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    - Display file names Hello, I have successfully made a slide show in MM, and now I want to do the same thing except I want the slide show to display the name of each slide. How can I do this? Scott Tag: cannot import files in wmm Tag: 62092
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    - 'date taken' field blank on all imported video clips i have imported video clips from my digital video camera using windows movie maker. the 'date taken' field is blank on every video clip. however, i checked my camera settings and the date is in fact set correctly. what can i do so i know when each of these clips was filmed? thanks for your help and advice! Tag: cannot import files in wmm Tag: 62091
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    - Older movie maker files won't play I have some older movie maker video files I produced in 2004 that won't play on the current version of Windows Movie maker. How can I resolve the problem> Tag: cannot import files in wmm Tag: 62090
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    - VIDEO CAPTURE DEVICE I have made some films before using WMM with no problems. However, using the same camcorder, I was surprised when I used it today to get the following messages: "The device is not responding. Close any other application that is using the device and try capturing again". I pressed OK and got "The video device cannot be used at this time because there has been an error when starting the device." The device is not showing in the Video Capture Device window behind the messages either. What am I doing wrong? Tag: cannot import files in wmm Tag: 62089
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    - Video Capture Device I have made many films with Movie Maker, but all of a sudden I get the following messages. "The device is not responding. Close any other applications that is using the device and try capturing again." I press OK and then get "The video device cannot be used at this time because there has been an error when starting the device." The device is not showing in the 'Video Capture Device' behind the messages. What am I doing wrong all of a sudden? Tag: cannot import files in wmm Tag: 62088
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    - Movie-save problem, I got audio, but I miss images I'm busy trying to save my movie. I tried getting it on cd and on my computer, but I get the same problem. The computer saves the movie full lenght, so it seems allright. But when I'm starting to play the movie, it shows that he saved all the audio, but I miss the images after 1,5 minute. (the movie is 20 minutes in total). Everytime I try to save it, he saves the images somewhere between 1,5 and 13 minutes. Why isn't he saving the whole 20 minutes? And how can I solve this problem? -Jacky Tag: cannot import files in wmm Tag: 62087
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    - Windows Movie Maker hangs Windows Movie Maker hangs Hardware: Dell XPS 410 2.6 ghz 3 gig ram 871gig free disk space Software: Windows XP Media Center Edition Version 2002 sp2 Camera: have a Sony DCR SR40 w 30gb drive software that came with camera: Came with PIXELA ImageMixer software which i use to save the clips from the camera onto a folder. They get automatically saved as .mpg Windows Movie Maker Version 5.1 Windows Movie Maker Version 2.1.4026.0 (so it says both version 5.1 and 2.1, i guess they are one and the same) = = = = = my problem: Scenario 1, Everything works fine: Scenario 2, WMM Hangs = = = = = Scenario 1, Everything works fine: I start a new project, i am in storyboard mode I create 4 titles i then put transitions between the 4 boards (3 transitions) i can change transitions, and play the thing. i can do this for hours on end. Like i said, everything works fine. = = = = = = = = = = = Scenario 2, WMM Hangs Start a new project import into collections: file: pozole01.mpg size(62.7 MB) i then drag the file and put it into the storyboard's first board. i can play the file fine. It is 58 seconds long. i will now put a title: tools/add title to the beginning/done,add title to movie. will now put a transition between title and clip. i drag 'shatter-in' to between the 2 boxes This is working fine. i can play and restart. everything is great Will now add a 2nd clip: i only have one video in my collection, so i better put another one: i have now imported pozole02 into my collection file: Pozole02.mpg size(105 MB) I have dragge pozole02 into the 3rd rectangle in the storyboard: PREDICTION-WMM WILL FREEZE SOON! (it is now 9:33 PM) i know it will freeze. It is just a matter of clicking to see if it is still respoding. I click on 'clip' i get the menu. i click somewhere else, the menu goes away. i click on the pozole01 file sitting in the middle of the screen. nothing happens wait, am i frozen?? Has the app hung?? YES Reality: As predicted WMM is now FROZEN! (It is now 9:34 PM) i can still move the mouse, but WMM has become totally unresponsive. It will stay like this for as long as the computer is on! Be it minutes, hours, days or months or years! Should i look in the event log? What's the point? I have looked there before, but obviously its not going to write anything because it has stopped working! If i were to kill the app, then something would get written to the log. . . . but what's the use? "oh, i think somebody killed me" i alt-tab back to wmm. The verty top of the window now says this: "Untitled - Windows Movie Maker (Not Responding) ok, i go to event viewer it is now 9:43 pm. The last event is from 9:17 it is an info event from live update. (WMM froze at 9:34 pm. No event. but of course i knew this, because i have looked before i been at this for a few days now) Ok, here's my question What did i do wrong? Wait, i know i did nothing wrong. So, let me ask this: Does anybody know what could be going on? And yes, i have read papajohn and all that and it is not working for me. Tag: cannot import files in wmm Tag: 62084
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    - MovieMaker copys pics cant open new project w/o adding old one We have made 3 movies, but they are all scrambled into one. When we click to open MovieMaker we cant start a new file, it just opens all of the imported media that we have used before. The box to auto open the last project is not checked. Also there are about 6 copys of each picture all of a sudden, and when we try to open a movie it says it is not a valid file. I should say, we have vista home premium. Thank you. Tag: cannot import files in wmm Tag: 62083
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    - simplest app to cut out bits of a dvd and screenshots Hi All I work for a number of schools and they are always trying to enhance their pupils' learning with visual/interactive stuff instead of boring old school methods. They were doing topics on World War II and the teachers wanted to cut out video clips of famous films, eg Saving Private Ryan, Pearl Harbour, etc, so that the compiled content would be OK for young eyes. Problem is the current crop of 'stick a DVD, select a chunk, extract it and save it as a video file' software appears to be rubbish! The only decent one that I managed to find was a prog called MovAvi that was simple to use and was OK for screenshots, but the left and right marker function that allows the user to grab a snippet of video is crap. Everytime you move the left marker it bounces back to the beginning again there is no fluid movement with it. Any ideas on better software for this specific task, whilst at the same time not being a newbie's nightmare and a techie's dream? Thanks Tag: cannot import files in wmm Tag: 62081
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    - Can't Save to DVD Recently getting error "can't save to DVD". Has something changed recently that anyone knows about? In May, I was able to save and burn DVD w/ no problem and larger than this file. I have split the file in half & I still get error. When the file is single file I get the other error commonly seen about space, file may be missing etc. All my pics are in one place; music too so it's only searching 1 place to find them. I have move my temp folder to new specific folder & out of local settings and my partition is NTFS. Still no luck. When I tried saving to my computer so I could burn separately, it started to save but said "520+minutes" and then kept going up instead of down. I still would rather save to DVD & can't figure why it isn't working when it was fine a few months ago. Any ideas? Tag: cannot import files in wmm Tag: 62080
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    - Cannot import video I am getting an error message. "...[video] could not be imported. An interface has too many methods to fire events from." Is there a way to fix this? Tag: cannot import files in wmm Tag: 62077
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    - Automovie? Using Automovie is convenient to avoid having to put in transitions after every clip but it only allows for a basic title and doesn't allow putting in end credits. Is there a way round this? Thanking you. -- Kenny Cargill Tag: cannot import files in wmm Tag: 62075
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    - coverting IFO files I have a few DVDs that have video footage in IFO files that I would like to use on MM. How can I convert these files to a format supported by MM. Tag: cannot import files in wmm Tag: 62072
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    - Crashing Problems with Windows Movie Maker Today i decided to start working on a video with Windows Movie Maker. I am using Windows Movie Maker 5.1, and i worked for about 2 hours on the video and i had no problems at all. I got my video up to 3 minutes long and i had over 20 clips on the timeline, i tried to add another clip (this clip was no different than the last 5 i added, it was even part of the same video) to the timeline, and then Windows Movie maker crashed. I received no error message, it just closed. The file format i am using is AVI (Which i am sure is compatible because it worked for the first 20 clips). I thought at first maybe it was just bad luck and something small happened, so i tried again, and the same thing happened. So then i decided to try to add a DIFFERENT clip, so i added a clip that i had added into the movie earlier that had worked fine, and it still crashed. So that tells me its not a compatability problem... -------------- Also, perhaps this would help you in helping me with my problem - When i am re-loading my video after the crash, the DiVXCodec taskbar icon just keeps appearing and disappearing, as if it was closing/opening over and over again, and after the video is fully loaded, there is no DivXCodec icon on the taskbar. But there are THREE other identicle codec icons there instead... Shouldnt there only be one icon? Tag: cannot import files in wmm Tag: 62069
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    - Unable to add video from hard drive to movie maker I have saved a DVD of old home movies to my hard drive and now cannot load them in movie maker to add music. Does anyone have any suggestions or possibly another program I can use? Going crazy trying to accomplish what seems to be a simple task. Or maybe I am just simple! I made the DVD with Sony VRD-VC30. HELP PLEASE!!! Tag: cannot import files in wmm Tag: 62067
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    - How do I reset movie settings to standard instead of hi resolution I filmed in slow to get best quality, may have made a mistake. my approximately 2+ hour video is 30 GB!+ when put onto my computer. Help in Movie Maker says I can change the " movie settings" when I go to publish, but I can`t find anywhere that tells me how to do this so I can put this on a DVD... Any help would be greatly appreciated...Thanks -- Lost in Movie Maker Tag: cannot import files in wmm Tag: 62064
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    - Speed up a video without trimming the clip or using speed up fx? Is there any way to edit the duration to make a video shorter without trimming the clip and avoiding using the extreme speed up video effect? Something similar to adjusting the playback speed in Windows Media Player perhaps? (It's a shame that there isn't a scrollbar to adjust the clip speed like there is when watching videos in Windows Media Player) Tag: cannot import files in wmm Tag: 62062
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    - MovieMaker 6.0 available XP? Is MovieMaker 6.0 (Vista's edition) available for download to Windows XP? Doug Tag: cannot import files in wmm Tag: 62058
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    - Movie DVD 1. How do I get the movie off of it's original dvd into movie maker? 1a. What is the process called? 1b. Is there a tutorial/manual/book that walks someone thru this? I am brand new so I need something that outlines each step. Thank you, Tag: cannot import files in wmm Tag: 62056
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    - asx files? How to convert or get MM to read? I have video clips from our monastery in France. The files are .asx files. The videos can be viewed but I can't import them into MM. I have converter software but it doesn't read asx files also. Thanks Tag: cannot import files in wmm Tag: 62052
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    - computer shuts down when i try to save a movie file Hey, I'm looking for a little help and I figured this would be the best place to receive an answer that will fix my problem. I've made a few videos that I really like and I'm trying to save them to my computer but every time it begins the saving process, my computer shuts down before it can reach anything from 20 to 30%. I've cleaned up my computer significaltly and it still shuts down even on the lowest possible settings after running for a couple minutes. I would greatly appreciate any help you can give me, thanks. Tag: cannot import files in wmm Tag: 62047
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    - Movie will not save I Made a movie using Movie Maker and when I try to save the movie it says that the file can not save because of 3 possible things: The file is too big (it's not) The destination does not exist ( I've tried saving it in my video's, gmovie and many other places, it doesn't work) or it says the source files do not exist ( all the movie files are there, but I did have them stored in an external hard drive, I moved them all back to the C: drive but it still doesn't work...I tried opening the movie using other programs but nothing is compatible with the .MWMM Tag: cannot import files in wmm Tag: 62043
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    - Importing video into MM When I import video into MM, i'm not able view the entire video clip. Is there a limitation in MM for the amount of video you're able to import at one time? When I place it on the MM timeline. My video clip does not show in it's entirety. If I play the same video clip on Windows Media player, it works fine and I'm able to see the entire video clip. Can someone please help? Tag: cannot import files in wmm Tag: 62038
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    - LAME ACM MP3 codec stopping Movie Maker I have spent eons creating a video around a specific track. When I come to publish it to the PC, Movie Maker just hangs and when I switch to desktop view the programme falls over saying 'LAME ACM MP3 codec' has caused the prog to stop working. Do I need to uninstall LAME ACM MP3 codec or install it? How can I uninstall individual codecs? I needs to publish the video and track together double-quick. I wish I had stuck with XP - never a single problem. -- No naked jacuzzi-ness Tag: cannot import files in wmm Tag: 62036
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    - OxOODIB83 Using WMENC, tells me that codec OxOODIB83 is missing, where can I find it to install? Tag: cannot import files in wmm Tag: 62032
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    - Movie Maker 1) . How do I find out what version of Movie Maker I have on my computer? 2). I have made movies in the past with Movie Maker, and have burned them to a CD/DVD format. Suddenly, the last time I did this, my movie cut out half-way through, but the sound/music continued. The last video clip shown was also inverted up-side-down! Now I have lost several hours of work and can't seem to get it back! What gives? Randy Tag: cannot import files in wmm Tag: 62025
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    - No audio on saved movie HELP I need to save this movie convert it and burn in the next 12 hrs but it will not let me save in dvavi format because of the size it goes for 25 mins and is only photos and song. I have windows xp. So i saved it is wmv format but on playback will only play pictures and no audio. I also considered changing from fat32 to nsfc (or whatever it is) but weary that i could lose valuble files if i do so. Dont know a great deal about coputers. So if anyone has a suggestion about the audio problem or changing partitians please help, thanks. Tag: cannot import files in wmm Tag: 62021
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    - Playing DVD I created a slideshow and burned it to a CD-R. The cd will play back on my computer but when I put it into a DVD player it says the cd doesnt have a playback mode? Does anyone know how to fix this? Please help!!!!! Tag: cannot import files in wmm Tag: 62020
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    - Movie Maker doesn't recognize my mini DV camera Movie Maker doesn't recognize my mini DV camera SONY DCR-HC28. The problem is that sometimes when I have that problem I restart camera or PC but today it doesn't recognized the camera at all. What should I do? Thank you in advance! P.S. I don't have any software with the camera and from SONY suggested me to use Windows Movie Maker Tag: cannot import files in wmm Tag: 62019
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    - import video from a DVD How can I import video from a DVD into Movie Maker? (I would like to edit the part of the video). Any help is appreciated. Thx. Tag: cannot import files in wmm Tag: 62015
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    - Movie Maker 5.1 video clip problem I am trying to drop a short video clip on top of an existing clip which is already on my storyboard. I want the video only, I need the original audio track to stay there unchanged. I can't figure out how to insert the video only. Someone told me that in later versions of MOvie Maker they have multiple video tracts on the storyboard, but my version only has one. Tag: cannot import files in wmm Tag: 62013
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    - Movie Maker Crashing I converted some standard PAL DVD footage to mpeg1 for use with MM, it allows me to import the video clip but when I try to put it into my timeline MM crashes out with no specific error message. Would it be better if I converted to Mpeg2? Any help gratefully received. Tag: cannot import files in wmm Tag: 62012
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    - Importing from Sony HVR-A1U I have Movie Maker 2.1 installed. I just purchased a Sony HVR-A1U/A1N and set it into stardard DV mode and made a small test tape. the Sony supplied cable into the HDV/DV socket and the other end into a USB port and powered up the camera putting it into playback mode. Then I started Movie Maker and attempted "capture video" but was told that MM could find no capture device. The Sony literature is a bit sketchy but perhaps it is saying that the USB cable is only for still pictures. It might be saying that an optional iLink cable is necessary to import video. If this is the case, would Movie Maker find the camera if I had an iLink cable? Tag: cannot import files in wmm Tag: 62011
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    - Black screen when using playback I have made several movies in the past successfully using WMM but last time I tried, the playback screen showed nothing but the music still played. Can anyone give me VERY specific instructions on how to fix this? I do not know much about it. Thanks in advance! Tag: cannot import files in wmm Tag: 62010
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    - Why is all my video appearing as black images after saving? Hello, When I open my Windows Movie Maker file after saving and closing it, the music plays but all pictures and images come up as black. What do I do? Help! Tag: cannot import files in wmm Tag: 62009
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    - Best codec to use for reliability Im just wondering what the best format to encode into is. I plan on doing low compression formats or maybe raw data, for the actual recording sessions, but for editing, I want to cut it down to a high compression format. I've tried DivX, but for some reason, Movie Maker seems to have a LOT of problems with that. Is there a way to either get DivX to co-operate, or is there a similarly size-reduced codec that could allow me to make a pretty decent length movie, that could say, fit Youtube's 10minute 100MB rule. Thanks. Tag: cannot import files in wmm Tag: 62008
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    - Removing original soundtrack Having imported clips, I wish to completely remove the original soundtrack from those and add a fresh one recorded by myself. How do I turn off the original soundtrack? -- No naked jacuzzi-ness Tag: cannot import files in wmm Tag: 62005
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    - Importing Videos I am new to using Moviemaker and I taped using a DVD camcorder. I formatted the disc to VR which seems to be the problem. I found software that took the .vro that I uploaded from the camera and turned it into a .mpg. I saved it to my flash drive. I am at work, trying to edit the material from my flash drive, but I cannot import the file. I can view the video with Windows Media Player. When I try to import the video, the message says, "E:\PepRally.mpg could not be imported. An interface has too many methods to fire events from" Also, I am running on XP Professional (moviemaker version 5.1) and at home I have Vista (moviemaker 6.0), which does allow me to import the video. I need to work on it from here at work. Can anyone help? Thank you in advance! Tag: cannot import files in wmm Tag: 62004
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    - Dragging I'm wondering, first of all, if I'm in the wrong discussion group, as this one is listed under Windows XP and I'm using Vista and MM 6.0. I'll just ask my question anyways, if someone can hopefully answer. A technique that I used on my old (now broken) XP laptop when movie editing was to drag a video clip I wanted into the Audio track so I could use its sound on top of my existing shot. However, my new Vista machine has MM 6.0 freezing up every single time I do this. Does anybody else have this problem and, if so, is there a solution or patch I'm unaware of? Or is a way to circumvate this problem? System specs: Windows Vista Home Premium HP Intel Duo-Core processor @ 1.86 GHz 1 GB RAM That should be enough to handle MM, don't you think? Tag: cannot import files in wmm Tag: 62003
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    - Playing movie maker on dvd-r help. i have edited two tapes from a sony hc96 camcorder. i added titles etc. when i come to burn it it cd i did. it took 6 hours(is that right) once it had finished i tried the dvd-r on at least 3 dvd players and none of them worked. on one it came up does not recognise this type of file. the only time the disc works is when i play it through a laptop. any help would be grateful Tag: cannot import files in wmm Tag: 62002
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    - movie maker not publishing previous video I imported a movie clip (formatted on moviemaker) into a new movie published on moviemaker. The finished product has great audio, but no video. You can't see the old video, nor can you see the new photos imported. Any advice? Tag: cannot import files in wmm Tag: 62001
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    - Seeking advice to import music file for WMM Hi: I just purchased a song that I'd like put put into a WMM file I'm creating. I paid for the download on Zune and it says it won't allow me to download it to WMM as it's right management protected. I also had the same song purchased through iTunes and that won't upload either. I thought it was a codec issue so downloaded various codec but that didn't fix the issue -- I noticed that there is a lock icon on the MP4 icon so I think it's rights protected. My only purpose for purchasing the songs was to put it into the WMM file. Is my only option to purchase the music CD at the store? I am concerned that I will right into the rights management issue again. Usually when I have created WMM files, I've burned the music CD to my PC and uploaded the song to WMM. These have typically been older CDs where there may be fewer restrictions on content protection. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Annette Tag: cannot import files in wmm Tag: 61999
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    - Adding sound to DVD of 8 mm Home Movies I copied to DVD Ihave been unable to find a way to add music to old silent 8 mm movies that I transfered to DVD using the new Sony DVD-VR30. I have been able to copy them on my hard drive but where do I go from here? I am hoping to use Movie Maker on my Windows XP. Roxio My DVD is installed on my computer but whenever I try to do something with that it says there is a problem and MSN has to shut down. Any help any of you can give me will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Tag: cannot import files in wmm Tag: 61998
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    - importing music when i click the "import audio or music" button, nothing happens. I have watched tutorials and there should be a list of folders but there isn't. There are no errors it just seems to ignore the command. -- dan Tag: cannot import files in wmm Tag: 61991
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    - Sony Hi8 Handycam movies won't download I have an older Sony Hi8 camcorder that only has composite RCA and S video outputs. My older Sony Vio computer has composite RCA and S video inputs. I can view my movies through the computer as a T.V. input so I know that the computer can detect and read the camcorder signals. For some reason, movie maker does not recognize that my camcorder is plugged into the computer and I just get the message, no capture device detected. I have tried everything I know. I have Windows XT home version with all patches. My camcorder is CCD-TRV75 NTSC. Please help and thanks. -- kpace Tag: cannot import files in wmm Tag: 61990
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    - Movie Maker did not work! I had someone who scanned about 100 pictures for me on their movie maker. She burned to DVD and nothing happened. She E-mailed them to me and they came up with red Xs. I was able to get it to my hard drive, but unable to edit it. I went out and bought a new computer and had my old files put on the new computer. The movie has changed to 18 clips and I cannot seperate them to put in the correct order. Any suggestions??? -- Linda Tag: cannot import files in wmm Tag: 61986
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    - Blurry pictures and texts on the storyboard and avi file I imported my pictures to the collection pane. When I look at them using the viewer, they look sharp and no blurriness. However, when I drag the pictures to storyboard and play the video, they are blurry. I also created dv-avi file, and the quality of pictures are as bad as the ones that I saw on storyboard. Could someone explain how I can fix this problem? The size of pictures are 720x540 and 640x480. I saved the pictures with BMP. Thank you, -- Amy Tag: cannot import files in wmm Tag: 61981
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    - help with windows movie maker hello I was wondering how would you have 1 slide spilt up into 4 categories so each category in the single slide shows different running clips .So the slide is spilt up into 4 parts with each part showing runing clips . I was wondering how you would do this thanks help is aprreciated Tag: cannot import files in wmm Tag: 61968
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    - Music Does anyone know how to tell me how to import music from my computer to my movie? I have Limewire Pro and Itunes on my computer Tag: cannot import files in wmm Tag: 61965
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    - capturing from a panasonic nv-gs120 Hi, I am using windows xp sp2 version, on a compaq laptop and am unable to capture video from my panasonic nv-gs120. The computer recognises the camera, i.e it pings when it is plugged in, and the version of MMV is 2.1.4026.0 When i start MMV and hit capture it comes with with the usual wizard box and shows the panasonic as the dv camera, however after i continue on through the wizard, choose the file name for the download and go on, it comes up with the following message "the video device cannot be used at this time because there has been an error when starting the device" I am using a dv cable direct from the camera to the laptop. What is driving me crazy is that when i use another program, i.e muvee autoproducer 4.5 it has absolutley no problem detecting and downloading the video from this camera. I also have a desktop, a dell running xp professional, and MMV on that computer has no problems at all downloading from the panasonic. So whilst i can get by, its frustrating the hell out of as to why MMV will not download the files from the camera onto the laptop. any help would be appreciated regards -- freddy Tag: cannot import files in wmm Tag: 61964

hi,
i cannot import files mpg, avi files in wmm , i have windows xp at home but
i can import files in windows professional at my work place ? whts the
problem may b?
also i have played these files in windows player , there is no problem
playing these files so please advice me if anybody can
the camcorder i m using is samsung
mpg file i have converted in avi and then also tried but not working

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