tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-198262242024-03-16T15:57:40.721-07:00Blaine's Movie Maker BlogMovie making for the home video enthusiastBlainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06379274325110866036noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19826224.post-51406809907273867132013-01-27T19:08:00.002-08:002021-04-10T10:14:30.253-07:00Installing Windows Movie Maker 6.0 on Windows 7, 8, 8.1 or 10<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm1lGODnG27eJrC5vSqlEsL07SEbC68DY4rsD-GgXrmZFkCdc3D1BX8ZGwZjxpSSzacb8Z0AHARCW5PeqVFJRKqbabBJfhkiS8cekpXqn2VzPxZ6CBLGdIwzcHqbrV_ld2ndIc8w/s1600/wmm6_win7.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm1lGODnG27eJrC5vSqlEsL07SEbC68DY4rsD-GgXrmZFkCdc3D1BX8ZGwZjxpSSzacb8Z0AHARCW5PeqVFJRKqbabBJfhkiS8cekpXqn2VzPxZ6CBLGdIwzcHqbrV_ld2ndIc8w/s1600/wmm6_win7.png" data-original-width="179" data-original-height="150" /></a></div>If you are reading this, I'm going to assume you've upgraded or purchased at least one PC with Windows 7, 8, 8.1 or 10 and discovered Windows Movie Maker is no where to be found. In its place, Microsoft offered a set of programs called "Windows Essentials" which included Movie Maker 2011 or 2012.<br />
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Many people have tried these versions of Movie Maker 2011 or 2012 and complained about the lack of a traditional timeline, issues with crashing, long times to prepare video files and the inability to customize the transitions, effects and titles. If you have been building up a library of <a href="http://goo.gl/jLyuG">custom titles, transitions and effects under Windows Movie Maker 6.0</a>, none of these can be used in the newest Movie Maker because the rendering architecture has changed and Microsoft has no API for customizing things.<br />
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The good news is you can still use the latest version of Windows Movie Maker 6.0 from Vista. You can do this manually by copying the files from a Vista machine, registering some DLLs and creating a shortcut in your start menu. Or you can just use the installers I created below:<blockquote><a href="http://home.wavecable.com/~movieblog2@astound.net/wmm6_win7_64bit.msi">Movie Maker 6.0 for Windows 7/8/8.1/10 (64-bit)</a><br />
<a href="http://home.wavecable.com/~movieblog2@astound.net/wmm6_win7_32bit.msi">Movie Maker 6.0 for Windows 7/8/8.1/10 (32-bit)</a></blockquote>There are two versions (64-bit or 32-bit) depending on the version of Windows you are running. If you are unsure, go to your 'Start' menu, right-click on 'Computer' and choose 'Properties'. System type should show 64-bit or 32-bit operating system. Pick the installer that matches. After that, don't forget to start previewing <a href="http://goo.gl/jLyuG">all the cool add-ons</a> that you can have with this version.<br/><br/><i>Note: I'm turning off comments on this thread since there are more than 200.</i><blockquote><b>Update: </b>Newer browsers have started blocking (MSI) installer files. If you are having this problem, right-click on the link and choose "Open in new window". You'll see the URL ending in .MSI at the top of your browser. Highlight that name and press Enter until the file downloads. After that you should be able to see the download at the bottom and then click the little arrow and choose "Open". That should then start the installation process.</blockquote>Blainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06379274325110866036noreply@blogger.com206tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19826224.post-82878842442830172872012-05-02T15:23:00.000-07:002015-03-01T08:57:29.222-08:00How to fix error 80004003 in Windows Live Movie Maker<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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A number of people have been reporting corruption issues (error 80004003) when trying to reopen a Windows Live Movie Maker project. It happens after a person has made changes to a WLMM project then he/she tries to reopen the project. WLMM displays an error (80004003) saying that it is unable to open the file.<br/><br/>
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Sorry, Movie Maker can't open this project file. The file might not be compatible with Windows Live Movie Maker or be corrupted.</blockquote>
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If you are willing to wait, <a href="http://windows.microsoft.com/en-ZA/windows-live/movie-maker-fix-project-file">Microsoft will fix a corrupted file for you</a> and if you aren't very technically savvy, that's what I would suggest. Completely follow the instructions at that link, especially the last step where you submit a <i><b>private</b></i> request for support on this issue. If you don't receive any follow-up, post a question in the <a href="http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windowslive/forum/moviemaker?tab=Threads">Microsoft Community Forums for Movie Maker</a>.<br />
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This post is for anyone that wants to know what is happening behind the scenes, or that wants to try to fix the problem on their own. It requires some PC knowledge.<br />
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The first step is to make a copy of the file so you aren't working with the original. You do this by copying the file in Windows Explorer then pasting it back into the same folder with a new name. You'll want to use the copy, not the original. Right-click on the copy of the project file and choose 'Open With' and pick the Notepad application. The file is text in the form of XML tags. It's just a hierarchical mark-up similar to HTML.<br />
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Scroll to the bottom of the file to find a <BoundPlaceHolders> section. It says that the "Text" section has an extentID of 4. Looking just above that you should see a section that starts with <ExtentSelector ExtentID="4" which lists all the added titles and captions by number. Make a note of all these because you'll need them later. You might want to select and print just this section, or paste that list into another window so you can refer back to it.<br />
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Now search further up for each section starting with <TitleClip. Ignore any sections that have a complete section between the <Effects> and </Effects> tags. Eventually you'll hit a few that just have <Effects/> (an empty Effects section).<br />
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Check if that ExtentID is in the list of ExtentIDs in the Text section from before (the ones you made a note of). If it isn't you can ignore this, but if you find that it has an empty Effects section *and* it is listed in that block of text ExtentIDs, that's a problem.<br />
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The quickest fix is to then go to the ExtentIDs section and remove that problem ExtentID. It will remove that one problem caption and that will usually fix it, so you might be able to stop here. However, you should check all <TitleClip sections to be sure. After removing any problem ExtentIDs, you can save the file.<br />
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You should now be able to open the project in Movie Maker just like before. You may need to recheck your captions and add back any that were removed, but at least you won't have a completely corrupted project.<br />
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As a final step, I'd recommend <a href="http://download.live.com/">downloading the latest version of Movie Maker</a> to avoid corruption in the future. That won't fix broken projects, but at least it will stop you from having this problem going forward.<br/>
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It's really not all that magical and can be done easily, if you are careful and only work in a copy.<br/><br/>
<I><b>Edit: </b>Since posting this, I've seen other corruptions unrelated to the captions. The newest corruption will still let you open the project, but you'll see nothing in the storyboard project area. Whenever I have encountered this, the cause was a VideoClip that had a start point (inTime) <b>after</b> the ending point (outTime). To fix this, you have to find the duration of the media item at the top and use that in place of the outTime for any clips that are set incorrectly. Again, always work in a copy, not the original.</I>Blainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06379274325110866036noreply@blogger.com136tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19826224.post-6266882991189205002009-11-06T14:10:00.001-08:002016-11-18T09:18:41.731-08:00Windows Live Movie Maker – What changed in the new version, and why...<a href="http://windowslivewire.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!2F7EB29B42641D59!42882.entry"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 137px;" src="http://home.wavecable.com/~movieblog@astound.net/wlmm_thumb.gif" border="0" alt="Windows Live Movie Maker"/></a>On the Windows Live Team Blog, Cheryl White (a Program Manager for Windows Live Movie Maker), has detailed some of the new features in WLMM along with the rationale for changing the way things are done compared to Windows Movie Maker.<br />
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Take a look at <a href="http://windowslivewire.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!2F7EB29B42641D59!42882.entry">Windows Live Movie Maker – What changed in the new version, and why</a>. For the time being the post is open for your feedback. Should it later be closed to commenting, feel free to post your constructive thoughts here.Blainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06379274325110866036noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19826224.post-68982172878030227202009-03-07T18:22:00.001-08:002016-11-18T09:18:42.569-08:00Anticipation Builds for Windows Live Movie Maker<img style="float:right; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 137px;" src="http://home.wavecable.com/~movieblog@astound.net/wlmm_thumb.gif" border="0" alt="Windows Live Movie Maker"/>The underlying tenet of the Windows Movie Maker team has always been to make an extremely easy-to-use program for editing movies. Movie Maker has been a place where you can quickly bring in your camcorder footage, trim and reorder clips, overlay some music, add some titles (along with captions and credits) then save the results out as a movie file. <br />
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From there it has often been hard to get that to the point where it can be shared (a 10MB limitation on e-mailing, a separate step for uploading to a video site like YouTube, extra software for burning the movie onto a DVD). And there's always been an issue with getting certain file types to import and edit correctly. The only types that have consistently worked are the native import types of DV-AVI (mini-DV camcorder) and WMV. When file types didn't work, it required a user to convert them, suffer editing weirdness like green screens, saving that would hang, outright crashes and the like.<br />
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Vista Movie Maker made some strides in the areas of real time preview, ability to capture HD video into DVR-MS files for editing, usage of the GPU for high-quality transitions/effects and the ability to create a DVD using DVD Maker. But even now there are issues that arise with file types, occasional crashes, publishing problems, etc.<br />
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In response, Microsoft is in the process of creating a new Windows <b><i>Live</i></b> Movie Maker (WLMM) as part of the <a href="http://download.live.com">Windows Live Essentials</a>. The program is currently in a <a href="http://windowslivewire.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2F7EB29B42641D59!35518.entry">"beta"</a> release, but other reviewers, along with myself would really call this more of a placeholder. It's almost like they have gone back to version 1.0 with no titles, a single fade transition, a couple black/white effects, etc. And the most startling missing feature seems to be the lack of a timeline.<br />
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So, is this what we should expect? Will there be a timeline in the final version? How will "power" users get control over their project if it all seems to be a storyboard? And will we have the ability to build custom transitions and effects like we could in prior releases to extend the capabilities? Will it handle HD video better? Will it be easy to publish and share my video? Will it handle new file types?<br />
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Well, I can't disclose all of what I learned recently in a visit to the Microsoft Campus in Redmond, but I can say I am excited. My concerns about a missing timeline are partially allayed. And I can see that they haven't abandoned customization. In fact, <a href="http://windowslivewire.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2F7EB29B42641D59!8577.entry">Eric Doerr has hinted</a> that the new rendering engine in WLMM will take advantage of the GPU in ways it hasn't so far. Trust me, I think Windows Live Movie Maker will have the simplicity that we all appreciate for quickly creating movies, but with the fancy features we all love to show off. While it isn't there in the current <a href="http://download.live.com/moviemaker">public beta</a>, stay tuned.Blainehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06379274325110866036noreply@blogger.com13