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    - Changing time on picture clips I am trying to lengthen the amount of time one of my pictures stays on the screen. I am going to Options, then advanced, and changing the time from 5 seconds to 10. I click okay, but it stays at 5 seconds. What step am I missing? Thanks again, Amanda Tag: Movie Maker 2.1 Tag: 33631
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    - can't capture video hi, i have a toshiba satellite laptop and i have an analog sony handycam...i connected the 2 devices by S-video cable ,,and i clicked on capture video in windows movie maker and i had the message "a video capture device is not detected verify that a device is properly connected..." what should i do?? Tag: Movie Maker 2.1 Tag: 33624
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    - iTunes can't be used? So, I can't use music that I have download through iTunes in my movie? It doesn't seem to see any of this music when I am trying to import... thx, Amanda Tag: Movie Maker 2.1 Tag: 33618
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    - Teaching Movie Maker I'm a school teacher and am trying to show the students how to edit with Windows Movie Maker. For some strange reason every time I try to move the playhead on the timeline the video expands to full screen and the Interface dissappears. How do I fix it so that am able to show how to cut clips add transitions and audio without the video expanding everytime I touch the playhead. This only happens when I am using an LCD projector. HELP! Tag: Movie Maker 2.1 Tag: 33608
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    - E-Mail from Carmen I would love to ask this question via thread, but I just don't know how. I hooked up cable to the back of my AVI All in wonder 9600 video card. When I choose TV tuner in MovieMaker I get see the TV channel I chose but no audio. I tried running the audio from my VCR (hooked up to cable as well) to the back of my new computer, but I have to idea where 'Line In' is or what the heck my sound card looks like. So I just plugged it into every hole and tried it each time. Thanks for your help, Carmen ps You may go ahead and copy-paste this into a thread for others to see if they have the same question Tag: Movie Maker 2.1 Tag: 33599
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    - Tip: Custom Text - Titles and Credits Rehan and others have explored custom titles and credits... similar to making custom effects and transitions. I added a link on my website to the page of Rehan's site that gives a great overview and detailed info... see my Editing > Text > Intro page. The direct link to Rehan's page is: http://www.rehanfx.org/customtc.htm -- PapaJohn Movie Maker 2 and Photo Story 3 - www.papajohn.org Photo Story 2 - www.photostory.papajohn.org . Tag: Movie Maker 2.1 Tag: 33594
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    - Audio on Video Clips Help On my video clips it doesnt have any audio and its supposed to.My old video clips which are from the same camera have sound with it and now the new video clips dont have sound when I put it in the timeline.However the clips have sound when I just play the clip in the preview screen, but when I drag it to the timeline the audio doesnt go.On my old clips I check out the properties and it has an audio section but the new clips dont have an audio section.I dont know whats wrong and I cant explain it clearer. Tag: Movie Maker 2.1 Tag: 33581
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    - Legal Music Clips for home movies This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0012_01C52D23.D0CC91A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Guys, what's a good site for free legal music clips to be added to home movies = .. thanks Vern ------=_NextPart_000_0012_01C52D23.D0CC91A0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2800.1491" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Guys,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>what's a good site for free legal music = clips to be=20 added to home movies .. thanks</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Vern</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_0012_01C52D23.D0CC91A0-- Tag: Movie Maker 2.1 Tag: 33579
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    - Having Problem Saving to CD & Computer I have been working on this slideshow for a wedding and it I put a lo of work into, but when I go to save it to My Computer or to a CD, i comes up with an error message. It says i need to check the source o files, make sure there is enough disk space and something else. I hav tried to make sure that I converted everything, but it still won' save, can anyone please help me???? : Tag: Movie Maker 2.1 Tag: 33569
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    - corrupted clips - Typo Sorry about the typo ' all images are jagged and broken ' Hi All, I have an .avi movie which plays perfectly in Media Player and can be edited in Moviemaker. Trouble is, when I use the 'create clips' routine all the clips are corrupted - colours all wrong and jagged broken images. Can anyone advise what I am doing wrong please? IanF Tag: Movie Maker 2.1 Tag: 33566
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    - corrupted clips Hi All, I have an .avi movie which plays perfectly in Media Player and can be edited in Moviemaker. Trouble is, when I use the 'create clips' routine all the clips are corrupted - colours all wrong and no jagged broken images. Can anyone advise what I am doing wrong please? IanF Tag: Movie Maker 2.1 Tag: 33565
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    - MM2 Newspaper insert ? I would like to insert an image into the blue square on the newspaer title. Papajohn answered this question for another person-- in another post, shown below. I am new at MM2 and can not make that work. What am I doing wrong? Thanks. Papajohn wrote: pull the clip from the video track of the timeline down to the title overlay and move it anyplace you want on the timeline... whatever image is on the video track will be in the blue square. Tag: Movie Maker 2.1 Tag: 33564
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    - DV-AVI saved file is choppy compared to captured file. I have captured a DV-AVI (NTSC) file from my Mini DV camcorder with MM2. The captured video is excellent both in that program and on the media player. Then I proceed to edit the video and save it to the DV-AVI format. Now when I view the same video it is choppy compare to the original. What can I do? Tag: Movie Maker 2.1 Tag: 33563
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    - Firewire I have a Panasonic PV-DV53. It mentions it uses a 6-4pin firewire cable. Does this look good?...http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=cart&A=details&Q=&sku=167022&is=REG or this?...http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.gsp?product_id=2458197 Is 400mb/x good for that? -- Dell Dimension 8400 Media Center Edition 2005 Tag: Movie Maker 2.1 Tag: 33562
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    - Title editing In the title options there is a newspaper that has a blue square in the center of it. Is there any way to overlay a picture into this blue square? I've tried editing the .png file and although the picture shows up, it's still covered by that blue square... Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance... Mike Tag: Movie Maker 2.1 Tag: 33552
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    - Analog Hi8 or VCR to PC What is the most direct way to connect Hi 8 camcorder or analog VCR to PC, for the purpose of capturing indivdual frames from the tapes? Tag: Movie Maker 2.1 Tag: 33551
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    - MaximumPC Tutorial The special Winter 2005 Edition of Maximum PC has been replaced on bookstore shelves with the Spring issue... I now have permission to copy the video made for the tutorial... the same video included on the CD in the magazine.... to a website. Here it is at neptune... if it doesn't play smoothly, it's probably the higher 1000kbps bitrate of the file, combined with your internet download speed. http://papajohn.neptune.com?selectedalbum=papajohn129263 -- PapaJohn Movie Maker 2 and Photo Story 3 - www.papajohn.org Photo Story 2 - www.photostory.papajohn.org . Tag: Movie Maker 2.1 Tag: 33549
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    - DVD BURNING I am about to buy a DVD burner and have used movie maker for many projects. I need to know what is the best format to save movies in WMM2 if I then intend to burn them on a DVD? Tag: Movie Maker 2.1 Tag: 33547
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    - saving clips help I have a movie that I have imported into movie maker. I want to edit the movie based on very specific cut points (which i know how to do), but I also want to save the clips separately without creating a movie with the timeline. What I need is a to save all the clips in a collection as separate movie files, but I can't seem to find that function. Tag: Movie Maker 2.1 Tag: 33542
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    - WAT I LERND FRUM JON KELLEE PAPAJON IZ BAAAAAD BADBADBAD! IM SO GLAD MIKEROWSAWFT LETS HIM POST HERE ELSE I NOT NOW PAPAJON BAAAD! -- a d i d a s i n h e a t politics, multitracking, digital video http://jprestonian.modblog.com/ Tag: Movie Maker 2.1 Tag: 33526
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    - Full screen picture quality I'm making a video using pictures from my 4 megapixel digital camera. When I view the video in full screen mode usimg Windows Movie Maker, the picture quality is very poor. When I view the pictures in full screen mode using Adobe Photoshop or any other viewer on the same computer/monitor, the pictures are perfect. As a result, I know the problem isn't the monitor or original picture quality but must be the Movie Maker. I'm using version 1.1.2 of Movie Maker. What can I do to fix this problem? Tag: Movie Maker 2.1 Tag: 33516
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    - Frame Rate for Video Capture WMM2 Sorry for the crossposting - didn't check this forum first (Doh!) Using WMM I need to force the video capture to greater than 15 frames per second. WMM defaults back to this frame capture rate whenever it is reset to something higher? Any idea how to force a higher capture rate? My DV plays great on a monitor or TV, but after capture at 15 frames its not smooth enough for presentation. (In this case its a wedding video rather than my work stuff). Cheers -- Kahuna ------------ Tag: Movie Maker 2.1 Tag: 33515
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    - Music track clicks at every video transition There's an annoying "click" on the music soundtrack when video transitions from one clip to another. The music is all MP3 based files. -- Best regards, Ron Tag: Movie Maker 2.1 Tag: 33514
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    - MPEG from camcorder I taped some video on my Sony Camcorder, and I want to make it into a DVD. I attached the Sony camcorder to a computer, and it was encoding the video from the little tape in the camcorder into MPEG-1 format. I figured to burn a DVD from the MPEG-1. Things were going fine, and then suddenly it quit and gave a message that the hard drive does not have any more space. (It has 40GB, a new laptop). I tried this several times, and it quits after 13 minutes. When the dust settled I checked, and the hard drive is not actually full. (I think there is not any more temporary space, is what the message refers to. After you say quit encoding, it does a process of actually turning it into MPEG-1 format, so it must use a LOT of temporary space.) The software I am using is Pixela, which came with the camcorder. An obvious solution is to do segments of less than the 13 minutes, then combine them all on the DVD. Is there some other solution? What light can you shed on this? Thanks -- Wayne Tag: Movie Maker 2.1 Tag: 33513
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    - Does it Hang or Crash? Movie Maker FAQ 1 Last updated 6th January 2005 Crashing and Hanging 1) What is a Codec? ============== A Codec is software that was first created to deal with the transposition of data from one form into another. One of the first important Codecs was a procedure still used today called Soundex. I believe the first proper use of Soundex was by the Mormons. Most of us use Soundex or its equivalent every time we use a spell checker. The Mormons use it in their vast database of all persons baptised by them. It enables very fast data searches on similar sounding words that are not necessarily spelled the same way. Soundex though is a one way procedure. Its a CODER The other part of the word Codec is derived from the word DECODER. Joining the two parts together we get the word CODEC...Codec. With regard to Codecs and any Video or Audio playing software. MP3 or WMA audio files have been compressed using CODER routines. When you play those files on your computer you are using the DECODER routines to produce a sound or video signal that can be seen/heard on your machine. With regard to Audio/Video editing software. A Codec is used to compress the data so that it occupies as small a space as possible usually on a hard drive. But in the case of editing a file the Codec must first expand the compressed data before the edit can occur and afterwards compress it again when the data is saved to a new file. The problems with Codecs arise from "Calls" A call is the expression used to define the way one software module talks to another so that information can be passed between the two. The problem occurs when the Call is not properly formatted, or the reply is not understood. This becomes a problem that the calling software must handle. When the calling software fails to handle the error it can do one of a number of things....the correct way is to contain the error and respond with an alternative approach and possibly inform the user that the error occurred, the other approach we are all to familiar with, either the software or the machine crashes and probably taking all of your hard work with it. 2) Movie Maker crashes, what can I do? ============================ From item one above there is a good chance that your problem arises from a problem with a Codec. Movie Maker version 2.1 was supposed to address this issue by giving you the user the ability to disable one or more of the Codecs on your machine. The problem however is not fully addressed and results in some Codecs not being exposed to the disable option. If its that particular Codec that is causing the problem you are stuck. You need to know which Codec it is, where it is, possibly what other software installed it and what other dependencies exist. In other words you need to know a LOT of things. The proper way of dealing with the issue would be to remove the offending Codec but that's not very practical as you may really need the other software that depends on it. There is a temporary solution available in the form of a program called "Rename Codecs" It has been in use for perhaps a year now by many hundreds of people and with great success. There have been a total of 6 times that the program did not solve the users problem (At the time of writing this) You can obtain your FREE copy of the program from www.the-kellys.org It is strongly recommended that you check out the short interactive tutorial also on the website so that you can get a feel for how it performs. The basics of the program are that it will offer you the option of temporarily renaming Codecs that are known to be a problem for Movie Maker. You would do that before using Movie Maker. Once you are finished using the program you again run Movie Maker and use the RESTORE option to put those Codecs back into operation...its very easy to use. There is an additional option. You can use the options within XP to turn off the various levels of video acceleration that your graphics card has. Doing this is not a good idea but if you do you must understand that every program that relies on those abilities will either run badly or not at all. To turn the acceleration down right click your desktop and select PROPERTIES, then SETTINGS then ADVANCED and then TROUBLERSHOOT. You will then see a slider bar which should normally be positioned on the far right. You can move it one step at a time and then close the dialog down and re-try Movie Maker. You can repeat those steps until (and if) Movie Maker works properly. A lot of video programs give you the opportunity of taking a snap shot of the video displayed, Intervideo WinDVD 5 does a good job of this. Movie Maker also has this option. BUT, if you turn the acceleration down as above, you will no longer be able to take those snapshots. This is not a great problem of course as you can change the acceleration back. But it is rather tedious. 3) How do I make my system perform better and stop Movie Maker crashing ======================================================= This is by far the best way of doing things. Whilst the Rename Codec program is a MUST when you really do need to keep "other" software on your system, the following approach will ensure that your system runs at its best speed and will be less likely to crash at all from Video or Audio problems. You need to download the latest versions of DirectX and the Windows Codecs pack together with the latest version of Windows Media Player. You should NOT try to install these packages via the Internet, you should get the standalone versions. The reason is obvious once you know it. Suppose those updates you did some time back are not working properly...it may be that they were not installed properly or it may be that a file is either corrupt or simply missing. How would you know??? The more experienced may spot the problem but the average user will not. So why download the full package??? That's easy. When you unzip a package several checks are made to ensure the integrity of the files inside the zip. If there is a problem you will be told there and then...the file is corrupt or damaged in some other way....you do not need to trust an install over the Internet and the possibility of data being missed.... You can get the packages via these links... Codec Pack ----------------- http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/format/codecdownload.aspx DirectX ---------- http://go.microsoft.com/?LinkID=1081813 Windows Media Player --------------------------------- http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b446ae53-3759-40cf-80d5-cde4bbe07999&displaylang=en Movie Maker for XP --------------------------- http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/windowsxp/choose.aspx The link for Movie Maker is actually a link to SP2 (Service Pack 2). This a large download. Its not to bad if you have a reasonably fast broadband connection, but if the download fails its a long way back to the start!!! Personally I would recommend you obtain A CD version of SP2...its available on the Windows Magazine and from Microsoft directly Drivers for your graphics card ---------------------------------- I have discovered that most people are confused on the issue of drivers for their graphics card in that when advised to acquire the latest driver they go straight to the Microsoft website and get one from them. Their is a problem with that in that the drivers supplied by Microsoft are Generic. I made the mistake of going direct to Microsoft some time back and the result was that I could only run the machine in the basic "Safe Mode" the driver was the most up to date and was definitely more recent than the existing driver. It took some time to understand what was going on I must admit...... The graphics card was an NVidia GForce 4 etc and was manufactured by Gainward. After several attempts at getting the Microsoft driver to install I decided that the download MUST BE corrupted in some way, So I went to the NVidia website and downloaded their driver (Same version number as the one from Microsoft) I had the exact same problems!!! In the end I went to the Gainward website and downloaded the most up to date driver they had.....once installed the graphics card performed better than ever and with more configuration options than I would ever need. So why did an older driver work better than the most recent from NVidia ??? Its simple when you know why .... Gainward produce high capability cards and in order to achieve some of their aims they change the way the NVidia chipset works. This requires a modified driver....and they produce their own. The card is still based on the NVidia and conforms to the basic design....but it runs very much faster because of code optimisation, and that optimisation is missing from the Microsoft or NVidia drivers. The result of all this is that you should ALWAYS go to the website of the MANUFACTURER of the card and not the manufacturer of the chipset (in my case NVidia) The Method ----------------- Reboot your computer and install SP2. After the install has completed you should reboot your computer twice...yes boring but desirable After the reboot you should now install the DirectX pack and reboot again. After that reboot install the Codec Pack and reboot yet again. After that install Windows Media Player and reboot again Finally install the latest driver for your graphics card. Rebooting the machine does perform an important task. It completes installation process's and ensures that previously existing file locks are removed. Under certain conditions XP will not overwrite a file if it has been locked. Note that this is not the same as marking a file as Read Only. Windows XP Video Decoder Checkup Utility --------------------------------------------------------------- This utility can be obtained here... http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/portablemediacenter/decoder.mspx A very useful program but with a problem. It reports that I have the MGI MPEG-2 Video Decoder on one of my machines...I have NO MGI software on my system!! I would not let that put you off using it as it does have a useful purpose even though the same objective can be achieved via other already existing routes within XP. I am in favour of this program as it does give good advice on which Codec you should select as the preferred Codec 4) What files does Movie Maker NOT like? ============================== Any MPEG based file will cause Movie Maker problems even though they seldom cause problems for Media Player. There are a number of reasons...Media Player does not need the CODER part of the Codec and there are many methods/procedures/algothims used to Code an MPeg file and its that wide range of methods that Movie Maker can not address. Its not really a bug but the method of dealing with the issue, well there is no method...Movie Maker gives an error and crashes or it just crashes. The particular file extensions are Mpeg,MPG and MP3. JPeg still images can also be a problem and for similar reasons to MPeg files. There are a number of formats for a JPeg and it seems that the older formats are not properly dealt with. To work around the issue you can reduce the compression used in creating the JPeg and NOT use the progressive format method The best solution for these problems is to convert the file into a more acceptable format, and as it happens a format that is more easily worked on by Movie Maker...the conversion you should employ are MPeg, MPG convert to AVI, MP3 convert to WAV and JPeg, JPG convert to a standard bitmap BMP NOTES ====== There are several other approaches you can take to solving a Codec issue. I have seen several other methods of solving the problem, and basically they don't. Instead they treat the symptom and not the problem itself. Several other methods involve damaging the picture of your computers layout (that's a bad pun by the way) and simply doing that involves the risk of permanent damage to that picture. The program Rename Codecs also damages that picture of your system but it does at least provide a user friendly way of restoring your system and that method requires no prior knowledge on your part about where, which and how to make those changes. All efforts are made to ensure that the information is accurate. As no one is perfect I would be happy to hear of any errors found in this document. If you have any doubts at all over following the advice given here you should NOT attempt it. The contents of this FAQ are liable to change with out prior notification. -- Have A Nice Day.....John Kelly Check out the free hosting for your pictures and video at... www.the-kellys.org www.the-kellys.co.uk ---- \|||/ (oo) ----------ooO-(_)-Ooo------------- All material gained from other sources is duly acknowledged. No Value is obtained by publishing in any format other peoples work Tag: Movie Maker 2.1 Tag: 33505
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    - No video When trying to view an mpeg in either the preview window and the timeline I'm only able to get sound. The screen remains black. I'm able to view the videos just fine in Windows Media Playerand WINDVD but I can't view or edit in Movie Maker. (I've checked and I have the most recent version). Tag: Movie Maker 2.1 Tag: 33503
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    - IEEE 1394 Cable I'm try to transfer my video from WMM to my DV (Sony DCR- HC20 Handycam) I know I need an IEEE 1394 cable to do this but I do not see a port on my computer (HP Pavilion a305w) for this type of cable. Is there some type of adapter I can purchase to make this work, or am I over looking the port? Please Help. Tag: Movie Maker 2.1 Tag: 33502
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    - http://www.jameswickstrom.com Yes... it is fight for democracy...just fool yourself.....: http://www.jameswickstrom.com/iraq/photos_show_rape_of_iraqi_women.htm PS: I can't ignore the brotherhood you american show to the world..... Shame on you all. Tag: Movie Maker 2.1 Tag: 33492
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    - Visualizations One of the things I enjoy using as part of a video are the visualizations of the Windows Media Player 10 and iTunes... here's a new 48 second snippet that uses 3 WMP10 visualizations... It's on the neptune hosting service. http://papajohn.neptune.com?selectedalbum=papajohn128872 -- PapaJohn Movie Maker 2 and Photo Story 3 - www.papajohn.org Photo Story 2 - www.photostory.papajohn.org . Tag: Movie Maker 2.1 Tag: 33482
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    - movie maker My windows movie maker disappears completely when I drop and drag a pic to the timeline. When I click on help files a window pops up saying help files missing Can anyone help me pls.This has happened out of the blue had no trouble with it all before this. Tag: Movie Maker 2.1 Tag: 33480
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    - Recording audio I have movie maker ver. 1.01376 in Windows ME. I cannot record audio clips from my CD nor import a known good audio file into the collection box. If I record an audio clip through movie maker it will come out silent. If I try importing an audio file it will say "Cannot import file, file is incorrect format or has been corrupted". How do I create audio files for movie maker? Tag: Movie Maker 2.1 Tag: 33472
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    - Playback too fast I have movie maker ver. 1.01376 on Windows ME. When I download video from my camcorder I get the message" Your system may not provide acceptable performance when recording from a high speed device such as a digital video camera..." I go ahead and record anyway. When I playback the movie it runs twice as fast, like it was in fast forward, than normal. How do I get it to playback normally? Tag: Movie Maker 2.1 Tag: 33471
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    - importing rm is there a way to import .rm files into WMM? Tag: Movie Maker 2.1 Tag: 33468
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    - Digital 8 to DVD+R and .avi file sizes?! Hi all I would like to transfer video from Digital 8 tape to DVD+R for a more permanent and easy to view medium. I would like to preserve the quality of the original video, but would appreciate guidance regarding the best method of transfer. So far I have captured the video in MM2.1.4026.0 just over an hour at a time (file size about 13GB) and have added titles etc in MM. The saved movie files .avi (PAL) were then imported into Sonic MyDVD and simple chapters were added before saving the movie pre burning. The transcoding was done in MyDVD version 5.3.0 and after a long wait the disc popped out. Is there a optimum .avi file size when burning to DVD to maintain the best quality? Regards Julian Tag: Movie Maker 2.1 Tag: 33466
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    - Can't capture video i have a sony camcorder(analogue),i connected it to my toshiba satellite laptop using an s-video cable,,i then enterred movie maker 2 ,pressed capture from video device,,i got a message saying that the a video capture device is not detected,verify that it is turned on and try again,,,i did do but it doesn't seem to be working..knowing that if the camcorder or the laptop is connected to the TV using s-video cable,they work fine,,,what should i do? Tag: Movie Maker 2.1 Tag: 33465
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    - moviemake crashes hi all running xp home sp2 and when i start moviemaker it crashes straight away thanks Tim faulting application moviemk.exe, version 2.1.4026.0, faulting module qedit.dll, version 6.5.2600.2180, fault address 0x0001a513 Tag: Movie Maker 2.1 Tag: 33453
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    - Hangs & Crashes Movie Maker FAQ 1 Last updated 6th January 2005 Crashing and Hanging 1) What is a Codec? ============== A Codec is software that was first created to deal with the transposition of data from one form into another. One of the first important Codecs was a procedure still used today called Soundex. I believe the first proper use of Soundex was by the Mormons. Most of us use Soundex or its equivalent every time we use a spell checker. The Mormons use it in their vast database of all persons baptised by them. It enables very fast data searches on similar sounding words that are not necessarily spelled the same way. Soundex though is a one way procedure. Its a CODER The other part of the word Codec is derived from the word DECODER. Joining the two parts together we get the word CODEC...Codec. With regard to Codecs and any Video or Audio playing software. MP3 or WMA audio files have been compressed using CODER routines. When you play those files on your computer you are using the DECODER routines to produce a sound or video signal that can be seen/heard on your machine. With regard to Audio/Video editing software. A Codec is used to compress the data so that it occupies as small a space as possible usually on a hard drive. But in the case of editing a file the Codec must first expand the compressed data before the edit can occur and afterwards compress it again when the data is saved to a new file. The problems with Codecs arise from "Calls" A call is the expression used to define the way one software module talks to another so that information can be passed between the two. The problem occurs when the Call is not properly formatted, or the reply is not understood. This becomes a problem that the calling software must handle. When the calling software fails to handle the error it can do one of a number of things....the correct way is to contain the error and respond with an alternative approach and possibly inform the user that the error occurred, the other approach we are all to familiar with, either the software or the machine crashes and probably taking all of your hard work with it. 2) Movie Maker crashes, what can I do? ============================ From item one above there is a good chance that your problem arises from a problem with a Codec. Movie Maker version 2.1 was supposed to address this issue by giving you the user the ability to disable one or more of the Codecs on your machine. The problem however is not fully addressed and results in some Codecs not being exposed to the disable option. If its that particular Codec that is causing the problem you are stuck. You need to know which Codec it is, where it is, possibly what other software installed it and what other dependencies exist. In other words you need to know a LOT of things. The proper way of dealing with the issue would be to remove the offending Codec but that's not very practical as you may really need the other software that depends on it. There is a temporary solution available in the form of a program called "Rename Codecs" It has been in use for perhaps a year now by many hundreds of people and with great success. There have been a total of 6 times that the program did not solve the users problem (At the time of writing this) You can obtain your FREE copy of the program from www.the-kellys.org It is strongly recommended that you check out the short interactive tutorial also on the website so that you can get a feel for how it performs. The basics of the program are that it will offer you the option of temporarily renaming Codecs that are known to be a problem for Movie Maker. You would do that before using Movie Maker. Once you are finished using the program you again run Movie Maker and use the RESTORE option to put those Codecs back into operation...its very easy to use. There is an additional option. You can use the options within XP to turn off the various levels of video acceleration that your graphics card has. Doing this is not a good idea but if you do you must understand that every program that relies on those abilities will either run badly or not at all. To turn the acceleration down right click your desktop and select PROPERTIES, then SETTINGS then ADVANCED and then TROUBLERSHOOT. You will then see a slider bar which should normally be positioned on the far right. You can move it one step at a time and then close the dialog down and re-try Movie Maker. You can repeat those steps until (and if) Movie Maker works properly. A lot of video programs give you the opportunity of taking a snap shot of the video displayed, Intervideo WinDVD 5 does a good job of this. Movie Maker also has this option. BUT, if you turn the acceleration down as above, you will no longer be able to take those snapshots. This is not a great problem of course as you can change the acceleration back. But it is rather tedious. 3) How do I make my system perform better and stop Movie Maker crashing ======================================================= This is by far the best way of doing things. Whilst the Rename Codec program is a MUST when you really do need to keep "other" software on your system, the following approach will ensure that your system runs at its best speed and will be less likely to crash at all from Video or Audio problems. You need to download the latest versions of DirectX and the Windows Codecs pack together with the latest version of Windows Media Player. You should NOT try to install these packages via the Internet, you should get the standalone versions. The reason is obvious once you know it. Suppose those updates you did some time back are not working properly...it may be that they were not installed properly or it may be that a file is either corrupt or simply missing. How would you know??? The more experienced may spot the problem but the average user will not. So why download the full package??? That's easy. When you unzip a package several checks are made to ensure the integrity of the files inside the zip. If there is a problem you will be told there and then...the file is corrupt or damaged in some other way....you do not need to trust an install over the Internet and the possibility of data being missed.... You can get the packages via these links... Codec Pack ----------------- http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/format/codecdownload.aspx DirectX ---------- http://go.microsoft.com/?LinkID=1081813 Windows Media Player --------------------------------- http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b446ae53-3759-40cf-80d5-cde4bbe07999&displaylang=en Movie Maker for XP --------------------------- http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/protect/windowsxp/choose.aspx The link for Movie Maker is actually a link to SP2 (Service Pack 2). This a large download. Its not to bad if you have a reasonably fast broadband connection, but if the download fails its a long way back to the start!!! Personally I would recommend you obtain A CD version of SP2...its available on the Windows Magazine and from Microsoft directly Drivers for your graphics card ---------------------------------- I have discovered that most people are confused on the issue of drivers for their graphics card in that when advised to acquire the latest driver they go straight to the Microsoft website and get one from them. Their is a problem with that in that the drivers supplied by Microsoft are Generic. I made the mistake of going direct to Microsoft some time back and the result was that I could only run the machine in the basic "Safe Mode" the driver was the most up to date and was definitely more recent than the existing driver. It took some time to understand what was going on I must admit...... The graphics card was an NVidia GForce 4 etc and was manufactured by Gainward. After several attempts at getting the Microsoft driver to install I decided that the download MUST BE corrupted in some way, So I went to the NVidia website and downloaded their driver (Same version number as the one from Microsoft) I had the exact same problems!!! In the end I went to the Gainward website and downloaded the most up to date driver they had.....once installed the graphics card performed better than ever and with more configuration options than I would ever need. So why did an older driver work better than the most recent from NVidia ??? Its simple when you know why .... Gainward produce high capability cards and in order to achieve some of their aims they change the way the NVidia chipset works. This requires a modified driver....and they produce their own. The card is still based on the NVidia and conforms to the basic design....but it runs very much faster because of code optimisation, and that optimisation is missing from the Microsoft or NVidia drivers. The result of all this is that you should ALWAYS go to the website of the MANUFACTURER of the card and not the manufacturer of the chipset (in my case NVidia) The Method ----------------- Reboot your computer and install SP2. After the install has completed you should reboot your computer twice...yes boring but desirable After the reboot you should now install the DirectX pack and reboot again. After that reboot install the Codec Pack and reboot yet again. After that install Windows Media Player and reboot again Finally install the latest driver for your graphics card. Rebooting the machine does perform an important task. It completes installation process's and ensures that previously existing file locks are removed. Under certain conditions XP will not overwrite a file if it has been locked. Note that this is not the same as marking a file as Read Only. Windows XP Video Decoder Checkup Utility --------------------------------------------------------------- This utility can be obtained here... http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/portablemediacenter/decoder.mspx A very useful program but with a problem. It reports that I have the MGI MPEG-2 Video Decoder on one of my machines...I have NO MGI software on my system!! I would not let that put you off using it as it does have a useful purpose even though the same objective can be achieved via other already existing routes within XP. I am in favour of this program as it does give good advice on which Codec you should select as the preferred Codec 4) What files does Movie Maker NOT like? ============================== Any MPEG based file will cause Movie Maker problems even though they seldom cause problems for Media Player. There are a number of reasons...Media Player does not need the CODER part of the Codec and there are many methods/procedures/algothims used to Code an MPeg file and its that wide range of methods that Movie Maker can not address. Its not really a bug but the method of dealing with the issue, well there is no method...Movie Maker gives an error and crashes or it just crashes. The particular file extensions are Mpeg,MPG and MP3. JPeg still images can also be a problem and for similar reasons to MPeg files. There are a number of formats for a JPeg and it seems that the older formats are not properly dealt with. To work around the issue you can reduce the compression used in creating the JPeg and NOT use the progressive format method The best solution for these problems is to convert the file into a more acceptable format, and as it happens a format that is more easily worked on by Movie Maker...the conversion you should employ are MPeg, MPG convert to AVI, MP3 convert to WAV and JPeg, JPG convert to a standard bitmap BMP NOTES ====== There are several other approaches you can take to solving a Codec issue. I have seen several other methods of solving the problem, and basically they don't. Instead they treat the symptom and not the problem itself. Several other methods involve damaging the picture of your computers layout (that's a bad pun by the way) and simply doing that involves the risk of permanent damage to that picture. The program Rename Codecs also damages that picture of your system but it does at least provide a user friendly way of restoring your system and that method requires no prior knowledge on your part about where, which and how to make those changes. All efforts are made to ensure that the information is accurate. As no one is perfect I would be happy to hear of any errors found in this document. If you have any doubts at all over following the advice given here you should NOT attempt it. The contents of this FAQ are liable to change with out prior notification. -- Have A Nice Day.....John Kelly Check out the free hosting for your pictures and video at... www.the-kellys.org www.the-kellys.co.uk and the new section on papajohn :) ---- \|||/ (oo) ----------ooO-(_)-Ooo------------- All material gained from other sources is duly acknowledged. No Value is obtained by publishing in any format other peoples work Tag: Movie Maker 2.1 Tag: 33449
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    - Full Screen My full screen is not working. I tried clicking the little button by the preview window going to view>fullscreen, and hitting alt+enter. But it will not show full screen. Anyone know why? Tag: Movie Maker 2.1 Tag: 33448
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    - Poll: Does Your DVD Software Accept PhotoStory 3 files... I was running with Sonic's MyDVD v4.5 which accepted the Photo Story 2 files... but it wouldn't accept the new v2 image codec used by Photo Story 3. I've upgraded to Sonic's MyDVD v6.1 which handles the newer stories fine. Does your DVD software handle the newer stories? I'd like to hear about those that do and don't.... the software and version... and a 'yes' or 'no' post is all that's needed.... thanks. -- PapaJohn Movie Maker 2 and Photo Story 3 - www.papajohn.org Photo Story 2 - www.photostory.papajohn.org . Tag: Movie Maker 2.1 Tag: 33444
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    - Picture in Picture Is there any way to do picture in picture in movie maker? Tag: Movie Maker 2.1 Tag: 33443
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    - Analogue capture quality I am using: Sony analogue camcorder, ADS Tech's USB Instant Video CD into a USB2 port, 2.7Ghz processor and 512Mb memory. I am in the UK therefore using PAL. Playback directly from the Sony camera to a TV, the quality is superb. I then capture it using either Movie Maker 2 save it as an avi file and then burn it to DVD using Nero When I play it back on the TV, the picture is jerky as if it is missing every other frame and near-horizontal lines. break up into steps. I have also tried using Pure Motion Capture2 but with the same results. Does this have anything to do with interlacing and should it be set to interlace or non-interlace? Being new to video editing, any advice would be much appreciated as to what I am doing wrong. Many thanks Geoff. Tag: Movie Maker 2.1 Tag: 33442
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    - "device in use error" when capturing video Good Morning, When setting my video capture card to anything about 384x288 I get a "device in use error" even though nothing is being used. A couple of times I have retried for a few hours and somehow (I wasn't writing down the steps), I did get it to do 720x480, but never have again. Anyone have a recomendations? Thank you, CTx Tag: Movie Maker 2.1 Tag: 33440
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    - Greater St. John Good morning, We currently have Windows Movie Maker on our computer system. We have analogue TV cameras with a switch board and control boxes for the cameras. The software will capture at a resolution of 640x480 but when we try to go higher to 720x480 the entire computer locks up...has anyone run into this problem? Tag: Movie Maker 2.1 Tag: 33433
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    - Hi Def So let me get this straight. Even though there is a high definition codec for Movie Maker, it depends what you imput as to the hi def output. In other words, without a hi def camcorder dv capture, the video quality may improve, but won't reach hi def resolution? And, there are only two consumer hi def camcorders out there, the Sony and the Panasonic? So the 320x240 camcorder resolution can't be stretched to make a dramatic difference? Thank you. Tag: Movie Maker 2.1 Tag: 33432
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    - index error when i try to import video i get this messege The file C:\Documents\My Videos\My_Movie_01.wmv is not indexed and cannot be imported. Tag: Movie Maker 2.1 Tag: 33430
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    - movie maker and media player i have created my own video and tryed to see it on media player but it works like the negative part of a photo what cai i do ? Tag: Movie Maker 2.1 Tag: 33426
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    - Microsoft Movie Maker, Creating DVD's I am a new user. I have a Sony DCR-TRV260. I created and edited my first movie. How can I burn this movie to a DVD that will play on a DVD player? I could not find this in the Help file. Thanks in advance. Devon T. Sowell Tag: Movie Maker 2.1 Tag: 33421
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    - Automatic transitions? I have a large (greater than 20) set of collections, each with larg numbers (greater than 50) of digital photos. My question is: Is there a way to automatically add the *same* transition between each of the photos in the time line? It's very tedious to add the same transition over and over again, hundreds of times... Thanks! --voxlator Tag: Movie Maker 2.1 Tag: 33416
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    - Title scrolling across face How do I move the Title (text) down so that it doesn't scroll over the face of the person I am interviewing? There has to be a way to move it to the bottom of the screen, right? Thanks! Tag: Movie Maker 2.1 Tag: 33411
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    - Source files missing When I make a movie with my web cam in moviemaker such as filming myself acting goofy for my granddaughter to see I try to save it to my computer and I get an error message Source files missing can't save movie. How are there source files when I made the movie in moviemaker? It has not been imported to moviemaker from another source. How do I find source files? I am a newbie using MM and don't know much about it. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks. Tag: Movie Maker 2.1 Tag: 33408

What I don't understand is how one gets WMM2.1 if I already have sp2 so how
can I get WMM2.1.

Re: Movie Maker 2.1 by John

John
Mon Mar 21 07:57:50 CST 2005

Hello,

Movie Maker 2.1 is installed when installing SP2. Its their....you just
need to look for it. or click on the Start menu, navigate to the option
Movie Maker and click on that instead.

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Best Wishes.....John Kelly

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www.the-kellys.org
www.the-kellys.co.uk

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Re: Movie Maker 2.1 by nanaoneal2

nanaoneal2
Mon Mar 21 16:33:03 CST 2005

Thanks alot John, It was there all along. It didn't say MM2 so I didn't think
I had it, but I went into help and there it was listed as WMM2.1 Thanks
again.......

"John Kelly" wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Movie Maker 2.1 is installed when installing SP2. Its their....you just
> need to look for it. or click on the Start menu, navigate to the option
> Movie Maker and click on that instead.
>
> --
> Best Wishes.....John Kelly
>
> Check out the free hosting for your pictures and video at...
> www.the-kellys.org
> www.the-kellys.co.uk
>

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