No Picture in monitor when playing the timeline. Help please

Hello all.

I have used Moviemaker a few times before and have never experienced this.
I have captured some clips from my camcorder and put them in my collection.
When I play each individual file from collections it will appear in the
monitor, when I drag them into the timeline and play from there the screen is
blank. I can hear sound but no visuals.

Can someone help me please as it is driving me mad.

Regards

Graham
Thu May 17 07:40:53 CDT 2007

What file type are these?
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/Tutorials/MovieMaker/File_type_compatibility.htm

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Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.com


"gazzara" <gazzara@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A96B726F-1B4B-432F-BD59-F7071622A60F@microsoft.com...
> Hello all.
>
> I have used Moviemaker a few times before and have never experienced this.
> I have captured some clips from my camcorder and put them in my
> collection.
> When I play each individual file from collections it will appear in the
> monitor, when I drag them into the timeline and play from there the screen
> is
> blank. I can hear sound but no visuals.
>
> Can someone help me please as it is driving me mad.
>
> Regards

gazzara
Thu May 17 17:54:00 CDT 2007

Hi Graham and thanks for the response. After a day or so of getting annoyed
and removing and testing stuff using sherlock etc I found out that I had a
codecs pack that I downloaded a while ago.

It must have been a codec conflict as when I uninstalled the pack the
picture came back.

A message to anyone that has a black screen when previewing. Remove those
bloody codec packs you downloaded and only download ones that you really need
individually.

Graham
Fri May 18 05:51:33 CDT 2007

Glad you've sorted it and I wish people would take heed of this message as
it's one of the most common cause of problems in all video editing apps.

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Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.com


"gazzara" <gazzara@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2F39C9DB-F707-46E2-B241-B3977946C881@microsoft.com...
> Hi Graham and thanks for the response. After a day or so of getting
> annoyed
> and removing and testing stuff using sherlock etc I found out that I had a
> codecs pack that I downloaded a while ago.
>
> It must have been a codec conflict as when I uninstalled the pack the
> picture came back.
>
> A message to anyone that has a black screen when previewing. Remove those
> bloody codec packs you downloaded and only download ones that you really
> need
> individually.

Wojo
Fri May 18 07:22:17 CDT 2007

And also the same advice we have been giving forever.

"Graham Hughes" <graham.hughes@dvds2treasure.co.uk> wrote in message
news:%23jfwAqTmHHA.4872@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> Glad you've sorted it and I wish people would take heed of this message as
> it's one of the most common cause of problems in all video editing apps.
>
> --
>
> Graham Hughes
> MVP Digital Media
> www.myvideoproblems.com
>
>
> "gazzara" <gazzara@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:2F39C9DB-F707-46E2-B241-B3977946C881@microsoft.com...
>> Hi Graham and thanks for the response. After a day or so of getting
>> annoyed
>> and removing and testing stuff using sherlock etc I found out that I had
>> a
>> codecs pack that I downloaded a while ago.
>>
>> It must have been a codec conflict as when I uninstalled the pack the
>> picture came back.
>>
>> A message to anyone that has a black screen when previewing. Remove
>> those
>> bloody codec packs you downloaded and only download ones that you really
>> need
>> individually.
>
>