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

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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
    2016-03-17T17:21:11+00:00

    This seems to be a common problem.

    The solution that fixed this for me was to turn of any kind of image stabilization. All the blacked out clips snapped back to life.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-02-20T04:59:36+00:00

    Please check out my reply MHughes here http://www.askvg.com/get-the-good-old-movie-maker-26-in-windows-vista-and-7/#comment-2324982

    Basically, I installed the downloaded version of Windows Movie Maker for Vista on my Windows 7 PC, then replaced the executable with an old 2004 XP version of Windows Movie Maker 2.6 and it worked and looks like the old version!  Every once in a while I have to replace the EXE again (probably due to updates?)

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-02-19T09:15:25+00:00

    I WILL SHOOT MYSELF, MICROSOFT. I have been working on this video for over 8 hours. MY DRIVER IS UPDATED, WINDOWS MOVIE MAKER IS UPDATED, EVERYTHING IS UPDATED. This video is a huge part of my grade and it is due tomorrow i'm already going to get less than 5 hours of sleep because I have been up all night trying to work this out. PLEASE WRITE AN EXCUSE LETTER TO MY TEACHER OR SOMETHING I WILL LITERALLY SHOOT MYSELF>

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-10-25T23:44:24+00:00

    Three years and 19 pages of people who bothered  to try to find out why this disaster program does not work and no answers...not real ones ( 10 million who did not and switched to brand X rather than fight any more).  If there was a fix, then Microsoft would have made it part of a update download to fix the bugs.

    Not one reply has fixed these Movie issues, not even the ones from Microsoft helpers.

    OS:  7, 32 bit

    Direct X version 11

    Full updated GPU

    FixIt

    all the other "this must be why your does not work" leads that end up in a dead end street. 

    Windows 8 is the one that has the magic 'NONE' for video....... you see I have read the 19 pages. 

    No exit.  Go buy a program that works and think of the hours you wasted trying to fix the unfixable Movie Maker.

    The issue is a bad program that Microsoft does not know how to fix.  That is the answer to the black screen.

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