What is causing my videos to be choppy and flicker?

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I have created numerous movie maker projects without any issue in the past. Yesterday I created a project which includes both photos and video clips. Everything played fine. I saved the project in order that I could burn it to CD. But once saved, the videos included in the project are choppy and flicker. Did I miss some kind of change? Can anyone help?

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Thank you for the information above but I don't understand any of it. I was running Movie Maker 2011 when my issue started. One of your techs suggested I upgrade to Movie Maker 2012 and that only made things worse by causing all my previous projects that included videos to flicker as well. I have no idea how to uninstall and reinstall anything and have no intention on trying unless I have very good step by step instructions. And no one has ever given me any help in that way. I am the only user on my laptop so don't understand why I would set up a 'new user account'. I did check my resolution and it is set to 1366 X 768.

My question prior to your last response was to the user who said she was able to do an update that fixed her problem. I just wanted to know the steps she took to fix her problem.

Lynnette Hay

Hi Lynnette,

Sorry to hear you are still having the video problems.

Just wanted to let you know my video issues seem to be fixed with Windows Movie Maker.

I recently made a new project and short video.

When I opened Movie Maker, Windows Live 2012 automatically downloaded an update.

I let it run, and Movie Maker restarted when the update finished.

When I finished my movie project and saved it as a WMA video file it was totally fine.

No flickering or colour distortion like before.

This may not help you as my computer uses a Nvidia graphics card, and yours is Intel based.

I know its frustrating and you have probably heard this many times.

But have you run your Windows, and Intel updates recently?

To manually find and run Windows Update on your computer

Control Panel\System and Security\Windows Update

Also try opening Movie Maker and see if it automatically runs the update like it did for me.

The Intel website will automatically detect what you need

http://www.intel.com/p/en\_US/support/detect

Kind regards

Brendan

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Anonymous

2017-02-08T17:44:18+00:00

Dear Lynnette,

I have had this problem recently as well with Movie Maker. First on one kids computer and tried updating the video card driver etc as recommended online. Then the same on my other kids computer and she exclaimed "But this didn't happen before!". When I got to thinking about that comment, it made me think of how web browsers can slow down because of the cache (temporary stored files etc). So I wondered if the first few times you use Movie Maker it works fine. Then maybe the cache gets filled up and it doesn't work as well. Instead of a cache, Movie maker has temporary files that are stored in the username\AppData\Local\Temp folder. I went in there and deleted (Shift+delete) all of the mp4 files. Here's the link for the temp file location (https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windowslive/forum/moviemaker-wlsettings/windows-7-movie-maker-temporary-files/de7de47d-ec54-4524-90af-8101c135dc80).

After deleting the temp files, I went back to movie maker and re-exported the video to MP4 and it worked perfectly. Sometimes it is good to listen to our children :) I hope this helps solve the problem.

Naveen
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Anonymous

2016-08-19T09:44:03+00:00

Hi

Thanks for your reply.

Yes its all of the above! I'm using jpegs and mp3 sound!

I will try converting all over to bmp and wav and see if that helps.

Its not every slideshow that has the issue but generally on the ones it does it can take some messing about to get it right.

I've not tried Storyboard so will give that a try too.

Just to clarify that i am using Windows Movie Maker 2012 and Not Windows Movie Maker 6 which does seem more based around video than pictures.

Thank you for your reply and i will let you know how i get on.

Kind Regards

Jason
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Anonymous

2016-08-19T07:54:02+00:00

What file type are your pictures?

Movie maker was designed to work with videos rather than stills, with Microsoft producing Photostory to make slideshows.

MM works best with bitmap stills, jpegs can cause problems, so it may pay you to batch convert them all to bmp or tiff files and use those.

Do you have any music in the slideshow? If so, MP3's again cause problems, so use wav or wma audio files.
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Anonymous

2016-08-19T00:00:08+00:00

Hi

Has a solution ever been found for this issue?

I have a 4 months old 64bit windows 10 laptop with core i7 processor, nvidia geforce gtx 970m graphics card and 32gb ram and i am also having the same flickering issues.

When i play the video from within the program there is no flickering. Then when i save movie for high definition display the saved file then flickers and jumps. I am making a slideshow from a series of still images.

Its been happening for a while and ive found that if i delete the relevant images, save the project file and close the app and then re-open and re-save the movie then the flickering would generally disappear. However i'm finding now that this is no longer working.

I have checked and updated my graphics card driver but its still flickering when i save the file.

My movie maker version is 2012 (build 16.4.3528.0331)

Does anyone know of a solution to this issue?

Regards

Jason
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