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
    2014-08-26T08:38:25+00:00

    well that's no good Windows determined my driver software is already up to date.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-08-26T08:35:50+00:00

    OS I am using is Win7. Under "Display Adapters" in Device Manager I have Intel (R) 965 Express Chipset family. Device status says This device is working properly. I guess I will have to risk it and update the driver software and pray it doesn't do more damage like it did to Lynette. Guess that's why people go Mac, I don't think Apple have these issues with their iMovie. Thanks for the feedback. I will let you know how it goes.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-08-25T09:43:01+00:00

    Hi PeterB,

    Yes it is frustrating and such a shame. Love or hate it, Windows Movie Maker is used by many people and is great when it works. I'm not sure what Operating System (OS) you are running. But the below is similar across Windows, just slightly different names. Any issues you can also use a Windows Start Menu Search to get to the desired locations. 

    If you want to know your 'tech specs' go to:

    Control Panel - System & Security - System

    Also run your Windows Updates if you have not already.

    Control Panel - System & Security - Device Manager

    This will show you what type of video card you have.

    Usually this is under "Display Adapters" in Device Manager

    This should show you the make and model of your video card. 

    Then you can go to the manufacturers website and download the current driver software. 

    Its not really a fix or permanent solution, but I just manually reinstall my current video driver software whenever I want to work on Movie Maker. This stops the videos coming out with the flickering and distortion issues when finished and saved. See my previous posts.  

    Hope that helps and good luck.

    Maybe one day Microsoft will invest in addressing the bug and developing Movie Maker further.

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-08-25T09:10:32+00:00

    I've read through the difficulties Lynette hay has been having over a year and can only sympathize. What a nightmare you have been experiencing. Its looks like MS escalated to themselves not less than 4 x.

    My issue is slightly related in that I use Moviemaker 2010, and import M4 files into MM for editing. I have made a movie and was finishing it off and for some reason it has gone very jittery and jumpy on playing through the Moviemaker. Previously the last few days it has been OK, although noticed slightly jumpy, like something has suddenly faltered working over the last day or so.  I haven't yet saved to wmv for You tube upload. Do you think my Graphics card might have suddenly gone on the brink. Where exactly can I find the model of this? I have a older Dell Inspiron 1525 on Win7. Thanks

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