How do I export in Window's Movie Maker??

ThatEddieHumor

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First of all, I know I know, Window's Movie Maker isn't the most suggested video editor haha, but I'm sure there are others here that use it, and well, I shot a video using my iphone, and then uploaded the video to my laptop, now, I imported all the scenes to Window's Movie Maker, and, even played it back, and everything was fine, then when I went to save the "movie", it went through all the saving process, then at the very end after it said 100%.

Then, it showed a message saying, "Sorry, your movie can't be saved. Find any missing files or remove the unusable items from your project, and then try again".

But problem with that is, well, it's not like I deleted any of the files. They are all still on my drive. I even tried to delete some scenes from the time line, and then imported them back in just to give it a try. And sure enough the same thing, I also, tried to export the video with some scenes actually DELETED from the video (without replacing them), again, just to see what would happen. And STILL, I got that message.

So, I don't understand, I'm really bummed out, for two reasons, because it's been 6-7 days since I last uploaded a video, and second, well, yeah, I'm sitting here thinking, what on earth is going on??

I even checked what kind of video files Movie Maker accepts, and, well yeah, it does accept .mov which is the format the iphone records in.

So, does anybody know the solution to this?? It's like the whole video (in Movie Maker) is corrupted, except, I really can see why it would be. I didn't change the location of any of the files, do anything crazy. All I did was import them, and edit my video. And, if they we're really "unsupported" files I would imagine it would tell me right from the point of trying to import them. But it actually lets me watch the entire video when played back. It's the "saving"/exporting that's giving me problems.

(Sorry for the long post, I just wanted to be as detailed as possible so you know what's going on haha).
 
First off, check the movie file is not corrupted by playing it with something like GOM player or VLC Media player.

If all OK, then when Movie Maker opens, use the add video icon to select the video. Give it time to fully load the file - watch the status bar.

When done editing, save the video output as High Definition file for PC.

That should work OK. You can now upload or compress before uploading with some other software.

If this fails, then something is screwed with your system.

Rob
 
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