I was incredibly frustrated with Windows Movie Maker a week ago. I haven’t looked around for any better (free) video editing tools, so I’ve been using moviemk.exe to create my videos, such as my Big in Japan video. I was frustrated because I had been trying to put together four short videos into one longer one, put title and credit frames, and put transitions between each of the elements. I ran into a whole lot of difficulties.
First, Movie Maker couldn’t use any of my video files; it couldn’t read MPEG2, MPEG4 and not even WMV! I had to convert my movies down to MPEG1 in order for it to play video and sound. After I put the video together, the second problem was that I couldn’t keep the transitions between clips. It would “remember” the first transition and then ignore the subsequent transitions I used. I was able to solve this problem by…recreating the entire video on the Windows XP version of Movie Maker.
Finally, I tried to publish the video, but the exporter complained that some of the source files were missing — this was patently not true since I was able to test-play the video without issues. Apparently, Movie Maker was being flakey and would only export a single time before it raised an error. In any case, I finally solved my problems and created this video about cooking in Japan:
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