Losing my video (goes black) during trimming

[Xtatic]

I've been using Movie maker to make videos before, but I just got a new
flash-camcorder and when I try to trim the clips, I lose my video and my
screen goes black -I still have audio though.
I have looked on this site and seen the suggestions about filters -I have
only two when I check my tools and compatibility -a video decoder and audio
decoder (ffdshow) - that I downloaded with the camcorder. I can turn both or
one of these on or off and it makes no difference.
Any thoughts on what to try next?

 

[PapaJohn]

what type of video files are they? if you don't know, what's the brand and
model camcorder? they may not work with Movie Maker; if so, they would need
conversion before importing.

 

[Xtatic]

thanks for the quick reply.
They seem to be *.AVI files -it's an RCA EZ300HD

 

[John Inzer]

I've been using Movie maker to make videos before, but I just got a
new flash-camcorder and when I try to trim the clips, I lose my video
and my screen goes black -I still have audio though.
I have looked on this site and seen the suggestions about filters -I
have only two when I check my tools and compatibility -a video
decoder and audio decoder (ffdshow) - that I downloaded with the
camcorder. I can turn both or one of these on or off and it makes no
difference.
Any thoughts on what to try next?

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

Movie Maker 2 - Importing MPEG Files
http://tinyurl.com/eajjh
or...
http://www.papajohn.org/MM2-Importing-Video-MPEG2.html

File type compatibility with Movie Maker
http://tinyurl.com/v8tee
or...
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/Tutorials/MovieMaker/File_type_compatibility.htm

Which file type should I use in Movie Maker?
http://tinyurl.com/6n66g3
or...
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/Tutorials/MovieMaker/WhichFileTypeInMovieMaker.htm


Also:

How do I convert an mpeg to WMV
with Windows Media Encoder?
http://tinyurl.com/2m4gob
or...
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/Tutorials/ConvertMpeg2wmv.html

--

John Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

 

[James]

I was having the same problem also and how I fixed it was by importing the
original video into WMM and just publishing it. Then I imported the WMM file
and used that for editing.

I am using Windows Vista and my camcorder is a Memorex