Windows Movie Maker has a black screen (no video, but audio still there)…Please help!!!

Anonymous
2012-12-09T14:56:24+00:00

Hi,

Now I install Windows 8 Pro and Windows Movie Maker 2012. When I tried to make a video, the preview screen was black and I could only hear the audio (no video).

When in Windows Movie Maker (Windows 8 Pro) I open project file (.wlmp) which have been created by Windows Movie Maker (Windows 7 Ultimate), the preview screen was black and audio also was absent.

Windows 8 Pro Windows Media Player play movie clips from Panasonic SDR-S150 without problems. When I make photo show from Panasonic SDR-S150 photos with Windows Movie Maker (Windows 8 Pro), there aren’t any problems.

In Windows 7 Ultimate I've been using Windows Movie Maker 2012 to make projects from camcorder Panasonic SDR-S150 videos (Movie clips) and then upload them to DVD (Windows DVD Maker). All works OK.

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In my SkyDrive folder ( *removed for privacy purposes* )  there are 4 files with following information:

-          Jpeg file - Windows 8 Movie Maker open Win7 MovieMaker project - screenshot from program Windows Movie Maker (Windows 8 Pro) when it open project file which was created by Windows 7 Ultimate Windows Movie Maker.

-          Jpeg file - Windows 8 Movie Maker open Panasonic SDR-S150 file – screenshot from program Windows Movie Maker (Windows 8 Pro) when I edit video file MOV002.NOD

-          Movie Clip (MOD) - MOV002 – Movie Clip from camcorder Panasonic SDR-S150

-          Txt file – MOV002-MOD MediaInfo – information about video file MOV002.MOD (from program MediaInfo 0.7.61).

On my computer (Motherboard: MSI Z77A-G43 (System model: MS-7758); Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-3570 CPU @ 3.40GHz; Installed physical memory (RAM): 8 GB; System type: 64-bit Operating System, x64-based processor) two Operating Systems have been installed: first – Windows 7 Ultimate (Version 6.1.7601 Service Pack1 Build 7601) and second - Windows 8 Pro (Version 6.2.9200 Build 9200).

On both OS Windows Movie Maker Version 2012 (Build 16.4.3905.0912) has been installed*.*

From http://downloadcenter.intel.com/ video driver have been updated. System has been checked by DirectX Diagnostic Tool (dxdiag) - in all display tabs has been said – “No problems found”. Intel® HD Graphics: Driver version:  9.17.10.2875.

Please help as I need to fix this as soon as possible!

Thanks,

Andrejs

P.S. Sorry for the long description, I thought it would be best to give as much info as possible.

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Anonymous
2013-02-27T18:34:45+00:00

I found out that MM2012 crashed a lot, even while after restoring to project it crashed again.

Finally after having lots of problems, i've selected al videos when they were finally loaded inside MM and I set the Video stabilization to None and the black screens were gone.

There is the source of all evil I guess :-)

Hope this helps anyone

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-04-11T13:18:28+00:00

    Hello,

    Thanks for participating on this thread. I understand that you want to turn off video stabilization on your video. To do that, you can follow these:

    1. On your storyboard, highlight the video you want to remove the stabilization.
    2. Click Edit under Video Tools.
    3. Click Video stabilization and select None.

    In case you have other concerns, feel free to post back.

    Regards,

    Richard

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-04-09T22:11:23+00:00

    THANK YOU SO MUCH juFo

    I've been working on a small 3 minute video all day with photos and little video clips and then had a major crash (lovely) and then all my little video clips went black.... I wasted hours trying to figure it out and searching the web... but after reading this, sure enough I turned off video stabilization and now it works great :)

    Thanks again for this useful info, you made my day :)

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-02-26T21:51:26+00:00

    I have the same problem. movie maker 2012 just crashes while working and I have videos that have black screens (audio is still there).

    Strange that videos from a windows Phone produce black screens in movie maker on windows 8.

    I preferred the old movie maker...

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  4. Anonymous
    2012-12-13T03:31:53+00:00

    Hi Andrejs,

    It's possible that you don't have the proper codec installed on your computer to play the .MOD format and that's why you only see a black preview screen. To eliminate this symptom, we request that you convert the .MOD video clip to a .WMV format since this is the most compatible file format that you can use in Movie Maker. You may search for any available free converters available  using your preferred search engine. Once this has been done, please let us know the result afterwards.

    Thank you.

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