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    - Importing video clips I have a number of video files from a Sony video camera. I am trying to import them into movie maker so I can join them together and save as a single file. Every time I try I get the strange error message "C:\Documents\Movies\M2U00022.MPG could not be imported. An interface has too many methods to fire events from." Can anyone explain what this means and how to fix it? Thanks David Tag: overlay Tag: 64945
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    - opening old projects i was working on a project a few weeks ago. but now when i go to open it, it wont load my previous work. then a window pops up and says INVALID POINTER. what does that mean and how do i fix it so i can open my old projects. thanks Tag: overlay Tag: 64943
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    - Cover Art for Movie Clips How can I add or change the art that is displayed for a video clip when played in Windows Media Player? Tag: overlay Tag: 64941
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    - Use more than 1 song in a movie How do I insert another song after the first one ends in the movie? Tag: overlay Tag: 64924
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    - Render from middle of movie? Is it possible to render to a DV camera tape, with the curser starting in the middle of the edited movie on the time line? (When I have tried it, the movie curser moves back to the start of the movie before starting to render.) Thanks for you comments, Randy -- RR Tag: overlay Tag: 64921
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    - picture duration Tag: overlay Tag: 64920
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    - moving WMM project & files to another computer Hello, I created a music video on an XP computer that worked great. I moved the project and all the related clip files to a VISTA computer so that I could utilize some of the newer "effects" (WMM v.6). BUT, even though the project seems to exhibit all the clips on the timeline just fine - it won't play or "publish" because (I think) WMM thinks the original files are missing. Initially, the timeline was blank - but I clicked on<browse for missing file> which SEEMED to bring everthing back in, but it still doesn't play. Does anyone know how to tell WMM where to "look for" files in the case of a computer change. I know that invariably, with such a switch, the files are obviously no longer in exactly the same spot as before - and the project needs to be re-educated as to their location. Tag: overlay Tag: 64910
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    - Movie Maker 2.1.4026.0 - won't close - no picture after drag-drop May be 2 separate problems but began at about same time. Must use Task Manager to close. Can drop clip but can not see pictures when dropped to Storyboard or Timeline - will make viewable movie, but can not see where I have cropped when trying to assemble parts. -- Mark W Tag: overlay Tag: 64900
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    - Will not start When Windows Movie Maker starts up I receive the following error message and have to shut it down; Windows Movie Maker has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. If you were in the middle of something, the information you were working on might be lost. Please tell Microsoft about this problem. We have created an error report that you can send to help us improve Windows Movie Maker. We will treat this report as confidential and anonymous. It has a Debug option but when I click on the debug it just shuts down the program. Thanks for your help Tag: overlay Tag: 64899
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    - Movie too light Help please! When I view my newly completed movie wmv it is way too light even using a black color background...what have I done wrong?? New here so please forgive if this has been answered in previous thread...just direct me to an answer-thanks! Thanks, SAM Tag: overlay Tag: 64898
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    - Video looks small When I view my videos on my TV they fill the screen. When I import them into WMM and drag them into timeline they have a lot of black space around them and are too small. Does anyone know how to rectifiy this? Thanks Tag: overlay Tag: 64896
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    - Combining a video with still images Am trying to take a video file and merge it with various images along the timeline with the audio still playing as the movie switches from the video to the images and back i.e the audio is a continuous flow but at various points the video is replaced by an image..and then the video continues at a different point.. any tips on how i'd go about doing this? Tag: overlay Tag: 64894
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    - File is too large to save on DVD I created a 30 minute slideshow with music using WMM. I saved it in DV-AVI format because I would like to play it on a DVD player. The size is over 5G and my DVD only allows 4.7 GB. How should I save it or is there a way to make the file size smaller? I tried the best fit option but I wasn't sure which file size to choose. Any help would be appreciated. Tag: overlay Tag: 64890
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    - Rendering Problems I have a 30 minute film with video clips and bmp photos and wma music. The first rendering requested I free up more memory and suggested â??disk clean upâ??. I did this and then it suggested â??do you want more memoryâ??. I clicked yes and it pulled up all of my programs. I deleted some programs and started rendering. It went OK until about 3 minutes before the end and the video and audio got â??jerkyâ?? and the rendering stopped, saying the video was complete. I removed some more programs, and tried rendering again. This time the same thing happened after only 10 minutes, â??jerkyâ?? and the program is complete. Without removing any more programs, I rendered it again, and this time it stopped after about 12 minutes, saying the program is complete. My source file has taken up about 20 GB of my partitioned 60GB D drive. My C drive has about 7 GB free on my 16GB C drive. SRAM is 512 MB Processor is Pentium 4 1.5GHz Question 1) Is the temporary rendering file on the D or C drive? Question 2) If I cut the video into say 3 separate videos and render each to the hard drive, then place these 3 new video clips on a new time line. Should that work? Question2a) How do you cut up the existing video? Question 2b) Will I have enough memory to do this. Thanks for any advise. Randy -- RR Tag: overlay Tag: 64889
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    - New movie won't save I have created simple movies by using pictures, clipart and such to create a movie. For the first time I am trying to create a movie using video. I import a movie from a website that is unprotected and in .wmv format. I try to create a new movie by using only a portion of the imported video. The selected clips can be put on the timeline and play just fine. The problem is when I try to save the new video to my computer. The save dialogue opens and within about a minute gets to 95% and then stops and goes no further. It continues to say that it is saving and the Task Manager indicates that it is running. But it never completes the save. I even let it go for 12 hours on one try. The same result happens when trying to save to a CD except that the process stops at 55%. This has been the same result on three different computers using XP Pro and XP. What is the problem? Can movies not be made from downloaded videos imported into Movie Maker? Tag: overlay Tag: 64883
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    - lost sound when mpeg in frame When i drag an mpeg into a frame the mpeg sound track is lost, inserted music or sound is fine. This is only a recent fault, what have i done and how can fix this. Pete O Tag: overlay Tag: 64873
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    - Soundtrack Transitions Questions for you all. I'm making a movie with a soundtrack of selected songs. Many of the songs are several minutes in length (too long for my needs). Currently, my option appears to be to cut the song where there is a loll. However, even at its best these transitions are rough and abrupt. I'd prefer a more seemless move from song to song. I've found the movie maker tool that toggles the ratio/volume between the soundtrack and narration tracks, but there doesn't seem to be a tool or button that allows one to fade music in and out while staying in the soundtrack. Thoughts? Shooter Tag: overlay Tag: 64871
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    - importing video from a digital camera? Hello: I have used WMM for about 3 years and I continue to be stumped when it comes to importing videos from digital camera. 1) the videos (from my panasonic) are not recognized by WMM - what can I do to solve this problem? 2) I want to make a combination of photos and video - is this possible or should I just give up and stick with the photos? Tag: overlay Tag: 64870
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    - WMM History? Does anyone know of any research quality web sites or books that give a detailed history of WMM and how it came to be? I'm doing a project on WMM for my computer class and need to find some sources. Tag: overlay Tag: 64868
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    - how to get a visualization ala winamp? Hi I put a bunch of videos on youtube and I was wondering if there's an easy way to get a visualization to synchronize with the audio track I've put in.... ie: an oscilloscope or something a long those lines. All my songs only have a picture image, I know the oscilloscope or whatever i choose will result in a bigger file but i was just wonder if there's an easy way to do this... thanks Tag: overlay Tag: 64866
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    - gif files and animation I have had Office 2007 for about a year, but haven't wmm since the beg of 2006. When I created a movie back in 06 I used a MS gif and stretched it out for the opening of our Christmas. Santa Claus and his Reindeer in the sky. The legs are moving. I put it in a powerpoint slide and then saved the pic to import pic into WWM. Okay so now I can't get my gifs to do anything. Why not? Also is there anyway to take a gif pic and animate it like in the powerpoint or convert the powerpoint slideshow to WMM including the stuff moving across the slide. ie I have a birthday card with balloons that float up and a airplane with the banner in the back where I added a text file to move across at the same time with the airplane and the audio clip of an airplane engine as it moves across the screen saying Happy Birthday whomever! For example, I want to create an easter video with a picture and have a Easter bunny hop across the slide. If not with WMM is there anything else out there that I can use. This is my 3rd project and the one I just finished in my opinion isn't as good as the first. Thanks for all and any help! :) -- Liz Tag: overlay Tag: 64860
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    - Collections - how to get rid of all files easily Is there a setting or something that will delete all files in the collections folder when I start a new project? I just created a big project with about 50 files (video, pics, etc) and once I saved the project and went into the Movie Maker later for a different project (not going to use any of the files I priorly used) they were ALL there. There's got to be a way so that they disappear so I know what file is what and not have to go thru all the others, isn't there? thx Tag: overlay Tag: 64858
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    - Import 100+ files? I downloaded a utility that split my DV file into scenes optically. It seems to have worked very well, but I was wondering if there is a way to import all those little avi files into WMM quickly. For now I have to click on each one, and drag it into the storyboard. I tried selecting a bunch, but it only brings in the very final one. For example, if I choose file_001 through File_0010 only 0010 is imported. I don't quite understand why it ignores the fact I selected a bunch of files before that one, but it does. Tag: overlay Tag: 64853
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    - Insert Still Photo How can I insert a still picture OVER an existing video without interrupting the audio in the background??? If you split the original video into three smaller clips and then remove the middle one (where I want to place the still picture) the audio track is trimmed as well and the third video clip shifts forward in time. Any help would be appreciated... Tag: overlay Tag: 64852
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    - downloading completed film to CD I have Windows XP home edition. I have made up several films in Movie Maker. I have gone to the question would you like to download to CD. I have commenced the download to CD. The process works and it tells me so many minutes remaining and X% complete. It then gets to a figure like 40% remaining and 58% complete. And that is where it stays. Nothing moves from 40 seconds remaining however long I leave it. I have gone out and done the shopping for several hours to see if it needs further time but still there is 40 seconds remaining and nothing changes. I look in Task manager and it tells me the program is running but in actuality nothing is. I then stop the recording onto CD and so nothing is transferred. Note at the beginning when trying to download the program tells me the capacity of the film. It is approx 100GB and well withing the capacity of the disc at 700MBs. I don't get a message saying I am trying to download too much so it is not that. Am I doing something wrong? What does the 40 seconds refer to? Is there a way to put this right and complete a transfer to a CD. Another question once above is solved can I transfer the film to a DVD instead of a CD . Look forward to any advice available Tag: overlay Tag: 64851
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    - Where to get to install? Hi there, I am running XPsp2. I have also gone to the update.microsoft.com website as given in these instructions: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/updates/moviemaker2.mspx Problem is...there is no Windows Movie Maker installed on my machine, and Windows Update does not list it as an option to download (it is not listed in High Priority nor Software Optional). I have also clicked on 'Restore hidden udpates' but nothing appears. Short of ordering a CD from MS, does anyone know have any insight as to what may be going on here? Thanks in advance, David Tag: overlay Tag: 64848
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    - spliting video? This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_000B_01C881B4.BF3902A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello, After spliting the video by using the "pause" button on the monitor and = then left click on the "clip" and "split" buttons, how do I save the two = separate clips into two files? Thanks. David ------=_NextPart_000_000B_01C881B4.BF3902A0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="Windows-1252" 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=3Dwindows-1252"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.6000.16608" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>Hello,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>After spliting the video by using the = "pause"=20 button on the monitor and then left click on the "clip" and "split" = buttons, how do I save the two separate clips into two files? =20 Thanks.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3DArial size=3D2>David</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_000B_01C881B4.BF3902A0-- Tag: overlay Tag: 64844
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    - Advice needed! Hi, Last year we made a 20min video of our son's first year of life using both still images & video clips. When we came to save it for some reason it wouldn't go back onto the Video camera or onto a DVD - we could only save it onto a CD. We really wanted to save to DVD as the Great Grandparents don't have a computer but have a DVD player! Any ideas on why we couldn't save as a DVD or back onto the Video camera to then input into our TV to enable us to record to DVD??! A friend suggested it was the size of the file? Also - when we played it back from the CD's we made it was really low quality & it freezes in part or the music stops... - but the file on our PC was ok? Any suggestions? We are just about to do a second year movie & thought we'd ask before we start! Thanks :) -- Andy & Kay Tag: overlay Tag: 64840
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    - Video freeze and Sound distortion,skip Need help. I have Xp 2002 Home edition Service pack 2 with 2.40 GZ and 512 RAM. I have a 40 min. video with transitions and sound. Whe previewing the video skips,freezes while sound continues. At other times the sound skips and at times it all freezes up. I have done 30 minute videos before witha few short audio skips before. I have tried to do a system restore. Changed the Drive to NTFS, changed processor scheduling from programs to back grouns and memory usage from programs to system cache as suggested by someone that wrote in to Papajohn. Iam about the trash the PC and the windows moviemaker and go to the darkside and get an Imac. What say you wise people. Can someone out there help me. Tag: overlay Tag: 64839
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    - .avi files For some reason i can't use .avi Files with windows movie maker is there an update in which i can use these. I use Windows Movie Maker 2.1 but you see when i go to use it within Windows Media Player it runs but the video doesn't show at all but the sound works. But the videos work within another program i have called VLC Tag: overlay Tag: 64837
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    - rotated picture hello. my problem is: the MM plays my imported videos rotated by 180 degrees. It happens with all types of videos. How can i fix it? Tag: overlay Tag: 64828
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    - Display Screen skipping frames While capturing video the display screen skips about 10 frames at a time so the effect is like still pictures every 3 seconds. The video captures fine when played back. Has anyone experienced this? Thanks for any nudge in the right direction... I am using xp with a ati all in wonder 9800 video card Asus p4p800e deluxe mother board All drivers are up to date Tag: overlay Tag: 64827
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    - Chapters in Movie Maker Vista Home Question 1: Where do you include chapter breaks in Movie Maker so that when the movie is published using the Windows DVD Maker program, chapters can be included in the Title page? Does WMM have this capability? I have searched high and low and cannot find anything about, what other similar programs call, authoring. Question 2: When I burn a DVD using Movie Maker and DVD Maker, what is the output resolution, 480p, 1080p?? There doesn't seem to be any options in either program to set the output resolution? TIA Fred Dwight Tag: overlay Tag: 64826
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    - movie maker 2,1 goes wrong , cannot retreive past posts movie mover does not save the project for me and it freezes while a new picture was added. it stops me to maximize the application the keeps hanging for hours. I notice a new version has come up but it is only for windows vista. is there a newer version for mce2005? my project is about 80mb at the moment. is it acceptable to add more pictures? (png and bmp) has it a standard size for projects on windows movie maker? i.e the program stops reacting while a certain amount of pictures are inputted./ will the program halt whle a certan amount of pictures being inputed? another issue. memoryfailure alert errori s popped up. the screen goes white webpagewas opened. my computer has 1ghz memory in total. I think it is more than enough for the job done. should I add more ram to resolve the problem? error alert: (always the same) moviemaker error alert: windows auto update enabled szAppName : moviemk.exe szAppVer : 2.1.4026.0 szModName : hungapp szModVer : 0.0.0.0 offset : 00000000 thanks for your asistance. pc spec windows mce 2005 (multilingual enabled) HDD 40Gb Memory 1Ghz P.S I think microsoft has deleted the posts I have written again . Tag: overlay Tag: 64825
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    - Red X When trying to publish movie to dvd or computer, I get message that files are missing. I moved a few files around so I can see how this would happen. However, I cannot see any Red Xs on my Contents board, storyboard, or anywhere else. I am stuck. Any suggestions? I would like to burn to DVD anyway (over ride) but don't know how. Thanks. Tag: overlay Tag: 64823
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    - WMM will not import the files it makes. A while ago my computer crashed for some reason, with two consequences, one was that the clock was reset to five years ago when I first installed Windows XP, and the other that WMM no longer plays it's own .wmv files properly. It can import and play .wmv files not of WMM making (all these lack sound attachments though), but when trying to import anything it produced itself (or by other people's WMM programs) it says the right codec has not been installed. Wmv files already imported will not play with sound on the edit bar, and if additional sound is added under it (.wav, .mp3 etc), those do not play either. When clicking them without putting them on the edit bar, the preview will show a black screen and the top of the screen will start to shiver. Could somebody please help me fix this? The entire program is useless this way since all my projects are too complicated to be saved in one run, I need to be able to reimport. I'd like to try re-install the Windows Media Audio codec perhaps, but I don't know how? I haven't found any options either to re-install WMM in its entirety. Tag: overlay Tag: 64820
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    - No Sound When Capturing from VCR Win XP Movie Maker records video but does not record / play sound. I can get video and sound on Win TV, Sonic and Media Center. I am using a Hauppenauge WinTV-PVR 150 as my capture device for TV/VCR input via a Composite video source. HP told me that Movie Maker will not capture sound, but I find that hard to believe. Tag: overlay Tag: 64815
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    - Scene Detection? Basically I dumped a bunch of old 8mm tapes to DV via a D8 cam with Firewire. Is there some sort of filter I can run it through to detect all the scened? I tried checking that little checkbox when I imported the clip but it kept it as one giant two hour long scene. Which I expected. Tag: overlay Tag: 64812
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    - sonic cineplayer decoder pack When I try to bring an avi file into movie maker I get a message telling me I have to install Sonic CinePlayer Decoder Pack. I have been working with avi files for years. Why am I getting this message all of a sudden? Dave Tag: overlay Tag: 64808
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    - Importing .avi movies to window movie maker Why I try to import movies I downloaded from ares ultra, wmm sends an error: cannot be imported because the codec required to play the file is not installed on your computer! How do I get the codec it is referencing? -- GAD Tag: overlay Tag: 64791
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    - DVI filed sized compressed to DVD? I am transferring video from my camcorder to my computer...for the first time. And then transferring the video to a DVD. I assume that for the highest quality, I should transfer from the camcorder in a DVI file. However, this file will end up being 12+GB and it's under an hour of footage. My DVD capacity is only 4.7GB. What is the best file format to burn this on to a DVD? Is there some kind of compression that happens when I transfer the 12+GB file on to a DVD or do I really have to burn 3 DVDs? Any advice would be most appreciated! Thanks! Tag: overlay Tag: 64784
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    - What's the best saving option for later posting video on youtube Hi again all. Yet another quite simple question I guess if your up to speed with movie maker, which im not.. Yet.!. Whith the help of PapJohn ive maneged to create an 8 min movie with audio and affects to post on youtube, as you do. I know how to save the file to my pc for me to play back and watch, but what size, type, broadband, lan, isdn this many bits, that many bits..???? ughhhh. give up. and youtube's help isnt much good either just stating types and sizes they except. So Please could somebody, "& I have a feeling who this somebody will be" tel me or help me out with this one. Many thanks all. Jeremy Tag: overlay Tag: 64782
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    - mpg clip imported mpg clip into WMM sent via email ...the clip is horizontal...how to convert it to vertical? Tag: overlay Tag: 64778
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    - My saved wmv movie stops playing after few minutes but music conti I successfully saved my project as a wmv file to my hardrive but it won't play. It playes for about 7 minutes and then the slideshow stops but the music continues. I've tried to save it over several times but the problem persists. Each time I saved it, it stoped playing after only a few minutes. The whole movie is a combination of still images and short avi files with some mp3 files and is 35 mins long. It saved fine but for some reason Windows media player won't play the entire movie. Anyone knows what the problem is and how to resolve it? So much time and work went into this and no movie.... Tag: overlay Tag: 64763
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    - splitting up clips that have just been split is there a trick to get about a 5 second gap in between video clips...just a black screen inbetween. the clip i made into 2 seperate ones always "stick" together.. Tag: overlay Tag: 64761
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    - DVD works on Laptops & partly on DVD Player or PS2 I burned my first MM DVD w/ Power Point pic with backgrounds and no transitions. I changed it to JPEG and attached music and home movie clips. I saved the movie file as DV-AVI(NTSC). I burned on a DVD+R and DVD-R both 16x speed. I used Nero7 to burn and chose the highest quality. I also tried having it choose auto. I have burned 3 DVD's. They were all perfect before burning. They are perfect played on DVD players on our XP laptops. They play great on a DVD player on TV and PS2 until around the 90th slide then the music warps in mid song and the slide stalls. After a few more slides it plays fine again and then it warps and stalls again then plays again fine through the movie clips. On PS2 it does all the above with the exception of the music stops and starts. I'm brain fried!! Tag: overlay Tag: 64759
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    - Audio out of sync on final movie only I created a movie consisting of pictures and video. The video clips are of varying resolutions and file formats. Most of the video has audio tracks. I added a sound track to the video using the Audio/Music track. When editing and viewing the movie within Movie Maker, the video images sync up with the lyrics in the music track exactly as I set them. All is well here. Then I create the movie file. The video images are now showing later than expected. In other words, the lyrics are earlier than the associated image. When I go back to the movie project, it runs exactly like I originally set it. Any ideas to help me out here? Tag: overlay Tag: 64756
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    - Editing a Title Effect Hi, Am new to using movie maker, but have noticed some videos created with it that use the News Paper animation in the title effects, have a picture of their choice inserted into the blank "blue" in my case box that is on the front of the news paper effect.? Please can anybody help me as to how to achieve this. Thank you. Tag: overlay Tag: 64754
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    - titles and credits in Vista Ihave imported an avi file into Movie Maker in Vista and after editing the video into several smaller segments, i decided i would add a subtitle to some of the segments. This previewed fine and as you would expect, with the text apearing over the top of the moving image. When i went to publish the final video to my computer, i found that the subtitles appear against a green background that takes up half the hight of the screen, the video being squashed to fit in the remaining half. Any ideas why this happened and how i can fix it? Thanks in advance Tag: overlay Tag: 64751
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    - Problem Importing Video from Disc or Computer files. I have hundreds of videos saved to cd-r. When I try to import them from the disc an error message comes up saying...123.mov is not a supported file type and cannot be imported to movie maker. These vidoes are played using quicktime player. Does anyone know Is there anyway I can import them in? Tag: overlay Tag: 64749

I have a movie (1 hr time length). I want to run a Slide at bottom of the
movie.

The functions I have found in WMM can only overlay text but as I am from
Pakistan and I want to run the slide in Urdu Language, so How can I run
other language in slide or can I run an image as slide at bottom of the
whole movie.

Best Regards,
Shakeel Ahmad

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Re: overlay by PapaJohn

PapaJohn
Sat Mar 15 09:39:39 PDT 2008

you can add images as overlays... with a little xml code and custom setup,
which is easy. See my website's Edit Movies > XML > Script Types > Custom
Overlays page.

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website references are to www.papajohn.org

PapaJohn (MVP)

"Shakeel Ahmad" <shakeel.ahmad215@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:O6rCqprhIHA.1184@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>I have a movie (1 hr time length). I want to run a Slide at bottom of the
>movie.
>
> The functions I have found in WMM can only overlay text but as I am from
> Pakistan and I want to run the slide in Urdu Language, so How can I run
> other language in slide or can I run an image as slide at bottom of the
> whole movie.
>
> Best Regards,
> Shakeel Ahmad
>

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