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    - Edit Question: Overlay picture on video? Hello, Does anyone know if windows movie maker has the ability to lay a picuture over parts of a video WITHOUT losing that portion of the video's audio. I want to splice in some pictures to my video but when I do it loses the audio portion until it has moved past the picture. Tag: WMM Vista Tag: 66259
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    - JPEG Resolution from PPT to MM I've seen the question, but no answer yet on this. I managed to create a moviemaker that solved my music syncing problem with my Powerpoint file, but the resolution of the finished jpegs is AWFUL -- blurry, pink hues on them. What can you do to have BOTH good pictures AND music that syncs correctly???? This was supposed to be a gift, but it's killing me already. PLEASE HELP! THANK YOU! Tag: WMM Vista Tag: 66256
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    - Moviemaker won't import...... I have had no problems with Movie Maker till now. Clicking on an MPEG media file to 'Import into Collections' or dragging the file to Movie Maker results in a diologue box with the following message: ..........file name..".MPEG could not be imported. An interface has too many methods to fire events from" What could it be and why? Thank you. TerryS. Tag: WMM Vista Tag: 66254
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    - Captured video being broken into small clips Hi.... I'm running MM 2.1 on XP and capturing video from a Sony HandyCam The video is all captured but gets automatically broken up into clips. e.g....I'm capturing a 25 second (approx) segment of video. This was a continuous shot....there were no breaks in the recording. MM seems to have indiscriminately broken this up into 3 clips. This has happened to other captures I have done. Can anyone help with why this is happening and possibly how to deal with it? thanks chuck Tag: WMM Vista Tag: 66252
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    - Using an HD camera with Movie Maker I have used a Sony DV camera via a firewire to load images in Movie Maker. Now I have a new HD camera and it has only USB outputs. I tried to download images into Movie Maker but it will not recognize. Any suggestions? Tag: WMM Vista Tag: 66248
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    - WEBCAM NOT DETECTED Why when I plug my finepix 2650 into my comp. WMM does not allow me to use it as a DV device? Tag: WMM Vista Tag: 66238
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    - Sound but no Video When playing the timeline, I get Audio but no Video, even though the video clips are visible on the timeline. The files are wmv. Tag: WMM Vista Tag: 66233
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    - want to capture, but getting "class not registered" hi all, i'm trying to capture a movie. system: windows xp home edition video camcorder: sony dcr trv-33 i'm trying to capure a video using the video capture wizard. when i'm in the "video settings", and clicking "next" (no matter what settings i'm choosing) i'm getting an error box saying: "class not registered". when clicking "ok" to close that error box, and trying again to click on "next", i'm getting "unspecified error". now, i've read all the threads here in the newsgroup about other people getting the "class not registered", and tried to run the: regsvr32 %windir%\system32\qdv.dll that someone here mentioned ("rehan"?) but it didn't help. so.....what's next? thank you very much Tag: WMM Vista Tag: 66230
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    - Sound but no video I have home movies saved in my computer that I downloaded from my Sony Handy cam DCR-SR40. When I import them into Movie Maker for my folder they import fine and they show up fine in my collections area. But when I preview them or try to play them off the storyboard all I get is audio, no video at all. Just a blank screen. They are MPEG files. Any ideas? Tag: WMM Vista Tag: 66214
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    - New to WMM I just discovered WMM (don't laugh - I've got 3 kids under age 4) and want to make movies from my still digital photos. I've managed to figure that much out, but I don't know how to save the movie so that I can give the disc to family members w/o computers to watch like a DVD. Can this be done? Your help is greatly appreciated as I don't have time to "play around" to figure it out myself. It's my in-laws anniversary and I'd like to make the movie for them tonight! Tag: WMM Vista Tag: 66207
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    - .wmv file HUGE! I just tried the program this week - ALL week - simple, I thought. Take all the pics from the big party, add music and send it to everybody who was here and family who couldn't make it... not. the finished file was nearly 5 mg, but when I saved it as a movie, it ballooned to 15 mg! I tried converting it to avi. then it was 25 mg. Who knew? obviously not I. I can't email it, can't even put it on photobucket - it stops at 61%. i am at a loss with this. Do you think it would decrease the file size if I took the individual photos into Photoshop and reduced them? I considered that, but the 4mg is way smaller than the combined total of the pics, so I assumed the program compressed it already.. AARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Can anyone help me? thanks in advance! Tag: WMM Vista Tag: 66202
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    - Audio Timing Off The audio on my timeline works correctly, but when I play the movie, the audio clip is cutting off...any ideas? Tag: WMM Vista Tag: 66201
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    - computer file audio out of sync & timeline video stalls i'v had big probs w audio being out of sync when i make a computer file even tho the alteratn i did to the timeline was very minimal (ea time i made a file of the same project, somewhat different areas were o o sync!) the importd file is avi made with mpegstreamclip the exported file is wmv (what i finally did was paste audio to the 2nd audio line, mute the 1st, & that worked) also sometimes when i play the timeline the video stalls thanx -- lefty Tag: WMM Vista Tag: 66199
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    - Edit already done movies Hello people. Today is my first day playing with WMM. i like it a lot and get well with the application. Now I've got a question. I 've got a file i want to edit, specifically want to delete a video effect done with letters. the only way i see to do this, is to edit the movie, clip by clip and modify the 25 clips involved in the video effect. that's a lot to do considering that I plan to edit every clip in Paint. and bring it back to the movie. Sorry for being so newcomer. Any ideas how to do this as proffessional as possible. Another question: Any way to especify the start and end time (trimming) for a clip, on a text box or -- Edgar Rey Tag: WMM Vista Tag: 66197
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    - Photo Slideshow with Movie Maker I am making a photo slideshow in Moviemaker. For some reason when I preview the slideshow the photo only stays up for 1 second, even though my default is set for 5 seconds. I was wondering if it will be normal when I publish the movie and put it on the DVD or will it still be flying through the pictures? Tag: WMM Vista Tag: 66192
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    - burning to a dvd I have been trying for weeks and keep coming up with a BLURRY DVD. When I run the movie as a project - it looks GREAT. I want to loop it and also would LOVE to put it on our big screen tv. When I save the project as a movie - the only way that movie MAKER doesnt FREEZE - is wheN I save it as an email attachment and they save save on my computer from that wizard. they I burn it using many different extensions bought aconverter software- ect. but sill all ways are blurry. When I run the wizard to go to a DVD or to directly save on my computer the software FREEZES up - It is 22 minutes with all still photos and a transition between each one. Please help - graduation in 2 days!!! thanks, barb Tag: WMM Vista Tag: 66181
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    - Movie Maker Shut Down Yesterday I started a large project and the first happening was the same as SHIPWRECK. My Sony program captures the clip and every 3rd plays in the Maker as long as i do not click debug or close on Error message. However, I cannot use the program,nor can I repair it. Another SOS going up! Peace and Harmony vermontwolf Tag: WMM Vista Tag: 66180
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    - cant save it says "windows movie maker cannot save the movie to the specific location. verify that the original source file used in you movie are still available. that saying the location is still available, and that there is enough free disk space available. and then try again" help plz! i have 18.5G free space on drive C and 655MB on drive D the file size i saving is around 40MB Tag: WMM Vista Tag: 66178
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    - ability to convert to a high resolution? i want to record at 1680x1050 or atleast something above 1200x1+++ is there any add-on, extension, or menu to let me do this? Tag: WMM Vista Tag: 66176
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    - WHY WONT IT WORK?! I haven't worked on a wmm project in a bout a year. I go to open the program and I get a mssg that says that wmm has encountered a problem and needs to shut down. It worked fine last time I used it . Tag: WMM Vista Tag: 66174
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    - Audio is coming through Mono Only I'm currently trying to create a video using both an avi (video only) and an mp3 sound file. I put them on the story board together and every time i save the file it outputs the audio to only my right speaker. I've ran the file through an audio manager and it is a stereo output file and can be heard through both speakers when played alone. Any ideas? Tag: WMM Vista Tag: 66171
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    - Movie Maker is junk I finally gave up on Movie Maker. It would NOT save my movie. I tried all of the patches, fixes, etc. etc. that were offered up here and elsewhere. Finally just went and bought Pinnacle Studio. It rocks. Now if I could just figure out how to get the junk MS MM off my computer! Tag: WMM Vista Tag: 66168
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    - Movie maker / DVD maker I have installed Windows Vista Home Premium with upgrade Ultimate. I make a film under WMM and wish to burn it at a DVD. WMM says to save the file, close the program and start DVD Maker. WDVD maker starts and load the file (extension xxx.mswmm). Once loaded DVD maker says that it does not recognise this extension and cannot carry out the burning process. Who knows the solution? Thanks, Gerard Tag: WMM Vista Tag: 66163
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    - Need method to edit an .mpg file Gurus, Running Windows Media Player 10 on Windows XP Pro SP2. I have a four-hour .mpg of which there is action in the first 30 minutes and no action at all for the last 3.5 hours. The last 3.5 hours is just a scene in which nothing is happening at all. As such, I want to edit (remove) the last 3.5 hours in this .mpg file. Windows Movie Maker Help says that any "cutting" is not really "cut" actually, so I am confused. -- Spin Tag: WMM Vista Tag: 66156
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    - effects problem I'm in the UK - windows 2000 A few days ago whenever I tried to add effects the movie maker froze, would not even close or minimize. I have tried disabling filters. Have looked for the divaxf.ax file in the system folder but do not have it and have renamed any files ending in ax, any ideas please? Tag: WMM Vista Tag: 66152
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    - VOB Encoding to Windows Movie Maker 2? I have a VOB file from a sony camera i want to encode so i can import to Windows movie maker and edit. How can I do this I have been up all night i encoded to AVI no luck MPG1 no luck WMV no luck...I just tried expression no luck..please help me. Tag: WMM Vista Tag: 66149
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    - burned dvd doesn't play smoothly I used Windows Movie Maker to create a video. It looked and played perfectly on the computer screen. When I burned it to a DVD-RW the video played fine, but the audio skipped and cut in and out. I tried burning it at "slow" speed instead of "fastest", and that seemed to help for the first 3-5 minutes of the video, but then the skipping returned at the end. Is it due to the length of the video (14 minutes)? Please help!!! I am completely at a loss....... Tag: WMM Vista Tag: 66146
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    - bleeping profanity I am using Movie Maker for Vista and trying to edit out some profanity from a video. Can anyone explain how to or offer any suggestions for blocking out the profanity. I need to have a draft of the video clips ready to show a business group Tuesday morning EDT US, so any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Tag: WMM Vista Tag: 66142
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    - Video problems I am making a video on mircosoft movie maker and my imported video clips don't show up as video, only audio. The videos play, but the screen is black and only the sound can be heard. When I try and add it to the storyline, it adds in the audio section. The files work as videos on windows media player and other programs, but not on movie maker. Even files I imported a while ago that work as videos on other previously made "movies" only show up with sound now. Why does this happen and what can I do to fix it? Thanks very much! Tag: WMM Vista Tag: 66132
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    - Pixelan SpiceFX 4.0 for Movie Maker PIxelan SpiceFX 4.0 for Movie Maker was released today http://www.pixelan.com/mm/intro.htm I've been checking it for the past two weeks, and it's the first time I've been able to do pans and zooms of super high quality still pix even better than I can do with Photo Story 3. Here's a link to some of my test clips at vimeo... all the pans and zooms were done in MM2.1 or MM6 with this new tool. One of my source pictures is a panorama of the Jungfreau in Switserland, a JPG image of 14,525 x 2,476 pixels.... the width is more than twice the 7,200 pixel limit of Photo Story 3, yet the panning/zooming was easily done in Movie Maker 2.1. Here's a link to my test clips at vimeo. http://www.vimeo.com/PapaJohnTestClips -- website references are to www.papajohn.org PapaJohn (MVP) Tag: WMM Vista Tag: 66129
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    - Nothing in my timeline plays, but everything else is ok. I'm making a video of my son and all yesterday it was working fine. Now, about 40 minutes into working on it the playback of what I've done so far won't work. The clips I have up above in the imported folders section still work, but not what I need to edit. Help please! I'm trying to make this DVD as a gift and need to finish up! Tag: WMM Vista Tag: 66126
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    - Preview screen blank in capture wizard Using capture with USB video device the screen is blank but has worked fine previously and works on other pcs with the same cable and settings can any body tell me what I've got missing or corrupted? Tag: WMM Vista Tag: 66122
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    - asx files will not import into MM title says all...is there a way to get asx files into movie maker? they play w/ WMP, so I figure they should be editable w/ MM. if not, is there a way to convert an asx into wmv or asf? Tag: WMM Vista Tag: 66106
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    - WMM won't save to PC anymore I've successfully saved movies to my hard drive for years. Now when I take the same steps as before it shows that I'm trying to save to a CD. How can I fix this problem? Has this anything to do with automatic updates? Thanks Tag: WMM Vista Tag: 66104
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    - Can you edit a youtube clip? That is, I saved a vid' from the site & I'd like to cut a portion of it out altogether. Is that do-able w/ WMM? btw, I don't think I have the latest version. Tag: WMM Vista Tag: 66102
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    - blurry on burned DVD but Fine in MovieMaker I seem to have the opposite problem usually posted. My slideshow - video in MovieMaker works great in Movie Maker -saved as a video. with the .wmv extension. When I tried to burn it onto a DVD it can't or wont do it. So I downloaded a trial conversion software AVS Video Converter (have to purchase it or get the logo throughout movie- any other ones you suggest that are GOOD- Free and won't download a bunch of JUNK. I ask it to convert it to a DVD file - there were other choices like MP3, Mpeg, AVI - I will do any file type - just want to know which one won't be blurry that I CAN Burn onto My DVD blank Discs and PLAY on our TV. Going Crazy!!! Thanks, BARb Tag: WMM Vista Tag: 66092
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    - Windows Movie Maker my son has recently made a number of "videos" in WMM and has tried to upload them on to YouTube, however as they are in .MSWMM format they will not upload. They have to be in a .WMV format. How do you tranfer into .WMV format from .MSWMM? Tag: WMM Vista Tag: 66091
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    - Sony Handycam Video Files with .CDA File Extension Does anyone know how to get Sony Handicam video files into a computer-editable format? The mini-DVDs save the video as a single file (Track01.cda). Camera has no fire wire output jack to transfer movie to computer at high resolution. I've tried several rip programs and Roxio media creator, but none of them can handle the cda file. -- Geeker Tag: WMM Vista Tag: 66088
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    - Jpeg format - help! I am also getting the error message about source files. I have windows XP, there is plenty of space on the drive. I have also "x"d out the boxes under "tools - options". My story board consists of 100-200 jpeg pictures that I have edited in "Photoexpressions" with titles and captions. I have transitions on each frame. Used music from a cd that I have and only have 3 title overlays. The total length of the movie is a little less that 30 minutes. So I guess my question is...I'm trying to get out of the error message and I guess I might need to change my pictures from Jpegs to bitmaps. I don't know how to do that :( Is this something I can do within movie maker? I don't want to have to start all over again! This has taken me a month to do 30 min. This is my first time using movie maker and I'm getting very frustrated and may not use it again if this does'nt work. Please Help! Tag: WMM Vista Tag: 66085
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    - 10 second file becomes 9 seconds when saved I'm new to MM, but have used Adobe After Effects for a few years, so I thought that it would be pretty simple to do some basic things with MM. Using MM Version 2.1.4026.0 on XP Pro. I have some uncompressed AVIs (video only) that I wanted to convert to WMV, open in MM, overlay titles and export. These are 10 seconds, 30 Frames Per Second looping AVIs, so getting the right length in and out is important for the loop. I converted from AVI using River Past Video Cleaner, Quality Based settings - quality set at 90. When I opened the 10 second WMV files in MM, overlay titles and save them as WMV, they export at 9 seconds long. Tried lots of files... So I tried just saving without titles and got the same result. Now in the MM preview window before saving, the duration of the WMV I brought in shows 9:93 (not like ANY time code I've ever seen before), but not a second short either. I opened the very same original WMV file in After Effects and it is - as expected 10 sec duration. Open the new saved WMV version (from MM) and it is 9 seconds. Trying to isolate the problem, I took the original AVIs into MM and saved them as AVI to see if the length stayed the same. The AVI saved from MM became 9:28. While the original is 10 seconds in duration. Still not correct, but .02 sec. off is not as bad as an entire second missing in the WMVs. I used G-spot to look at how the WMVs were being made. It tells me that the codec is WMV3 - WMP v9 (VC-1 Simple/Main) and the file type is ASF (WMA/WMV); Mime Type video/x-ms-asf. I am just baffled. I was testing this method as an easy way to put titles over a file in WMV format. After hours of researching, testing, reading everything I can find about the process - I'm not so sure that it is simple. I've been to the MVP sites, tried to educate myself on WMV and MM, but I'm getting nowhere! Please tell me that I am missing something obvious. I just can't believe that opening and saving a file would change its length. I would really appreciate some input, because this is one newbie that may never get beyond the beginner stage if I can't solve this problem. Thank you very much for your help. Tag: WMM Vista Tag: 66083
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    - PROBS WITH VIDEO-AUDIO SYNC thank u john inzer very helpful now another ques i'v had big probs w audio being out of sync when i make a computer file even tho the alteratn i did to the timeline was very minimal (ea time i made a file of the same project, somewhat different areas were o o sync!) i'm hoping having one big clip will help any other suggestions (what i finally did was paste audio to the 2nd audio line, mute the 1st, & that worked) also sometimes when i play the timeline the video stalls thanx again Tag: WMM Vista Tag: 66082
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    - poor transfer of video from camera my preveiw screen shows black & white , with some coloured pixels, and when i play the captured video it shows an 80% blue screen (on the bottom) and the other 20% black & white video,have i damaged something in the camera? when i first transfersd the video it worked fine except for the sound,I then pluged the audio in, and something went wrong , audio and video are transfered but video has a problem .Using a JVC DV , s/video and audio input. through a winfast TV 2000 xp deluxe card. would appreciate any help PS .first time user, Tag: WMM Vista Tag: 66076
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    - one big avi file imports as a bunch of smallclips into movie maker this, of course, causes a problem with audio-video synchrony even if there is very little that is edited also, how do i know which version of movie maker i have i looked in 'properties' which only said movie maker if it is movie maker I, can i download II for free what is the link finally, i do not have 'snapshot' as a choice on movie maker which is why i suspect it is not the latest version Tag: WMM Vista Tag: 66073
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    - Editing Vista Movie Maker project files with XP movie maker I am currently having troubles contuing to edit my movie maker project on my xp machine at work after I have worked and edited them on my Vista machine at home. I have version 6.0 at home on a Vista O.S. and a 5.1 on the XP machine at work. I can open the project i worked on in XP with the vista version but not visa versa. Very similar to how office 2007 works. I use a client to be able to open the 2007 .docx files on my xp 2003 machine or just save my files as 97-03 .doc's There is not an option in vista 6.0 movie maker to save it as an older version. How can I work on my project between the two platforms/versions? Tag: WMM Vista Tag: 66068
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    - Help Half of my screen is green!!!! hello i need help i have made my movie on movie maker half of the movie is my friends wedding video and the other half is pictures from the wedding. I burned it to a dvd-rw and when we took it out and placed it into a dvd player and watched it on the tv the video part of the movie is green on the bottom half. how do i make that go away and just show the video at full screen???? the rest of the movie is fine -- sammie Tag: WMM Vista Tag: 66048
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    - How To Trim Popup List for "Menu Background" Options in Nero 6? I've been using Moviemaker and Nero 6 for a couple of years. When authoring a DVD in Nero, one of the options when creating the menu is "background". This gives you a visual choice of a plain background, a still picture, or a video, and also a choice to have an audio file play in the background while the menu is displayed. Every time I browse for and choose a new background selection while authoring a DVD, it gets added to a popup list that is stored somewhere and presented the next time I use Nero. After two years, this popup list is many pages long, and 80% of the files don't even exist on my computer any more. There does not seem to be any option for deleting items from this popup list. How do I remove old choices from the list? I don't want to totally remove and re-install the software, because of the 20% of things I'd like to keep on the list. thanks, Martin Tag: WMM Vista Tag: 66040
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    - Movie Maker problem My problem is when Im using movie maker for more than 15 or 20 minutes, it turns it off. My question is that it happens about virtual memory of my PC ? Tag: WMM Vista Tag: 66037
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    - Aspect ratio problems I am using Windows Media Encoder to capture presentations and program demonstrations with accompanying narration in a Dell notebook running at 1440 x 900. That's working great, except that I want to trim the videos to get rid of the section at the beginning where I turn encoding on and the section at the end where I want to turn encoding off. The files are reasonable size, the quality is excellent, and they seem to play fine on computers with other resolutions so I don't really want to tamper with them much. I've tried using Windows Media File Editor but there doesn't seem to be a way to move through the file one frame at a time to get the perfect trim spots so I decided to try Movie Maker. I have read PapaJohn's excellent article on custom profiles and have used several but I am having awful problems with the screen resolution. ------------ In the original unedited video, the recorded screen measures 7.25" wide x 5.5" tall, which is 4:3. When I try a custom profile set to 1440 x 900 (my computer's native resolution), the resulting recorded screen measures 6 x 5.5 if I use the 4:3 aspect ratio and 7.75 x 5.375 if I use the 16:9 aspect ratio. IOW, the resulting image is nearly square or way too wide, not the 4:3 that the original video is. I even tried a custom profile with the video size set to same as video input, but that profile doesn't show up in the list of Other settings (as PapaJohn's article says will happen). How do I use Movie Maker to do nothing more than trim my video without changing the file size (other than making it smaller because pieces will be edited out) and especially without changing the recorded screen size? I really appreciate any and all suggestions and help. I will be recording my lectures in a statistical programming class this summer and would like to be able to do basic editing to the files without making too many changes to the original recorded video. I hope that I'm just missing something very basic. Thanks, liz Tag: WMM Vista Tag: 66033
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    - Resolution of movies The input clips to my MM project have 980x852 resolution. The highest I get as output is 720x480 (in 4x3 aspect ratio). That is too low to display text properly. How do I get higher resolution output with MM? Thanks for help Tag: WMM Vista Tag: 66026
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    - right side of MM screen is cut off? hello, when I open MM the far right side of the screen is no longer visible, the right side where the up and down arrow scroll bar should appear at the right end of the timeline etc. doesnt show even if I resize or stretch the entire program window where did it go? how to get it back? Tag: WMM Vista Tag: 66024

I am trying make a movie with WMM vista edition. when viewed in WMM it looks
fine. When saved and then viewed with WMP it is only on half the screen with
the bottom half green. My movie contains both clips and pics but only the
clips are smooshed during WMP playing. please help if you can

Re: WMM Vista by On

On
Wed Jun 11 10:46:39 PDT 2008

Have a look at this URL to see if it fits your problem:

http://www.bernzilla.com/item.php?id=884

"Completly Lost" <Completly Lost@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:767F6381-E762-4A38-8336-054482C2EF20@microsoft.com...
>I am trying make a movie with WMM vista edition. when viewed in WMM it
>looks
> fine. When saved and then viewed with WMP it is only on half the screen
> with
> the bottom half green. My movie contains both clips and pics but only the
> clips are smooshed during WMP playing. please help if you can

Re: WMM Vista by Not

Not
Wed Jun 11 11:45:06 PDT 2008

thank you that help me out a lot.

"On Request" wrote:

> Have a look at this URL to see if it fits your problem:
>
> http://www.bernzilla.com/item.php?id=884
>
> "Completly Lost" <Completly Lost@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:767F6381-E762-4A38-8336-054482C2EF20@microsoft.com...
> >I am trying make a movie with WMM vista edition. when viewed in WMM it
> >looks
> > fine. When saved and then viewed with WMP it is only on half the screen
> > with
> > the bottom half green. My movie contains both clips and pics but only the
> > clips are smooshed during WMP playing. please help if you can
>
>