Re: In the middle of making a video and WMM shuts down

Dee Dee wrote:
> I was just in the middle of making a music video and the program
> shuts down. I used it all day yesterday and didn't have a problem
> (except for it hanging up like it wasn't going to respond but
> eventually did as always). Now if I try to go to My Documents and
> open the My Videos folder, I get an error and it closes. If I try to
> open a project in WMM, I get an error and it closes.
>
> I have no idea what is happening or how to fix it. I just have the
> basic video effects and transitions that came with the program. I
> deleted a majority of my collections in it thinking it was having a
> "brain cramp" with that many clips loaded but I still have the same
> problem.
>
> Any help in real easy basic instructions would be appreciated. I know
> the error that comes up says explorer.exe with gtcodec.dll and
> hungapp (if it gets locked up).
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Maybe these articles will offer some ideas:

Movie Maker 2 Crashes and Hangs
http://www.papajohn.org/MM2-Issues-...and-Codecs.html

Movie Maker 2 - Video Codecs
http://www.papajohn.org/MM2-Importing-Video-Codecs.html

That nice new Compatibilty tab in Windows Movie Maker 2.1
http://blogs.msdn.com/deanro/archiv.../22/218501.aspx

You may have some incompatibility issues
with your source files. Have a look at the
following article:

File type compatibility with Movie Maker
http://tinyurl.com/v8tee

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