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    - DVD player can't see WMM DVD We have tried every type of disc from DVD-R, DVD+R, CD-r, CD-RW and our Sony player will not recognize the discs. We have tried the recommended format, the AVI format and several of the optional formats. The player will not see the disc or says the disc is dirty. Any help is greatly appreciated. -- Thanks Ken And Cyn Tag: Movie Maker and MPEG-2 Files Tag: 58300
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    - Movie Maker & AVI files I am new to this. I have a movie (video file) I made on a portable recording device at 480X640 and it's an AVI file. I copied this file from the device to my PC and imported the video into MM. I cannot see anything on the thumbnail as I can if I import a WMV file, but it plays if I play it in the player - video and audio. However, I can drag it to the story board/timeline and it will not play video, audio plays. I seem to be able to trim it, add transitions and external audio, etc. But the darn thing just doesn't play in the story board. Help? -- Gary Tag: Movie Maker and MPEG-2 Files Tag: 58298
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    - Movie maker- No audio? I captured video from my Samsung video camera into Movie Maker, but when I went to go play and edit the video, I had video, but not the audio that went with it. How can I fix this? Tag: Movie Maker and MPEG-2 Files Tag: 58297
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    - new to WMM..having trouble with quality of video..please help! Hi. I'm new to WMM and am limited in my computer knowledge..any help would be greatly appreciated. I am planning on presenting a drama video to my church. I have already recorded the pieces of video that I wanted, using a video camera, and now have the clippings on a DVD-R. The quality of the video clippings is very clear up to this point. However, I then took the video from the DVD-R and saved it on my computer hard drive. From there, I used WMM program and edited everything together how I want it. The picture quality of the video in WMM was slightly grainy during the editing process. I then burnt the final video onto a CD-R and viewed it in Windows Media Player and the picture quality was very grainy and terrible looking. Could someone please walk me through step-by-step or give me suggestions as to how to improve the video quality during the process of transferring the DVD-R to my hard drive and also during the burning process after I am finished with the video in WMM...Thanks so much! Tag: Movie Maker and MPEG-2 Files Tag: 58296
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    - No sound with my Hi 8 video device I can't hear any sound after I've captured from a video device. I've never used this bfor, and don't know what is wrong or what to do. I might even be using something wrong. Please help! Tag: Movie Maker and MPEG-2 Files Tag: 58292
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    - MESSAGE SAYS CANNOT IMPORT NOT INDEXED EVERYTIME I TRY AND OPEN THIS ONE FILE IT HAS AN ERROR MESSAGE THAT SAYS: THE NAME OF THE FILE IS NOT INDEXED AND CANNOT BE IMPORTED IVE TRIED EVERYTHING AND IT IS AN WMV FILE AND I HAVE WENT THROUGH EVERY OPTION AND NOTHING CHANGES PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!! Tag: Movie Maker and MPEG-2 Files Tag: 58290
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    - Two problems I'm working on an AMV, and I've noticed a few things that I know aren't really supposed to happen: 1. If I watch my project so far from the beginning, it plays fine. But if I start, say, 20 seconds into the video, the music doesn't start at the point I paused at, but instead at one a few seconds earlier. 2. I split a clip into thirds and added [Fade In, From White] to two of them so I could get the flashing effect. On the third clip, however, it stops playing. I can watch the rest if I set the point to after the said clip, but then problem 1 comes into play. What's going on? Would a simple restart of the computer do it or is it something a bit more complex? Tag: Movie Maker and MPEG-2 Files Tag: 58288
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    - Change File How do I change a Winamp Media File to a Mpeg?? -- George Jurak Tag: Movie Maker and MPEG-2 Files Tag: 58287
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    - Slide Show w/ Voice Over Hi, I'd like to prepare a lecture consisting of 40-50 slides timed to appear, disppear, and zoom in and out in synch with my voice-over to distribute to students on a DVD. I'm computer literate, but have never done this before. Can I do this relatively easily with, say, Microsoft Moviemaker and/or Photo Story 3. Or do you recommend getting something else? Also, maye you can tell me the best way to make and merge the voice over with the slides? Thanks very much in advance for the advice Tag: Movie Maker and MPEG-2 Files Tag: 58283
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    - Complete package of DVD solutions Complete package of DVD solutions : DVD movie copying including copy protected movies, copying to dual layer DVD discs, shrinking to a single DVD disc, DVD to DVD, DVD to Video CD, DVD to AVI. From the simple to the most powerful... http://www.dualdvdcopy.com Dual Software Tag: Movie Maker and MPEG-2 Files Tag: 58280
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    - Why does my movie-frames get up-side-down? When I have imported my files the are shown up-side-down....also when I play them from the storyboard. Can anyone help me? Tag: Movie Maker and MPEG-2 Files Tag: 58262
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    - Memory Error - WMM Closes automatically Anyone ever see this happen in WMM 5.1? Instruction at "0x000000bc" referenced memory "0x000000bc". The memory could not be "read". It terminates the program. I can usually used Movie Maker for about 5 minutes before I get the Debug/Send Error box...if I move the box I can still use WMM, however, after about another 5 minutes, the above message pops up and WMM locks up...OKing or Canceling the warning simply term.'s WMM. Any help would be great! Tag: Movie Maker and MPEG-2 Files Tag: 58260
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    - Blur selected part of screen Is there a not-terribly expensive piece of software that works either as an add-in to WMM or as standalone that anyone can recommend that would allow me to blur a selected chunk of the screen? It would be the SAME chunk of the screen during the whole clip, so it wouldn't need to be dynamic, but it would be beneficial to outline a square or rectangular piece of the playback window and say "blur this." Even better would be able to do so at varying levels of blur. TIA Tag: Movie Maker and MPEG-2 Files Tag: 58258
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    - Audio/Video question I have video footage that I want the music to play over, and some footage that I want the actual video sounds to play. I know how to turn the music up and down with the slider manually, but how do I make it so that it does it automatically, and will it do that when I transfer the movie to a dvd? In other words...I want the music to fade out in some scenes and fade back in on others...and have the actual sounds of the video playing. Tag: Movie Maker and MPEG-2 Files Tag: 58250
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    - WMM 6 (Vista) encoding/publishing question In WMM 2.1 (from XP), there are tons of options to use when encoding video; and often when I want to save space, or am just doing a simple video to put online, I will encode in the small 512kb/s (320x240 or 428x240). if I need decent quality, Iâ??ve never needed more than the 1mb/s or 2mb/s settings. However, it seems that versatility is now lost in WMM 6; especially when it comes to widescreen formats, where the smallest setting is 3mb/s. Working on a laptop, my hard drive space is limited, and I would like to be able to save my videos in smaller formats. Will this option be available ever? As of now, I just save the files on my laptop, transfer them to an XP desktop (with WMM 2.1), re-save them in the smaller format, then transfer them back and delete the large one. Its quite a pain... Tag: Movie Maker and MPEG-2 Files Tag: 58245
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    - WMM 6 (Vista) encoding/publishing question In WMM 2.1 (from XP), there are tons of options to use when encoding video; and often when I want to save space, or am just doing a simple video to put online, I will encode in the small 512kb/s (320x240 or 428x240). if I need decent quality, Iâ??ve never needed more than the 1mb/s or 2mb/s settings. However, it seems that versatility is now lost in WMM 6; especially when it comes to widescreen formats, where the smallest setting is 3mb/s. Working on a laptop, my hard drive space is limited, and I would like to be able to save my videos in smaller formats. Will this option be available ever? As of now, I just save the files on my laptop, transfer them to an XP desktop (with WMM 2.1), re-save them in the smaller format, then transfer them back and delete the large one. Its quite a pain... Tag: Movie Maker and MPEG-2 Files Tag: 58244
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    - Movie editor for windows pc hi Is it possible to edit quicktime movies on a PC running windows XP? Of course Windows own movie maker doesnt support its rival stuff. Is there anyway round this: ie download a codec? I've searched the groups and it seems this has been asked a number of times, without it seems a solution. the only suggestion being to try qt pro, but it seems that doesnt allow to edit a movie beyond some basic actions, or compicated file conversion. does anyone have an answer to this? cheers mike Tag: Movie Maker and MPEG-2 Files Tag: 58239
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    - besoin d'aide SVP Hello, I'm new 2 the site, looks to be very tech saavy. I have recently purchased a MCE computer, has the WinTV PVR 150, I am trying to record some of my son's baby videos from VHS-C camcorder, using the s-video and/or yellow/white composite cables from the camcorder. I used Windows Movie Maker, captured video but no audio. Same using AVS video capture. I have Realtek HD audio, sound is hooked up to generic sound inputs connected to motherboard. I do not have a separate sound card. How can I enable capturing audio using these sources. I have been recommended to use coaxial, but shouldn't I be able to use other (better, reduce loss of quality) resources. Does it have something to do with software, MediaCenter, sound properties, device manager? Help 4 newbie? Tag: Movie Maker and MPEG-2 Files Tag: 58237
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    - clips wont transfer to timeline i tried transfering the clips to the timeline but it wont work and my cursor turns into that timing thing and when i click on the program it says (not responding) why wont it work!!! Tag: Movie Maker and MPEG-2 Files Tag: 58235
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    - Can't open it I tried to instal new effects and since then i had problem with WMM. Since then, i can open the program but when i try to make a clip on the timeline, it closes the program and it never work! i tried to install and re install etc. but it doesn't change anything. does someone know how to change that? thanx Tag: Movie Maker and MPEG-2 Files Tag: 58234
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    - Mpeg1 I am trying to download a video from WMM and make it a MPEG 1 file. What is the easy way to do this. Tag: Movie Maker and MPEG-2 Files Tag: 58232
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    - Problem with text feature Is there ANYWAY to put my text anywhere on my screen? Cause, its covers when it appears at bottom it covers some things up Tag: Movie Maker and MPEG-2 Files Tag: 58231
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    - snapshooting DVD images and grabbing clips of DVD video Hi All Does anybody know of a good, and simple, app that will enable the user to easily grab and extract 'chunks' of video from a DVD and also stills from a DVD? With regard to the latter, I've tried ALshow to do this but I've got to be very quick with the old keys. It would be great if the prog allowed me to step through the videos frame-by-frame so that I had more control over my snapshooting. Any ideas? Thanks Tag: Movie Maker and MPEG-2 Files Tag: 58229
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    - titles Is there any way to do a SIMPLE, PROFESSIONAL-looking title that sits at the bottom of the screen and just tells who someone is and what they do, kind of like this: Bob Expert about something I'm sure there's some way to do it with XML or something like that, but I don't know XML and don't have time to learn it at the moment. Tag: Movie Maker and MPEG-2 Files Tag: 58226
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    - Changing default record drive I'm trying to burn movie to disc but MM is not reading my drive actually it says insert a recordable disc. I have an external drive I'd like to use but I don't change the 'default' drive. Please advise. Tag: Movie Maker and MPEG-2 Files Tag: 58220
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    - problem finishing movie to DV My father's computer is giving me trouble. I can use WMM without any problems until I go to Finish the movie. I am sending it back to my DV and everything looks normal except that no video or audio are recorded on the camcorder. It says "Finish" as if all went well, but there's nothing on my tape. Any help would be great! Thanks Brian Tag: Movie Maker and MPEG-2 Files Tag: 58211
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    - WMM won't recognize my Sony camcorder Hi, Although I previously have not had any problems and have made plenty of WMM projects, lately my computer won't recognize my Sony camcorder. So I can't capture any video. However, I am able to capture using the lesser quality capture setting of DV-AVI. This doesn't work out so well because when I play the movie it get shakey and tends stick or freeze up. Can anyone give me any tips how to get the computer to recognize the camera through the Best Quality setting? Thank you, Brian F. Tag: Movie Maker and MPEG-2 Files Tag: 58210
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    - Saving Files for the Next Generation I have a lot of family videos that I captured through Movie Maker, Imported into Nero, made it pretty with chapters and titles and saved the project to DVD and my computer. Now what. I have a lot of large files taking up space on my Hard drive that I want to get rid of. What happens when technology changes and DVDs are replaced. Is the best format to copy onto the future technology my DVD or should I save the Movie Maker raw version as something else to avoid losing quality? Or what do you recommend to preserve quality? Tag: Movie Maker and MPEG-2 Files Tag: 58209
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    - where do I update to 1.1 so I can continue updating? thank you for the assistance! Tag: Movie Maker and MPEG-2 Files Tag: 58206
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    - Jumpy Video on Playback Help! Help!! Help!! I'm experiencing a jumpy video on playback on the timeline. Because the movie was imported to a harddrive, I swithched computers, no help. Defragged, no help.... I don't know what to do, Papa John anybody with a clue please help. It's a school project and the kids are already fustrated... Tag: Movie Maker and MPEG-2 Files Tag: 58200
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    - Vidoes off of a phone When I try to transfer my videos off of my phone inot Windows Movie Maker it won't let me because of the file type of the video, is there anyway I can change the type for it to let me add it? Tag: Movie Maker and MPEG-2 Files Tag: 58199
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    - Burt Young's official website The awaited launch of Burt Young's official website is now available on the Internet for the public. The website has become a literal library describing his milestones. His most recent endeavors include a marvelous display of contemporary artwork and paintings. He can be browsed at http://burtyoungartandfilm.com/ Tag: Movie Maker and MPEG-2 Files Tag: 58198
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    - How do I save my movie to DVD with WinDVD? OK, it's taken me forever to fiddle around with MovieMaker and do my movie, finally got it all finished and now am struggling with how to convert it to a DVD. I managed to get to the Save Movie File, and saved it to "My Computer" as DV-AVI, but then when I played it back, all my audio was stuffed it (my audio was jumping all over the place when the clips faded to the next). So, after reading heaps of posts on this board, followed some instructions to un-installed Internet Explorer 7, and hey presto, after saving my movie again but this time as "High Quality Video (PAL). So I now have my file and the sound is working, but can't for the life of me figure out how to convert it to a format for recording to DVD. I've searched through this site, and read about all sorts of programs I can use. And although I have a few of these programs (have never used any of them before) I am at a loss how to proceed with them. I have Sonic RecordNow v6, but when I open this it tells me I don't have the right version of Media Player. I have InterVideo WinDVD, but am totally lost with what to do with it. I can play my movie on it, but can't see any other options here. I have downloaded the free trial version of ConvertXtoDVD, and after waiting yonks for it to download, I went to convert my movie, but it said it would have a watermark through the entire thing (not at all what I want!) Can anyone please explain if (and how) I can use WinDVD to do this?? Please help! I am so frustrated with this, have been surfing for answers for hours and hours and hours now! Argh! Thanks Lisa Tag: Movie Maker and MPEG-2 Files Tag: 58197
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    - Audio questions Could anyone tell me...can you have the audio fit to the slideshow automatically? I want the whole song to play, but I want the timing of each picture to adjust automatically. Also, I have video footage that I want the music to play over, and some footage that I want the actual video sounds to play. I know how to turn the music up and down with the slider manually, but how do I make it so that it does it automatically, and will it do that when I transfer the movie to a dvd? In other words...I want the music to fade out in some scenes and fade back in on others...and have the actual sounds of the video playing. Tag: Movie Maker and MPEG-2 Files Tag: 58193
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    - help please PROBLEMS WIHT .WMV FILES says 'codec undetermined' Hi there so I captured my video cameras images with my firewire card through wmmaker no hassles. the files play fine in media player 11 however when i import them to edit them, the screen is a scrambled fluro green. i put the files in gspot codec finder. the result was .wmv codec wmv3 wmpv9 (vc-1 simple/main1) codec stat undetermined! whats going on! how can i fix this! Tag: Movie Maker and MPEG-2 Files Tag: 58192
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    - could not be imported. Unspecified error could not be imported. Unspecified error is the error i get when i try to import a video, please help me find the fix. thank you, marla Tag: Movie Maker and MPEG-2 Files Tag: 58191
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    - Sound Problem The sound on my saved movies has begun to sound scratchy, as a static like sound. The audio clip plays fine in the collection panel as well as in the project. The sound on the overall PC plays OK. Thanks for any help. Tag: Movie Maker and MPEG-2 Files Tag: 58189
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    - Video Capture Issue I have an ATI Video TV tuner. It has inputs for TV wire(can't remember the technical term) and Svideo. Using Windows Movie Maker capture wizard, I will get to the record screen. If I have selected the TV input, the video will display properly. If I have a device (my DvD player or camera) plugged in via Svideo, the video will display for 3-5 seconds before becoming colored snow across the screen. Any assistance would be wonderful, as I am stumped. Tag: Movie Maker and MPEG-2 Files Tag: 58188
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    - Can't get movie back! I am a bit new at M/M but I have half finished my video for a wedding I'm doing and it's in Media Player and now I can't get it back to M/M to keep adding to it. Does anyone know how to move it from Media Player back to M/M? -- Chris Tag: Movie Maker and MPEG-2 Files Tag: 58186
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    - Force default temp/import directory possible? Hi all, I'm setting up a video-training classrom with webcams, and each student gets his own 2Gb flashdrive to import/save/record videos on. Is there a way to force MM2 to always default to a specific drive or folder? Any registry settings? -- BigChief_Nor Tag: Movie Maker and MPEG-2 Files Tag: 58185
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    - Help and Guidance Please My old video camera died an unfortunate death in a fire, so I now have to buy a new one, but I am a bit swamped with all the alternatives. I have worked out that I don't want a DVD one, so it comes down to a choice between Mini DV or HDD. Does anyone have any advice as to which way I should go, or advice on any particular models? My old one was Hi-8, so I guess anything would be an improvement, but I really can't decide which format to plump for. Any advice would be gratefully accepted. Tag: Movie Maker and MPEG-2 Files Tag: 58184
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    - pictures small When I import pictures to the movie maker they look great and the right size but for some reason after they are saved and I go and play them the pictures are small. Can anyone tell me what the problem is. Thank you Tag: Movie Maker and MPEG-2 Files Tag: 58183
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    - Color Washed Out When Save Project to Computer When I save my project to my computer, I watch it in WMP and the black turns to grey and the other colors seem to wash out too. The project is about 27 mins long and has only picture files and mp3 files in it. Tag: Movie Maker and MPEG-2 Files Tag: 58180
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    - movie maker has encountered a problem and needs to shut down Everytime I try to copy my movie to a CD-R when it gets to 60%I get the message "Movie Maker has encountered a problem and needs to shut down, would you like to send an error report". Jeeze how many error reports do they want? Is my Movie Maker damaged and if so how can I repair it. This is the first time I use it, so I'm not to sure why this keeps happpening, but it is totally driving me insane. Tag: Movie Maker and MPEG-2 Files Tag: 58167
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    - Tranfer camera dv to pc why when i transfer from the dv camera conection to the pc usb firewire the image in the very bad. What i can do to transfer the same quality of image of the camera to the pc. Tag: Movie Maker and MPEG-2 Files Tag: 58165
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    - Can't access video clips I just started using M/M last week. At one point I decided to rename a collection. Once I did, all the individual clips appeared with a big red "X" in the middle and now cannot be accessed. 1. How can I recover them? 2. Is it possible to create a new title for a collection and move specific clips into it without creating this problem again? Thank you. -- Mike Tag: Movie Maker and MPEG-2 Files Tag: 58163
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    - Help!!!! I am trying to do a few things. I am 1 day new at this Movie maker thing, and I am trying to 1. send a video clip to a Samusung cell phone and I think the format is 3.gp. Is there a way to reformat clips that have been made by my camcorder? 2. I would like to make a movie with the clips that have been sent from that same cell phone. About the 1st thing I am trying to do, I sent off a clip and he got it, and it loaded, but it wouldn't show. What can I do and would any one have any ideas? PLEASE I AM DESPIRATE FOR SUGGESTIONS AND WEB SITES!!! THANK YOU Tag: Movie Maker and MPEG-2 Files Tag: 58161
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    - Video Transitions Movie Maker Transitions only appear when the Administrator is logged onto the local machine. What folder are the transisions stored? What special permissions need to be applied? I have 4 labs of XP machines that were imaged. The transisions are missing on every machine. Tag: Movie Maker and MPEG-2 Files Tag: 58157
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    - movie maker - asf not displaying when played Hi, I'm Suzanne. I've been using movie maker for some time now, but I recently used another persons camera to take some clips. This camera has asf format and when I drag a clip into the storyboard and press play to view it, I can't see anything. Even though the clip is playing. Does anyone have any good ideas that might help overcome the problem? Do I need to convert the asf to another format? If so can you suggest a free converter I can use? Thanks for you help. I'll look forward to hearing all your great replies. -- Make every day count! Tag: Movie Maker and MPEG-2 Files Tag: 58147

I've discovered that the Windows "Movie Maker" video editing program cannot
edit MPEG-2 files! How ridiculous! The videos in my new, expensive camera
cannot be edited. Why would Microsoft commit such an important oversight?

Microsoft should upgrade the "Movie Maker" program and enable "Movie Maker"
to edit MPEG-2 files. Otherwise, the program is totally worthless to me.

Marc

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