Photos Not Appearing in Video

[Guest]

Alright, so I'm making a movie for history class, with video, title cards and
pictures, however, the photos I've imported into Movie maker and have placed
within the storyboard are not showing up. I've saved the photos to my
desktop, and have not moved them, so I can't for the life of me figure out
why when I play the movie back, the photos don't show up (everything else
does). Any way to solve this problem?

 

[John Inzer]

Alright, so I'm making a movie for history class, with video, title
cards and pictures, however, the photos I've imported into Movie
maker and have placed within the storyboard are not showing up. I've
saved the photos to my desktop, and have not moved them, so I can't
for the life of me figure out why when I play the movie back, the
photos don't show up (everything else does). Any way to solve this
problem?

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Sometimes it can be a simple matter of
saving the images in a different format.
Movie Maker likes Windows Bitmap
[.bmp files].

Have a look at the following article:

File type compatibility with Movie Maker
http://tinyurl.com/v8tee

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John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

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

 

[Guest]

I did try changing the file format, and switched from JPEG to .bmp as well as
trying .png. Neither worked.

Alright, so I'm making a movie for history class, with video, title
cards and pictures, however, the photos I've imported into Movie
maker and have placed within the storyboard are not showing up. I've
saved the photos to my desktop, and have not moved them, so I can't
for the life of me figure out why when I play the movie back, the
photos don't show up (everything else does). Any way to solve this
problem?

=================================
Sometimes it can be a simple matter of
saving the images in a different format.
Movie Maker likes Windows Bitmap
[.bmp files].

Have a look at the following article:

File type compatibility with Movie Maker
http://tinyurl.com/v8tee

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

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

 

[John Inzer]

I did try changing the file format, and switched from JPEG to .bmp as
well as trying .png. Neither worked.

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Ok...maybe you should tell us what else you tried.

For example...
If you reduce your Graphics Hardware Acceleration
as per the instructions in the following article and
realize an improvement, it's an indication that you
need to update your video driver:

(263391) How to Change the Graphics
Hardware Acceleration Setting in Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=263391


--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

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

 

[John Inzer]

Just wondering how you converted
the JPEGs to the other formats?

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John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

======================

=====================================
Ok...maybe you should tell us what else you tried.

For example...
If you reduce your Graphics Hardware Acceleration
as per the instructions in the following article and
realize an improvement, it's an indication that you
need to update your video driver:

(263391) How to Change the Graphics
Hardware Acceleration Setting in Windows
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=263391

Proceed at your own risk

 

[Guest]

That's all I've tried, since its all I knew how to try.

Anyways, I reduced the Graphics Hardware Acceleration and found there to be
no difference, so I suppose that means my video driver is fine.

I used Jasc Paint Shop Pro 8, and saved the JPEG files as .bmp.

Thanks for helping me out so much, I'm quite the computer dunce.

 

[John Inzer]

That's all I've tried, since its all I knew how to try. ================================
Okay.
================================
Anyways, I reduced the Graphics Hardware Acceleration and found there
to be no difference, so I suppose that means my video driver is fine.

================================
There's always a possibility that your video
driver needs an update but if reducing the
acceleration did not make an improvement
it's probably not the cause of this issue.
================================

I used Jasc Paint Shop Pro 8, and saved the JPEG files as .bmp.

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Okay...that should do it.
================================

Thanks for helping me out so much, I'm quite the computer dunce.

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You're welcome...

At this point I'm not sure what else to try...

I'm wondering if some routine maintenance
might help:

(260897) How to Delete the Contents of the
Temporary Internet Files Folder
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=260897

Running Disk Cleanup, Error Checking and
Defrag on a regular schedule is a good idea.

(310312) Description of the Disk Cleanup
Tool in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310312

(315265) How to Perform Disk Error Checking
in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=315265
(check the two boxes..."Automatically fix file
system errors" and "Scan for and attempt
recovery of bad sectors") the utility will run
the next time you restart your computer.
(run error checking repeatedly until it finds
no errors)

(314848) How to Defragment Your Disk
Drive Volumes in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314848

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

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

 

[Guest]

Alright, I'll try those suggestions out. I'm going over to my friend's house
today, so I've decided to work on the project there, just so I get it done.
Thanks again for the help, xD.

 

[Graham Hughes]

Does this mean that the same files work on your friends pc and not yours?
If so, it could be another file that is causing the trouble and he has a
codec on his machine that MM can pick up and use.

Things like MP3's can cause this problem, check out
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/Tutorials/MovieMaker/File_type_compatibility.htm

What are all the other file types you have used?