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? asked in Computers & InternetSoftware · 7 years ago

Windows Movie Maker?

Whenever I save a Windows Movie Maker project, I save one copy to my computer's folder for videos and one on the Movie Maker program itself. When I open them back up, the one in my folder is always fine, but the one on the program adds in clips I cut, adds repeat copies of what's already there, adds extra copies of the narration (one embedded into the video and one added in any random place that I still have the option to remove), and probably a few other things I'm forgetting. I always have to open a new project with the copy saved in my folder, which, granted, works okay, but I'm guessing there are no guarantees, and I'd really like to know what I'm missing.

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  • 7 years ago
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    I've never heard of saving a project in Movie Maker itself. It sounds like the copy you're saving in Movie Maker is showing every link and the entire editing history of the project. Best solution: don't save the project to that location.

    What version of Movie Maker are you using? If you don't know what version it is, what operating system do you have?

    Source(s): I began using Movie Maker with version 2.0 on XP and have used 2.1, 6.0, 2011 and now 2012.
  • 7 years ago

    I recommend something better than Movie Maker. Like VideoPad or even Sony Vegas. If you want to get max from your video. I haven't used Movie Maker, but if you don't plan uploading your video to youtube. For like presentations or something like that it's enough. Anyways, if you're saving project your image/sound files should be exact location, and if your moving 'em to another computer it can get little bit messy. Moving just project file doesn't do anything. Because projects still uses those files that are in that specific project. They are like source until you save your project into video file. Which is one compact thingy which could be moved all around without moving any separate files with them.

    Hope this helps!

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