1. Installer Windows Movie Maker Pour Vista Ca
2. Windows Movie Maker 2.6 Vista

If you are reading this, I'm going to assume you've upgraded or purchased at least one PC with Windows 7, 8, 8.1 or 10 and discovered Windows Movie Maker is no where to be found. In its place, Microsoft offered a set of programs called 'Windows Essentials' which included Movie Maker 2011 or 2012. Many people have tried these versions of Movie Maker 2011 or 2012 and complained about the lack of a traditional timeline, issues with crashing, long times to prepare video files and the inability to customize the transitions, effects and titles.

Windows movie maker was working but.when ever i try to drag pictures or movie clips to the storyboard in the windows movie maker it never appears in the storyboard. I try for many times but nothing happens.the slots in the storyboard stay blank.so i am unable to make movies.pls help me.tell me the solution.if something wrong in the software pls tell me how to repair it.

1. MovieMaker.Exe, MOVIEMK.exe, msnmsgr.exe or Windows live movie maker.exe are the default file names to indicate this program's installer. Windows Live® Movie Maker is compatible with Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10 environment, 32-bit version.
2. Aug 28, 2009  Windows Movie Maker + Vista I am having a couple of issues with Movie Maker. Thank you for visiting Microsoft Windows Vista answers forum. You may follow the links as below to create a movie using Windows Movies maker.

If you have been building up a library of, none of these can be used in the newest Movie Maker because the rendering architecture has changed and Microsoft has no API for customizing things. The good news is you can still use the latest version of Windows Movie Maker 6.0 from Vista.

You can do this manually by copying the files from a Vista machine, registering some DLLs and creating a shortcut in your start menu. Or you can just use the installers I created below: There are two versions (64-bit or 32-bit) depending on the version of Windows you are running. If you are unsure, go to your 'Start' menu, right-click on 'Computer' and choose 'Properties'. System type should show 64-bit or 32-bit operating system. Pick the installer that matches. After that, don't forget to start previewing that you can have with this version. Note: I'm turning off comments on this thread since there are more than 200.

If you have a question, please post it in the. Thanks for your informative blog. I have been trying to use movie maker with a windows 7 machine and i discovered I had to use windows live to save any downloaded files from my 2yo sony hidef handycam. Since the sony software saves the files in m2t format, WMM won't recognize them. WLMM does however and you can save the file in wmv format and then import to WMM. One question I have is sometimes I get a weird vertical stretch artifact (kinda like sergio leone in fist full of dollars and other spaghetti westerns). IT seems to have something to do with using hi def mode in the sony.

Have you got any idea how I might use hidef and not get this sergio leone effect? Thanks for any information. Yeah.that didn't happen:-) - the offer to load recovered files that is.

I had interim saved about 20 mins prior but evidently I'd been very efficient in the subsequent time because when I opened the saved file I was VERY surprised to see how much was missing! I had been working only with JPGs - loading them into MM the goal being to make a slideshow type movie with titles on the different photos. No audio and I had not yet published. Had imported 20 JPGs about a meg each and had added about 12 of them to the timeline with titles and transitions between. My saved file only had 4 of the images in the timeline, so I lost quite a bit of work.

Thank you though for the info and thanks for this site and all the tips. Yesterday was the first time I started WLMM on my relatively new Win7 machine and about fell over when I realized that it wasn't the same program I'd been using the last couple of years. Being able to so quickly load and run it was great. I'm just going to save much more often and hope there are no more crashes. Nick, I'm well aware that WLMM has the capability to support customizing transitions/titles/effects using the X3D(VRML) engine. I too have experimented with the files in the Templates folder. However, I'm really hoping, like prior versions of WMM, that Microsoft will publish an official document on how to do that, rather than leaving it to us to figure out via experimentation.

It's also possible the interface may change in later versions, so I'm reticent to delve to deeply into this. However, I encourage experimentation, and as people find things out let me know. Perhaps we'll have to rely on the user community figuring it all out, rather than Microsoft publishing a spec. That's how custom titles came about in WMM 2.x and 6.0. I got a copy of the 32 bit 6.0 from someone, which installed on my windows 7 but won't play my unfinished projects. Only the source video shows up in imported media - not the clips.

And no clips in the timeline (just titles). I was not able to pull the 6.0 off my dead vista because I couldn't work out registering the dlls. Nothing worked. I haven't yet tried importing the projects into a friend's Vista. Short of that, has anyone solved this commonly reported problem?

I did install a 32 bit WMM6.0 on a 64 bit machine, but I have read that you can do that. It went into program files (x86) of course. My projects were created on a 32 bit Vista. Do you think I should have installed the 64 bit? I could try the one here. Have people successfully accessed old program files created on a 32 bit program - on a 64 bit?

For that matter, has anyone been successful at accessing unfinished WMM6.0 projects by any means whatsoever? Some of my projects are short with no titles and transitions, so that's not the problem.

They wouldn't play in WLMM or 2.6 either. The wmm projects were pulled from the hard drive of my old laptop (now an external drive). Susan, the issue is not the version of Movie Maker. The issue is you have just pulled the project file, not the source video and audio.

A WMM project file is more like a recipe or a playlist. It tells the order of clips, where you want edits, what transitions you want, etc. But it contains no video or audio, just references to where the files are on your computer. Until you movie the video and audio files to the same location as before, you will see Red Xs instead. If you have the clips in a different folder, double-click the Red Xs and pick the new location. I have a question; I downloaded the 64 bit vers. Of the WMM 6.0 you gave a download link for, and, I'm a little curious as to whether or not there are any custom effects/transitions out there for it that can open w/o the Windows 7 going 'Screw it.'

And not completely opening/configuring it all the way? Just a little curious is all because I had certain ones my old Windows XP OS WMM that worked and loved 'em to bits.but then I stupidly got rid of 'em suspecting they wouldn't work w/the Windows 7 vers. Any helpful hints or possible people I should check out for effects that will work on a WMM 6.0 downloaded to a Windows 7 laptop? Thank you for your time in reading this, and if anyone else knows of any answers, feel free to speak out.

I greatly appreciate your contributions and comments. I have a question. I have a question. I initially made multiple movies on an old version of XP WMM with files saved as MSWMM format.

I now have a 64bit Windows 7. However the Windows Live Movie Maker would not open my MSWMM files. I uploaded WMM 2.6 and it does open these files.

I uploaded your version of Windows Movie Maker 6.0 and wanted to delete 2.6 but 6.0 will not open my older MSWMM files and I get the message: 'File.MSWMM cannot be imported because the codec required to play the file is not installed on your computer. If you have already tried to download and install the codec, close and restart windows movie maker and then try to input the file again' Can you give me guidance about this codec? @Otto, on the surface it seems like you are trying to import your project file (.mswmm) when you really just want to be opening it with WMM6. Try right-clicking on the file and choosing 'Open With' then picking WMM6. If that works, then you just need to change WMM6 to be the default program for opening up.mswmm files instead of 2.6. Remember.mswmm files are the project (the recipe) for your movie.

They don't contain the video/photos of your movie, they just refer to them. They aren't playable movies so you don't import them, you open them. @Blaine: Thank you responding and for the time you put into each answer.

I tried the above. The video files right click and open completely with WMM 2.6. However when I right click and open the exact same video file with WMM 6.0, the title slides are visible and audio can be heard but the video files do not play visually- there is a thin line through preview screen with movement visible(sound only). It's as if the video image has been 'squished' down to a center line. By the way, they do not open at all with WLMM.

This happens with multiple MSWMM 'recipes' that I open and is not limited to an isolated video. Some of the source files for clips in the recipes are WMV and this problem seems to be the priamry problem. This problem resolves if I convert each isolated video clip in recipe but it would be extremely tedious ( I have to open each clip file with WLMM and re-save as WMV.

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Then they work in WMM 6.0. Does that make any sense even though WLMM will not open the entire recipe file?)Some of my MSWMM recipes have well over 10 WMV clips in them. Any suggestions? Thank you for your other posts, Many of the previous problems I had in the past were solved with your earlier advice. Its great to have access to someone who knows this much about this product. Thanks for the follow up.

The problem is I have about 30 MSWMM files each with 10-15 WMV file within them. Converting 300 or so files from WMV old to WMV new with 2.6 will update these individual clips but does not update the MSWMM reoipe files overall unless I remove the old WMV clips individually and replace each one with a converted WMV file.

Do you think this has anything to do with 32 bit system upgraded to 64 bit. It seems the 2.6 (running in x86 Program File) can open old WMV and by saving it allows it to be run in WMM 6.0 64 bit (just my uneducated guess) My guess is that when I save WMV with 2.6, it somehow converts the WMV into more updated WMV format. To some degree this also make me a slave to keepong 2.6 and 6.0 loaded.

I've searched WMM forums but couldn't find anything. I will try again. @Otto, I'm not sure why you need the projects to carry forward? Assuming you've made all the edits you need and have already generated the final movie, why is it you need to make more edits but in WMM 2.6 or 6.0?

Yes, it does seem like you might have some files that are supposedly converted to.wmv, but not in a format that is apparently working for editing in WMM 2.6 or 6.0. However, let's assume that they are.wmv files and you still want to be able to make more edits in the project, then how about this: 1) Take each source file and run it through WMM (which ever one works) and saving it back out in a truly compatible.wmv format. 2) Now find the original, back it up (e.g. Rename it to.old) and then replace it with the new 'clean' version. I would think that any version of WMM would be able to reopen the project and use these clean versions in place of the old, no need to change any edit points, etc.

Maybe you could try that with one small source file and see. Some of these are educational medical videos I have made for patients. As new information becomes available, I go back to the poject file and have deleted or updated the appropriate section (source file) I probably have 10 of these for various conditions. So it is convenient to break them down when I can. I have attempted the small source file conversions and imported them into the appriate MSWMM project file but they do not automatically populate the project. I have to pick out each file and substitute it in on the time line/storyboard. Can you think of any other convenient way to 'mass convert or update' the.wmv files?

I have taken a look at the properties but can't quite detct any difference other than the size of the file becomes bigger. Thanks for racking your brain on this. By the way, I posted on the WMM forum. I see you have made many contributions there. Hi Blaine i have a 6mth old laptop that came with Win 7 64 Bit Home Premium alredy installed,i hav tried 6-7 different versions of MM 2.6/6.0 but unsuccessfully finding 1 that worked correctly,saying that i did find a 64 Bit MM 6.0 that installed+all seemed to work except i couldnt get HD profiles to show up even after following steps to put the 4.prx hd files in a Profile folder,i tried using Command to register the dll's but it failed, Geez im sorry to stray from the original question i was going to ask you.

Hi Blaine, your article remains a good reference for me to give to many peoples queries about Movie Maker and ShaderTFX. So thanks for that. Anybody who is having trouble isntalling ShaderTFX, you should download the exe from and save it. Afterwards go to the folder and right click on the file and select 'Run as administrator.' This should work in most cases. If not please contact me directly support@rehanfx.org. I aspire to answer all email inquiries about ShaderTFX.

I have a Toshiba laptop about 2 years old running Win 7 64 bit. I can't get these effects to work. See the preview but get a black screen. I bought Shader and am having a few issues with it too, some transitions work, some don't and don't see any effects.

I haven't been able to register it either. I installed MM6 from the 64 bit link and so far it seems to be working. I had to copy your files from the 86 Program Files to the regular file. I know zip about graphics and movie maker so I am afraid you are dealing with a total novice here. @Blaine, I reinstalled 64 versions of MM6 and Shader after updating Directx. There were still old files out there from the 32 install which I manually deleted. I still have a problem with Patrickl's Kaleidoscope not applying effect to storyboard image in preview, even though it shows it as applied when I click on the image.

Maybe the fact that I don't know MM at all has something to do with it, LOL! Any suggestions for what I can try next?

I was able to do an xml fike of his custom kaleidoscopes but again, those show the thumnail and act like they applied but do nothing. The 'Play clip' right click doesn't show anything in preview either.

EVERYBODY.FOUND THE REASON ONLY SOME OF YOU ARE NOT GETTING HD OPTIONS!!!! I WAS NOT SEEING HD NO MATTER WHAT I DID. IT WAS BECAUSE I WAS HITTING THE SHORTCUT TO 'THIS COMPUTER' ON THE LEFT (UNDER PUBLUSH TO).THIS FOR WHATEVER REASON MAKES YOUR OPTIONS SHOW UP AS THOSE ORIGINAL DVD VHS CRAP.IF YOU HIT PUBLISH MOVIE ON THE TOP YOU SHOULD SEE THE HD OPTIONS THAT ARE IN YOUR PROFILE FILE. sorry for the caps but I had 500 people waiting for me to make my video.LIVE sucks and had it edited on there could not publish.HOPE THIS SAVES PEOPLE LOL!!! Blaine, I used some of the effects for vista that you had.

And i installed Rehan's ShaderTFX but when its time to publish it, it just goes blank then re starts my WMM then the icon thats supposed to be the published work shows how long it is and everything but it just plays for a second then nothing.:( ive tried editing a movie that doesnt require any EXTRA effects than that of the original that came with it and it publishes just fine. Please, please help. I dont know what i did wrong and i really dont want to re-edit it, its 20min+ work that i have to do all over again and i need it by next week. I have emailed you a few times but got no reply. I have used your excellent product for a few years, but on changing my laptop to another windows 7 one found myself with the same issue.

So i purchase your pack once again, downloaded all the transitions etc and got as far as putting in the registration info, but even if I run as administrator, clicking on nay link or transition will not bring up the box to paste the code in. I am sure I am using the correct version of movie maker(6.0.600016386). But in frustration I have deleted it and gone to start the whole process again, using your downloader above, however, the 64 bit one stalls or disappears after the run command, as the downloader disappears after a few seconds! Dan, you should see new transitions and effects from Rehan in your transitions and effects. Make sure they are working correctly first.

If not, go back, install the DirectX 9 Runtimes as noted on Rehan's pages, then reinstall ShaderTFX. As for entering the registration code, you can either wait for the nag screen to come up, or you can hold down Ctrl+Shift as you click on one of Rehan's transitions or effects. Follow the rest of the steps in the registration email (copy everything completely for line 1 and line 2). Windows Live Movie Maker is not like a real video editor. It's like, it was made by Microsoft just for the sake of having it. It's not professional looking and many many many many many tools are not in there. I've tried to reinstall WMM 2.6, but I am not satisfied because it creates many collections for every item I import.

Good thing there is 6.0. I hope this will still be useful until the next generation of Windows OS. If not, I hope Microsoft can take time to listen to what the consumers are asking for. I did, but before I saw the comment was approved.

I have, however, noticed something. After making some videos, it seems to stop processing. I made 11 short videos (about 50MB avg per).

But on the 12th, it stops. I've tried two different videos, and both hang.

It seems that after so many MB or something, it doesn't let me make more. The process just sits there as the estimated remaining time increases. I don't have this problem on the Vista machine (which I want to stop using as it's old, slow, and less reliable overall). This AM I tried various options as workarounds and checked things based on a Google search of possible causes. None of them made any difference, it still hung up at the same exact location: - Tried exporting to different formats (PAL, NTSC, DVD quality, 'best for this computer', etc.) - Audio/video clips as.mp3 or.wav (audio),.avi or.wmv for video - Only two transitions: fade in from black at beginning, fade out to black at end - 35-50 MB needed for projects, have 300+ GB available - Re-imported attempted video/audio clips I'm not sure what else to check: simple movies, same exact formats that worked before, and that work fine on the Vista machine, and plenty of space.

I have just tried your version of Windows Movie Maker 6 and it is working on Windows 8 Consumer Preview.Which I am very happy about. As I was using another version of Movie Maker 6 which I got from another website which I use on Windows 7.But that did not work on Windows 8 but your version does. I think the problem with some other versions or installers for Movie Maker 6 is that although it works on Windows 7, it may not be registering the dill files on Windows 8. But when I downloaded your version of Movie Maker 6 from here it worked right away. And I now have Windows Movie Maker 6 back on Windows 8 and all of the features are working thanks to you. But however, with Movie Makers 2.1 and 2.6 most of the features are working on Windows 8, but others are not.

On Movie Maker 2.1 I can record from my webcam and make clips and add pictures to the movie,(same as on 2.6.)And save the movie,if I don't add titles. But the title features are not working at all on Windows 8 in Movie Maker 2.1 and 2.6.

That is I cannot create tiles or save the movie with titles. How can I fix this problem? But on Movie Maker 6 the features are now all working on Windows 8,since I installed your version. So how do we get the Movie maker 2.6 working again in Windows 8 like it works on Windows 7? Andrea Borman. Thank you for your reply Blaine.Most of the software for older versions of Windows works on Windows 8 but some of it does not.

Also many of the dill files included in Windows Vista and 7 are not in Windows 8. For example I managed to get Windows Mail from Windows Vista working on Windows 8. But I had to copy a dill file Msidcrl 30, over from Windows system 32 on Windows 7 and then paste it into system 32 on Windows 8. Apparently the dill file I needed in order for Windows mail to work is not in Windows 8.But it is already included in Windows 7.But after I did that Windows Mail is working on Windows 8. So the reason why WMM 2.6 and 2.1 titles features are not working on Windows 8 could that that some dill files are not in Windows 8 system 32 folder. But I do not have this problem on Windows Vista and Windows 7, all of the features work on there. But not on Windows 8.If I knew what dill files I needed to get WMM 2.6 and 2.1 titles working again on Windows 8.

I could copy them from Windows 7 or Windows Vista system 32 and add then to system 32 folder on Windows 8. This solved the problem for other Windows Vista and 7 programs that did not work on Windows 8. Remember that Windows 8 is a different operating system to Windows 7 so some programs work and other don't. But there are ways to get some programs working again. Maybe there needs to be an installer for WMM 2.6 for Windows 8. Just like there is a WMM6 for Windows 7.That might be the only solution. Unless we can find out why WMM 2.6 does not work fully on Windows 8 and fix the problem.

Andrea Borman. I have a problem with publishing in WMM 6.0 for Windows 7 (32bit). I made a video about 7 min. Long, and I can't publish it to my computer, I chose publish destination, file name and quality, and when it starts publishing error appears: 'Windows Movie Maker cannot publish the movie to the specified location. Verify that the original source files used in your movie are still available, that the publishing location is still available, that there is enough disk space available, and then try again.' I checked everything, files used in my movie are still available, so is publishing location and enough disk space.Can you help me?

Two main reasons for getting the 'can't save' message: 1) Incompatible file types. Whenever possible convert all your video to.wmv and all your audio to.wma. I've used Freemake Video Converter for conversion tasks like this and it works well. Because it is freeware though, be sure to uncheck any add-ons you don't want it to additionally install. 2) Too complex a project.

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If you have lots of photos, transitions, etc. Consider making copies of your project and paring them down to smaller 'sub-projects'. Save each movie separately then add them back together in a final project. I downloaded the program last night using your link and can't say how appreciative I am for you doing this. I have used movie maker for XP many times and since have upgraded to win7. I did a test run just to see if everything was going to work before I spent numerous hours and days on my project only to find in the end it doesn't work.

When I click publish movie it tells me it will save and close and open up Windows DVD Maker to make the dvd. It closes but never opens up dvd maker. When I go into Win dvd maker manually, it says it cannot open my file because it is an unsupported format. Can you tell me what I am doing wrong or what is going on? Blaine, I installed your WMM6 64 bit pack on my Win764 machine, and the app runs fine.

Then I made the Shared AddOnTFX folder, and have variously tried to get custom transitions, anything, to be recognized within WMM6, to no avail. After installing WMM6, I installed Pip+, and it doesn't show up in the transitions. I don't know if Pip+ is supposed to put any dll or xml files in AddOnTFX, it clearly didn't. If a Pip+ registration dialog is supposed to popup when WMM starts, haven't seen it. The outdated Rehanpip installs properly to the folder, but still no transitions seen in WMM. I see that the dlls involved, such as rehanpip.dll, are not COM/ActiveX, so dll registration can't be an issue.

I did not install WMM6 as admin, but from all the reading I've done, that doesn't seem to be a make-or-break issue for the satisfied users. On Win7, doesn't seem like I would have to install an old version of DirectX, that's absurd, right? Hi, First, I want to say thank you very much for putting up the free Movie Maker versions online! I really needed them. I recently bought a HP AMD quad core A6-3650 and the movie maker that comes with it is horrible! I wanted my old movie maker from the old PC so I downloaded the 64 bits one from your website. I transferred all my videos from the old PC to the new one.

It looks like it opens up an old video I was working on. Some of the gifs are replaying without me adding any special effect.It is so frustrating,I don't know what to do. Plus,it won't let me preview any gifs I am importing but if I move them on the time line, they will play(three or four times in a row).

When you have time, please tell me if you have a solution for these problems. Thank you very much, Sayuri. Found one quirk already in 6.0 over 2.x. Audio in video is not separated on the timeline, thus when I do a 'Fade In' on the video, it also fades in the audio, which I don't always want. In the long run it might save me time, but occasionally I split clips and want to split the fade in. I did solve it by simply dragging the video a second time to the audio line and I get my audio without the fade in on the video:-) We'll see if there's more problems later.

Thanks, though. I was not looking forward to learning Windows Live Movie Maker. Thank you so much for all the info! Thanks to you I realized I had to download 6.0 for my computer to be able to use the rehan green screen effects. Unfortunately I'm still struggling and wondering if you may be able to help? I drag the picture we want to use as background on top of the movie with the green screen.

Then 6.0 automatically puts a fade transition in, whenever I remove it it automatically moves the two files so they are next to each other rather than on top of each other. So when I use the rehan chroma effect it just fades the picture into the green screen so the beginning of the movie is completely green screen until it slowly fades to looking how it should then to all just the background picture. I have been searching for days for an answer to my problem and am about to give up. I am new to WMM so I will do my best to explain clearly my problem.

I installed WMM 6.0 from your site on a Win 7 64 bit machine (I had also installed WLMM 2011, but have since uninstalled it). Everything seemed to work fine for a very short period of time.

Now I can't open my projects in WMM. I do know not to move or re-name the source file or else connection will be lost. The first time I try to open the project it will appear that it is going to open and then I get nothing. Subsequent attempts to open produce a 'file in use' error message. I do get a 'preview size' message which appears briefly in the MM viewer. I have uninstalled MM6 several times, and I have tried fixes published for other 'file in use' messages given in Win 7. I also get a 'fugitive' options tab that hangs on my screen if I open ToolsOptions in MM 6 (it remains even after MM 6 is closed).

This has been quite frustrating. I save the project and it exists and shows the appropriate file extension for a WMM 6 project. But, as soon as I remove it from the MM timeline there is no re-opening that project. I can even close MM and go to the project file and click to open it and that will open MM, but the file still will not show up in MM and then it shows the 'file in use' error if you try to open it again in MM.

Hope you can help. Blaine, Thanks for making this available. I used to use a Vista laptop, but that crashed and I was unable to get my programs off, only my documents. I tried using the new Movie Maker for my Windows 7 laptop, and I hated that there were so many things that I couldn't do anymore.

I mainly used it for creating tribute videos and slideshows with original music, and the new Movie Maker made it so hard to get the two to meet up correctly. Now that I can use the Vista version again, it makes it so much easier for me. Thanks again, David.