"Windows Movie Maker has stoped working"

i was trying to make a video for a school project, i had one video clip i
used in movie maker which is in AVI (I got vista home premium by the way)

there were parts of the video i needed playing normal & some playing in
reverse so i ran a program that a reversed copy has been made (so theres 2
videos ). after trimming most of both videos, there is only about 10 seconds
of each on the time line. I wanted to mute both videos so on the time line
section i clicked on the plus box next to the word video (on the left)

2 new rows appear which are transition & audio, a second after clicking the
plus box, a message comes up saying it has stopped working , & an option to
close comes up. THIS HAPPENS EVERY TIME, CAN SOMEONE HELP ME

Graham
Fri Apr 18 14:02:11 PDT 2008

There are over 800 avi file types, of which really only dv.avi works
properly.
What is your avi?
Use avicodec to find out if you don't know.
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/WebPages/UsefulProgrammes.htm
Then, if it's not dv.avi convert it to wmv.

--

Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.com


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>i was trying to make a video for a school project, i had one video clip i
> used in movie maker which is in AVI (I got vista home premium by the way)
>
> there were parts of the video i needed playing normal & some playing in
> reverse so i ran a program that a reversed copy has been made (so theres 2
> videos ). after trimming most of both videos, there is only about 10
> seconds
> of each on the time line. I wanted to mute both videos so on the time line
> section i clicked on the plus box next to the word video (on the left)
>
> 2 new rows appear which are transition & audio, a second after clicking
> the
> plus box, a message comes up saying it has stopped working , & an option
> to
> close comes up. THIS HAPPENS EVERY TIME, CAN SOMEONE HELP ME