Movie I was editing, now I can only hear audio, video won't play

[Guest]

I have a video that I've been editing for a few days successfully, and
now.....the movie maker won't show the video, but does play audio. I'm
dumbfounded. This project has been saved as a *.msmmv (i.e. saved as a movie
maker file).

Help me.

S

 

[Guest]

Also,......The clips I use in this video can be played individually in the
preview screen(perfectly), but when I pull them into the timeline edit tray,
they don't show and....the timeline moves in jolts rather than a smooth time
sequence; the sound is normal. Other clips, not part of this project do play
normally in the timeline edit tray when pulled into it.

Thanks for your thoughts and ideas.

K

 

[Guest]

That funny, I just entered the same problem.... Good luck on your
problem...it will solve mine too

 

[Guest]

I had used a dvd to avi converter for my short film. I re-installer the
converter and re-converted the film and then the clips worked. It seems
strange however, that an avi film could be programmed by a converter to
expire after a few days? Is this possible. I'm using a free version of
123DVD. It allows only conversion of 10 min films which is good for my
purposes. I didn't see any time expiration, but,....even so, could the avi
film expire after a given time period?

K

 

[Guest]

I am not familiar with this matter, but I don't think a file can be change
after a time-lag.
And I just wanted to let you know that I found another program to convert
files with (just in case you have movies longer than 10
min....www.erightsoft.net with program called 'super'. Is freeware.

Good luck

 

[Graham Hughes]

files could be made to stop working that way, but I doubt that is your
problem.
avi is a container and can contain many file types, all but one DON'T work
in movie maker,
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/Tutorials/MovieMaker/File_type_compatibility.htm