video clip and see what happens, then I will update.

UPDATE: Just started a new WMM project. Used a .MOV video clip from an SD card, not the external drive. Video played, not the audio. All my audio has disappeared from every app/program on my computer. Restarting. Sigh . . . 

UPDATE #2: Used a .MOV video clip from my hard drive, just in case WMM doesn't like temporary storage. Video played, not the audio. All my audio has disappeared from every app/program on my computer. Restarting. Sigh . . .

UPDATE #3: Tried using an mp4 video with h.264 codec, but WMM still wouldn't play the audio. Same problem - audio is gone on all apps/programs until I restart. Sigh.  WMM hates me. I'm going to look into reinstalling WMM. (Hope that's not too hard, as it seems to be integrated into "Windows Essentials".) I have already tried repairing Windows Essentials today; that didn't do squat.

UPDATE #4: Uninstalled/Reinstalled WMM. Bad news - wouldn't play audio on .mp4 file. Good news - still have audio on every other program, and can even play the video clip elsewhere with sound. Progress???

Anybody have a clue what's going on, and how I can fix this?  Many thanks!!!!  

Windows Movie Maker

02. March 2014 · Write a comment · Categories: Uncategorized · Tags: ,
Can anyone HELP pls. when I open a project on Windows Movie Maker (WMM)  it shows "missing files" when I browse for missing files find them, then open them, WMM  then inserts them into time line but then proceeds to close down. I have had this situation before with missing files but WMM never closing down !!!

Can’t edit video in WMM

17. February 2014 · Write a comment · Categories: Uncategorized · Tags: , ,
I uploaded videos from my samsung galaxy S4 to my HP Pavilion laptop. The videos are saved on my computer as an MP4 video. I am trying to clip the videos in WMM but it won't let me. On the videos specifically from my phone there is a circle with a clock on the video inside WMM. That clock does not appear on my videos that are not from my phone. 

How can I edit (clip) my videos from my phone? Why am I not able to do it?

Thank you

streamable format?

07. January 2014 · Write a comment · Categories: Uncategorized · Tags: ,

Whenever I upload a video to Youtube that I've created in WMM 2012, it takes a long time and gives me this message: "Your videos will process faster if you encode into a streamable format.  For more information, visit our Help Center."  Naturally, the help centre gave me no insight as to what I could do differently with WMM.  I have since saved my videos using the option specifically for YouTube, but it doesn't change anything.  It used to be, with my previous version of WMM, that Youtube uploads were reasonably quick with no message like this.

Any ideas?  Thanks!

Windows Movie Maker scrunching up widescreen video when published, tried lots of settings

19. December 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Uncategorized · Tags: , , ,
It's been a long time since I've had to use Windows Movie Maker so I'm still using a machine with Windows Vista Business, Version 6.0, SP2, Movie Maker version 6.0.6002.18273.

I started with a .MOV widescreen home video (properties say it's 1920x1088) and it previews fine in WMM but upon publishing it keeps scrunching into a narrow format.  I've been looking up answers to this and I've already tried a bunch of the usual suspects:

1) Video properties are set to NTSC, aspect ratio 16:9
2) Under publishing settings I've tried various things from:

     a) "Best quality for playback on my computer (display size 1920x1080, aspect ratio 16:9)"
     or
     b) I've tried some of the "More settings", including DV-AVI (NTSC, 720x480 16:9), Windows DVD Quality (720x480 4:3, which is not what I want), Windows Media DVD Widescreen Quality (720x480 16:9 but it still doesn't work)

I don't get to select "High quality video (large)" as suggested by some of the threads I've searched because I seem to be using an older version of WMM and this is not one of the choices available.

Strangely, the one only way to get output that looks widescreen (but really poor quality) is to tell WMM that the video format is PAL, which it's not.  I'm not able to upload such a large PAL file to facebook, in any case.

Are there any other suggestions for how to fix this with my version of WMM?

Thanks.

Video Plays in WMM but sound is gone leaving behind ANNOYING crackling

08. December 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Uncategorized · Tags: ,
I add my video file to WMM and start editing along just fine. Video is fine and sound is normal. Being a mom I usually have to walk away from the computer at some point for a bit but come back to the video playing but the sound was gone. There was only this very annoying popping and crackling sound. It was just working !! I have closed WMM, took the SD card out and back in, restarted the comp <-- which worked to fix the problem a few times.  

It has done this in the past but usually after restarting the computer a million times it usually fixes itself. But NOW it does this with all of my video files, even ones I had previously edited in WMM !! Very frustrating. Please HELP !! 

I have Windows 8.1 64 bit if that makes any difference. 

Just double checked the type of file my videos are on the memory card and it says this --> MOV File (.MOV)

Burning DVD from WMM

06. December 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Uncategorized · Tags: , ,
I made a movie in WMM using photos of my trip. I added music also. It plays great within WMM and Windows Media Player. I saved the movie and burned the disc with Windows media Player. The movie is 58 minutes long, 5.56gb. I used a dual layer DVD+R disc. When I play it in my DVD player, only half the movie plays, then stops. The whole movie plays great in the computer, but only half on a dvd. Any suggestions? I even install Cyberlink Media Suite 10 to try to burn it there. But when I use that, it won't burn a dvd saying some of the files are corrupt or missing.
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