Previewing Still Pics

[Guest]

I am trying to put still photos in my storyboard with some videos for my
movie. The photos show as a black screen. I have reinstalled MM2 and every
time I take a still photo from the collections area and put it in the
storyboard I still get a black preview screen. When I reinstalled MM2 it
skipped the beginning of the install and says"resuming installation"then it
finishes. But nothing changes. The strange part is I can still open MM1 and
try to preview pics in the storyboard and it works fine. I thought MM2 was
suppose to OVERWRITE MM1. All of the pics are .jpg or .gif so that isn't the
prob. Since we are unable to uninstall MM to start over from the beginning,
What am I to do?

I have also copied this file:{60BFF50D-FB2C-4498-A577-C9548C390BB9}
into my Movie maker folder, installed the "mm20ex.inf" file and still nothing.

I am about to pull the plug on this program. It has great easy features but
if it can't install properly then it is of no use to me

 

[Rehan]

Salem,

It seems you have messed about a lot. Those folders you copeied did not need
to be copied at all.

Anyway, start from updating your graphics card drivers. Then re-install
directx and then install movie maker 2.

Also reinstall Windows Media Player and Windows Media Encoder.

To be extra careful reboot after every install.

If all that does not work you need to make sure there is no codec conflict.
See www.papajohn.org -> Problem Solving section

Another thing to try is to install Service Pack 2 which among other thigns
would do a lot of clean up of the previous mess and upgrade the windows
movie maker to 2.1