Windows Movie Maker questions & answers

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Question by Guest
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October 14, 2023
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Question by Guest
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October 11, 2023

A 2009 direct-to-video movie was shown, “The Man of Bronze” (with distributed by 20th Century Fox and produced by MSN Movies, and Guilty Pleasures) and i hope your enjoy this movie was used. This movie was made with Windows Movie Maker application.

Pooja Bajaj
Answer by Pooja Bajaj

The direct-to-video movie "The Man of Bronze" was used in 2009 and made with the Windows Movie Maker application.

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Question by Guest
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October 11, 2023

A 2008 direct-to-video movie was shown, “Light in August” (with distributed by 20th Century Fox and produced by MSN Movies, and Liberation Entertainment) and i hope your enjoy this movie was used. This movie was made with Windows Movie Maker application.

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Answer by Ashish Bajaj

The movie "Light in August" was made with the Windows Movie Maker application.

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Question by Guest #11345306
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May 14, 2012

I already did the possible solutions and the instructions in HELP...
Can anyone suggest me what i should do to save my project in computer

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Answer by Guest #22207116

Unfortunately, sometimes you do have to split it in parts, especially if the movie is too long.


Where exactly were you trying to save your movie? That's the important thing to know! Just save it where you want to save it then follow the instructions in the save movie wizard window.


Now you got a message saying "windows movie cannot save t his file to the specified location...etc". There are four possibilities for this problem:
Your movie file is exceeding the FAT32 4-gigabyte size limit. In other words, your movie should not be exceeding 4GB if you have a FAT32 file system and not a NTFS file system on your computer. Generally, I don't recommend making your video any close to 4GB in size. You may want to try saving your movie in a NTFS partition on your hard disk if that partition is available. If you use the NTFS file system, that will support saving your movie if it is larger than 4GB. What you can do is reduce your size of the movie by removing items from your storyboard/timeline. You may also lower a movie setting when saving the movie.


Another possibility is there is not enough free space on your hard disk. How large is your movie? You can, again, consider lowering your movie setting or remove items you have from your timeline/storyboard. Not all of them but you can can select any items you can live without and remove them to reduce size and length of the movie.


This is very unlikely but another possibility is that the selected located where you want to save your movie does not exist. Now you want to save your movie to a hard drive and your hard drive should already be there the minute you got your computer already! This is the case normally for anyone who wanted to save their movie to a DV camera or a recordable CD.


One last possibility is at least one source file for the movie doesn't exist or it has been deleted. Look in your collection pane where you have all your items you need for the movie (video clips, audios, pictures etc..) and make sure EVERYTHING is there. Make sure there is no red X's at all. If you see a red X, then something is missing or has been moved. You must leave every source or item you had in the same location. For example, if you had an audio on your desktop, make sure it stays there. Do not move it to My Documents or My Music etc... If it was moved, simply move it back to where the item was in the first place when you first added it to your collection pane. Also make sure you did not accidentally delete anything. If you have not emptied your recycle bin, check in there and if the missing item is there, select it, right-click it and select "Restore" and your item will be restored back to where it was and that red X should disappear.

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Question by Yana
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August 24, 2015
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Answer by Alex Urbach

Windows Movie Maker isn't being used so much nowadays, and the interest for its modules and features is rather low. I have searched on Google, and all possible websites, but none provided the exact place to download templates. They appear as WLMS packages, but there is no way to download them.


You can use another application for this purpose and a good example is the product offered by PhotoDEX.


Homepage: http://www.photodex.com/

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Question by Guest
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August 12, 2012

I need to convert a video from my cell phone in the Windows Movie Maker program. How do I do this?

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Answer by Andrew Constandache

Windows Movie Maker is pretty restricted when it comes to converting from different formats to some general ones. For example, please take a look at the following allowed file extensions which you can use to import :


-Video files: .asf, .avi, .wmv
-Movie files: MPEG1, .mpeg, .mpg, .m1v, .mp2
-Audio files: .wav, .snd, .au, .aif, .aifc, .aiff
-Windows Media files: .asf, .wm, .wma, .wmv
-Still images: .bmp, .jpg, .jpeg, .jpe, .jfif, .gif
-MP3 format audio: .mp3


These formats are supported but it seems that although a file is supported for importing, if it has been encoded with a different codec, WMM will refuse to import it due to legal issues.


The software you use to extract the files from your phone has the ability to convert them to a format compatible with Windows Movie Maker. I recommend you export to WMV format because it's the standard one used by WMM.


Import the file using Menu > Import > Select the file you want to convert then modify it according to your needs and then use the same menu but Save as.. and choose the output file format you desire.

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Question by John
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January 18, 2017

I recently took my laptop to a repair shop - as such, I backed up all my files and copied them to an external hard drive. With my sister's laptop, I was intending to work on a few videos with Windows Movie Maker with the files I transferred to the external hard drive (it has worked in the past).


However, now whenever I try to open these files from the external hard drive (literally ever single video), I get a message that says, "Sorry, Movie Maker can't open this project file. The file might not be compatible with Windows Live Movie Maker or be corrupted. Please select a different project file."


I should make it clear that all of the individual MP4 files still work via Windows Media Player. It's just that opening the actual Movie Maker is not working - not sure why the files are working and not the actual project itself.


Does anyone know how to fix this? Any help/insight would be greatly appreciated!

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Answer by Alex Urbach

I believe this is a problem with the file format between different versions of Windows Movie Maker. There is no reason related to a hard drive here. If the version installed on your sister's laptop is lower than the one used to initially create those files, then you'll receive that message.


Imagine the same goes for Word. DOC files can be opened in Office 2007 or later, but DOCX files are not available for Office 2003 unless you actually install a third party add-on provided by Microsoft.


Try installing the latest version available of Movie Maker and then open the files again. I believe it should work with the new version installed.

Note: Click on Get It Now and then launch the streaming installer.

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Question by Guest
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June 18, 2012

What is the codec to import iTunes music to the Windows Movie Maker?

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Answer by Paul Malgey

Open ITunes, click the Edit tab on the toolbar at the top, then click on "preferences" (assuming you have iTunes 9), look for the button that says "import settings", after you click "import settings", there should be a drop-down list that says "import using:", click on "WAV Encoder" or "MP3 encoder", press Ok and press it again on the preferences windows, select the song you want to convert and go to the "advanced" button on the top toolbar, select "create WAV Version" (or mp3 if you selected "mp3 encoder earlier"), close ITunes and open Windows Movie Maker.
Then, click "import audio or music" and when the window comes up, find your way to the ITunes library folder, and the song will be in the same place as the original, and this one is compatible with movie maker.

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Question by Yana
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August 24, 2015

How can I add third-party effects to Windows Movie Maker?

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Answer by Sean Hill

You can add third-party effects to Windows Movie Maker relatively easy by following the next steps:

  • Open your Web browser and navigate to the website that hosts the Windows Movie maker special effects.
  • Download the effects files to your hard drive.
  • Navigate to the "C:\Program Files\Movie Maker\Shared" folder.
  • Create a new sub-folder for your new Movie Maker effects. Name this folder "AddOnTFX".
  • Drag the effects file that you downloaded into the AddOnTFX folder.
  • Run the Windows Movie Maker application.
  • Click the "View video effects" link on the left side of the program window. Your new effect is displayed in the list of available effects in the center panel.
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Question by Yana
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August 24, 2015

Are there any available addons for Windows Movie Maker?

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Answer by Alex Urbach

The only place reliable for installing add-ons for Windows Movie Maker is the Microsoft website. Microsoft had a page with plug-ins and add-ons for Windows Movie Maker, but it now redirects to something else. Use the Google Search link below to reach the desired website.


Google Search: https://goo.gl/QCCgBj

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