When I play from the timeline, the movie image is black.

[Guest]

I used to the toy around with Windows Movie Maker on my XP and it seemed to
work fine.

Now that I'm actually trying to make a movie on my new Vista, I'm coming
across some problems. I uploaded some .avi files to WMM, and they played
fine, but I when I try playing them when they're on the timeline, the movie
image is black. I can hear the sounds fine, though. I tried the sample .asf
and .wmv clips and had the same problem.

I went back to my XP and, oddly enough, had the exact same problem. I think
the problem must have somehow originated on the XP, then when I got the
Vista, I copied WMM onto it.

Any advice?

 

[John Inzer]

I used to the toy around with Windows Movie Maker on my XP and it
seemed to work fine.

Now that I'm actually trying to make a movie on my new Vista, I'm
coming across some problems. I uploaded some .avi files to WMM, and
they played fine, but I when I try playing them when they're on the
timeline, the movie image is black. I can hear the sounds fine,
though. I tried the sample .asf and .wmv clips and had the same
problem.

I went back to my XP and, oddly enough, had the exact same problem. I
think the problem must have somehow originated on the XP, then when I
got the Vista, I copied WMM onto it.

Any advice?

================================
It may be worth a try to update your video driver.

--

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

 

[Graham Hughes]

What did you do to copy MM onto your version of vista? Which version of
vista do youhave as it does come with most of them. Which version of MM do
you now have?
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/Tutorials/VersionNumber.htm

The problem may be caused by the above.

It could be as John says your graphics driver.

It may also be the type of avi you are using. AVI si just a wrapper and can
contain hundreds of file types, of which only one, dv.avi will work with MM
properly.
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/Tutorials/MovieMaker/File_type_compatibility.htm

 

[Guest]

I zipped MM, copied it onto a flash drive, then uploaded it onto Vista, and
unzipped it. I have MM version 2.1.

I don't think it's the file type, since the sampe .wmv and .asf clips don't
work either.

According to my display settings, my graphics driver is NVIDIA GeForce Go
6150. When I go to the NVIDIA site, would it be correct to choose

Graphics Driver > GeForce Go 7800/7900 laptops > Windows XP/2000

It doesn't mention Vista.

 

[John Inzer]

I zipped MM, copied it onto a flash drive, then uploaded it onto
Vista, and unzipped it. I have MM version 2.1.

I don't think it's the file type, since the sampe .wmv and .asf clips
don't work either.

According to my display settings, my graphics driver is NVIDIA
GeForce Go 6150. When I go to the NVIDIA site, would it be correct to
choose

Graphics Driver > GeForce Go 7800/7900 laptops > Windows XP/2000

It doesn't mention Vista.

================================
It's unclear how you successfully moved
Movie Maker 2.1 to Vista but I doubt
that it will ever run correctly.

If you are unable to run Movie Maker 6
that is included with Vista...there is another
version available for Vista...

Windows Movie Maker 2.6 for Vista
For Vista users who cannot run the
Vista version of Movie Maker
http://tinyurl.com/2jqfac

No guarantees...but maybe the following
driver would work for your graphics card.

NVIDIA ForceWare for
GeForce Go 97.35 WHQL
NVIDIA GeForce Go 6150
http://tinyurl.com/y2vrqy

If you decide to install the new driver...be
sure to create a System Restore point first
and also read the following article:

NVIDIA Driver Installation Hints
http://tinyurl.com/29wpq


--

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

 

[Graham Hughes]

I'm interested in where you found MM 2.1 anyway, as it's only part of
Windows XP SP2.

I think you've messed up MM. I'd go for a clean install of vista.

As for drivers, if Nvidia don't list vista ones you're going to struggle, as
they currently have several drivers for lots of different cards, until, I
suspect they amalgamate them as they have done in the past.