I've re-made my video three times because Movie Maker keeps crashing. The first time it crashed, the program just ended, then I re-opened movie maker and was able to recover my edit.

The second and third time, my laptop hanged altogether. Not even the start key, Alt+tab, Alt+F4 or CTRLALTDEL worked.that I had no choice but to turn it off and boot again. When I open movie maker, it gives me the option to recover my edit, which I did, but the file recovered does not have my video clips. It only shows the duration of each clip on the preview pane, and also plays the title/caption, but no video or audio. Just black screen playing.

I also tried not recovering the file upon opening move maker and opening my last saved work instead, but it gave me the file corrupted message and won't open the file.

This is really annoying since I tried everything, knowing that the program keeps crashing. I save my work every 10 minutes or so, but once it crashes, not even my saved edit is recovered.

I would likely switch to another editor but I need to recover what I've finished first. I've been working on it for two days and I really don't want to start from scratch again.

I am on Windows 10. All my source video clips are intact, not moved nor deleted. No triangles and exclamation points. The clips simply do not appear on the timeline, but the preview pane with black screen shows how many clips and minutes there supposedly is.

Please help.