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    - how do i get windows movie maker if i already have sp2? i am running an xp machine i already have sp2 on my pc but i do not have windows movie maker 2.1, however on the microsoft website it says i can only download windows movie maker 2.1 by downloading sp2... but i already have sp2. can anyone help me? as i would really like to have windows movie maker 2.1, without having to re-download sp2. thanks Tag: .avi Tag: 60564
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    - NEED VIDEO IN THREE DAYS FOR MY WEDDING!!!!! HELP!! Ok, I'm about to go nuts here. I am getting married in three days. I have been working on putting together a video presentation for the reception and have spent no less than 60 hours working on this. Mainly because Movie Maker keeps screwing everything up! Ok, I have the 2.1 version. I have 4 songs, I have no idea how many pictures and every picture has a transition with about 4 title overlays total. I have a DELL 3100 that is relatively new. Every time I try to save the file and burn it to a CD which will be played on a laptop and projected onto a wall at the reception, I have problems. It will say that is has saved but when I go to watch it, it stops in the middle or it keeps going with the music but not the pictures or just jams up altogether and won't save at all. UGH!!!!!!!!!!!! I have been reading posts but to be honest, I am so burned out at this point, I'm ready to scream. I SO want this to work! I read a post about saving the file as a DVI file to your hard drive and then trying to burn it to a a CD. Does anyone know if this will give me the same quality video for playback as the "local playback for 2.1" option you can use when burning to a CD? Because that quality is great...however it won't save all the way. I'm at 65% saved at this point saving it to my desktop as a DVI. But I'm scared that it's again not going to save correctly or that if it does, when I try to burn the desktop version to my CD, I'm again going to have problems. Can anyone help me advance troubleshoot?!!! I don't want to start from scratch....in fact, I wouldn't be able to. There's no way I'd have time. I need help!!!!!!!! Tag: .avi Tag: 60546
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    - copying from computer to digital camera tape I have edited and finished my movie in movie maker and attempting to copy it back to my camera tape and get an unsucessful report. It states that the tape may have come to an end. After closing up and viewing results on tape it shows big gaps and than stills more gaps and more stills all the way through. Am i missing a setting that will cure this problem? Tag: .avi Tag: 60545
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    - Can't import video in 16:9.... ???? So I have video that was shot in 16:9, and whenever I try to import it into Movie Maker, it scrunches it back down to 4:3 which makes the images all compressed and nasty... does anyone know what's up with that? Am I missing something, or does Movie Maker just not like anything other than standard? I feel kinda stupid, too, cause I can do this on final cut, but not on movie maker x.x Tag: .avi Tag: 60536
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    - Burning DVDS how can i get movie maker to burn my dvd faster!!! it takes 45mins to burn 1 dvd??? please help if you can. Tag: .avi Tag: 60535
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    - movie maker has bad color compared to videocam?? hello, on the video cam our images look nice, plugged into the tv they look nice. sometimes moviemaker makes the colors off and the images too dark we tried the effect of brightening but the colors are still wrong. anyway to get this program to reproduce correct color from the videocam? how can we do this? Msongs www.youtube.com/msongs Tag: .avi Tag: 60534
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    - AVI Video captured w/ low audio Unfortunately I recently interviewed three people on video for a retirement video, 2 out of the three have EXTREAMLY poor audio quality... I am almost finished with the video as a whole.... How can I improve the audio on those two video clips?! I have increased the volume on the clip, but that is not enough... still very faint. ANY suggestions welcome!!! Tag: .avi Tag: 60532
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    - Cannot publish in vista I changed from xp tot vista. Now it is impossible to publish a movie anyhow. No dvd, cd, e-mail or harddisc. I get the error mssage target location does not exist/ not enough space or source location may have disappeared. All of them are not true. I'm desprate. Does anybody know a soluiton. --------------= Posted using GrabIt =---------------- ------= Binary Usenet downloading made easy =--------- -= Get GrabIt for free from http://www.shemes.com/ =- Tag: .avi Tag: 60531
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    - no sound from mpg2 files in movie maker ive got a sony dcr-dvd7e, and running XP home. i can get the files/video clips off the camera with no problems and i can play then back in WMP no problems (they are saved as mpg). i can open/preview the clips in movie maker but when i drag them into the timeline there is no sound and the video is jumpy. any ideas on why they are jumpy and there is no sound? Tag: .avi Tag: 60502
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    - Where are the Clip files produced on importing movie? When you import a movie into Movie maker it very cleverly reduces the file to clips where are these stored ? I have hunted high and low and cant find find them. they must be stored to be available to collections when ever you restart. Tag: .avi Tag: 60500
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    - saving a movie maker file I am trying to save my movie and it keeps saying "cannot save movie to specified file location. Make sure location is available etc. etc. I have double checked that all files used in the movie are on my computer and made a new file folder in my videos and it still does not work. Sometimes it will say estimated time and that will rise up over 2000 minutes before I quit. I have tried other short movies and it seems to work. it is only like 1.45MB long (4min 40 sec) I am confused and frustrated as this is for work!!! Any suggestions will help!!! -- redrider Tag: .avi Tag: 60496
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    - Saving movie onto CD or DVD I am getting an error message when I try to save my movie to CD or DVD. It says "This project contains source files that are missing or that have been modified after import. Your project cannot be saved as a movie until the source files have been located or deleted from the project." What should I do here? I have not modified any of my files. I did however create the idividual clips in photostory first and then imported them into movie maker to create the movie. Please help! I have been trying to save this file for 2 days now. Tag: .avi Tag: 60494
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    - Video captured is jerky and audio out of sync Video source is VHS-C analog camcorder. It has worked OK in the past with MovieMaker 2.1. Latest video looks OK when played back through camcorder's viewfinder, but when "capturing" video the picture becomes jerky (instead of fluid and smooth) after about the first 20 or 30 seconds and the audio goes out of sync from the video. How can I fix this? Have checked all connections, updated with new video/display drivers, and even tried capturing at lower quality than the default "Best quality for playback..." but captured video is still jerky. Help, please! Tag: .avi Tag: 60492
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    - Audio When transferring a video film from my DV camera to my computer there were sounds in the film that I want to get rid of. How do I do that? Tag: .avi Tag: 60488
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    - green screen in Movie Maker I have recently installed a new Videocard on my computer. It's a new vista compatible Ati Saffire X1950 pro card. Since then i can't use WMM normally. The Captured video's from Mediacenter give a green screen in WMM. Audio works normally. How can i solve This problem? Can anyone give me some advice? Tag: .avi Tag: 60470
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    - permission problems? i used to have windows xp, but i bought a new comp and it has windows vista, ive tried to import a video and manually create clips, but it says "clips cant be created, because you do not have permission to change the video file" what do i do? Tag: .avi Tag: 60465
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    - Can you use MM to make animated films? I don't want to just edit home movies. I want to make films. Particularly I want to draw animation. The point is, can I use this program to put still images together to make motion? Also want to put sound and such also. Tag: .avi Tag: 60464
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    - MPEG-2 to Moviemaker: Recommended Intermediate Format? I have a bunch of MPEG-2 files that I'd like to edit in Moviemaker. Some are from DVD, others are from my JVC Everio Camcorder, which records in that format. I know that DIVX and XVID both work in moviemaker, and of course WMV. Anyone know of a free converter from MPEG-2 to any of the three above? thanks, Martin Tag: .avi Tag: 60458
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    - Where is option to save directly to DVD? Hi, I have Windows XP MCE Edition - fully legal and registered and up to date. But my Windows Movie Maker reports itself as version 2.1.4026. Is this why I cannot find the burn directly to DVD option ? How can I get the correct version of WMM so I can burn directly to DVD. I understand this should be a standard feature of WMM on MCE? Tag: .avi Tag: 60457
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    - Problem capturing video from DV device. Hello, I have been having a problem with capturing video from my Sony DV camera. When I capture video from it, the video appears "blocky" and in very bad color quality. I have used the exact same tape, camera, and wire to capture to a different computer, and it turns out completely fine. I have also used this same camera and computer to capture video about a year ago and it turned out fine as well. What could have changed this in that time? Or is there any way to "repair" my movie maker program if it contains the problem? Thank you :) Tag: .avi Tag: 60456
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    - Sobre Movie Maker Al iniciar Movie Maker emerge un mensaje que dice que falta el archivo para transiciones y efectos de video ¿como puedo recuperarlo? desde la pagina de microosoft no se puede descargar porque forma un todo con el SP2, y el movie maker sólo no veo de donde descargarlo Tag: .avi Tag: 60455
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    - Continue from JKLK i saved the file in WMV and is not in mpg, and the size: 40.8 MB. Thanks for any help! Tag: .avi Tag: 60453
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    - Collections - organize it ? WMM V2.1.4026.0 On the COLLECTIONS window .... how to have it clear ? I'd like to flush the 'old stuff' when I start a new project. I would think that would be something a lot of folks would like Did I just not find the correct item somewhere in the program to have it do so ? For instance, back from recent trip - copy all files from memory stick to a PC folder. Would like to import it all and it that stuff be all that shows up on my collections screen ( or leave the rest and put this into its own folder). I don't now need 200 filenames on my screen from a trip/birthday party that happened last year -- as well as all of today's pictures. Let me organize them. Tag: .avi Tag: 60452
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    - WMM hang - Memory page faults ? Clear list ? I am occasional user of WMM V2.1.4026.0 Physical memory = 1gb. AMD 3200+ Issues creating a movie from my digital camera: details on app locking up below. Anyway to tweak XP SP2 to " work nicely" with WMM ? I see WMM page faults a lot and wondering WHY ? It shows 49k in use and it's page faulting ? I see lots of free memory -why is it pagefaulting ? I manually set virtual memory pagefile to 2gb - 4gb I have VM set to have Windows autoadjust - same thing I do find that if I create a project and save it frequently as I'm building it it works fine. But in a few months I'll forget and after a hang or two, then I'll remember to save it - exit - reopen - add etc. Is the "trick" just to save the project to disk often ? While building a movie using jpg's and avi's from my digital camera, I can add files/video until movie is 5,6,7, minutes long and then I'll go to add one more thing and it locks up. Task Mgr shows 99% of CPU usage and memory usage will increment by 2 ,8 maybe 20 pages. Page faults will show a few times a minute. Then I remember " this happened last time too". It'll hang the job forever. Just prior to me clicking on the next video name, I might have added a file , sometimes I would have played the movie back a bit with no sign of a problem. But JUST AS I click on that next item - it locks up: the WMM window will not respond. I don't know " Was the reason for the hang the fact that I clicked on that next avi to add, or had it really hung while playing back ?" If I click on my " desktop" shortcut, the desktop responds, I can go to the internet / email etc - everything else is fine. If I didn't know that job was hung, I'd never notice. But WMM is hosed for that session. When I reboot/ reopened WMM, it found my project / checked and recompiled it. I saved it - closed WMM. Thanks, Bobb Tag: .avi Tag: 60451
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    - video size too big i am a beginner with Multimedia. i uesed Panasonic 5.0 camera, i took several short videos, used Xillsoft Mov Converter, and finished with Window Movie Maker. Dimension: 320*240, durantion: 3:41, size: 40.8MB, Type: mpg i try to put on my website, but the size seems too big! Please advice and help. Thank you all any suggestion. Tag: .avi Tag: 60450
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    - Taking pictures from video How do you save the picture (still) taken from the video so that it can be used in another project? -- D Tex Tag: .avi Tag: 60444
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    - Graininess? Not strictly MM but maybe someone here could answer. Have some video clips taken indoors with an analogue camcorder and saved via Matrox capture card as MPEG2. The video is grainy and lacks definition. Can MM improve this and if so how? I also have access to Premiere Elements, would that be better? Answers appreciated. -- Kenny Tag: .avi Tag: 60443
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    - He has lost the file for transitions and video effects Tag: .avi Tag: 60441
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    - update I made my movie using the 5.1 version and am having problems getting my finished movie to load. Should I update? I dont get why I can load the one I was working on a couple of days ago but cant load the finished one (I changed the file name) Tag: .avi Tag: 60436
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    - Audio Ok, now that I have a new PC with WindowsXP2, I decided to try out the Moviemaker program. I know people are using it so I thought it would be a simple thing to put some video clips and music together. I got the video added, and the music on the Audio track,added Titles ,trimmed it to fade at the end and saved the file and had it copied to my video folder. When it played back with WMP there was video edited like I wanted but no audio from the music I had on the preview! How can I save music/audio for the new slideshow to replace the original audio I dont want on the clips? Thanks for any help Sprockets Tag: .avi Tag: 60428
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    - Can't connect to Sony TRV33 Hi. I can see my Sony DV Device in the 'available devices' window within the 'Video Capture Wizard', however when i click on it WMM gives me an error message "a problem was encountered when trying to connect, check your capture devices and try again". I'm using a firewire cable and I've tried the WinDV free software and that works fine to upload the AVI file from this camera to my Media centre pc. This tells me the problem is not likely hardware. Why can't WMM connect to my Sony DV handycam? Thanks Michael Tag: .avi Tag: 60424
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    - Import error - All file types Hi! I've been using WMP 2.1 on XP for quite a while with no problems. Recently I haven't been able to import any files (mp3s, wmv, wma, mpeg etc) and get the error message 'D:\*filename* could not be imported. Unspecified error'. About the only new thing I've done recently is upgrade Zonealarm. I know it's vague, but any ideas?? Thanks. Tag: .avi Tag: 60422
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    - Video Correction I've been using Movie Maker 2 to do Basic Video Corrections and run into 2 problems today: first when I Imported a video file it quit, then the last couple tries It Wouldn't even open. What's going on with this? Tag: .avi Tag: 60419
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    - 4 screens at once Can I split the screen so that you can see 4 clips playing at once, each of them in different corners? Tag: .avi Tag: 60416
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    - Changing time duration for pictures & audio clips Is there a way to adjust clips by smaller increments? I want to cut less than a second off of the end of a song clip, but when I manually drag the end of the clip it only moves in 4 second increments. The same is true for when I try to lengthen the picture clips. Tag: .avi Tag: 60415
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    - Clips Refuse to Play I uploaded some videos from my Sony CDR-SR42 camcorder and I imported them onto Windows Movie Maker. When I add them to the timeline and I click on one of the clips and press the play button it refuses to play. At times, it says that it is playing and it shows the seconds passing by but there is just a black screen with no audio. Eventually, the program would freeze and shut down. I took some videos on another camera of mine and imported them into Windows Movie Maker and they work perfectly fine. There are no problems with the clips I acquire from the camera. I am wondering if there is something wrong with Windows Movie Maker or the camcorder. Tag: .avi Tag: 60409
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    - capture performance Hi. First time in! IÂ´m not satisfied with the video quality I get when capture from a capture board. I did everything I read about improving performance like degragment HD, turn off every application not necessary, etc. I read that I can turn off the preview in the MS MovieMaker wizard but I couldÂ´t find how in my MM version (2.1). Question is: how to turn off preview? Tks. -- wantono Tag: .avi Tag: 60408
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    - view live on computer while filming? hello, how can we watch a video live on the monitor while still filming, or is this not possible? our vidcam has a tiny little screen makes it hard to compose for our youtube things that we are trying to do (trying to expand to more than just me sitting at the camera singing) Msongs www.msongs.com youtube.com/msongs Tag: .avi Tag: 60405
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    - RE OPENING SAVED PROJECT ON MOVIE MAKER When I am done with a project file in Movie Maker and it is "supposed" to be saved, I CANNOT re open the project file saved in my Video even though it shows under the movie maker video icon with the title I assigned to it. Halfway through opening the project, I get the hourglass in OPEN PROJECT tile, and a message appears stating Windows Movie Maker has encountered a problem and needs to close. I have sent the error report several times to no avail. Not being able to retrieve my saved project sends me back to the drawing board again and again. I have tried saving to CD, Hard Drive, Computer: no dice. Has anyone found a solution? I am so frustrated I want to shoot my computer. Tag: .avi Tag: 60404
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    - MOV file extension Hi All, I am working on a project at present for which a friend in the States has sent me a couple of short clips. Trouble is MM will not allow me to import them. Cpould someone please advise..... Thanks -- Darcy Tag: .avi Tag: 60400
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    - Problems with saving it as a movie ok heres how it go's. I was making a video game movie using many clips. Now...I was moving them into a folder, then importing it from that folder. Then after that i would move it out into a different folder. Later...After I edited everything. I clicked the "browse for missing clips" optiion. And found it for everything. However it seems I cannot save them all. I have moved the files to all the folders that they were every in with copy and paste. I believe i have enough memory. Because It will save with 66.4mb and I have 45.3gb of free space. Please help me what do I do. Thank you for any possible support you can give me. Tag: .avi Tag: 60393
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    - Audio Doesn't Line up I created a slideshow and added some songs. It plays perfectly in Movie Maker but when I save a Movie file (High Quality) the audio ends a lot earlier than it should. Why is it shifting in the movie file???? Please Help!! Tag: .avi Tag: 60392
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    - FAO PapaJohn et al - Webcam & Vista WMM Is it true that the WMM supplied with some editions of Vista can capture direct from any webcam? Or just some, or none? Tag: .avi Tag: 60384
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    - Save Movie Maker file in a different format I have created a .MSWMM file. I need to save it into a more common format. Is there any way to save as WAV, WMF, JPG etc? Tag: .avi Tag: 60383
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    - Storyboard When placing transitions into the storyboard, how can I get the program to load faster. This transiton is very slow as you place more and more transitions in the storyboard. Please give me a solution. XP HOME Tag: .avi Tag: 60379
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    - Will MovieMaker support AVCHD format soon? Just got a Panasonic HDC-SD1 HD camcorder. It uses AVCHD format (.mts). The camera is fantastic, but the video editing/conversion S/W that's included is quite weak. Ideally I'd like to convert AVCHD to WMV-HD. Is there currently a good way to do this? I tried ULEAD VideoStudio-11, but the resulting .wmv video was very poor. Is there a AVCHD codec I can add to Vista MovieMaker, or any other suggestions? Thanks! -dave Tag: .avi Tag: 60378
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    - Custom Video Size Hi there, is it possible to create custom movie sizes using WMM? That is i wish to create a 900x150 video --- this feature is available in ulead and was wondering if there is a similar function in WMM. Thanks Tag: .avi Tag: 60377
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    - splitting source files to fit as data on DVD Hi, I used WMM to import from my digital camera. I want to be able to save the footage on DVD in its orginal format (that is, as a source file rather than as an edited movie). Problem is, I have imported in large files - up to 9Gb - too big to fit as a data file on a DVD. Is there any easy to split the source files into smaller files, so that I can easy save them to disk? Or do I have to copy them from tape all over again, in smaller chunks? Richard BB Tag: .avi Tag: 60376
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    - WMM Downloading Page Ok i try downloading it on Download.com but i never see it when i go in All Programs.My other older computer never had WMM downloaded and it wasnt a problem.Now on this my newer computer that comes with Windows Movie Maker it doesnt work!So i tried redownloading it it wpnt work still.I removed WMM and downloaded it and it didnt work still, matter and fact nothing even got saved this time!Help! Tag: .avi Tag: 60373
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    - help! WMM doesnt work still! I have Windows Movie Maker...and i use windows xp...windows movie maker came with my Windows updates. When opening WMM as soon as my last project comes up, a box comes up saying... "Windows Movie Maker has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." it then gives me the option to send an error report or not. I have sent a couple. but this doesnt seem to solv the problem. i did have internet explorer 7...and was told that this could be a reson as to why WMM isnt working. so i now have Internet expolorer 6. But egen this has still not solved it, and s still not working =[ i dont use any camcorders or any divices . all i do is use/add mp3 songs to a video and pictuers. i have used WMM before with out any troubles.This has only occord in the past fyew days. plzzzzzz help me getting it working again!!! thnx! x Tag: .avi Tag: 60372

~have been using wmm for a while-love it- and it worked fine, but recently
all avi files don't import and closes wmm immediately
~also the avi files previously in collections don't preview or show up in in
the movie
~had a movie completed and all worked fine-but where the avi files are don't
play-just blank

Thanks for the help

RE: .avi by nhcamp

nhcamp
Wed Jul 04 22:06:03 CDT 2007

i've already tried the compatibility tab in the options menu too

"nhcamp" wrote:

> ~have been using wmm for a while-love it- and it worked fine, but recently
> all avi files don't import and closes wmm immediately
> ~also the avi files previously in collections don't preview or show up in in
> the movie
> ~had a movie completed and all worked fine-but where the avi files are don't
> play-just blank
>
> Thanks for the help

Re: .avi by Graham

Graham
Wed Jul 11 03:02:50 CDT 2007

What sort of avi are they?
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/Tutorials/MovieMaker/File_type_compatibility.htm

--

Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.com

"nhcamp" <nhcamp@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> i've already tried the compatibility tab in the options menu too
>
> "nhcamp" wrote:
>
>> ~have been using wmm for a while-love it- and it worked fine, but
>> recently
>> all avi files don't import and closes wmm immediately
>> ~also the avi files previously in collections don't preview or show up in
>> in
>> the movie
>> ~had a movie completed and all worked fine-but where the avi files are
>> don't
>> play-just blank
>>
>> Thanks for the help