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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: importing music 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: importing music 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: importing music 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: importing music 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: importing music 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: importing music Tag: 61964
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    - Play Storyboard/timeline has frozen! HELP! I've working editing my photos and a few videos and regularly saving. All of a sudden the play feature has frozen. I restarted my computer and still the same! I'm using Vista. This is a new computer bought in March. Thanks for your help! Tag: importing music Tag: 61959
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    - When I play back my movie I find that it has doubled. When I created my movie I added a title and some ending credits. When I played the movie back I saw my title and ending credits but then the movie played again with a title and ending credits that movie maker had inserted. What is the problem? Tag: importing music Tag: 61954
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    - Still Image Hi. I am trying to create a movie that can be played on TV screen (DVD format). I am currently working on creating still images. Do I have to consider tv screen safety area (about 10 percent from the edge of pictures) when I create still images? I am referring to this site: http://stream.uen.org/medsol/dvd/pages/dvdvid_work_graphics.html#3 Also, what is the best size to fill the screen? I do not want to have any distortion in my still images. Can I create them with the size 720X540 or the images have to be shrink into 720x480??? I would appreciate if if somebody can answer to this question. Thanks, -- Amy Tag: importing music Tag: 61951
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    - Tranisition Problems I have made my story board and am trying to insert transitions between each picture. For some reason it will only allow me to insert a transition between every 2 pictures. Can anyone point me in the right direction???? Tag: importing music Tag: 61947
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    - photostory 3 quality using movie maker? I have made many photostory3 projects using high quality images. I save them at the highest quality setting to the WMV format. As i'm sure you are all aware, this does not allow me to play these files on macs, as the codec is not available. I was told and read many websites about important my photostory3 project into moviemaker and then resaving it. I have done this 3 times, each selecting different formats (DV-AVI, high quality WMV, VBR WMV). Some of these have taken 12 hours to save (the DV-AVI was 8gigs). But none had the same quality as the photostory saved WMV. In fact, I was very dissapointed with the poor quality of the MM2 saved file. So is there a way , using MM2 or any other software you could recommend, to convert a WMV made with photostory, to a same quality format that could be played on a mac? thanks so much Mike Tag: importing music Tag: 61944
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    - MMV 6.0 project to MMV 2.1 Is it possible to take a project started in MMV 6.0 under Vista Business x64 and open it with MMV 2.1 from XP Pro? Tag: importing music Tag: 61920
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    - Trying to copy from pc > CD to play on normal player I recently created a movie file in both moviemaker & photostory. Both files play fine on the pc. Had trouble putting them on DVD. Was able to copy them both to CD. Again on the pc both files are fine. But how do I get them to play on a regular CD/DVD player? My DVD player just comes up w/msg Data disc, then nothing. CD player basically does nothing. TIA Tag: importing music Tag: 61911
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    - Video but no audio from mpg Why I transfer videos taken from my Sony DVD video camera they are in mpg format and run fine on real player or windows media player. When i load them into movie maker to split and combine them, the video is working fine but there is no audio sound track and so the final wmv that i save has no audio at all - what do i need to do to make the audio work? Tag: importing music Tag: 61909
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    - WMM will open buts gives 'Fatal Error' message and closes Have had this problem for some time. Not sure at what point it started. Not even sure if it ever worked as I use InterVideo WinDVD. I have Windows Media on an HP Media Center Tag: importing music Tag: 61907
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    - Transfer from hard drive I am having my 16 mm film digitally transferred to hard drive. Will I be able to edit using movie maker? With what file type should I have the transfer made? Tag: importing music Tag: 61905
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    - is it possible to edit a dvd recorded from tv? hello, is it possible to edit a dvd recorded from tv? i have been recording various programmes on my dvd recorder and now wish to edit them but I can't work out how!!! (the files on the disc when i look at the drive are Video_RM & Video_TS): any help will be appreciated. Tag: importing music Tag: 61895
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    - Suggestion for duration of fade? Does anybody have a good time for a nice looking transition (fade) between clips? I was thinking around 48sec - 0.64sec or am I way off. I am new to this. Is there a standard time limit that seems to work well? I'm putting together a rock climbing movie and some footage on the way there. Thanks Stewart Tag: importing music Tag: 61892
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    - Vista Movie Maker doesn't want to run due to the graphic card Hello, I have a Matrox Parhelia AVPe card and Vista's Movie Maker refuses to run, saying the card is not good enough (lacks hardware acceleration I think). Well... I mean come on, this is professional video editing card, why MM can't do with it? Or at least, any way how to run it without hw acceleration? Thanks for any hints, Jan Tag: importing music Tag: 61891
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    - Graham Hughes You asked me how they got me to uninstall WMM. They sent me to a website of mvlite.notlong and walked me through it. WMM was not working before IE7 was installed. IT HAS NEVER WORKED!! Should I give up and purchase a different movie maker software???? Since I don't have DVD burner Windows Photo 3 doesn't help me since I want my movies on DVD. It is soooooo frustrating. -- cds Tag: importing music Tag: 61890
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    - Importing MPEG - MM says 'empty file' Just opened MovieMaker 2 and tried to import a 24 MB DVD-ready MPEG file. But got message "The file xxxx is an empty file." Yet it certainly is not! Plays fine in all my players and in VirtualDub-MPEG2. GSpot doesn't show any errors either. Anyone have any ideas please? -- Terry, West Sussex, UK Tag: importing music Tag: 61887
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    - Quality of video is very poor Can someone tell me why the quality of the photos in a WMM video I made are so poor? The original photos are of very good quality (2048 x 1536 - 24 bit) and were taken with a digital camera. I found working with the program a lot of fun, but was very disappointed with the photos. The sound is fine; the transitions and effects worked fine. It seems very inconsistent. Any help would ve appreciated. Thanks. Walter Tag: importing music Tag: 61883
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    - Help! Colors change to negatives when saving to movie When i save my project as a movie, doesn't matter if i use the recommended format, NTSC, or whatever, when the movie plays in Windows media player, all the pictures i have on my video are basically negatives. Everything plays fine in windows movie maker, but when it's in Windows media player, the pictures are not even recognizable. Tag: importing music Tag: 61882
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    - Saving Large Window Movie Maker Project - Wont' Save!!!! Please Help! My husband spent over 200 hours creating a windows movie maker production of our son's summer traveling with his basketball team. The production is 26 minutes long and contains photos, video footage, transitions, text overlays and music. When we go to save it, it says the file size is too large. I have tried saving it in different formats, and tried increasing the paging file size (although I do not know if I have done this correctly. Can you help us finish this project so we can make copies for the team?? Tag: importing music Tag: 61875
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    - MM2 will not play clips. I imported a camcorder moving into MM. I can view the clips in the middle section of the display but when I select a clip the majority of clips will not play in the preview pane. I click play and nothing happens at first, then the audio will play but the video remains frozen. A few clips play correctly. When I first starting using the problem this was not a problem but I can't tie the beginning of the problem to any changes made to my system. This is the case with old and new files imported into collections. -- Thanks, Lee Tag: importing music Tag: 61874
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    - codec not installed message I was able to use Virtual Dub to change my MPG2 file to AVI using the panasonic codec, but when I try to import, I get the same error message that the codec needed to play the file isn't installed. I played around with turning off the filters, but I never could get that to make a difference. What am I missing? Anyone know what else I can try? Thanks! Tag: importing music Tag: 61873
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    - HDV on Windows Movie Maker (Win XP Pro) I have a Sony HDR-HC3 HDV video camera and I can import via firewire Standard Defintion video footage just fine with this camera into Movie Maker (Windows XP Professional), but not 1080i footage?? I can't import the 1080i using my LG DVD recorder (with firewire) either??? If this is not possible with MM and Windows XP, are there any software suggestions to get this done? Tag: importing music Tag: 61869
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    - home movie i have two mini dv tapes (50 mins each) from a recent holiday. i want to get these two onto one dvd. can i import them both into WMM at once (obviously one after another) to edit and save into one PC file and then burn, or is there another way?? any help is much appreciated. thanks. -- lakey Tag: importing music Tag: 61866
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    - WMM doesn't allow me to capture in DV-AVI When I use capture video this option is not active. I can only choose Best Quality for playback or Other Options. Any idea how to activate this option? -- kelsey Tag: importing music Tag: 61863
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    - Movie Maker will not function Everytime I start movie maker, I get a mess that it has encountered a problem and needs to close. I tried reloading sp2 (even got a disc from ms). Hitting debug closes the program. Please let me know if you have any tips. Tag: importing music Tag: 61859
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    - Unspecified error Whenever I try to Import a video , I always get an unspecified error message. The videos that I am trying to import are mpeg2 videos from already made dvds. Like the dvds are minidvds that are finalized from the camcorder, which I uploaded onto the computer using the provided software from the camcorder. Tag: importing music Tag: 61858
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    - Error When Opening Movie Maker Movie Maker worked find until I uninstalled another movie editing program I had installed. After I did that Movie Maker gets an error when opening and wants to send a report. How can I fix this? Can I re-install Movie Maker without re-installing Windows? Tag: importing music Tag: 61857
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    - frozen playback from storyboard I have Vista Ultimate, major problem with MM. I have recurring problem playing clips from the storyboard/timeline. I can play imported clips with no problem, can split them and move to storyboard, can even play them back on the black screen. But once I save project and leave MM, then return at a later time, I can't play them back on the black screen. I have lost hours of work. I tried starting the project all over again, works fine until I stop, save, and return later. Frozen out. I am a novice to MM, want help explained in a simple, easy to understand and follow way. Thanks so much for any help. I am almost ready to just give up on MM and buy a software editing program, but don't know which is best for a beginner home video maker. Joyce Tag: importing music Tag: 61856
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    - No such interface supported I have completed this movie and ready to burn I've had no problem before I've burned with no problems. but this new movie when I have opened up movies dvd burn and push burn it gives me this message. No such interface supported. Help what could be the problem, Tag: importing music Tag: 61855
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    - shrink my dvd for the web i went skydiving and they gave me a dvd of it. i want to shrink the video for the web, but not sure how to do that. I was thinking of importing into movie maker and then saving to web? if so how do I import it since it have audio folder and video folder. i also have nero express if that will help me get it done. any help would be great, thanks! Tag: importing music Tag: 61848
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    - audio skips after burning dvd When I transfer my movie maker movie to a dvd the audio skips. It doesn't do it when I review my movie before transfering. Have used 3 different dvd burning programs, but that makes no difference. My audio files are wma files. Any solutions? -- fredcastleberry Tag: importing music Tag: 61846
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    - Moviemaker Saving Moviemaker stops saving when the file it is saving gets to be 288,644K in size, and I get the "cannot save to this location" message. 288,644K is the size of the (unredadable) .wmv file fragment that it saves before hanging. So I infer that MM thinks there is only that much storage available. There is actually over 100gig avaiable on the disc. Any help with a fix? I tried all the usual ones the you find out there already. Tag: importing music Tag: 61843
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    - Wits end!! camcorder footage to DVD I have a Sony camcorder DCR-TRV15 Using Windows movie maker I have taken camcorder footage to my pc then using Nero burned this to a DVD. I have been able to play this back via the pc but not my DVD connected to my TV. What am I doing wrong!! When using Nero I have selected DVD video files and it cant locate any of the camcorder footage, wrong file extension. please help Tag: importing music Tag: 61842
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    - MPG2 to AVI I was able to use Virtual Dub to change my MPG2 file to AVI using the panasonic codec, but when I try to import, I get the same error message that the codec needed to play the file isn't installed. I played around with turning off the filters, but I never could get that to make a difference. What am I missing? Anyone know what else I can try? Thanks! Tag: importing music Tag: 61840
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    - Help - No audio when capturing from camcorder Hey everyone. I am hoping someone can help me figure out what I am doing wrong. I used the cable that came with my camera and connected to the computer via the yellow video and white audio inputs, and I am able to obtain the video but there is no audio. I then tried it using an S-video cable, and the same results. Why is the audio not coming thru? I hear it on the playbakck from my camcorder, but not from the computer. There are no inputs muted, so I can't figure it out... Thanks for any and all help. John Tag: importing music Tag: 61834
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    - audio problem When I try to convert my movie maker movie to dvd the audio skips. I've tried 3 different dvd burning programs and the results are always the same. Is there a fix for this problem. My audio tracks are wma files. -- fredcastleberry Tag: importing music Tag: 61829
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    - Split is grayed out I am trying to split a video. I imported a .mpg file Why is most of the Clip menu grayed out? I am looking at the timeline. Tag: importing music Tag: 61825
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    - I get mpg file is empty file when importing video My Noikon saves videos in MOV format, which is NOT supported by Windows Movie Maker {BUT SHOULD BE!}, so I have converted the files to MPG files, but when I try to import any of the converted videos WMM pops up with a window that says: The file D:\Cat Video from Nikon Camera\Silent Conversions\Close Up Face Shots.mpg is an empty file. But I can LOAD every one of these "EMPTY FILES" into any other prgram that plays MPG files and they play fine. So the files ARE NOT EMPTY! So how can I make WMM import these video clips? And why is it telling me they are "EMPTY FILES" when, in fact, THEY ARE NOT!??? Any help here would be very much appreciated it. I like the program and it works great for still photo's, but I want to be able to create some movies from several video clips I can put together. I have tried both importing them one at a time as well as a multi-import, each time WMM tells me the file(s) is(are) "empty", I am using the most current version 2.1 of WMM. I just don't understand how the software determines wether a file is empty, especially since NOT A ONE of the files I have tried to import are empty, the video is there, anyone know what is going on with this? Oh, the videos have also been resized (camera takes them in 640x480 DVD MOV format) to 320x240 MPG format. I have tried converting these MOV files into AVI and WMV as well, each time, I get the same "file is empty" error message. Please HELP! if you can. Tag: importing music Tag: 61811
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    - Help! I have spent the last week trying to get Window Movie Maker to work on my computer. I have talked with HP support for approx 15 hours trying to get it to work. Their support system is in India so it is really hard to understand them. I have a Windows XP Media Edition and WMM was on my computer when I bought it 2 years ago. I just tried to use it last week so hence the problem. HP had me uninstall it and then sent me to a microsoft web page to download. There was no option to download from there so I found it at another sight. I downloaded it again and I still get the error message and my options are to debug or close. HP said it was a Microsoft problem so I emailed them and they said it was an operating systems problemand to contact HP????? Apparently, my problem is no one else's problem. Any ideas???? -- cds Tag: importing music Tag: 61808
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    - Graphics adapter and movie maker with vista ultimate after upgrading to vista ultimate i can no longer use windows movie maker some how my display adapter/graphics card has changed from SIS something graphics card to VGA display adapter and now says it doesn't support what is needed to run movie maker i can play any of my videos i previously made in movie maker i dont understand how this happened or why and need solutions to fix it and how to do that if i have to download something to upgrade or change it where and how do i do this please help me thanks Tag: importing music Tag: 61805
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    - loss of quality after adding transitions and effects I am using a Sony Hard Disk Drive camcorder. After adding transitions, effects and titles and burning a DVD with Movie Maker, the total size of the DVD is 20% smaller than when I use Sony's Imagemixer software to burn a DVD without editing. The loss of quality is very noticeable. I was of the understanding that my camcorder stores the movie files already as MPEG-2 format, so why is the quality getting worse, and what can be done to retain the original quality? Tag: importing music Tag: 61803
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    - Deleting a single frame Hi, all i need to do is delete one or two frames from a movie compilation i'm making. The trim is too clumsy and it simply deletes the start of the film and the end. Is there any way to delete a very small segment, probably only a couple of frames? Tag: importing music Tag: 61800
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    - Wide screen not maintained Running XP Pro with Movie Maker 2.1.4026 Downloaded wide-screen HD clips. Opened movie maker and dragged and dropped clips to the storyboard. Went to tasks > Finish movie > save to my computer and named movie and best quality and next. Took a while but the end result was not in wide-screen nor HD. So, I'm guessing movie maker is incapable of being used for these formats. Anyone know of another program that will allow me to join/merge wide-screen HD clips/movies? Thanks. Jerry Tag: importing music Tag: 61797
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    - Video Device currently in use - XP Media Center edition Hi, This is probably a FAQ, but I can't find an answer. One solution I did find was to disable "Media Center Receiver Service" = in services.msc. That did not work. So, I disabled the others; "Media Center Extender Service" and "Media = Center Sheduler Service". Still nothing. I rebooted each time. Still nothing. What else is there to disable? Thanks, Tag: importing music Tag: 61793
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    - importing video we download video from our sony camera to the computer . when we import to movie maker it will not play the video at all but the sound from video plays just fine. -- Janet Tag: importing music Tag: 61792

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.
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dan

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Re: importing music by Graham

Graham
Sun Sep 16 03:07:35 CDT 2007

can you import video and pictures ok?

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Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.com

"dan63" <dan63@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> 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

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RE: importing music by dan63

dan63
Sun Sep 16 07:56:02 CDT 2007

just realised i can't. Exactly the same problem. But capturing video is fine.
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dan

"dan63" wrote:

> 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

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