I have lost all my panes and video control and screen ???

[Guest]

Absolutley stressed out of my mind, spent all bank holiday week end trying to work out what is happening !!! Everything was fine until I upgraded XP from Home edition to Professional ...then the fun started .......after not being able to install most items I had before I undertook a complete format using the XP disk to perform it .........I then installed my other hardware etc on top .......... Then I found that Movie maker had changed ? I now do not have /cannot find my movie task pane i.e Capture video/ edit movie/ finish movie/ movie making tips . ? where have they gone ? top right of movie maker I used to have up one level in collection tree, create new collection view clips in collection by thumbnails or details ??
Thumbnails now appears over the collection window nearer to the left ? . What is really worrying is that although everything works except the items missing if I connect my video camera to record another screen comes up with a screen on it and allows me to take control of the camera ( play , record , stop etc ) But hey, that should happening in moviemaker ?? so where has that screen come from ?? I can save the movie to either movie maker or my videos but to undertake further recording I have to turn the video camera on and off ..... I have turned to my recent book purchase Movie maker 2 and it has just hit me right now that I am using version 1.1.2427.1 and the book is movie maker 2
so I will endeavour to get version two and see what is the difference Lastly when I go to the help file on movie maker I get
......the procedure entry point GETIUMS could not be located in the dynamic link library MSDART.DLL ? what does that mean
If I press it three times I do get access to the help files
Finally
A card with three ports came with my Canon video camera ( why three way ) anyway I have had to take this out to install XP Pro and have connected it to the existing firewire port of the pc ....is this ok or am I likely to suffer later ?
The machine I am using is

COMPAQ Presario,
55500UK
AMD athelon XP3000 = 2.17 Ghz
512mb DDR
120g/byte h drive
ATI radeaon 9200 ( graphics card? )
128mb video ram

Now is this enough to keep movie maker happy or would it require extra RAM ( or any other suggestions)
if I am to continue with movie maker so that I can grow into it so to speak rather than having a minimum so to speak

Can you give me some re assurance that I am on the right track or should I put the lot through the window now before it all drives me really crazy ????

Thanks for reading anyway , this has allowed me to get my frustrations in the open
I will up date you if I succeed , but if you can email me any help direct it would be appreciated

regards Paul

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[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

Paul,

You have more than enough of a computer, but you need version 2 again, as
you know.... there's a download link on my Setup > Software page.
--
PapaJohn

Movie Maker 2 - www.papajohn.org
Photo Story 2 - www.photostory.papajohn.org

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Absolutley stressed out of my mind, spent all bank holiday week end trying

to work out what is happening !!! Everything was fine until I upgraded XP
from Home edition to Professional ...then the fun started .......after not
being able to install most items I had before I undertook a complete format
using the XP disk to perform it .........I then installed my other hardware
etc on top .......... Then I found that Movie maker had changed ? I now do
not have /cannot find my movie task pane i.e Capture video/ edit movie/
finish movie/ movie making tips . ? where have they gone ? top right of
movie maker I used to have up one level in collection tree, create new
collection view clips in collection by thumbnails or details ??

Thumbnails now appears over the collection window nearer to the left ? .

What is really worrying is that although everything works except the items
missing if I connect my video camera to record another screen comes up with
a screen on it and allows me to take control of the camera ( play , record ,
stop etc ) But hey, that should happening in moviemaker ?? so where has that
screen come from ?? I can save the movie to either movie maker or my videos
but to undertake further recording I have to turn the video camera on and
off ..... I have turned to my recent book purchase Movie maker 2 and it has
just hit me right now that I am using version 1.1.2427.1 and the book is
movie maker 2

so I will endeavour to get version two and see what is the difference

Lastly when I go to the help file on movie maker I get

.....the procedure entry point GETIUMS could not be located in the dynamic

link library MSDART.DLL ? what does that mean

If I press it three times I do get access to the help files
Finally
A card with three ports came with my Canon video camera ( why three way )

anyway I have had to take this out to install XP Pro and have connected it
to the existing firewire port of the pc ....is this ok or am I likely to
suffer later ?

The machine I am using is

COMPAQ Presario,
55500UK
AMD athelon XP3000 = 2.17 Ghz
512mb DDR
120g/byte h drive
ATI radeaon 9200 ( graphics card? )
128mb video ram

Now is this enough to keep movie maker happy or would it require extra RAM ( or any other suggestions)
if I am to continue with movie maker so that I can grow into it so to

speak rather than having a minimum so to speak

Can you give me some re assurance that I am on the right track or should I

put the lot through the window now before it all drives me really crazy ????

 

[Guest]

Wow.......... its self diagnostic releif ...........Thats that problem solved and the error messages have gone as well
But I really do appreciate your prompt reply ...........sometimes the answers are really under your nose arent they
although I did go througth the pain barrier ( or shall I say a steep learning curve ) at least I know now
Thanks for your support

Paul