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    - "This file cannot be imported. Make sure that it is a valid file. I am a pretty new user of movie maker- been using it for about 3-4 weeks now on making some home video dvds. I've just recently ran into a problem that I've exhausted all my knowledge and effort into trying to fix. I've been editing all my video in movie maker 2.1 and saving it as .wmv file, then I would import it into a 3rd party dvd creator program (InterVideo/WinDVD Creator). My problem is recentlly not being able to import the file, when I open the .wmv file in dvd creater it gives me the message "This file cannot be imported. Make sure that it is a valid file type and that it's contents have not been corrupted." I just started getting this message the last few days, prior to that the importing process it worked fine. I've researched that this might be related to codec type. Movie maker saves the .wmv files with audio codec - 9.1 & video codec 9.0. How can I fix this so I can import files again? and why would this all of a sudden start doing this? I've been told to try reinstalling movie maker 2.1, but I think it was on the computer when we bought it 4 months ago. I go to the windows download site and it sounds like it's part of service pack 2. Does that mean I should reinstall the whole service pack 2? I'm very confused and frustrated by all this. Can somebody help? Any input would be appreciated. Thanks. David Tag: importing files Tag: 29331
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    - Cannot preview video effects & transitions Hi! I'm using Windows XP Pro SP2 with WMP 10 and WMM 2.1, with k-lite codecs pack FULL and Divx installed Recently I found that I cannot see the video effects and transitions in windows movie maker. In WMM, when you double click on a video effect, or video transitions, you see a preview of them on the right WMP window. But for my case, nothing appeared.. only the timeline bar jump from 0s to 2s. The screen is totally blank. However, I can preview the "Title Animations" without problem.. so basically it applies to video effects and video transitions. I've checked to make sure the picture used for preview are there.. I even reinstall SP2 upgrade again, but the problem still exists. Any advice pls? Tag: importing files Tag: 29322
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    - Titles question I added a title on the beginning clip. Can I add another title at the beginning of the movie? I tried it, but got both titles on top of one another. donde Tag: importing files Tag: 29321
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    - Recording Movie back to Camera from Movie Maker Where to begin ok here it goes, I have a Panasonic mini DV camera. We have created our movie in movie maker with all the bells and whistles and we are unable to record it back to the camera to then transfer it to VHS. Can someone please help? I have tried several things. Like converting the movie to Mpeg, and all that stuff but the movie comes up not recored. It looks like it is going through the recording process bit nothing happens. What else can I tell you: I am as well using firewire. My note Book is a Compaq 2195. I have even used the program Blaze MediaPro to convert the MVi to Mpeg in serveral diferent ways. With and without SVG extensions with DVD extensions with mpeg2 I have treid all of these and still the blue screen. The closest I came to getting it recoreded was to be able to play it on the note Book on a cd. I am needing to get it to VHS as the person the movie is for does not have a DVD or computer. :( Any help would be greatly appreciated. TIA Tag: importing files Tag: 29320
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    - getting movie maker 2 (not 2.1) here's where you can get movie maker 2 http://www.download.com/Windows-Movie-Maker/3000-2194_4-10187903.html?tag=stbc.gp because it took me ages to find it, i had to use google and sift through a few pages. at first, i thought i was great because i found it on pc world: http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,22893,00.asp and it was 2.0! finally, so i dont have to get xtra p*ss stupid pack 2 to get it. but, it didn't work, because it uses microsofts site, and since microsoft so loves its customers, they removed the older version from all existance. its like in this NYT article: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/19/business/yourmoney/19digi.html "Mr. Schare of Microsoft does have one suggestion for those who cannot use the latest patches in Service Pack 2: buy a new personal computer. By the same reasoning, the security problems created by a car's broken door lock could be solved by buying an entirely new automobile. The analogy comes straight from Mr. Schare. 'It's like buying a car,' he said. 'If you want to get the latest safety features, you have to buy the latest model.' In this case, the very latest model is not a 2001 Internet Explorer, but a 2004 Firefox." So, if you're looking for MM2 for the people who decided against upgrading for the time being, there's the link. Hope that helped everybody out!!! A Non-AOL user (lol, reference to another post) Tag: importing files Tag: 29318
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    - Photos "stick" on playback I just made a movie consisting entirely of still photos (some digital, some captured on scanner), music and titles. When I play the movie, sometimes the video will get stuck on one picture, holding it on-screen far longer than I intended, followed by a race through subsequent photos. I thought MovieMaker 2.1 was supposed to be more "stable." Comments? Tag: importing files Tag: 29312
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    - Pictures are blurry When I try to put still pictures in the time line or even just preview them from the imported file, they are blurry and look like crap. This also happens on another program called "Power Director 3", so this is making me wonder if its my computer. I am running an HP pavilion ze5500 laptop with the 2 256 ram and 2.8 GHz pentium 4 processor with the Radeon IGP 345M digital flat panel. I've tried different screen pixel sizes for my computer but changed nothing. I am trying to put about 180 still pictures together and then will interface it with some video. help Tag: importing files Tag: 29298
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    - Creating DVDs out of Movie Maker Hi I am a novice trying to create home dvds using Windows Movie Maker. I want to know if there is a way of creating DVDs out Windows Movie Maker 2.1. I saw on the web that WMM supports DVDs, but was unable to figure this out. Any help is appreciated. Thanks Satish Tag: importing files Tag: 29294
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    - Retrieving movies from DVD-RW I have some home movies I shot on an old camera. With my DVD-writer I was able to copy those movies to a DVD, but I would like to put some of them up on a website I am building and would like to use Movie Maker to edit them. How can I get the movies off of the DVD to do this? When I go into Movie Maker, it doesn't give me an option to do this. Thanks, David Tag: importing files Tag: 29291
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    - Adobe Premiere Elements: any opinions? This is not to start a thread comparing MM2 with anything else (afterall, it is hard to beat free!!). However, many here are interested in video editing in general, so Has anyone tried the new Premiere Elements? Any opinions? Dell has the Photoshop Elements 3 and Premiere Elements bundled together for a reasonable price. I'm wondering if I should jump-in... Thanks. -- Aloke ---- to reply by e-mail remove 123 and change invalid to com Tag: importing files Tag: 29286
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    - Codec Problems Microsoft Mpeg4 v1 and v2 avi files For those interested I recently had some significant problems with files saved as Microsoft MPEG4 V2 (4cc:MP42). Moviemaker 2.1 and mediaplayer 10 both reported the problem as an invalid file as did GSpot and AVICodec. After bashing around with the files (basically trying to start a number of files and failing (I was getting desperate) ) one finally worked....then they all worked. Rebooted.....problem recurred......more bashing....files work.....reboot....you get the story In desperation I started to burn movies out as WMV.... I then uninstalled the latest divx pack (divx521xp2k).......... ....... ...... It all works fine now. MM2.1, MP10, AVICodec, GSpot.....all fine.... I'm still using movimaker to burn out as wmv just to be on the safe side. Happy now... Eeyore Tag: importing files Tag: 29284
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    - Capture problems Help me please. I'm a novise trying to use movie maker. When trying to capture video from my DV camera, in MM1 that has come with my XP package, I get as far as the Video settings screen before a semingly abreviated error message pops up saying "In interface has too many methods to fire events from' when i close it and try again an unspecified error message appears. Often the whole lot freezes and then i get a message saying that the program is not responding. I have no idea what any of this means but i'd really appreciate any help. Ben Tag: importing files Tag: 29282
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    - What Codec do I need? It has appeared me the next message: El archivo C:\Output Video File.avi no se puede importar porque el cÃ³dec necesario para reproducirlo no se ha instalado en el equipo. Si ya ha probado a descargar e instalar el cÃ³dec, cierre y reinicie Microsoft Movie Maker y, a continuaciÃ³n, vuelva a importar el archivo. Tag: importing files Tag: 29281
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    - Please HELP ME!! Beginner here Could you please give me step by step instructions on how to create a movie and then save it and burn it onto a cd-r. I don't have a dvd burner, just a cd burner. I do have a DVD Player (Phillips DVP642) that plays all types of files that I would like to watch my movies on. I tried reading past posts on this, but I am confused. Appreciate any help. Tag: importing files Tag: 29277
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    - No audio on DV-AVI output Saving files as DV-AVI goes down without a hitch, but when I play it in media player 10, it looks for a codec, says error downloading, and then just plays the video, no audio. I tried opening the file in various other editor applications and also GSpot and either they give an error or dont work. Just to be funny I opened it in Quicktime Player and it worked, FINE. Go figure. In mmk2, the source file is AVI, the source audio is wav. Tag: importing files Tag: 29274
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    - Adding Hardware I am thinking about getting a Digital Video Camera. But, on my System, I only have USB. Is it possible to buy a Digital Video Camera and hook it up without any Firewire ports ? garyst Tag: importing files Tag: 29273
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    - movie maker turns off after loading file I've been working on a file for 2 months, but took a break for 5 weeks. When I went to load my file, it loads, then after about 2 or 3 seconds, movie maker turns off. I have not moved any of the files that are linked. I don't know what happend and don't feel like starting over unless I have too. Please help. Tag: importing files Tag: 29260
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    - Toshiba Qosmio Just got a Toshiba Qosmio for Christmas and I am trying to find out how things work. I am interested in the MS Movie Maker. When I start the program and click on capture from video device I get an error message "The video device is currently in use. Close any other applications that maybe using this device and try again". I close this dialog box and I then get "The video device cannot be used at this time because there has been an error when starting the device". Help please and thanks Tag: importing files Tag: 29258
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    - Can't add Titles I was able to add titles when I tried MM2 a couple months back. Now it doesn't work on either my laptop or desktop PC's. Laptop is running WinXP Pro and desktop is running WinXP Home. Has anyone else had trouble with this? Tag: importing files Tag: 29257
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    - Sony: Capturing video via firewire is dark I have a Sony TRV38 and can capture video with the firewire , s-video + audio or the analog audio / video. (I have the Nvida and Sony and WinFast Capure drivers. I can capture s-video / composite with Nvida or Winfast and only DV with Sony) Thinking the firewire (DV output ?) would be better I was suprised to find out it was dark compared to using s-video or analog. In fact I would say my results were better not using DV Capture, but S-Video in making movies. Does this seem strange? Thoughts on what I might have not done right? Thanks Tag: importing files Tag: 29255
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    - error message I have been using Movie Maker for about a year now with no real problems. All of a sudden now when I click on a clip to view it I get the error message that tells me it has been interrupted and I can choose to send a report to Microsoft, and then it shuts down. Last night I got this message: "The procedure entry point GetIUMS could not be located in the dynamic link library MSDART.DLL." Can somebody tell me what's going on? -- Brenda Tag: importing files Tag: 29252
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    - Possibility of Moviemaker being able to create DVD in the Future Hello, I know that you can't create a DVD through the Moviemaker program, but I am wondering if there is any possibility of and undated version that will have that ability. Also if so, any release date? My second question is about the sonic my dvd (I saw this on one of the links about making a DVD)..it says something about can use windows movie maker files...yada yada yada...now are these files able to be used after you have saved the project as a movie on your computer hard drive...or are the files (your saved project in making) able to open from the sonic mydvd thing and then you add all the special little whatnot for the dvd and then burn the dvd. Thank You Tag: importing files Tag: 29250
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    - video effects - is there backward effect i need to play a short film backward - is there an effect or another way to do it? please advise Tag: importing files Tag: 29249
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    - how do I convert .mov files from kodak to supported file type? How do I convert .mov files created on my easyshare cx7525 to a supported file type for windows movie maker? Tag: importing files Tag: 29246
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    - anyone speak french? lorsque j'essaie d'importer un video au format .mpg , c'est Ã©crit : Une interface a trop de mÃ©thodes pour enlever des Ã©vÃ©nements Quelqu'un sait ce que Ã§a veut dire? Tag: importing files Tag: 29244
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    - why is it green? I tried saving my movie that I made, but everytime I go to view it, all the color is crazy (specificlly, the black color is green). Anyone know what's going on with that? Tag: importing files Tag: 29242
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    - decoder my DVD worked when I had Windows 98 since updating to Windows xp It does not work it says I have not decoder. Tag: importing files Tag: 29236
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    - 3rd time posted even we dont know appreciated New computer Windows XP Media Center - Get this error message when trying to import photos or videos into Movie Maker 2: C:\Documents and Settings\john\Desktop\e2p1.jpg could not be imported. Unspecified error When I close Movie Maker and reopen it, Pictures show in collection pane, but cannot insert in storyline. Tag: importing files Tag: 29235
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    - capture video to mem stick Can you capture video to a memory stick instead of to the computer's hard drive? This seems to make sense if you don't want to jam up hd with video... Pls reply. Tag: importing files Tag: 29233
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    - Automatic DV Capture When I connect my DV Camcorder (using Firewire) to my computer (running XP), a video capture program other than MS Movie maker automatically starts up. How can I set Movie maker to automatically start up instead of the other program? Thanks for any help you can provide, Doug Tag: importing files Tag: 29232
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    - Help Please! No Audio during timeline play. When I place a video clip in the timeline, and try to preview it, there is no sound. And when I save the movie, the saved movie has no audio either. It worked for a couple of movies I made, then it just quit for some reason. I didn't make any changes to my computer. How can I fix this? Thanks in advance, Russ Tag: importing files Tag: 29230
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    - Movie played on DVD player for TV is choppy I have a Sony Handycam TRV22 and saved the video to my computer using a USB. When watching the video it was beautiful. Then I used my Roxio Easy Media Creator 7 to make a DVD movie gift with photos and the video. The photo part was beautiful, but the video was awful, blocky, choppy, etc. I had that program adjust it for TV DVD viewing but something didn't work. Is there a way to record a DVD for TV in the Movie Maker 2? (I am brand new to all this technology and need some guidance of where to go, etc.) Thank you for any and all help! It is deeply appreciated. Happy Holidays! Tag: importing files Tag: 29229
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    - Movie Maker not Reading my Camera i'm using a canon ZR50mc camcorder and a dell running XP. i've installed a fire wire card and have sucessfully used it to capture video from my camera. within the last couple days, something changed and now the computer does one of two things. it either does not recognize the device at all or it does for a couple minutes and then goes back to not recognizing it. this problem first happened about two or three months ago. everything was fine.... the computer and camera were talking, then one day i get error message saying that no device is connected. it connects and shows the camera and then five minutes later, the connection dissapears. so i quit for a couple weeks out of frustration and buy another fire wire. after replacing the fire wire i am able to connect again with no problems. that lasts for a couple weeks and just recently i'm back to the same problems. it seems to coincide with my installing updates. any help will be greatly appreciated. Tag: importing files Tag: 29228
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    - transfer movies back to tape I connected my sony digital video camera (dcr-trv330 to my new Inspiron 9200 thru a firewire. I recorded the clips, made a little movie, and sent it back to the tape. All I could play back was a few stills, no movie. Any ideas??? Thanks in advance. Tag: importing files Tag: 29224
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    - capture problem I just got a new JVC digital camcorder and when I try to capture video with Movie maker, i get an error message that says something along the lines of "too many interfaces..to fire" or something like that, and I am unable to capture video directly from the camera. I am using USB connection since I don't have a Firewire option, yet. I can capture the video using the Imagemixer software that came with the camer, but it is not real convient to use for editing, in my opinion. I would like to be able to skip that step and just capture straight to MS Movie Maker rather than to imagemixer then transfer to movie maker. Any suggestions? Tag: importing files Tag: 29218
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    - Playing moviemaker movie through sony dvd player My D.V.D player will not play my moviemaker movie which i have copied to cd using the process in moviemaker. I tried to burn it to cd using Nero but it will not copy themovie,it says it needs mpeg or avi files. If I buy a dvd writer will it solve the problem or is it because the dvd player won't read moviemaker files? -- J.C.S. Tag: importing files Tag: 29209
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    - low volume on movie.. is there a way to bost this before outputting in windows movie format? low volume on movie.. is there a way to bost this before outputting in windows movie format? -- Thanks Ed Sharpe archivist for SMECC Please check our web site at http://www.smecc.org to see other engineering fields, communications and computation stuff we buy, and by all means when in Arizona drop in and see us. address: coury house / smecc 5802 w palmaire ave glendale az 85301 Tag: importing files Tag: 29196
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    - Capturing video I have a brand new Panasonic PV-GS12 digital video camera. I can't figure out how to capture from it to my (likewise brand new) Dell Dimension 4700 with Windows XP Professional and Windows Movie Maker on it. I am using a USB cable as I lack a firewire port (sadly). Windows MovieMaker gives me a "I don't detect a media device" sort of an error message when I try to capture. Does anyone know what I should be doing differently? Thanks. Tag: importing files Tag: 29194
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    - Video saves as .AVI in 99% of the elapsed storyboard time I have created a movie with MSWMM 5.1 on a Pentium 4, 3.2 GHz with an essentially empty hard drive and 2 GB or RAM. I have been saving as DV/AVI (NTSC). I had the problem of audio skips, so I saved the Audio/Music track separately as a .WAV file, and then saved the Video/Transition/Title Overlay tracks separately (for eventual merger). The Audio/Music track saved on the exact same timeline as in MSWMM, to the second. The video tracks save to a file that is only 99% as long as the storyboard in MSWMM (i.e. in MSWMM the video was 30:07 min on the storyboard, but the resultant .AVI file is only 29:48 min, or 99% of the original timeline). It is therefore impossible to subsequently synch the audio and video. I'm at a loss, please help. I think this may be what is causing the audio skips people have been complaining about. Tag: importing files Tag: 29192
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    - no audio using dvc-80 ive been using a dvc-80 to capture video and audio from a sony hi-8 video camera. Using windows movie maker 1, i was able to successfully get the video and audio to playback but now when i import the video, i get no audio when i playback in any form(playing clip in windows media player). I was wondering if i was using the wrong input device. My options are soundmax digital audio(figuring my sound card), dvc 80 16k 16 bt audio(2), Dazzle dvc 80 audio(2), modem #2 line record. When i try and use the 16k 16 bit audio input device, it says the device isnt connected. Am i using the wrong device? Any help would be great. Tag: importing files Tag: 29190
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    - Picture size in Windows Movie Maker I have put all my pictues in and burned to a DVD disc. Problem is some of my pictures are to large for the frame. I have tried resizing them to make smaller but this did not help. I see on the storybook mode the pictures are a little oversized but how do I get them in the frame so they fit correctly? I had Movie Shop Deluxe and it allowed me to click on the frame and fit it in the window. I can not find this feature in Movie maker. Does it exist? Tag: importing files Tag: 29189
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    - Video editing This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_006C_01C4EB25.5F4C74E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, I wish to do Video frame-by-frame editing using Movie Maker 2 if it is possible or any other product? Has anybody done it with success? Any respond appreciated. ------=_NextPart_000_006C_01C4EB25.5F4C74E0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2800.1476" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=3D2><FONT size=3D3>Hi,</FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=3D2><FONT size=3D3>I wish to do Video frame-by-frame = editing using=20 Movie Maker 2 if it is possible or any other product?  = Has=20 anybody done it with success?  Any respond=20 appreciated.</FONT><BR></DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_006C_01C4EB25.5F4C74E0-- Tag: importing files Tag: 29184
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    - Can't find moviemaker 2 I downloaded XP SP2. Installed successfully but I cant find moviemaker 2 anywhere. How couod I get moviemaker? My PC is HP Vectra 500Mhz 500Mb. -- teetee Tag: importing files Tag: 29182
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    - File formats My aim is to make movies for DVD. I've been using WMM to capture and edit AVI files. However, to save space, I want to temporarily store these files to data-DVD's for later re-editing. Is WMV the most suitable format for me to use for this? I would appreciate any help. Victor Tag: importing files Tag: 29181
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    - Subdividing a Project Further to Subject - Project Preview of 12/5/2004. I have converted all the appropriate files as suggested by John Kelly and Graham Hughes and have had some improvement but still unable to save. I think I have to resort to subdivide the project - which I'm dreading as I don't want to lose what I've achieved so far. Have read PapJohn's Newsletter No 8 and can follow the gist but is there anywhere where I can get a detailed step by step guide for this. Thanks Denis Tag: importing files Tag: 29176
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    - How do I get sound? First attempt at using Movie Maker. I can import the video from my camcorder but not the sound. Reading the info on sounds says you can do this only with an ANALOG camera. Mine is digital. Is this my problem? Also I uploaded a clip into my hard drive but when I tried to import that into Movie Maker it says the file was not "indexed" and therefore could not be opened. TIA, Jayhawker Tag: importing files Tag: 29173
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    - Can get new version of move maker by update I show an older verion of Movie Maker in Program files, 1. something. I tried to update my win xp to get the new version and MS system says I'm already updated to service pack 2 so I can't get to the new version. How do I get past this catch 22? James Tag: importing files Tag: 29162
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    - avi / mpeg2 files To save space, I'm intending to store my AVI files as MPEG2 on data DVDs. How well will I go later in editing the mpeg's; or should I convert back to AVI? Appreciate any advice Victor Tag: importing files Tag: 29160
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    - MOVIE MAKER 2 They say M-Maker 2 came with service pack 2, I didn't get it ..?? I have tried to download it but after an hour of downloading it, I still don't have it !! I did a search on my computer for M-Maker 2 and it's NOT there ! Is there a bug in M-Maker 2 ..??? whats the deal ?? -- mrwatcher Tag: importing files Tag: 29158

When importing files, I get the error message " An interface has too many
methods to fire events from" can anyone help me with this? Thanks.

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Re: importing files by Graham

Graham
Tue Jan 04 13:27:49 CST 2005

Video needs to be dv-avi and audio wav/wma/wmv for best results

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Graham Hughes
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www.dvds2treasure.com
www.simplydv.com

"jnjsmiles" <jnjsmiles@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> When importing files, I get the error message " An interface has too many
> methods to fire events from" can anyone help me with this? Thanks.

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