Windows Movie Maker Clips lost

[Guest]

I have been using WMM and saving projects....but now when I go to Open
Project there are huge X's where the movie clips should be...all pictures and
transitions and effects are still there but the actual movie is gone....
Anyone having this problem?

 

[John Inzer]

I have been using WMM and saving projects....but now when I go to Open
Project there are huge X's where the movie clips should be...all
pictures and transitions and effects are still there but the actual
movie is gone.... Anyone having this problem?

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Were the movie clips moved or deleted
from their original locations? If you right
click the Red Xs...can you browse to the
clips?

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[Guest]

No I just said save project as I always do and saved it to My Videos...when I
open it back up, the clips are there with the correct time length but no
pictures....when I play the storyline only the titles and video transitions
play the rest is black. I tried right clicking and it saysthe file 'D:\My
Videos\Pam &Erik.wmv cannot be found.--
Ellei1

 

[John Inzer]

No I just said save project as I always do and saved it to My
Videos...when I open it back up, the clips are there with the correct
time length but no pictures....when I play the storyline only the
titles and video transitions play the rest is black. I tried right
clicking and it saysthe file 'D:\My Videos\Pam &Erik.wmv cannot be
found.--
Ellei1

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Save Project creates a .mswmm
project file...not a movie clip. The
project file does not include the
source files...it only records the
path to the files...if the files are
moved or deleted Movie Maker
cannot access them and you see
the Red Xs.

The question is...where are your
original source files that you imported
into Movie Maker. Did you import
these clips from your hard drive or
possibly a source that Movie Maker
can no longer access?

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******John Inzer********
**MS Picture It! MVP**

*****Digital Image******
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[Guest]

Thanks so much John....what I did was rename some of the movies I had created
when you do a save to computer. It makes a Windows Media Player movie and I
guess when I renamed them, it changed the name of the WMV clips? Anyway I
just did a test and changed a name and it happened and then changed the name
back it was there again....did it with a picture project with sound and
renamed one of the pictures in My Pictures and that one picture appeared as a
X.

 

[John Inzer]

Thanks so much John....what I did was rename some of the movies I had
created when you do a save to computer. It makes a Windows Media
Player movie and I guess when I renamed them, it changed the name of
the WMV clips? Anyway I just did a test and changed a name and it
happened and then changed the name back it was there again....did it
with a picture project with sound and renamed one of the pictures in
My Pictures and that one picture appeared as a X.

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Now you got it...

Your renaming of the files broke the path.
If movie Maker cannot find the files...it will
display the Red Xs.

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******John Inzer********
**MS Picture It! MVP**

*****Digital Image******
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[Guest]

YEah now if I could just get my DVD-RW drive to work again...AMM says if
cannot find a CD write drive when I click on save to CD....I've been having
problems for months...tried all the regedit stuff and all....have to use Drag
and Drop. For pictures too...gone from Picture Tasks....copy to CD

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Ellei1

 

[John Inzer]

YEah now if I could just get my DVD-RW drive to work again...AMM says
if cannot find a CD write drive when I click on save to CD....I've
been having problems for months...tried all the regedit stuff and
all....have to use Drag and Drop. For pictures too...gone from
Picture Tasks....copy to CD

-
Ellei1

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Maybe the drive needs to be replaced.

(316529) CD-R Drive or CD-RW Drive Is
Not Recognized As a Recordable Device
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=316529

(321641) How to Troubleshoot Issues with
Reading CD, CD-R, CD-RW, and DVD Discs
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=321641

(324129) HOW TO: Troubleshoot Issues
That Occur When You Write Data to a CD-R
or CD-RW Optical Disc in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=324129

(896566) You receive a "Movie Maker cannot
create the DVD because an error occurred"
error message if you burn a DVD on your Windows
XP Media Center Edition 2005-based computer
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896566/en-us

(896471) You may receive a "CD Creation Error"
error message when you try to create a DVD in
Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896471/en-us

(896567) You receive an "Unsupported File
Type" error message if you add content to burn
on to a CD or DVD in Windows XP Media
Center Edition 2005
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/896567/en-us

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*****Digital Image******
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[Guest]

I don't think so...I can write CD's and DVD's just not in the normal ways
that I used to....I looked at all the references you pointed to and have gone
to some in the past and others do not apply...I don't get an error in the
writing, it's getting to that point that is a problem. The one which I thot
mite be pertinent, is now gone..
(324129) HOW TO: Troubleshoot Issues
That Occur When You Write Data to a CD-R
or CD-RW Optical Disc in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=324129
WMM says a recordable CD drive cannot be found, but if I use 'send to' I get
an option to send to DRIVE E....for Drag and Drop CD+DVD which works. For
DVD's I take the WMP files into Sonic and create the DVD's using that. Some
apps have an option to define what drive to use....I looked EVERYWHERE in WMM
and cudn't find any way to tell it what drive to use....oh well like I sed, I
can work around this stuff.
I do not have a 'recording' tab on the properties for my DVR/CD RW drive
like I used to and have looked at ALL those many articles...I know for sure
that a ton of people have this problem. I have uninstalled and reinstalled,
blah blah blah. I have a laptop and another PC both using XP and they both
have a recording tab.... The only difference with this computer is that I
have XP Media Center Edition...I have to assume that one of the Windows
updates has hosed this because it sure used to work just fine.
Ellei1