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Jimbob - 28 Jan 2008 20:08 GMT

Hi - I've used movie maker many times on my old PC - But now I have an all
singing and all dancing vista bit of kit it wont work. I can import clips
from the PC or the camera and they appear as they should on the left. I can
drag and drop them to the movie bar at the bottom and they still look good -
But I notice that the preview pain is a blank black screen - The clips when
played give a tiny piece of audio at the start but the preview pain remains
blank and black. I imported the preinstalled vidoes of the bear and the
butterfly and they play as they should...... I'm all upto date with my
microsoft and windows updates and I have seen other postings on the subject
but without any answers...... Any ideas folks?? We really shouldn't have to
do this.... We really shouldn't !!!!

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Graham Hughes - 29 Jan 2008 18:29 GMT

What are your file types?
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/Tutorials/MovieMaker/File_type_compatibility.htm
Do you have the latest vista drivers for your graphics card?
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/Tutorials/GraphicsDrivers.html
Corect version of directX?

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> Hi - I've used movie maker many times on my old PC - But now I have an all
> singing and all dancing vista bit of kit it wont work. I can import clips
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> to
> do this.... We really shouldn't !!!!

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Dan L - 27 Mar 2008 12:42 GMT

I'm having the same problem. I have been able to use .avi files from my
digital camera without any problems. Recently I got video capture
software/hardware which worked beautifully to create .mpg files. They
imported perfectly into Movie Maker. When I produce the movie to DVD
everything seems fine. When I put the DVD into my player the scene selection
screen appears as it should with short cuts of the captured video playing as
expected. But when I actually hit play, all I get is a black screen. I'm at
a loss. I tried publishing it to my computer and it does the same thing. I
bought my laptop about two months ago so I should be up to date on my
software.

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> Hi - I've used movie maker many times on my old PC - But now I have an all
> singing and all dancing vista bit of kit it wont work. I can import clips
[quoted text clipped - 7 lines]
> but without any answers...... Any ideas folks?? We really shouldn't have to
> do this.... We really shouldn't !!!!

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John Inzer - 27 Mar 2008 16:27 GMT

> I'm having the same problem. I have been able to use .avi files from
> my digital camera without any problems. Recently I got video capture
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> computer and it does the same thing. I bought my laptop about two
> months ago so I should be up to date on my software.

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It's best if you start a new thread whrn you
have a question.

Maybe these articles will offer some ideas:

Movie Maker 2 - Importing MPEG Files
http://tinyurl.com/eajjh

File type compatibility with Movie Maker
http://tinyurl.com/v8tee

Also:

How do I convert an mpeg to WMV
with Windows Media Encoder?
http://tinyurl.com/2m4gob

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Graham Hughes - 29 Mar 2008 13:48 GMT

See below.

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> I'm having the same problem. I have been able to use .avi files from my
> digital camera without any problems.

What sort of avi file?

Recently I got video capture

> software/hardware

What is this?

which worked beautifully to create .mpg files. They

> imported perfectly into Movie Maker. When I produce the movie to DVD
> everything seems fine.

How do you know everything is fine?
What software are you using to author the dvd?

When I put the DVD into my player the scene selection

> screen appears as it should with short cuts of the captured video playing
> as
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> I
> bought my laptop about two months ago

Are you using Vista? This is the xp newsgroup

so I should be up to date on my

> software.
>
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>> to
>> do this.... We really shouldn't !!!!

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