Clips turn black/blankthey get split -- can't preview or save

[Guest]

When I import videos into my collections and they are broken up into clips,
the first clip will be OK but the subsequent clips will be black in the
timeline and preview window. I can still hear the audio fine, I just can't
see them. If I join the clips together, then everything plays fine and I can
see it. If I can't see the preview, when I save the movie, I can't see that
part of the movie file either. How can I fix this so all my clips work?

The clips I'm using are DivX compressed AVI files -- they should work. I
even took a clip that I couldn't break up successfully in WMM2, saved the
whole thing in WMM2 and then see if it worked and it didn't -- I still
couldn't split it up.

In the info it says it's Windows Movie Maker version 5.1 and then it says
it's Windows Movie Maker 2.1. I don't know why it says that, I think it's 2.1
I have Windows XP Pro, service pack 2.

I have an AMD Athlon X2 dual core processor 3800+, 2.01 ghz, 1 GB RAM. 20 GB
hard drive space. I'm using a GeForce 7300GT 256MB 128-bit GDDR2 PCI Express
x16 SLI Supported video card. WMM2 never used to give me this problem, but I
recently got a new motherboard, processor and video card. The only problem I
used to have was crashing and I fixed it by disabiling certain video filters.

Please let me know how to make Windows Movie Maker work for me! I've tried
other editing programs and this one has the best features!! Thanks.

 

[Graham Hughes]

I don't know why you think divx is supposed to work in MM, it doesn't. You
need to convert these files to wmv's and then import them into MM.
Some apps here
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/WebPages/UsefulProgrammes.htm