As the forums team with questions and issues with Windows Live Movie Maker 2011, the forums are but a charade to make the users of Windows Live Movie Maker think that someone is going to help them resolve their issues.
The thing that Windows Live Movie Maker needs the most is a LOG; it needs an application log— to log things that it’s doing when these errors come a long. Windows Live Writer has an application log, but let’s admit to some truth here, Microsoft really didn’t write Windows Live Writer; they just adopted a great application and made it good.
The progression of Windows Live Movie Maker is slight, but the problem presented in the forums seem to go unanswered…
For the past couple of months I have been hanging out in the Windows Live Movie Maker forums attempting to help other users;getting some some answers and figuring out others… So I have the top issues/problems with Windows Live Movie Maker and the the official responses/resolutions.
I have spent enough time in the support forums to tell you exactly what the weak points are for Windows Live Movie Maker. And I have spent enough time in the Windows Live Movie Maker attempting to help other users while attempting to help myself.
My last straw came as I, myself, was working on a video project only to be struck with the same bludgeoned problem as those many others I had been attempting to help. My Windows Live Movie Maker crashed as I was attempting to build my project.
It crashed… there was no recovery, there was nothing. When I tried to re-open the project I have saved many times before; Windows Live Movie Maker just reported the project was corrupt… Windows Live Movie Maker just expected me to suck it up and start all over. Nah- that’s not how I operate.
So, I have some information to share and this will serve as my departure notice to Windows Live Movie Maker and the ‘support’ forum…
And for those who are searching for help… maybe one of these subjects below will help you.
When i go to publish my video to Facebook from Windows Live Movie Maker the screen goes to a faded colour and it says it's not responding, please help me!!!
i have spent many hours trying to find a solution to the following problem. After editing film (video & stills) for @12 min. the video gets jumpy, the sound goes out and the frames go blank with exclaimation warning marks appear on the frames (edited clips).
I have used this program successfully during the first half of 2011. I have a 18 mo old HP computer with Windows 7. Movie maker was preinstalled. During the last week I have spent @4 hours per day with HP and Microsoft with no positive results. Microsoft advisor finally said that they do not have a help line for Windows Live Movie Maker in Windows 7 as it was a free install. They could have helped if it was in Windows XP or Vista as it was not a free program. For me this is astounding and I am very doubtful as to the reality of this answer. HP said I should buy a new & better program for movie making.
After reading many forums, I believe the problem is that an update was done in Nov. 2011. After this update, the Live Movie Maker program is using too much memory and thus crashes after a period of editing.
Does anyone agree with me?
The depressing thing about the Windows Live Movie Maker forum is that it’s the same problem day in and day out; there’s no progress with Windows Live Movie Maker and Microsoft isn’t releasing updates for the application. Problems from corrupt project files, superfluous memory usage and another big one; being compatible with the various standard video and audio formats.
In my early beta testing, these things kind of went unnoticed, but after spending more time with Windows Live Movie Maker and being in the forums the problems are clearly apparent. And again, these problems go unanswered…
Windows Live Movie Maker/Windows Live Essentials, people would have thought would’ve been released on an annual schedule; they have tossed that too. If they were on a proper release schedule wave 5 of Windows Live Essentials would be out already [like November of last year (2011)].
In light of these issues and having experienced several of them, I realized that if you’re doing video production on a regular basis, I needed something a little more professional and a little more stable…
I would recommend MAGIX Movie Edit Pro Plus; it has everything I was searching for in a video editing package, very flexible, lots of effects and options…
I wrote a post on it [including a video]… http://www.lehsys.com/2011/02/techie-review-movie…
I hope this helps… Until next time, Larry Henry Jr.
Hi! Im actually using Windows Movie Maker not live, but I was hoping this was also an issue so I could get help here. Okay, so Im making a movie out of pictures, right? And every picture has a code in which it's saved in, correct? I understand that, but what I don't understand is why in the beginning, while the text comes up in my title, it says the code of the picture coming next, such as image92847927 and then my name, say my name was Suzie, it'll say this..
images938082760
Suzie ( Or whatever code the picture is saved in )
Please help me!
Oh nevermind, I got it.
I can't seem to get this right…..I already have the Video set up and Audio down in the timeline.. my problem is the part of the song I want to add to my video is like a minute into the song, how do I get that and put it into my movie…?? Every time I drag it, the song always starts at the beginning,…..this shit is frustrating…. I hope this makes sense to someone…