Movie Maker in all Vista versions the same?

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    - transition help needed Hello, I have downloaded some extra transitions for movie maker and ever since then I cant use any of it. As soon as I click on transitions it closes down. I have tried to find the extra downloaded ones to delete them as maybe there are too many but i dont know where it is. Can someone please tell me in the simplest form how to restore my movie maker. Tag: Movie Maker in all Vista versions the same? Tag: 59473
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    - MM2 is Grouping my photos I made a movie in Photo Story 3 and saved it to my computer (.wmv). Just photos, transitions, and music. I tried to open it in Movie Maker to see if I could tweak one of the songs to fit the ending of the photos (which I had a hard time doing in Photo Story) and it opened the movie in "groups" of photos. Meaning, photos 1-8 were all under one clip, photos 9-30 were under another clip, etc. It opened 6 clips, all with a different number of photos included in them. I can't edit movies made in Photo Story 3 in Movie Maker? What am I doing wrong? Thank you for your time. -- imsyel Tag: Movie Maker in all Vista versions the same? Tag: 59467
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    - Codec Problem, PLEASE HELP!! Okay, so I cleaned out my computer about a week ago, then I go to import a video file in Windows Movie Maker and it says: [File name] cannot be imported because the codec required to play the file is not installed on your computer. If you have already tried to download and install the codec, close and restart Windows Movie Maker, and then try to import the file again. It's a .wmv file and I don't understand why i can't fix it. I'm afraid that I accidently deleted the codec when I cleaned my computer out, is there any way I can get the codec back? PLEASE HELP ME!!! :( Tag: Movie Maker in all Vista versions the same? Tag: 59466
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    - movie maker wont open i click on the shortcut for movie maker and it starts up but about a second it crashes and says movie maker has stopped working and has to close, anyone know how to fix it ? im using vista home premium Tag: Movie Maker in all Vista versions the same? Tag: 59465
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    - Photo Story 3 I created a short photo video using Photo Story 3 then imported that into MM2 to add a few short videos and then saved to my computer in avi format to burn to DVD. My problem is when viewed in Media Player 11, the transitions and effects created by photo story 3 are very jerky and i don't want to start burning DVDs if there is something i'm doing wrong. Any help would be appreciated. Bubba Tag: Movie Maker in all Vista versions the same? Tag: 59464
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    - Sound F/X I need help finding sound f/x supported by movie maker eg.Screeching tires,glass shattering. Can anyone help Tag: Movie Maker in all Vista versions the same? Tag: 59460
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    - stream format > default output size I have a Kodak DVC325 and when I go to Capture from video device > Configure > Video settings > output size, it shows 160 x 120 as the default. How can I change this to 320 x 240? Tag: Movie Maker in all Vista versions the same? Tag: 59459
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    - Movie Maker won't save to DVD I have made a slide show/movie, but I can't get it to save to DVD. It goes all through the saving stage, then goes to converting files, then stops. Says "Windows Movie Maker can't save to DVD. There was an error." But no error was stated. The slides are .jpg and the movie part is from High 8 digital camcorder. The whole thing is about 25 minutes long. I have spent many days making this, and now I can't save it to DVD. It is so frustrating. Any suggestions? Tag: Movie Maker in all Vista versions the same? Tag: 59443
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    - presentation does anyone know if i use my computer dvd or have a movie on my computer. can i use movie maker or quicktime or powerpoint to develop a presentation that uses excerpts from the movie. pasted in at different intervals during my presentation. ??????? Tag: Movie Maker in all Vista versions the same? Tag: 59440
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    - Video/Audio Sync Problem New to all this... I am using movie maker to convert downloaded avi files to wmv files so that I can stream them to my xbox. After conversion the sync between the video and the sound is miles off! I am not tampering with the video in any way, literally just importing and then saving as wmv. Does any know how to stop this? Thanks Tag: Movie Maker in all Vista versions the same? Tag: 59437
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    - un-installing how do i un-install movie maker? I cant find it in add or remove programs. thot i would try all over again to get it to work. I downloaded it and I recieve an error message when opening it, reguarding the condition of wmm? It opens but the error message pops up. have sent report eror message and hit debug, nothing works. also downloaded all updates? please help. Tag: Movie Maker in all Vista versions the same? Tag: 59435
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    - adding music hey i am having a problem getting my itunes or limewire music in the "My Music" file in the movie maker.hope that someone can help me thanks -=steve=- Tag: Movie Maker in all Vista versions the same? Tag: 59433
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    - Movie maker 2 When trying to open movie maker 2 I get a message saying "application has failed to start because msvfw32.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem". The same message appears when trying to open other applications as well. How do I go about rectifying this problem? Help would be greatly appreciated. Tag: Movie Maker in all Vista versions the same? Tag: 59426
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    - I have Movie Maker 5.0 but... When I looked at the download site for a newer version, the download version was 2.1. Do I have the latest version or is 2.1 the latest version Tag: Movie Maker in all Vista versions the same? Tag: 59420
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    - No sound on MPEG2 I am using the video created with a Sony DCR-SR82. Media Player plays both the video and the sound, but Movie Maker just plays the video. What do I need to do to play the sound as well? Thanks in advance Tag: Movie Maker in all Vista versions the same? Tag: 59418
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    - finishing a movie Is there away that when you finish a movie that you can have it loop back over and start playing again without hitting the play button? Thanks -- jerald Tag: Movie Maker in all Vista versions the same? Tag: 59417
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    - Screen output as video capture device? Sorry, this is probably a bit silly, but I'm new to this MM-technology. Is it not possible to record events in a window as a video-clip? - I have a TV tuner-card, could I use that as intermediary capture device and have MovieMaker record it from there? Reading the documentation isn't really enlightening about this specific subject - I understand that I need a properly configured Capture Device, but I'd assumed that to include the screen. If anyone could name an alternative, I'd be mighty pleased too! Tony. . . Tag: Movie Maker in all Vista versions the same? Tag: 59413
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    - Length of Audio Clip I'm using the Narrate Timeline feature and find that regardless of how long I talk, the audio clip cuts off after 7.61 seconds. I've looked everywhere for a setting that controls the length, but found nothing that allows the audio clip to record longer. Can anyone help? Tag: Movie Maker in all Vista versions the same? Tag: 59409
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    - I never got Movie Maker Hi, I updated to Serivce Pack 2 a long time ago and I never got Windows Movie Maker, and now that I want it I try to get it but it tells me that I need Service Pack 2, even after updating (AGAIN) I still don't have it. Anything I can do? Tag: Movie Maker in all Vista versions the same? Tag: 59405
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    - Photo story 3 Can someone tell me how to put a title page at the front as it says you can do it but I cant work out how. Tag: Movie Maker in all Vista versions the same? Tag: 59402
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    - WMM & WinDVD Creator sound problems Hi I have created a slideshow in WMM (as I like the effects better than Photo Story 3. I imported it into WinDVD to print. I save the project to movie file with settings of DV-AVI (Pal) & also high quality video (PAL) & also best quality playback for computer. With DV-AVI the sound & picture shutters With High quality video its much worse than DV-AVI With Best Quality for computer its really bad also. I'm trying to burn it to play on DVD players as its a 60th birthday and I want to burn copies for all the family. Can anyone solve my problem. Tag: Movie Maker in all Vista versions the same? Tag: 59399
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    - Import Files from ADS Capture Device Hi, I would like to be able to import files that was capture via ADS DVD Xpress and ADS DVD Xpress DX2 via a USB port. When I try to import the file into Widows Movie Maker it tell me 'G:\My Videos\Bubba on Lanai.mpg could not be imported. An interface has too many methods to fire events from.' When I use Window media converter it hangs up when I select the file. Window Media 11 input the files OK. Tag: Movie Maker in all Vista versions the same? Tag: 59384
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    - Picture freezes in Movie I created a movie with pictures, transitions and audio (it is approximately 30 minutes long). It plays without any problems as a project, but when I save it as a movie it will play fine for part of the movie and then it will freeze on one picture and only play the audio going forward. Tag: Movie Maker in all Vista versions the same? Tag: 59383
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    - TmpGEnc AVI Files Seem WAY Too Large I wish to import some MPEG-2 files into Windows Moviemaker. Because the problems with Moviemaker and MPEG-2 are well-documented, I decided to use TmpGEnc to convert to uncompressed AVI as an intermediate format acceptable to Moviemaker. The source files are from a JVC Everio camcorder. This device writes MPEG-2 files and tags them with a .MOD extension, which TmpGEnc does not accept, but I found that all I had to do was change the extension to .MPG and that problem disappears. My question is the file size - the output AVI files are, on average, about 1.5 Gigabytes per minute. Does this seem reasonable, and in line with what an uncompressed AVI file should be? I know that mini- DV files, which are not heavily compressed, are about 12 or 13 GB per hour, or about 200 MB per minute. If uncompressed AVI is really supposed to be 1.5 GB per minute, this would imply that mini-DV is already compressed about 7:1, which I find hard to believe. thanks and regards, Martin Tag: Movie Maker in all Vista versions the same? Tag: 59382
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    - WMM Sound probs & movie sticking Hi I created a slideshow DVD with music & pictures and some credits in WMM & then imported it to WinDVD Creater 2 to Burn under Dv-AVI. It burnt ok and plays on my computer fine but the pics & sound shutter and stick - moreso towards the front & end of the DVD. Any ideas how to fix? Tag: Movie Maker in all Vista versions the same? Tag: 59375
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    - Video sticking I have searched this forum but can't find a similar issue. I saved my video from my Sony SRI to the hard drive of my PC as mpeg 2 files and subsequently created a movie. Everything is fien at this stage and the preview looks good. Then when I render the file as a DV AVI file for playback on my PC the final movie sticks every so often ruining the show. The audi seems fine but every few seconds the video sticks makes the movie suck. Can anyone help? I plan to check the following things: Codecs - I will experiment switching some off and on to see if that makes a difference File format - I will try saving the file as a different format rather than mpeg to avi Tag: Movie Maker in all Vista versions the same? Tag: 59368
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    - Video Effects Any links to add more video effects to the ones already in WMM? Anyone have the "300" effect? Thankyou God Bless... :-) Tag: Movie Maker in all Vista versions the same? Tag: 59366
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    - Movie Maker's Glaring, eye tiring white background When editing movies with movie maker, i noticed after a while the white background color is tiring to the eyes. Question: Is there a way to change the white background color to a color that be easier on the eyes? Tag: Movie Maker in all Vista versions the same? Tag: 59363
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    - time and date transfer to movie Can anyone tell me how can I get the time and date which is on my tape transfered to the movie. I have it on my camaera but when I go to movie Maker the date and time are gone? Yet I can copy it on VCR tape? Tag: Movie Maker in all Vista versions the same? Tag: 59361
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    - Adjust slideshow length with the audio file Trying to create a slide show with some pictures, I have a audio fle which is of 5min 34 sec (5:34) in length and i have about 45 photos to create a slide show, i created with some transitions and effects and the slide show length comes to 5 min 57 sec (5:57), so here 33 seconds i don;t have any audio for my slideshow, i don't want to put any other audio file in to this project, Is there any option that WMM can adjust the transition timing and fit the slideshow length to 5:34? Tag: Movie Maker in all Vista versions the same? Tag: 59359
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    - saving file to computer - no windows dialog I wish that MM would have a normal windows dialog box when saving the movie file to the computer so you could see all the other files in the folder vs just a blind 1-line box for the file name. Tag: Movie Maker in all Vista versions the same? Tag: 59347
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    - General access error 2 THIS IS PART 2 OF GENERAL ACCESS ERROR FOR MORE INFO READ:"general access error" I am using aWindows Vista so... -IE 7 is standard and Mov Maker worked fine untill recently that is (so I don't think that's the problem) -I've also seen a report that disabling the ffdshow codec could be the fix. To accomplish this...open Movie Maker and go to...Tools / Options / Compatibility tab...Uncheck... ffdshow / OK. => not an option either cause i cant enter the program (when I click the icon all it says is "general access error" -And the site (http://www.papajohn.org/MM2-Issues-Acceleration-and-Codecs.html) says something about .ax but i don't have clue what he's talking about BTW srr for my bad English but I do my best Tag: Movie Maker in all Vista versions the same? Tag: 59340
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    - title overlay & syncing to video timeline I'm run into this little annoying tidbit. Titles are placed on the timeline in the "titles overlay" bar. However, they are synced to the overall timeline, and not to their relative place within a video clip, if placed "over" a video clip. Then - if I trim a video - all the video shifts - BUT the overlay titles do not. I then have to manually re-adjust ALL the overlays as they are pasted relative to the timeline, not the clips they are overlaying. I wish that MM would sync the "overlay titles" to the video clip, and keep them in place relative to the start of that specific video clip.... Tag: Movie Maker in all Vista versions the same? Tag: 59335
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    - Slightly OT -- Converting WMM files to Flash Does anyone have any experience in converting Windows Movie Maker 2 output in WMV format to Flash files? There are several programs on the market that would appear to do this; their pricing is all over the board, so it is not like comparing apples to apples. I work for a newspaper that has a web site. I'm thinking of using WMM to edit video then saving that as a WMV file. Finally, running it through one of the Flash conversion programs for the finished file. It may also have some possibilities in creating some simple, rich media advertising files. If you have any experience, please post here or simply email your comments directly to me. Thank you very much. dlm ------------------------------------------- Dan L. Merkel Tag: Movie Maker in all Vista versions the same? Tag: 59333
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    - copy audio from included video clip I've been shooting and posting our Track Meets. http://www.youtube.com/ps56k When I've added a blue screen title, there is no audio, and I was wondering how I can grab the audio from the included video clip and paste it into the timeline for the blue title slide ? Most of the audio is just background crowd white noise and I would like to grab some and paste into the timeline for when the blue title slides play...... not using title overlay here... tnx for any ideas Tag: Movie Maker in all Vista versions the same? Tag: 59330
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    - General Access Error When I start Windows Movie Maker It doesn't start instead it gives a "general access error" What can I do to fix this? btw until recently it still worked fine Thanx ;) Tag: Movie Maker in all Vista versions the same? Tag: 59329
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    - Windows Movie Maker & Microsoft Publisher Is it possible, after making a movie using Windows Movie Maker, which has a .wmv file extension, and saving it to my computer to insert the file into Microsoft Publisher? If so, can someone explain or point me to a resource that explains how this is done? Thank you Tag: Movie Maker in all Vista versions the same? Tag: 59324
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    - Burning my pictures & credits to DVD Help please. I have spent the entire day trying to work out how to burn my Windows Movie maker project consisting of pictures, music & some credits etc to a CD that can be played on the home DVD players. I can burn it to a CD which plays on my computer but it will not play on the home DVD player. I have windows XP. Am using Movie Maker 2 and have sonic. Please help I'm desperate. Tag: Movie Maker in all Vista versions the same? Tag: 59323
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    - How / Why is a MEDIATAB1.DAT File created? Is it normal naming co I have aalways been of the impression that when a *.DAT file is created by Moviemaker that it appears as MEDIATAB.DAT or MEDIATAB0.DAT, and that file gets replaced / added to as time progresses. The other day we found a MEDIATAB1.DAT file on the computer that appeared to arrive admist strange circumstances. The usual default file on my PC is for MEDIA0TAB.DAT. Do you have any idea what would have caused this change? Could it be related to a virus, malicious attack or someone just goofing around on my PC? The PC is connected to a network. The OS of the PC is Windows XP Professional, v5.1.2600, SP2. Movie Maker is v2.1.4026.0 Any help is appreciated. HelenD Tag: Movie Maker in all Vista versions the same? Tag: 59322
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    - Error on downloading video file = wmv is not indexed I am getting this error message whenever I attempt to import video files - Please help: The file C:\Documents and Settings\My Documents\07050302-1-11.wmv is not indexed and cannot be imported. -- The Titanic was built by professionals, The Ark by Amateurs. Tag: Movie Maker in all Vista versions the same? Tag: 59321
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    - Problem with GIF files When i upload a GIF file it increase the duration to 24 hours and the fps to 30 which make the GIF play as a freeze frame of 1 frame in the whole file, does anyone know how i can correct this? Tag: Movie Maker in all Vista versions the same? Tag: 59319
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    - Writing on a CD a Movie Ok I have a DVD recorder and have a movie that I made in Windows Movie Maker, do I have to use a blank DVD because I have tried using a cd-r and it will not work. Tag: Movie Maker in all Vista versions the same? Tag: 59316
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    - Capture Device Not Found... Just installed a firewire card and tried MMaker...first time the wizard appeared, recognized the Sony DV camera and all was going OK. After about 90 seconds the capture stopped even though video tape was still going. Now I get the "not recognized" message...and had a "no tape in the camera" message once also?? MMaker froze up also, CADelete didn't help, had to just hit the off button. Any ideas to this problem ?? Tag: Movie Maker in all Vista versions the same? Tag: 59315
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    - Movie Maker Shuts Down So, im in the process of editing my film and as soon as I add another clip to the timeline the program simply closes! I have tried again several times but it happens EVERY time! Please help, thanks so much if you will help me! Tag: Movie Maker in all Vista versions the same? Tag: 59311
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    - Kodak / Quick time Videos How can I use my Kodak camera videos, which use Quick Time to play in movie maker Tag: Movie Maker in all Vista versions the same? Tag: 59303
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    - WMM Clip Playback Until just recently I was able to play any clip froman imported video. Now I can only play the first clip from the collection. The rest will say they are playing, but will be frozen on the first frame. Please help! This is making editing very hard! Tag: Movie Maker in all Vista versions the same? Tag: 59298
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    - My Videos Folder. In WMM, is it possible to change the location of the "My Videos" folder from the "My Documents" folder to another of my choice? Failing this, can I change the default folder that WMV Project files are saved in? Thanks in advance. ------------------------ Tag: Movie Maker in all Vista versions the same? Tag: 59291
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    - importing .MOV files My computer was upgraded last week and since then I cannot import .MOV files to MovieMaker. I could do it in my old computer. I have Windows XP Professional VL edition on both the old and new computer. Do I need some Codec or plugin to make it work? Tag: Movie Maker in all Vista versions the same? Tag: 59290
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    - Sound that accompanies "Take Picture" There are two places in my video where I use the "take picture" button to take a picture of the last frame of a video clip, then add this still after the video clip. In one instance it works great. In the other, when I play it back, I cannot get rid of the "click" sound (the one MM makes while capturing the still) in-between clips. It's driving me crazy! Also, if capturing a still in the Content pane is higher resolution than capturing one in the Storyboard/Timeline, why does it look fuzzier on the storyboard? Tag: Movie Maker in all Vista versions the same? Tag: 59288
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    - Vista Movie Maker Saved Projects wont play on XP Movie Maker I made many projects on Vista MM and no one with XP Movie maker can open them. Is there something they can do to open and continue working on the projects. Tag: Movie Maker in all Vista versions the same? Tag: 59282

I use MovieMaker 2.1 under XP Home and I like it. I intend to purchase a new
Computer with Vista but I'd like to know whether MovieMaker is in all Vista
verions the same? I downloaded MovieMaker 2.6 to test it under XP, is there a
tool to try it?

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Re: Movie Maker in all Vista versions the same? by John

John
Sat May 12 10:48:40 CDT 2007

helmut wrote:
> I use MovieMaker 2.1 under XP Home and I like it. I intend to
> purchase a new Computer with Vista but I'd like to know whether
> MovieMaker is in all Vista verions the same? I downloaded MovieMaker
> 2.6 to test it under XP, is there a tool to try it?
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No, 2.6 will not run on WinXP.

All versions of Vista have Version 6 of
Movie Maker. 2.6 is for computers that
will not run version 6.

Movie Maker in Vista - Editing
http://www.papajohn.org/Vista-Editing-Intro.html
(scroll down to Fixes and Work-Arounds
for info on Movie Maker 2.6)

More info on Movie Maker for Vista:

Windows Movie Maker
and Movie Maker HD
http://tinyurl.com/2ochpx

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