What is causing my videos to be choppy and flicker?

Anonymous
2013-08-01T22:34:21+00:00

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?

Windows for home | Other | Music, photos, and video

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Anonymous
2014-10-17T03:57:28+00:00

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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  1. Anonymous
    2014-09-03T05:51:58+00:00

    Hello Laura,

    Welcome to Microsoft Community Forum. I understand that you're having the same issue as the first poster about a flickering/choppy video. Since you're still troubleshooting the issue, we suggest that you check the Intel website if there are any updates for your video card. It is also possible that the issue will be resolved after the update.

    Let us know the results afterwards.

    Thank you.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-09-03T01:55:41+00:00

    Hi, was this ever resolved?  I am having the same issue and I tried following all of the instructions but cannot tell if my graphics card is causing the issues or not.  I also got the message that I need to contact my computer manufacturer about the graphics card when I tried to use the Intel Driver Update so I am not sure if I can go to the Toshiba site?  If it's an Intel driver, why go to a Toshiba site?

    I get choppy videos on everything I have tried--from short movies to longer ones.  I am trying to make a wedding video as a gift for my niece who just got married.  Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

    Laura Haase

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-08-31T05:49:31+00:00

    Hello karenashleyking,

    Welcome to Microsoft Community Forum. I'm sorry to know that you're having the same issue as the first poster about Movie Maker flickering when editing your videos. You've also mentioned that after updating your Intel Core i5 graphics driver, you can't open the program at all. Before we proceed in troubleshooting the flickering issues on the program, please try to repair Movie Maker as it is possible that there is a corrupted data on the program that is causing the issue of not being able to open Movie Maker. To do this, you can follow the instructions below:

    1. Click the Start menu.
    2. Click Control Panel.
    3. Click Programs.
    4. Click Programs and Features.
    5. Search for Windows Essentials 2012 on the list and then select it.
    6. Click Uninstall/Change.
    7. Click Repair all Windows Essentials programs.

    Let us know the results afterwards.

    Thank you.

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-08-30T01:14:12+00:00

    I have to say, this is another "feather in their cap" for Apple. I can easily edit videos taken on my iPhone with free apps compatible with Apple iOS. Microsoft and Windows are really shooting themselves in the foot with these widespread problems!

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