How do you get .avi files onto movie maker?

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    - Green Screen i think i figured out I think i got the green screen thing -- needhelp911 Tag: How do you get .avi files onto movie maker? Tag: 42406
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    - green screen I looked at the moviemakers.net forum, and found a "solution". Someone says to "use inverse video to get video in text, change the text, (now background) to green, and make a clip of the text with video and a green background to use for green screen". can some one simplify that? I mean, what's inverse video? -- needhelp911 Tag: How do you get .avi files onto movie maker? Tag: 42404
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    - Green Screen My question is: Is it possible to acheive a green screen effect in windows movie maker? Thanks a bunch! -- needhelp911 Tag: How do you get .avi files onto movie maker? Tag: 42399
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    - voice over is it possible to record voice over on moviemaker 2 ? can anyone recommend any good tutorial sites ? david Tag: How do you get .avi files onto movie maker? Tag: 42397
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    - Big time Help needed writing To Camera Dear Forum/PapaJohn, I am still having problems wrting to tape when finishing a movie. The camcorder is activated ie. it reads that it is recording but it never stops recording and there is nothing on the tape. I tried to use th WinDv program to correct the problem but even that did the same. Any suggestions anybody Signed A desperate Nicky B! Tag: How do you get .avi files onto movie maker? Tag: 42395
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    - Writing to Tape Big Time Help Needed Please Dear Forum/PapaJohn, I am still having problems finishing the movie and writing to tape. The camcorder is activated ie. it records but does not stop and there is nothing recorded on the tape. I tried the WinDV download but even that did the same as the above. Any suggestions?? Thank you for any help you can give Nicky B Tag: How do you get .avi files onto movie maker? Tag: 42394
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    - trouble saving, not covered before i have a video made that is 10 minutes, and it just doesnt save i dont get an error, but it says time remaining 1643 minutes, which is reterded because my movies that were 5 minutes saved in under 5 minutes. so why is it doing this? Tag: How do you get .avi files onto movie maker? Tag: 42387
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    - Date and Time On Screen Display (on DVD Conversion from DI-8 Recording) Hi, I am using the DI-8 Camcorder With Movie Maker on Windows XP. When I play the cassette on camcorder it display date and time on the corner of screen. But in the moviemaker it only creates the links to time and date. How can I make DVD from DI-8 recordings (using Movie Maker), to display the date and time on the screen all the time. It will be great idea to have option to display the date-time with some option like subtitles. With Rgds, BJ. Tag: How do you get .avi files onto movie maker? Tag: 42386
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    - Saving video files help I just got a Logitech web cam. I have stitched together some videos recorded with the web cam using Movie Maker. How do I save the resulting video in anything other than the movie maker file extension. The .wmv extension would be nice so other poeple can open the file if I send it to them. Thanks for your help pk Tag: How do you get .avi files onto movie maker? Tag: 42385
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    - Importing files without index?? I have downloaded an old newsreel from the internet and want to import it into movie maker. However everytime I try it tells me that it cannot open the file because it is not indexed. How can I index the file?? Also, when I play the file in movie player I can't fast forward or rewind, I have to go back to the begining of the film. Are these problems linked? Tag: How do you get .avi files onto movie maker? Tag: 42384
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    - Creating collage of stills in movie Is there a function or technique I can use to create a movie sequence that shows a collage of stills? I have a set of still photos and want them to appear seemingly randomly overlaying each other on parts of the screen in rapid succession. Any ideas would be greatly welcome! Tag: How do you get .avi files onto movie maker? Tag: 42383
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    - Animated Movie using Movie Maker 2 I'm trying to create a simple animated feature using, hopefully, Movie Maker 2. What I need help with is moving a graphic within the frame. For example, let's say that there is a static background image and I want to move a small graphic across this background image. These images would be hand drawn, say in gif/png/jpeg format. If it's possible, how would I go about do that? Thanks in advance. Tag: How do you get .avi files onto movie maker? Tag: 42382
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    - How add narration or music? My basic movie is done but needs better narration in spots and I'd like to add music. My book on Windows XP doesn't cover this procedure very well. How do you do it? Tag: How do you get .avi files onto movie maker? Tag: 42378
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    - editing music clips Is there a way to cut the middle of a music clip and keep the beginning and the end? I can only seem to make it cut off the beginning or end, but not the middle. Tag: How do you get .avi files onto movie maker? Tag: 42377
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    - Saving Trouble Hello, Whenever I try to save a Video File from Movie Maker, it *stops* at 93, 97, or even 99 percent. The program doesn't freeze, and I can click cancel with no worries, but I can't save any videos! Help! Tag: How do you get .avi files onto movie maker? Tag: 42376
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    - Juddery preview when creating 2nd film- OK for 1st My first film with MM2.1 went flawlessly; I capured over 30GB of DV footage and created a 18min widescreen film, burned it to DVD - easy! I am trying to create a second film using some new captured DV footage (about 20gb), my computer is doing nothing else and has over 60GB of free HDD but I cannot even get past the first two seconds of the film without huge judder as if my HDD or system was struggling to cope (this is within MM using a small preview screen). I have defragged my HDD and my computer is two months old, with all other apps working fine. I even deleted the orginal captured DV footage fopr my first film to ensure that I have suffient HDD space. What am I missing here? HELP! Tag: How do you get .avi files onto movie maker? Tag: 42373
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    - Missing Codec Have captured an analog video using my Sony VAIO Laptop's GigaPocket Utility. File has been exported to the desktop as an MPEG-2 file. Movie plays OK in Windows Media Player but is not recognized by Windows Movie Maker when attempting to import it into a new "collection" for editing. An error window pops up indicating a missing codec. How can this problem be resolved? Tag: How do you get .avi files onto movie maker? Tag: 42371
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    - What's different behavior between AMCAP.exe and Movie Maker Hi, 1.AMCAP.exe doesn't call Flip of DD_SURFACECALLBACKS function but Movie maker does. Why? 2.After I enter the Movie Maker AP and click the "Capture from video device ..",it'll immediately call Flip function to flip the surface ,but on that time we doesn't see anything and we haven't make any setting before it preview,it's a little unusual. 3.It seems go software flip flow,but it has DDVP_AUTOFLIP flag when it call DdVideoPortUpdate function ,how can I distinguish the Hardware Flip or Software flip in Movie Maker? Best regards. Tag: How do you get .avi files onto movie maker? Tag: 42360
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    - OPENMG SECURE MODULE When I save a project I can not open it again, think I have to install OPENMG SECURE MODULE, but don't know how. Could anyone help me please!!!! Tag: How do you get .avi files onto movie maker? Tag: 42358
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    - creating a powerpoint with movie maker I have created a powerpoint with pictures for a wedding with Windows Movie Maker. Now I am ready to burn it. It says to burn on CD-RW. Can I burn it on a DVD and will it work on our DVD player properly. I have a DVD burner. Tag: How do you get .avi files onto movie maker? Tag: 42357
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    - Random Transitions I am trying to make a movie that has a lot of pictures. Is there a way I can simply have movie maker add the transitions randomly? I read a great thread on how to add the same transitions to all the slides but I wanted to spice it up a bit. Thanks! Tag: How do you get .avi files onto movie maker? Tag: 42350
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    - Audio Fade Out? Hello, how do I make the audio fade out (ie: on the last frame of a movie)? thank you Tag: How do you get .avi files onto movie maker? Tag: 42341
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    - saving to mini dv I have a movie that I am trying to save to my panasonic mini dv. I have the ieee1394 firewire. When I try to save to the camcorder, I dont get an error message, but it wont let me save it. I have read all the trouble shooting stuff and I think I have that covered. I have modified the size of the file when I save to CD or desktop and it will let me. I think the file is too large when I create my movie. I have 9 songs and approx 1200 images. The file shows only 254 meg before I save my movie. I cant see where I can change the bit rate from the pc to the camcorder. I can save the file just fine and view it in media player after changing the bit rate when going to the CD. Am I just out of luck because the file is too big when recording to the camcorder? Please help. Tag: How do you get .avi files onto movie maker? Tag: 42328
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    - Speed up clip TIP and questions I wanted to speed up a clip in WMM2 more than the default 2X; so I doubled the speed, saved the clip as an AVI then imported it back into Collections, sped it up again (2X), saved it to an AVI, re-imported it again and then finally applied a 2X Video Effect to give me a very speedy clip (without apparent loss of frames or introducing very choppy video). The question I have, is there any loss in AVI quality the more I apply this technique to a set of clips? Also, I have been reading on PapaJohn's website that WMM uses AVI-I versus AVI-II, what do DV camcorders typically save to tape, AVI-I or AVI-II? Is there any consumer way of editing AVI-II or is that left to the professional equipment? Any advantage to using AVI-II or is it lossy, the more you import and save back to AVI-II (if you can)? Thanks, PJ Tag: How do you get .avi files onto movie maker? Tag: 42327
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    - mm help!! PLEASE!!! I need to get my mm project file burned to a cd that i can play in my home cd player....i need it for a wedding this weekend and am running out of time...please help! Tag: How do you get .avi files onto movie maker? Tag: 42326
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    - Using Overlays I was just reading about using overlays in MM and it sounds like an interesting idea. However, when I try to drag my png to the overlay part of the timeline, it stops dead in the video section and won't go where I want it. Could someone explain to me simply how to use overlays over images? Or can they only be over transitions? Thank you! Rach Tag: How do you get .avi files onto movie maker? Tag: 42323
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    - Creating DVD's with CD-R's or CD-RW's I have created and edited a movie on Windows Movie Maker 2 and want to make a DVD to play on a DVD player. I only have a CD-RW burner and DVD ROM drive on my computer. Can I burn a DVD using a CD-R or CD-RW with my existing drive or do I have to use a DVD-R or DVD-RW with a DVD burner? -- Sincerely, Keith Tag: How do you get .avi files onto movie maker? Tag: 42321
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    - Ever see a stray frame/image copied into a transition?? I am editing an hour-long video with about 100 clips. I think I am encountering an error in WMM, but not sure. When I split a long clip into two clips, and then delete one of the clips, sometimes a single image/frame from the deleted clip appears in the "transition" for the next clip. It is only a single frame/image, but it ruins the video because it is out-of-context. My video appears choppy, with a single image spliced between two clips. My question is "where is this single image stored?" It seems to be stored in the "transition" between clips. As I scroll through the video frame by frame, the stray image appears "between" two clips. If I view the storyboard screen and click on the transition box, I can see the stray image/frame. I wish I could delete it. I am not using any transitions in this video. The menus do not allow me to delete the transition because WMM thinks I have not specified any transitions. Has anyone seen this? Thanks!! Tag: How do you get .avi files onto movie maker? Tag: 42317
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    - MM2 I feel sick to my stomach!! How do i burn a movie I made in MM to play on my home dvd player....i have tried to install MM2 but everytime i go to run it nothing happens.....i''ve been working on this for two days and have a slideshow i need bunrded for a wedding..please help! Tag: How do you get .avi files onto movie maker? Tag: 42316
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    - How to Burn Movie Maker Project File to DVD?? I have a completed Movie Maker Project File and am unable to burn or transfer to my Sony DVD Burner with Sonic MYDVD software ( which came with my Sony DVD Burner DRX-3OUL). Error message says my DVD does not support this file type. I have done this before with no problems. What are the steps to finalize my movie and convert the movie maker project file to a format that will transfer to this DVD. Please help, trying to present to my dad this afternoon for his 70th BDAY...didn't anticipate any problems transferring... Tag: How do you get .avi files onto movie maker? Tag: 42310
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    - Question for Papa John Hi Papa John, You have helped me before, so I wanted to ask you this question. I have made a movie in Movie Maker, burned it to a DVD. Then I deleted it from my computer in order to free up disc space. SO, I was wondering - is there a way to put the files back on the computer from the DVD so that I could EDIT it? Hope that makes sense. Please let me know.Thanks a million. BB Tag: How do you get .avi files onto movie maker? Tag: 42305
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    - Can't Capture Video I have a JVC DV camcorder that I am trying to capture video from. I have a firewire card and cable that are new and I have already captured three tapes worth of video with. Now I am running into a problem. I can connect the camcorder and it automatically open WMM and its capturing utility. I go through all of the set up and select either capture whole tape or capture manually. Preview is on. Then when I go to Start Capture WMM will control the camcorder but nothing appears in the preview, the size of file always shows as 5K i believe but the time displays as zero. When I stop the Capture it gives me an error that the device might not be connected properly or the program isn't correct. I have uninstalled the firewire driver twice, I even removed the card all together. Any info would be great Thanks Sean Tag: How do you get .avi files onto movie maker? Tag: 42301
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    - Beg. Questions I have many photo's that I scanned up at 300dpi and would like to put on both a CD and DVD. 1) Have read alot on here about 16:9 ratio but am confused. They are in Paperport format right now (.max) for best quality should I save in .jpg or .bmp? I have Paint Shop Pro so I can resize them. But what do I resize them to for burning to both CD and DVD. 2) "Video Impression program" came with my Canon digital camera and save's the video to .avi and slideshows save to .slw . Do I then need another program to burn the video or slide show and if so does Windows movie maker do this? If I do need another program which to you recommend that does both CD and DVD that is very affordable. Any help 4 this newbie would be appreciated... as I have been reading up on the internet for about 7 days about video authoring and my brain is now in melt down. Sinc Deb Tag: How do you get .avi files onto movie maker? Tag: 42300
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    - Audio How many audio tracks are there to work on with Movie Maker software? Is it easy to control the level of the audio and do fade in's and out's and cross fades and stuff? How many video tracks are there to work on. Tag: How do you get .avi files onto movie maker? Tag: 42298
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    - Audio/Music -- Cannot hear Music clip ThanksI have added music clips to my movie and muted the original audio from the clip. But still cannot hear Music/Audio that I have added. I can preview in ollections but nohting seems to allow it to play when previewing the video.. Please make suggestions.. It's probably something simple... Thanks!! Tag: How do you get .avi files onto movie maker? Tag: 42296
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    - Timeline Drag/Drop Windows XP Pro... my first time trying to use Movie Maker. I import a video file (MPG). I double click it, I hear the sound but see no movie. I drag the thumbnail to the timeline and get an immediate MS error that will close the program, asking if I want to send a report to MS. I have a 950 mhz processer, 512 meg RAM. Any thoughts? Earl Tag: How do you get .avi files onto movie maker? Tag: 42295
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    - Home Video Made into DVD for TV Viewing I have made a digital tape of our vacation using a Canon ZR300 camcorder. I am a novice to all this - first time trying this. I would like to make a DVD of this vacation to be able to see it on the TV. I have Windows XP with Movie Maker. In looking at the manual it only looks like I can make a cd. I made the cd but the voices that were on the tape did not pick up - what did I do wrong? 2nd question - What do I need to make a DVD? -- quiksilver Tag: How do you get .avi files onto movie maker? Tag: 42292
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    - Picture over Video Please help. I have about 10 minutes of captured video with an important audio track on the video. About 5 minutes in, I would like to put a picture over the video, yet allow the video to keep running so as to allow the audio track to come through. The effect I am looking for would be similar to a weather man. First the camera is focused on him, then you continue to hear him talking but on your TV you see a weather map. Is this possible? Thanks Tag: How do you get .avi files onto movie maker? Tag: 42291
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    - import overwrites all clips except last All .avi files imported into WMM are overwriting each other. Does anyone know how to import a bunch of .avi files into WMM as a group rather than what is happening to me now which is I end up with the last file imported? It makes no difference if the files come from a Sony camcorder or a Canon digital camera they all overwrite each other when imported into WMM. The files have individual names but still get overwritten during import. Tag: How do you get .avi files onto movie maker? Tag: 42286
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    - Video not moving with the browser. Hi, I created a bunch of clips, and embedded them to a web page. However, when the browser window is moved the video stays on its original spot. Its especially noticable when a person scrolls up or down the page. What do you think the problem is. Thanks for your help. Tag: How do you get .avi files onto movie maker? Tag: 42284
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    - connecting sony ip7 camcorder i have two sony camcorders but moviemaker will not recognise my sony ip7 when connected ....why????? -- iii Tag: How do you get .avi files onto movie maker? Tag: 42278
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    - I want to copy a clip from the timeline to a collection. I want to copy a clip from the timeline to a collection but copy and paste dos not work. HELP? Tag: How do you get .avi files onto movie maker? Tag: 42277
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    - Slow motion effect overlaps to next clip Been using MM2 for ages with no hassle. Recently, when I apply slomo to one clip which I've cut from the next one, this next one is also slowed. When I right click and bring up properties on the second clip though, there are no video effects on it. How come and how can I avoid this? Cheers Tag: How do you get .avi files onto movie maker? Tag: 42273
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    - Error when adding music i can import it fine, but when i add it to the movie it comes up as an error and must be shut down. it says this.... AppName: moviemk.exe AppVer: 2.1.4026.0 ModName: ffdshow.ax ModVer: 1.0.0.1 Offset: 0003c59f i really need to get this video done, someone help Tag: How do you get .avi files onto movie maker? Tag: 42266
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    - Quicktime video? I have a Kodak digital camera and am trying to get the video shot with that into WMM. However the movies are all .mov format. Is it possible to change the format? If so, how? I just started playing with this and can't seem to figure it out. Thanks! Tag: How do you get .avi files onto movie maker? Tag: 42262
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    - WMM Keeps crashing. Randomly decides to crash over and over again. Sometimes before uploading audio and sometimes it can also be when I attempt to upload a picture file. Never had this trouble before. I'm probably just going to get told to re-install but not exactly the way to go around technical problems, so if anybody can help contact me on itsonlythedave@hotmail.com asap please as I can finish editing my films but just annoying when it decides it wants to goto sleep. So contact me via MSN or E-Mail but I will most likely not re-visit this. Regards. Tag: How do you get .avi files onto movie maker? Tag: 42260
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    - Trying to Import Audio I have been trying to import audio downloaded from Music Match, burned on CDs from other CDs or straight from original CD. I can't seem to get it in the right format or it says it is protected. The only music I can get to import is the Sample Music that comes with Window. Please help. -- Gebeke Bewildered Tag: How do you get .avi files onto movie maker? Tag: 42258
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    - Can someone explain to me how to perform very simple video edits in Avid or Premiere Hi, I have started a temporary contract position with a small multimedia company. Although, my main area is Windows support, I am constantly bothered by people wanting spliced and diced audio and video files. Although I am not familiar with either area, the audio editing software is fairly intuitive and I have got by. I am afraid with video tools (Avid and Premiere), I am lost. I dont want to be able to do anything fancy, but if someone asks me to split an mpeg or an avi file of 2 hours into one chunk of 40 minutes and one of 1 hour 20, I want to be able to do it immediately. What is the simplest way to do this? I know there is a movie editor in XP too, but I couldn't even figure that one out. If anyone can help, I would be very grateful. QH Tag: How do you get .avi files onto movie maker? Tag: 42254
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    - Personal Media Drive I just acquired my PMD for my HP computer and want to store my videos there. I will also use these clips for making Movie Maker movies. Has anyone done this? Will Movie Maker see the drive? Rach Tag: How do you get .avi files onto movie maker? Tag: 42250
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    - Quem pode me ajudar? AlguÃ©m tem um passo-a-passo do movie maker... nÃ£o consigo usar este programa. Tag: How do you get .avi files onto movie maker? Tag: 42248

I can't get my .avi files to play on movie maker. The audio codec is mpeg-3,
if that helps any. What do I do?

Re: How do you get .avi files onto movie maker? by Cari

Cari
Sat Sep 24 19:54:00 CDT 2005

Find out with which codec the AVI is compressed by using G-Spot Codec
identifier. Once you have discovered which you need, download and install
that codec. Then WMM should be able to import it.
http://www.headbands.com/gspot/
--
Cari (MS-MVP)
Printing & Imaging

"Pessimessed" <Pessimessed@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6C02CADE-7C79-4C68-AB5B-A8472661FC36@microsoft.com...
>I can't get my .avi files to play on movie maker. The audio codec is
>mpeg-3,
> if that helps any. What do I do?

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