Why is all my video appearing as black images after saving?

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    - Best codec to use for reliability Im just wondering what the best format to encode into is. I plan on doing low compression formats or maybe raw data, for the actual recording sessions, but for editing, I want to cut it down to a high compression format. I've tried DivX, but for some reason, Movie Maker seems to have a LOT of problems with that. Is there a way to either get DivX to co-operate, or is there a similarly size-reduced codec that could allow me to make a pretty decent length movie, that could say, fit Youtube's 10minute 100MB rule. Thanks. Tag: Why is all my video appearing as black images after saving? Tag: 62008
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    - Removing original soundtrack Having imported clips, I wish to completely remove the original soundtrack from those and add a fresh one recorded by myself. How do I turn off the original soundtrack? -- No naked jacuzzi-ness Tag: Why is all my video appearing as black images after saving? Tag: 62005
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    - Importing Videos I am new to using Moviemaker and I taped using a DVD camcorder. I formatted the disc to VR which seems to be the problem. I found software that took the .vro that I uploaded from the camera and turned it into a .mpg. I saved it to my flash drive. I am at work, trying to edit the material from my flash drive, but I cannot import the file. I can view the video with Windows Media Player. When I try to import the video, the message says, "E:\PepRally.mpg could not be imported. An interface has too many methods to fire events from" Also, I am running on XP Professional (moviemaker version 5.1) and at home I have Vista (moviemaker 6.0), which does allow me to import the video. I need to work on it from here at work. Can anyone help? Thank you in advance! Tag: Why is all my video appearing as black images after saving? Tag: 62004
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    - Dragging I'm wondering, first of all, if I'm in the wrong discussion group, as this one is listed under Windows XP and I'm using Vista and MM 6.0. I'll just ask my question anyways, if someone can hopefully answer. A technique that I used on my old (now broken) XP laptop when movie editing was to drag a video clip I wanted into the Audio track so I could use its sound on top of my existing shot. However, my new Vista machine has MM 6.0 freezing up every single time I do this. Does anybody else have this problem and, if so, is there a solution or patch I'm unaware of? Or is a way to circumvate this problem? System specs: Windows Vista Home Premium HP Intel Duo-Core processor @ 1.86 GHz 1 GB RAM That should be enough to handle MM, don't you think? Tag: Why is all my video appearing as black images after saving? Tag: 62003
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    - Playing movie maker on dvd-r help. i have edited two tapes from a sony hc96 camcorder. i added titles etc. when i come to burn it it cd i did. it took 6 hours(is that right) once it had finished i tried the dvd-r on at least 3 dvd players and none of them worked. on one it came up does not recognise this type of file. the only time the disc works is when i play it through a laptop. any help would be grateful Tag: Why is all my video appearing as black images after saving? Tag: 62002
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    - movie maker not publishing previous video I imported a movie clip (formatted on moviemaker) into a new movie published on moviemaker. The finished product has great audio, but no video. You can't see the old video, nor can you see the new photos imported. Any advice? Tag: Why is all my video appearing as black images after saving? Tag: 62001
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    - Seeking advice to import music file for WMM Hi: I just purchased a song that I'd like put put into a WMM file I'm creating. I paid for the download on Zune and it says it won't allow me to download it to WMM as it's right management protected. I also had the same song purchased through iTunes and that won't upload either. I thought it was a codec issue so downloaded various codec but that didn't fix the issue -- I noticed that there is a lock icon on the MP4 icon so I think it's rights protected. My only purpose for purchasing the songs was to put it into the WMM file. Is my only option to purchase the music CD at the store? I am concerned that I will right into the rights management issue again. Usually when I have created WMM files, I've burned the music CD to my PC and uploaded the song to WMM. These have typically been older CDs where there may be fewer restrictions on content protection. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Annette Tag: Why is all my video appearing as black images after saving? Tag: 61999
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    - Adding sound to DVD of 8 mm Home Movies I copied to DVD Ihave been unable to find a way to add music to old silent 8 mm movies that I transfered to DVD using the new Sony DVD-VR30. I have been able to copy them on my hard drive but where do I go from here? I am hoping to use Movie Maker on my Windows XP. Roxio My DVD is installed on my computer but whenever I try to do something with that it says there is a problem and MSN has to shut down. Any help any of you can give me will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Tag: Why is all my video appearing as black images after saving? Tag: 61998
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    - importing music 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 Tag: Why is all my video appearing as black images after saving? Tag: 61991
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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: Why is all my video appearing as black images after saving? 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: Why is all my video appearing as black images after saving? 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: Why is all my video appearing as black images after saving? 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: Why is all my video appearing as black images after saving? 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: Why is all my video appearing as black images after saving? 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: Why is all my video appearing as black images after saving? 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: Why is all my video appearing as black images after saving? 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: Why is all my video appearing as black images after saving? 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: Why is all my video appearing as black images after saving? 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: Why is all my video appearing as black images after saving? 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: Why is all my video appearing as black images after saving? 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: Why is all my video appearing as black images after saving? 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: Why is all my video appearing as black images after saving? 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: Why is all my video appearing as black images after saving? 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: Why is all my video appearing as black images after saving? 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: Why is all my video appearing as black images after saving? 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: Why is all my video appearing as black images after saving? 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: Why is all my video appearing as black images after saving? 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: Why is all my video appearing as black images after saving? 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: Why is all my video appearing as black images after saving? 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: Why is all my video appearing as black images after saving? 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: Why is all my video appearing as black images after saving? 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: Why is all my video appearing as black images after saving? 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: Why is all my video appearing as black images after saving? 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: Why is all my video appearing as black images after saving? 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: Why is all my video appearing as black images after saving? 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: Why is all my video appearing as black images after saving? 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: Why is all my video appearing as black images after saving? 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: Why is all my video appearing as black images after saving? 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: Why is all my video appearing as black images after saving? 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: Why is all my video appearing as black images after saving? 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: Why is all my video appearing as black images after saving? 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: Why is all my video appearing as black images after saving? 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: Why is all my video appearing as black images after saving? 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: Why is all my video appearing as black images after saving? 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: Why is all my video appearing as black images after saving? 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: Why is all my video appearing as black images after saving? 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: Why is all my video appearing as black images after saving? 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: Why is all my video appearing as black images after saving? 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: Why is all my video appearing as black images after saving? 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: Why is all my video appearing as black images after saving? Tag: 61829

Hello,

When I open my Windows Movie Maker file after saving and closing it, the
music plays but all pictures and images come up as black. What do I do? Help!

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Re: Why is all my video appearing as black images after saving? by Graham

Graham
Tue Sep 25 07:42:20 CDT 2007

http://www.myvideoproblems.com/Tutorials/MovieMaker/File_type_compatibility.htm

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Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.com

"peppamint78" <peppamint78@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> When I open my Windows Movie Maker file after saving and closing it, the
> music plays but all pictures and images come up as black. What do I do?
> Help!

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