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    - Saving as mpg or converting wmv to mpg Hello, it seems like MM2 will only save as avi and wmv. Anyway I can either convert them or tweak something to get my movies as mpegs? brooko Tag: help Tag: 7840
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    - MM1 replaces MM2 Hi, I hope I can explain this clearly enough to get some help. I had an issue where MM2 kept crashing when trying to input a transition - This I have sorted thanks to a previous thread where a codec was the cause. Now I have a problem where in "C:\program files\movie maker" the moviemk.exe icon for version 2 is constantly replaced after every use by the version 1 file (checked by hovering mouse pointer over icon) and the MM2 icon becomes "moviemk.exe.tmp" file. To correct this I am having to copy the moviemk file from the registered packages folder in C:\windows. Hope that is clear enough and someone can help. TIA Gaz p.s. Tag: help Tag: 7839
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    - Movie Maker 2 Just Keeps Closing Down! Just started to try and use Windows MM2 on my Vaio, and it the program keeps on closing down without warning. I've connected to my camcorder, saved a 10sec clip, put it in the story board, but if I try and add a title or an effect, MM2 just closes without warning. Is this something obvious to solve - my PC has got 256MB RAM, so wasn't expecting any memory issues. thanks if anyone can offer advice. P. Tag: help Tag: 7838
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    - PlayBack I have created a 13 minute movie in MovieMaker2 using still pictures and music. After I save it as a movie and play it back, the pictures stop scrolling, but the music continues to play. Any suggestions. I have successfully created movies in the past. Tag: help Tag: 7834
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    - Connecting from PC to Video Hi I have just mastered Movie Maker 2, and can burn videos / pictures to VCD - but is there a way to connect my video up to my PC to record footage - not all my relatives & friends have DVD players. At the back of my PC there is an AV out and S-Out socket(s). Thanks Trudi Tag: help Tag: 7833
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    - Movie maker-photo cd I am making a photo cd using movie maker, will i be able to view the cd on a standard dvd player, or will i need to use different software to make this cd? I am using movie maker because it has pretty cool options, like the page transitions audio functions and the timeline....etc I read somewhere in a post that you can't make a photo cd using movie maker, is this true? If so what kind of software is out there that has the same options as movie maker but doesn't cost an arm & a leg? Tag: help Tag: 7831
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    - reverse animation Hi All, Does anyone know how to reverse the video for example to show someone springing back out of a pool onto the diving board etc... Thanks in advance for any help. Jay Tag: help Tag: 7828
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    - Stream.sys BSOD stop code. Whenever i try to run moviemaker, or any video editing program for that matter, it gives me a system dump with a long stop code, unfortunately i dont have the stop code on my right now, but it pertains to stream.sys, i will get the stop code later and give it to you, any ideas before i do so? i am running AMD1700+ geforce2 mx400 2x256mb ram pc2100 Thanks! Tag: help Tag: 7826
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    - MM2 - Output Video Quality looks like 12.5FPS Greetings - Another question for the group... I have been playing quite a deal and have found that for the most part, the output of my videos seems to be quite notchy. Not notchy in the sense of dropped frames, but in that it looks like tht output to DV is at 12.5 Frames Per Second. It's particularly noticable on moving things whose physics seem messed up by such an effect. A great example of this is a moving car, or, the material in a flowing dress. I have looked at the original DV tape of this and the input tape looks great, with no hint of the lower FPS issue. I have been working at DV quality for the entire process, importing from the DV camera direct at full DV quality (13.5GB for 1 hour, 7 mins). All output after chopping up to clips seems to be at a less than full speed frame rate. Now: When I output to DV-AVI, it *seems* to be fine, though it's difficult to get the same perspective of viewing as you get on a TV... It's possible that it's still not too flashy. ALL of the output formats that I'm likley to use are listed as 25 FPS in the output options, so I don't think it's the output choice I'm stuffing up... So, with this information in hand, I have some questions: - Is MM2 capable of full frame rate, full quality DV output? - Is there any option or setting I could have mistakenly set that would cause it to be output at anything less than 25 FPS? - Is there anything in terms of interlacing that I should watch out for? Is this perhaps a result of interlace / de-interlace or something of that nature? - Has anyone else seen this kind of behavious and can they possibly help? - WHY is it that MM2 in the preview area only supports frame advance at what I believe to be 2 frames at a time. - Is there any way to actually get a REAL frame advance? Questions, questions, questions! ;) For any information, thanks! :) Nathan. Tag: help Tag: 7823
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    - transferring project from back -up CDRW to new computer Hello: when I loaded my MM2 project files onto a new computer from the back up CDRW I got all X's in the timeline..loaded the pictures collection but error message says pictures don't match...if I delete X and drag on new picture, the duration time doesn't match...really don't want to resize 100 pics to match audio timeline...any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Tag: help Tag: 7818
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    - Sound problem My Canon A70 digital camera can record short AVI files what play perfectly fine in WIndows Media Player. However when I import the file into movie maker and drop it to timeline the sound completely screws up, it turns into high pitch noise. It plays back normally from the collections window on the top but when playing back from timeline the sound turns into garbage. What can be wrong? I have Intel D815EEA2 MB with integrated sound, maybe this is incompatible with movie maker? Thanks Tag: help Tag: 7817
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    - Saving I have tried several way's to save it to my hard drive. Including there recomended one. When it play's back the pictures are all blue cast. Can you help me. Also I would like to know what format I need to save it to on cd so it can be played on any computer or a dvd player that will play cdr's. Thank you, Kim Tag: help Tag: 7810
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    - Movie Maker vs Movie Maker 2 Need help with a very basic querstion.. just got a new SonyVaio that has Movie Maker. Under About Movie Maker it lists: Microsoft Windows Movie Maker Version 5.1(build 2600xpspl,020828-1290 Service pack 1 Windows Movie Maker Version 2.0.3312.0 Do I have Movie Maker or Movie Maker 2? The version says 2 but not the Title. If I only have Movie Maker, do I just download Movie Maker 2? Or is there an Upgrade? If an install, will it overlay my existing program? Also,I have started some projects already. If I don't already have MM2, will I be able to open my existing projects once I upgrade? My motivation is I need to get the movie I make to a DVD and I don't think I can do that with Movie Maker. Tag: help Tag: 7809
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    - WMM2 - .mpa problem In Windows Media Player the *.mpa extension is for movie file just same as *.mpeg. However, in the WMM2 .mpa is classified as an audio file. It is impossible to edit .mpa movie files. Was this a mistake by MS or a ploy to make us get confused and frustrated? May be because it is free. Any wiser comments to help this situation are welcome. Tag: help Tag: 7806
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    - Captured video plays back fast & how do I manually create clips 1. Every time I capture video from my Sony Handy Cam the end result (I copy an entire 15 or so minute clip as one "Clip" in my Collection bin) looks sped up. What I mean is that the AVI file (which is about 4.3 gigs) plays in fast forward mode skipping through my video at a higher rate than it plays on my camera(both in MM2 & WMP). I'm not using the "Speed Up" effect on this footage, so I'm a bit perplexed as to why this is happening. 2. Secondly, once I've loaded in these large clips, I'm trying to find a way to manually reduce my "one large" clip to smaller more manageable clips so as to drag these smaller clips into my timeline. I know there is an automatic "clip creation" option, but what I'm looking for is a manual clip creation option which I'm yet able to find after reading all "how to" materials on both the application help menu and website help materials. Thanks for any help you may be able to send my way! n Tag: help Tag: 7805
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    - dvgate plus and MM2 Are there any known issues with codecs from dvgate plus that would affect moviemaker2? Tag: help Tag: 7802
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    - How to convert/save MM2 project files to mpg I made a svcd slide show with music a couple of months ago with MM2 and Nero 6, but can't remember how I did it. Nero will not accept the .mswmm file. TMPGEnc will not convert either. Would appreciate some suggestions. I think I read how to do it on this newsgroup. Thanks a bunch, MR Tag: help Tag: 7789
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    - Can't fast forword downloaded video clip! Hello, I've downloaded a short video clip that I can't fast forword. It's a .asf file. Is there any way I can re-encode the file so that I can fast forward through the file? When I try to load it into Movie Maker 2, I get the message: The file D:\My Shared Folder\abc.asf is not indexed and cannot be imported. Thanks, Jeff Tag: help Tag: 7786
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    - Failed attempts to save in WMM2 Save Wizard I can't browse to new save path for saving to computer. Browse hangs PC. I have two oprions - Shared Video and My Video. Space on profile partition is limited PC is PII-550, 320MB, XP-Pro, plenty of space on another partition Note that I can save clips to the larger partition, but the path for movies is where browse fails. Cal I edit registry or ini file or something to set the default path to what I want? Tag: help Tag: 7784
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    - Reduced-Extended clips Hi all, A friend of mine is having difficulty with AVI clips that are inserted into MM2. Here is the problem he is having, in his words: 1) The clips that i put in movie maker are extended. Instead of the clips ending where i stopped recording, they add a section of blank black screen at the end of them. 2) Some clips are sliced in half or reduced to some other amount. When I play them back on real player/media player out of the fraps folder they are fine....exactly how i recorded them, but regardless of how many times i take them out and put them back in WMM2 they always get reduced. He tried reinstalling MM2 but still has the same problem. Could this have anything to do with Automatic Clip Detection? We are at a total loss. Any ideas? TIA J J Tag: help Tag: 7783
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    - Windows Movie Maker When I hook up my camcorder to my laptop and go to movie maker (s cable connection) when I get set to record, the only option I have available is to record 'audio' not 'video'. I followed the tutorial but I still cant get it to work. Any ideas? Tag: help Tag: 7782
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    - Capture Video (what about audio) I am able to capture video with no problem, what I need to find out is "how do I capture or Include the Audio on the tape? Tag: help Tag: 7781
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    - Registering Codecs Hello everyone- I have posted this question before, but I didn't totally get the answer I was looking for. I have a codec for the ADS Instant DVD 2.0 that I wanted the Movie Maker to use. Is this possible? If so is there anyone who can direct me to the resource for going about this step by step? Thank you! Tag: help Tag: 7776
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    - Recovering Project Files Papa John, I opened up one of my projects to see how well other songs went with it. I then proceeded to clear the timeline and make a new video with a song I liked, but saved over the old project by accident. Is there any way to restore the old project file? Is it backed up with collections and could I extract it out??? PLEASE HELP!!! Tag: help Tag: 7775
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    - Join Microsoft DV-AVI Type 1 files I have 2 video files in Microsoft DV-AVI format which I want to combine and join together to make 1 file. Can anybody suggest me virtually anything on how to JOIN two or more Microsoft DV-AVI Type 1 files? I would appreciate the help. Thanks, Earthly Tag: help Tag: 7774
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    - Assert Failed I have an Optura Xi that I have just installed the drivers for. Now whenever I try to edit video files or view files with MS Explorer I get an ASSERT Failed dialog. This eventually leads to a crash of explorer. The actual failure occurs in fgctl.cpp. Anyone else have this problem. I would really like to get this to MS but I can no longer find a place on-line to submit problems with MS products. Russ Tag: help Tag: 7772
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    - Can't capture video from ATI 7500 ALL-IN-WONDER I originally posted this on the Media Encoder 9 board, but I tried capturing in Movie Maker 2 last night, and found that doesn't work for me anymore either! :-( The captured image is always black, no matter if I select TV or composite as the source. I have installed both the DirectX9.0b fix mentioned on PapaJohn's web site with no change in behavior. Any other suggestions? Patrick Here is my post to WME9 board: Well WME 9 used to work for me. I tried starting yesterday and it works no longer. I suspect it's something I added to the system in between, but it's been months since I used WME last. :-( The details: Win XP Pro SP1, Direct X 9, Windows Media Encoder 9 ATI Radeon 7500 ALL-IN-WONDER with Catalyst 3.9 I can launch WME run throught the live broadcast wizard (selecting defaults all the way) and end up on the prview window where I can see and hear my camera (composite) input. But when I press the start encoding button, it fails with a message "Invalid Parameter" or "Unknown Error". For the record, if I use a prerecorded WMA file from my hard disk, the encoding works fine. The problem seems to be in using the ATI WDM capture. Any ideas how to track this down? Thanks, Patrick Tag: help Tag: 7771
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    - New Website Pages The website now has the full 'online companion' for the new 'Do Amazing Things' book, being published next month. It's the bottom branch of the menu at www.papajohn.org The menu looks no different than it did last week, but the branch expands into a many new pages. ========= There's another new page also - Importing Source Files > Video > Recorded TV - DVR-MS, which covers how to get the TIVO-like Windows XP Media Center TV recordings into Movie Maker for editing. -- PapaJohn Tag: help Tag: 7767
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    - Changing speed I had my old 8 mm film professionally scanned as .dvd- files on a CD. They run to fast. How can I cerrect this? Tag: help Tag: 7755
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    - Movie Maker Assistance Please Successfully made a movie with photos/music. Scanned photos into PhotoShop and added text. After downloading photos/text, added music. Concerns are: 1. Edges of text are not sharp--is there a specific font perhaps that works well? Text AND photos tend to flicker or fade--is this due to the fact that movie is running or can it be avoided? 2. Photos are 4 x 6". When I click on full screen on the computer, everything fuzzy. Am I limited to a 4 x 6 image? 3. Had hoped to play CD on our new Sony TV but it seems to be incompatible. Is there a solution? Tag: help Tag: 7741
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    - HighMat How do I get rid of this. Every time I try to save a movie to my computer it comes up in this highmat crap and takes forever. I used to be able to just save it. Did WM9 force this on me? Tag: help Tag: 7736
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    - RE: Pictures with music In Windows Movie Maker I had placed some pictues with back- round music and recorded it onto a CD-R . Played back the CD in computer, no problem, played it in DVD Player PROBLEM.... Why ? Thanks Tag: help Tag: 7725
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    - Capture memory leak when capture is started non paged memory begins to leak. This occurs until it locks at 128 meg. The system has 512 meg of pc2100. I have tryed this with 3 different capture devices and drivers. ATI All in wonder pro, x10 usb va11a and an adapter called the USB video adapter. They all have the same problem. I have no problem with these devices with Windows ME and the original Movie Maker. I have solved my problem by going back to Windows ME. Does anyone know of a way to stop the memory leak in Windows XP. Tag: help Tag: 7723
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    - Recording Audio and Video using Movie Maker Hi All.. I have a Strange Problem. I have TV Tuner Card in my System connected to Cable Network. I would like to record Video and Audio ( composite signal ). I am using Windows XP and Movie Maker 2. When i select Source and change the Channel , the selected Channel displays fine and the sound too comes fine. But at the Last Step when i press Record Button, It records only Video and Audio Cuts Off.. How Can i Record Audio along the Video Signal? Can any one can help me... Thanks in Advance Tag: help Tag: 7722
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    - MovieMaker 2 crashes HI Guys, When I installed XP which came with MovieMaker 1, my video camera worked just fine and could make a few clips. When I upgraded to MM2, as soon as I select "capture from video device", the program and computer crashes and machine reboots, It does not give any error message or try to send a message to MS (as I have disabled automatic error reporting). I have tried playing with accelration settings but to no avail. I have the manufacturers driver for my camera and the same works fine with older video software such as MGI VideoWave III etc. I can still use MM2 to view previous recordings and edit them but cannot capture from my video device. Any suggestions. BTW I have been to Papa John's site and windowsmoviemakers.net but could not find any relevant solution. Any ideas as to what settings I could change or how I can resolve the issue??? Thanks in advance Tag: help Tag: 7721
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    - audio ntdll.dll crashing Hello. I installed WMM2 about a week ago and immediately noticed it crahes back the desktop whenever I tried to add titles/credits. I read the PapaDoc info about the DivAXF.ax codec so I renamed it and the problem was solved... However today I've started to try to add my own audio in the form of mp3's to the timeline but cann't. Every few seconds when I try to add or shrink it crashes with the 'Encountered a problem' error. It always lists this system file :- ntdll.dll as being involved. I've read a suggestion in this group to rename ALL the files with the .ax extension. But on my pc there are about 125 and I really not comfortable doing this. I've tried lowering the hardware acceleration to level 3 but it's not made a difference. Can anyone help please. I know this program is free and easy to use but I think if you can't get the **** thing to actually WORK its completely useless. Tag: help Tag: 7720
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    - Storing MM2 Project file After capturing in DV-AVI, editing and then saving the edited movie as DV-AVI...I end up with quite a sizeable project folder for an hours worth of DV-AVI format movie. Now I want to save the edited movie onto disk so that I can go back to it at a later stage and also free up some much needed HD space. The project folder (with the WMV project file and edited movie) is some 13 gig in size. How do i get this onto a DVD disk which only holds 4.7g max ????. When I try and save to DVD as data, RecordNow DX tells me that project folder is too large...Is there any way around this....?? I want to be able to save my MM2 project to disk so that I can then load it back into MM2 when I want to re-edit the saved movie...any help/uggestions would be greatly appreciated... Tag: help Tag: 7719
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    - JVC GR-D90U I am very frustrated with the JVC GR-D90U DV camcorder I purchased in August from Circuit City. Windows XP does not recognize it when connected to IEEE 1394. I had a Sony and it worked fine with Moviemaker prior to going bad. Circuit City gave me a credit for the Sony DV camcorder because I had the extended warranty. I changed brand to the JVC have been dead in the water trying to figure out the problem. It will not connect. I have changed the Firewire Card, The firewire cable, and tonight I took the camera back and they gave me a new one. It wouldn't connect either so I called JVC. They said it was a software or Firewire Card Problem and they did not support anything but the camera itself. They didn't seem to understand my frustration. They were no help. I went next door to my neighbors house where his computer connects through Firewire with a Canon camcorder using Windows XP. I tried my JVC GR-D90U and it would not connect there either! Is it the camera or does Windows XP need a driver? What is going on here? Tag: help Tag: 7707
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    - Dear PapaJohn!! Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you!!! Rachel:) Tag: help Tag: 7706
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    - Real One Player Files Is there any way to use Real Player clips in MM2? Maybe a program to convert the files into Windows Media Videos or just some way to get around it in MM2 Rachel Tag: help Tag: 7705
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    - Windows Movie Maker and DV Recorder My daughter's made some good movies in MovieMaker, but when we transfer to the mini-DV, the sound is choppy...lots of blanks. What gives? Tried several times, and on different cameras. Thanks much for any help. Tag: help Tag: 7704
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    - Trying to import the Media center DVR-ms format If anyone can tell me how, I would sure apprecialte it Tag: help Tag: 7699
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    - plus problem Why is it that the transitions that come with plus are not visible on playback, unless I go right to the transition and play from there. It freezes my video when I try to play the whole thing back Tag: help Tag: 7696
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    - Capturing Date/Time Stamp I am trying to record my mini DV tapes to DVD using an IEEE port. My camcorder shows the date it was recorded but I cannot capture onto DVD. Does anyone know why this is or how I can get it onto my DVD?? Tag: help Tag: 7695
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    - Saving to other drives besides C When I import video and select the destination, it doesn't show any drives besides c:. It shows "my computer" and "my videos," but only the c: drive, not the drive I want to save to. I had to change my default "my videos" location in order to save to another drive. Am I missing something? Tag: help Tag: 7694
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    - Joing two Microsoft DV-AVI files? I have imported video (DV-AVI format) from two tapes via Movie Maker 2 and consequently there are two DV-AVI files. Now, I want to join them. Can anybody suggest me how to join two Mirosoft DV-AVI files without losing any quality? I would appreciate the help. Thanks, Earthly Tag: help Tag: 7683
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    - Cant Capture Video Hello Folks, I have a problem capturing a video, but the camera will continue to play. The viewer displays one frame and stops. MM2 worked just fine before downloding the SP1 for MM2. I went through all settings and cant find the problem. However, if I capture and choose setting "digital device format (DV-AVI) it will record, but take up tons of disc space. This only records for about a minute or so then stops recoreding again. I tried to capute manually and auto, this has no effect. When I try to play back what captured there is nothing. Any help will be very appretiated. I can however record on Sony's software. MM2 has much more functions that I want to use. Tag: help Tag: 7682
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    - Hey Papa! Yesterday, you recommended that I import an AVI file into MovieMaker to produce a file for Pocket PC. Did it this morning and it works fine! Thanks for the suggestion. I haven't given up on getting MM working properly, but at least this got me through a MAJOR problem. Ed Tag: help Tag: 7681
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    - Rename Codec's-Papajohn You mention to rename the codec's to *.AX_ Are you saying to JUST ADD the UNDERSCORE at the end? Or put whatever for the prefex and add the underscore. Am in the process of sorting this out and would just like to make sure I'm pointed in the right direction...which doesn't happen to often. PS. KUDOS to you for your effort and time ...THANKS Tag: help Tag: 7675
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    - Sony Handycam Problem Greetings. I asked this question a few days ago, but apparently it got lost in the shuffle. I recently bought a Sony DCR-DVD-200 handycam, and installed the drivers that came with it onto my Toshiba notebook computer and Windows XP (Home). I hooked up the USB cable, turned on all the buttons on the camera that the manual told me to, but in XP Movie Maker I get this error message: "A video capture device was not detected." Any good advice as to what I should do? Thanks. Tag: help Tag: 7671

i have the same problem that my MM 2 closes down when i
want to add an title or a credit, when the text is
starting to apear on the prewive screen, the program just
closes down, help someone ?

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Re: help by John

John
Wed Dec 03 01:07:32 CST 2003

Hi there,
If you read the messages by others with the same problem you will see that
your situation is the most common one and that a solution can be found in
the problem solving section of www.papajohn.org.

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