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    - Highest Resolution for Slides? Hi, I used MM a year ago to make a slide show in .wmv format (with great results) and am trying to relearn some of the finer points I've forgotten. (I prefer MM to PS mainly because I find it easier to synch the images to music.) I am making another slide show of about 300 digital photos. All of my images were taken with a 4mp digicam and edited in Photoshop, but left at their native resolution of 2272x1704x72dpi. I did a trial run and tried to save my project as a .wmv file, using a profile I think I downloaded from PapaJohn's site last year: SlideShow-1024x768WMV9. (I am aiming for the absolute highest quality possible.) When I went to create the .wmv file, I got an error message about the file size being too big or something to that effect. Is this the FAT-32 issue that I've read about in other posts on this forum? If using the above profile, should I downsize my images to 1024x768? Will that affect final output quality? I ran another test with the images at 800x600, but while it wrote the .wmv file, the image quality was noticeably less. I then did a third test, using only about 60 images - but still at 2272x1704 - and it turned out fabulous. So I guess my question is: Are the images sized at 2272x1704 wasting pixels and increasing the file size unnecessarily, given the limitations of the 1024x768 output? And if this isn't a FAT-32 issue, are there any other workarounds? I was thinking I could break the project into 5 or 6 smaller increments and reassemble (I have BlazeMediaPro which can do this) but am unsure of how the stitch points will look, and would have to separate them by musical piece. Additionally, I would not be able to put transitions at those points, either, and between songs are some of the more obvious places to have transitions. Sorry for the long-winded post. Any ideas or advice would be welcome! Thanks! Tag: Titles Tag: 63211
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    - WAIT AND WAIT When I import videos from my hard drive, I must wait and wait and wait for the first video to show up my collection as the importing file message lingers along endlessly. After that others import quickly. Is that normal? Is there a newer version than 2.1 or are there any patches? Should I remove the program and then reinstall it? Have Service Pack disk, or I could download it I see. Help please. Peter in S.L.C.. Tag: Titles Tag: 63208
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    - Help! WMM2.1 crashing - blue screen My system: Windows XP, Home Edition, Version 2002, SP2 - AMD Athalon 64 Processor, 3400+, 2.20 GHz, 2.00 GB of RAM, Physical Address Extension. I've been using WMM2.1 without problems. Recently it started to hang/freeze up when I was capturing video (from my Sony Digtal Handycam via firewire). Now it is just crashing. I come back to it and the computer has restarted - recovered from "serious error." The Windows error reporting displays a page that says it's a device driver problem. I don't know what this could be. I've tried a number of things I've seen online, including unchecking, moving the temp file to my recently defragmented "D" drive, I don't display preview during capture. I don't understand codecs, but I have a lot of .ax files show up (81) when I search for them in My Computer. Only two come up in the compatibility window of WMM2.1 (both from Nero). I've tried unchecking them, but that doesn't help. Please help me. I have video of my baby boy that I want to edit and share. I don't understand why this stopped working. Tag: Titles Tag: 63202
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    - video grainy When I capture video from my camcorder it shows up very grainy like square pixel boxes on computer. Tag: Titles Tag: 63201
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    - Movie Maker will not initialize When I try to start Movie Maker, I get the message: The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000005). Click on OK to terminate the application. Movie Maker did run successfully in the past. Windows XP SP2. Tag: Titles Tag: 63198
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    - Windows Movie Maker I have updated my SP2, which is supposed to include Windows movie maker, hower, whenever I look for it I can't seem to find it, where should it be for me to be able to use it? -- Pam Tag: Titles Tag: 63194
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    - Movie Maker 6.0 for Vista I'm trying to save a movie sildeshow I did in movie maker 6.0 for Vista and want to put it on my website. Only thing is, what bitrate should I save it so that the pictures in the don't look pixelated? Saving videos isn't the same as it was in the XP version. I made a video slideshow using the XP version using XP home on my old pc...I then uploaded it to a video hosting service SplashCast so I could put it on my website. That's what I want to do again, but the closest way to save it that's like the previous xp version in the new Movie Maker is by clicking on Publish movie, This Computer, and then click on File Size and changing the file size changes the bitrate, movie and file size....not sure what bitrate to use? Hope someone can help. Tag: Titles Tag: 63186
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    - Compatibility List (Codecs/Filters) in MM2.1 Here's a sideline note about Movie Maker 2.1, something I found when working on my latest project... a 4-1/2 minute flick about Chicago. Source files were DV-AVI files, about 6 WMA music files, and a WMV Photo Story. The project and source files were on an external USB drive. My laptop's Tools > Options > compatiblity tab codec/filter list had 62 line items. By default all but one or two were checked, which lets the unchecked ones 'work with' with Movie Maker. - With the default settings it took a full 4 minutes to open the project file - With all line items unchecked it took 5 seconds to open... and project editing worked snappier and fine This sets the stage for a change in routine use of Movie Maker - I tend to let software work with its defaults until I have an issue to resolve or a specific setting to change... so 60 codecs were allowed to interface. - I'm now going to leave all the line items unchecked and turn them on one at a time as needed... such as the ffdshow codec to be able to use Motion JPEG video files. It also makes me wonder what's happening during the project opening. Why with the 60 codecs checked does it take so long? More to ponder. -- website references are to www.papajohn.org PapaJohn Tag: Titles Tag: 63184
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    - music skips music skips durning playback Tag: Titles Tag: 63183
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    - playback songs skips during playback, mainly during transitions. Tag: Titles Tag: 63182
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    - Video in Video Good Morning Folks I know about and use PIP (Picture in Picture) I have used it to put a talking head in a corner of a still picture. I guess it really sould be called VIP (Video in Picture) What I would really like is VIV (Video in Video) I want a talking head in the corner of a video clip (a commentator !!) Can it be done in Windows Movie Maker ?? If so how ?? (I am running on XP Pro - dont have, dont want Vista) Best regards Pete (Northolt UK) Tag: Titles Tag: 63177
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    - Completing Project I have always had problems with Movie Maker but recently I was attempting to make a short movie from Video clips and eventually managed this including Titles and transitions. I wanted to add music. (something I have done successfully before ) but now every time I open the Project ,Movie Maker freezes and I can do nothing. I have to use ctrl/alt/del to end task and try again but the same thing happens. I have even tried a completely new Project but the whole thing freezes within a minute or two . Any suggestions please? Tag: Titles Tag: 63175
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    - playing / publishing problems Hello, I have started using WMM, uploaded videos (AVI), music, Jpegs added effects and transitions etc. The first movie worked fine, published correctly etc, then when I came to use the same material as in the first movie, but with minor changes (such as video muted etc, music fades etc), the file will no longer publish, it starts the process but then crashes the project. I have worked backward and tried again to publish my successful first publication (to computer) and it will not do it, crashing as on other attempts. Any help would greatly be appreciated. It worked the first time but just wont do it anymore!!!!!, very frustrating. Any help? Tag: Titles Tag: 63173
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    - WMV import error - codecs When I try to import a wmv file from my hard drive into wmm, I get an error about not having thte proper codecs. The wmv will play fine in WMP 10.0, but will not play in wmm. On some occasions it will play as an audio file only, black screen only. I have tried this with multiple different wmv files - same result. Help! Tag: Titles Tag: 63171
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    - Context menu command Is there a command to open wmv , wma , asf and other files types directly from context menu because the variable "%1" doesn't work. Windows Movie Maker see only it's project MSWMM file type. Tag: Titles Tag: 63169
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    - Narrate I am trying to narate a clip by using a microphone that is plugged into my computer. The "narrate timeline" tool will not allow me to adjust the input level. The input level is set at it's lowest setting and the narration is extremely quiet. Also the Narrate timmline tool does not allow me to iddentify the audio input source. The only available choice is "none" Tag: Titles Tag: 63168
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    - dowloand EventType : BEX P1 : P2 : 0.0.0.0 P3 : 00000000 P4 : unknown P5 : 0.0.0.0 P6 : 00000000 P7 : 7742c82c P8 : c0000409 P9 : 00000000 url:http://www.ureader.com/gp/1282-1.aspx Tag: Titles Tag: 63167
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    - Best Software for Photo Slideshow (MM / PhotoStory) I'm trying to create a slideshow with music (MP3) background. I have about 30 pictures or so and the MP3 song duration is about 3 minutes. The photos are from a 3.2MP Sony digital camera and also have a few scanned snapshots. I was trying the above programs but was getting varied results. Mostly subpar picture quality even when saved as dvi-avi format. (I saved the project as dv-avi and viewed on my pc monitor) I intend to finally burn the project to DVD (possibly NERO) and show it via a video projector (4' x 4' screen). Can you provide any suggestions for software including tips & tricks to get the best 'professional looking' projected slideshow? Thanks in advance!! Tag: Titles Tag: 63165
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    - Raw Bytes Computer News project about Movie Maker... I'm working with Frank Delaney. producer of Raw Bytes Computer News at KPBX FM 91.1 Spokane Public Radio NPR (National Public Radio). The station reaches the states in the northwest, along with the southwest part of Canada. We kicked off the project today with this website page... KPBX Radio Project as I think about how best to work with him on a radio show project.... -- website references are to www.papajohn.org PapaJohn Tag: Titles Tag: 63163
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    - file types I am only able to save movies as .wswmm, what good is windows movie maker if you can not save movie files as .wmv, .avi, .mpeg, etc. .wswmm files are not even compatable with windows media player, where is the logic in that? -- â??Opera 9.24b - build 8816â?? Tango CL v. 0.091 â?? â??512 MB Ram, 80GB HD â?? WinXP Home SP2 â?? â??2.26GHz Intel Pentium 4 â?? Tag: Titles Tag: 63160
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    - movie maker options menu when i go to the options menu and make changes i can't see the bottom of the window so i can click ok or cancel....PLEASE HELP!!! Tag: Titles Tag: 63159
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    - Alternative to WMM I tried editing some home movies from a DVD using WMM. Since WMM couldn't accept MPEG-2 files, I used AVI. However, the AVIs have degraded quality: there are some transient splotches and motion artifacts. I've seen web postings that talk about converting MPEG-2 to other formats, but it seems likely they'd have problems too. Does anybody have a sure-fire straightforward way to use WMM and preserve the video quality? I have WMM v2.1.4046.0. Otherwise, is there a low-cost alternative to WMM that will preserve the video quality? Pinnacle, maybe? Thanks. Tag: Titles Tag: 63156
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    - Video Contest... and Can't Save Movie The Virtual Earth group is running a video contest. Here's a link... http://on10.net/Blogs/larry/want-to-win-a-zune/ I submitted my entry... a 4-1/2 minute flick Chicago Summer Fun... rendered twice: once for MSN Soapbox for a higher quality copy http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=5e36fdc5-fcd6-4425-800e-9c362267dc7b and then for YouTube using my custom profile http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-1NN-MAz7M The project includes 4 video clips made from Microsoft's Virtual Earth. The project went along well from start to submittals, but last night when I tried to save an archival copy to a DV-AVI file I got the message about Movie Maker not being able to save the movie to the specified location. Verify... etc. etc. It was the first time I'd seen the message during this project. My project and source files were on two different external USB drives, which made me wonder about a number of things. After lots of problem-solving I concluded the issue was some sort of corruption in the project file. The file was highly usable but corrupt. Stripping clips from the project one at a time... until I had just one clip left... didn't resolve it. But copying/pasting the clips from the corrupt project file to a new one let me save it to DV-AVI fine. I added the info to my website's Problem Solving > Can't Save a Movie page as another reason that can cause the issue... a 'corrupt project' file can let you save to any quality wmv file but not to a DV-AVI. I'd been working on the project for a number of days and don't know when the corruption started. My guess it was one of the times when my CPU overheated in the middle of a rendering, abruptly shutting off the system. It's not too late to do a contest submittal... and never too late for more info about why a project can't be saved. -- website references are to www.papajohn.org PapaJohn Tag: Titles Tag: 63153
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    - Movie Maker rotate effect I have found this option on Movie Maker (and need to use it) but it is not active, along with many of my menu options. Is the auto download version not a full version? Or is this an effect that must be purchased? Help! Thanks. Tag: Titles Tag: 63144
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    - What is the current version of Movie Maker? I am using Movie Maker 5.1 for XP and am confused about whether I can/should update. Tag: Titles Tag: 63142
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    - Saving Movie does not happen I just made a project in movie maker and it will not let me save it as a movie or WMV file. 1. I placed all video, pictures & music in a new folder on my harddrive before starting 2. I imported them all into the project and built it 3. Saved the project in the same folder 4. There is plenty of memory on the harddrive 5. When I go to save the project into a movie it comes up w/ and error that a file may not be there anymore, not enough memory space, etc. Any ideas? I have about eight songs and three pictures. The rest is a large number of WMV files (sports clips). I can get it to work w/ all the music pictures, and some of the videos. At one point if I deleted some of them and tried to save it it would not... but if I "undo" it and put some back in.. it actually will save it. Very strange. Tag: Titles Tag: 63138
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    - Movie making I Have several DVD's that I burned from home movies. I no longer have the tapes. Can I take parts of each DVD and make one DVD? Tag: Titles Tag: 63137
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    - imported into WMM I try to move a tv download into wmm and get this message. dvr-ms is not a support type, cannot be imported into wmm. how do i fix this problem? dry4 -- Tag: Titles Tag: 63134
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    - Can't save audio file as movie file I've tried to save individual audio files as movie files but I don't get the choice for WMA or AVI formats under "other settings" and the file always save as a Windows Media File. When I try and find this file to import as video, it isn't in movie format and can't be placed in the video timeline section, but goes into the audio/music line. If I add a picture when creating, I can then save audio and pic as a WMA movie file but I want just the audio file saved as a movie file. Help is greatly appreciated. Thanks! Bamboocity Tag: Titles Tag: 63131
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    - Playing the cd/dvd in my bose cd/dvd player After completing the cd/dvd, when trying to play on my tv, my player says that the format is not supported. How can I change the formatting of the cd so that it will be supported. Tag: Titles Tag: 63130
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    - Slideshow with Audio I'm trying to create a basic slideshow with an mp3 file playing in the background. The song is about 3 minutes long but the picture's duration is only 5 seconds each. How do I modify the duration of each picture so that the slideshow fills up the length of the mp3 song? Please advise. Thanks in advance! Tag: Titles Tag: 63125
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    - Transfer to Motorola Q I've saved a WSWMM file in windows movie maker, now I want to transfer the file onto my Motorola Q. I'm having trouble "syncing" it on. Maybe I have to compress the file since I added; a sound track, transitions, and credits - which I could check by attempting to transfer a small file. I suspect it's some kind of file conversion problem. I feel certain that putting an edited video back onto a pocket-pc-camera-phone, the Q, is possible, so any words of guidance would be sincerely appreciated. Tag: Titles Tag: 63117
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    - Troubleshoot: How to correctly save new project in Windows Movie M I just got Vista and WMM 6.0.6000.16386 on a new computer. I have created 2 projects (my first in WMM) into which I put many hours of time, and I saved the projects in .mswmm format. I published both projects, each on its own DVD and they work like a charm on DVD players. However, now when I open either project in WMM, I cannot see any of the photos on the Storyboard. They "cannot be found" although I can see them in the Collection folders of photos imported for each respective project. In response to the pop-up, no, thank you, I do not want to "browse" or reinsert and reorder hundreds of photos individually. Can anyone help me on how to restore the missing photo links. What can I have done wrong in saving the projects? I certainly need help. Many thanks. -- 4tracy Tag: Titles Tag: 63109
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    - Positively desparate! HELP Have scanned all photos to a file on my hard drive, ditto with music (MP3). I've used this program several times with great success. However, this time whenever trying to save to a cd I get the following messages. Nothing is different than what I scanned or saved to the hard drive. -- "Cannot complete the save movie wizard" and "This project contains source files that are missing or that have been modified after import. Your project cannot be saved as a movie until the souerce files have been located or deleted from the project. My future daughter-in-law asked this as a special favor of me after she saw my other son and daughter-in-law's slide show that I did for their wedding. I need help ASAP. The wedding is on Friday and I am at my wit's end. Jerry's wife, Jean Tag: Titles Tag: 63101
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    - Having trouble with preview Ok, it appears that transitions are causing me to not be able to utilize the preview function properly, does anyone know of a fix for this? I've looked around on here and I know I'm not the only one with this problem, but have not been able to determine if there is a fix. Thanks. Tag: Titles Tag: 63097
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    - Saving the audio only from a video file. I have a video conferencing camera that makes high quality video .asf files. It has a very good microphone. I would like to use the video conferencing camera to create my audio file. I tried to drag my .asf file into the audio section of Windows Movie Maker in hopes that it would allow me to save it as an audio file, but the only option I got was to save it as a .mswmm. Is there any way to convert an .mswmm to some kind of audio file. I have a program called AVI MPEG MOV RM WMV iPod 3GP MP4 Flash Converter but that seems to be just for converting video formats. I would be most grateful for any enlightenment. Thanks. Mary Tag: Titles Tag: 63082
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    - ANOTHER frustrated MM shutdown victim Hi there I have followed a thread here about MM shutting down immediately after opening - searching for a solution as well. I am on XP, have just reinstalled SP2 and uninstalled IE7. I have had 2 years of blissful trouble free movies with MM so I am tearing my hair out. Any simple solutions out there for an average PC user??? Matt Tag: Titles Tag: 63077
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    - can't combine wmv clips The help menu on combining clips says you hold the control key, select two contiguous clips on the storyboard, click on "Clips" menu and select "Combine" When I do that, the "Combine" menu selection is grayed out. Is it not possible to combine two wmv clips in movie maker? I'm using Windows Vista, Movie Maker version 6 build 6000, and the wmv clips were created with this version of movie maker as well. Tag: Titles Tag: 63073
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    - Import problem with HDV I'm using sony HDR-HC3. When I import video, WMM cost long time to creat temp file and can not success in putting the file into WMM timeline, WMM just give error message"Windows Movies Maker has stopped "(I can find the temp file named with .dvr-ms_tmp in folder later). Same error when I just try to drag and drop the temp file into WMM window. Does anybody have same expierence? -- Thank for your great help! Tag: Titles Tag: 63070
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    - Can not open video files on my Windows Movie Maker Hi there, I'm trying to prepare a movie and when I download the videos from my camera they come authomatically as Quicktime files and Windows Movie Maker does not accept this file, so I can not create a movie with my videos. How can I change the file format for my videos or how can I use them in WMM????? Thanks, Lorena Tag: Titles Tag: 63066
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    - Help! I'm creating 13 different movies using MM...one for each day of a holiday I've just been on. At the start of each I have a title with the date and then a fade into the first clip. This works FINE for about 8 of the 13. Others tho allow me to do this and then save. But when I come back there is just a black preview screen and it won't let me play! Please help! Tag: Titles Tag: 63061
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    - how do I use just a piece of a song in movie maker? I want to use pieces of several different songs in the slide show...how do I do this? Do I need some special software? Tag: Titles Tag: 63058
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    - Cannot Complete Save Movie I have several short wmv video clips to edit. I have not been able to consistently save the move file. I get an mesage "windows movie maker cannot save the movie to the specificed location. Verify original source files used in move are still available, saving location still available and that there is enough free disk space and try again". None of these options are the reason. Each clip is only between 1MG and 6MB (over 80 GB available). source and saving location are fine. I can save the first one of two clips as movies fine and then I consistently get this error. I have gone to the PapaJohn site and the issues listed don't appear to be the cause of my errors. I have uninstalled/reinstalled XP SP2, tried to restore, tried stuff suggested on earlier posts? I have also tried to complete this on two separate machines in my work site and neither works there. However, individuals at another work site indicate they are having no issues? Microsoft offers no support of this product? Does anyone have any other ideas? I had been using Movie Maker from March to August with no problems. Started trying to use it again in October and nothing but. Thanks. Tag: Titles Tag: 63042
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    - Movie Maker Auto Launches when it Shouldn't Hi, Have a firewire Camera hooked up to a PC which has an app that manages the camera. However, whenever the app is started, Movie Maker ALSO starts. 1. Why is Movie Maker starting when the app is launching (the app hits the camera automatically)? 2. How do you disable this behavior? Thanks in advance, George Tag: Titles Tag: 63041
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    - Picture freezes during playback I have a video that is 16 minutes long, 140MB, and when I save it to my computer in the recommended setting, the pictures either freeze during playback or the screen goes black. The music continues to play but there is no photo or there is a frozen photo. Any suggestions? I am desperate. Tag: Titles Tag: 63038
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    - Choppy Images I have some video clips made out from a digital camera which I intend to incorporate in my movie maker project. When viewed however thru tv or computer monitor the images looked so choppy and when checked it seems that the resolution is at a low 160x120 15fps, good for email purposes only. Can this be resolved? Or is there any software that could correct the resulotion? Any help again will be highly appreciated. Tag: Titles Tag: 63035
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    - movie maker project file I was in a project of making a movie when during editing I accidetally close the windows...it asked if I want to save the progress and I again accidentally said pressed no. The story board suddenly get blank...and since I previously saved the project I tried opening by clicking the project name but a message appeared : "This file is in use enter a new name or close the file that's open in another program. " I really don't understand this message considering that I don't have another name for this project file nor where to find that program that is open". I have spent two days for this project...and although the file name is there I cannot open it up in the movie maker to continue the project...or should I call it quits and do all over again? woo is me...any help will be appreciated Tag: Titles Tag: 63034
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    - saving movie project into a recordable CD i make a movie project consisting of pictures from a digital cam and added some ripped music into it to liven it up. the problem is when i try to save my project into a recordable CD, i always get the message that "a recordable CD was not detected" even if theres one. How can i save my movie to a recordable CD? Tag: Titles Tag: 63031
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    - Titles cut off I have Vista Movie Maker. I have a problem where titles are being cut off on the right side, even though they are typed in correctly. When I publish the movie to PC in widescreen, the titles fit, but my format is not widescreen. It was shot in normal DV. When I publish the movie to PC in normal format, the titles are cut off. When I publish the movie to DVD in 16:9 format, the titles are cut off. I don't know how to beat it. The titles are being cut off, and I don't know how to fix it. Any help would be appreciated. I couldn't find a newsgroup for Vista Movie Maker. Phoenixjn Tag: Titles Tag: 63030
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    - movie skips Hello, My movie skips when I play it on full screen. Any ideas??? Tag: Titles Tag: 63028

In my Windows XP version of MM I had more choices of title animations. I was
able to put titles on the clips in different locations and there were many
more effects. Now that I have Windows Vista MM 6.0, the title animations are
very limited. The titles only display in the middle of the clip, and there
are very few animations. Is there a way to get more title animations?

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