While I see folk struggle with this title that appears to have no support from its maker, the usual trick is to run all the clips through a transcoder like HANDBRAKE to get all clips to be encoded exactly the same way. Only the newbie would check the encoding and think that's good enough. After too many encounters I have to write I'm glad I ignored WMM.
Bob
I am currently running Windows Movie Maker 2011. I'm having problems opening a saved project.
For example: I load in 8 video clips file type AVCHD (.m2ts) at a about 4 minutes long for all the clips added together. I do not have a problem loading the clips into Movie Maker the problem is when I save the project and reopen the project one clip will have the dreaded exclamation mark "!" on one of the files.
Now get this, if I than close the project and reopen the same project that exclamation mark "!" is now on a different clip and the clip that had the exclamation mark "!" is now working fine. I could do this all day and that exclamation mark "!" will move from clip to clip.
After the problem started I did load and use Windows Movie Maker 2012 and that was worse so I'm back to Windows Movie Maker 2011.
As for Windows Movie Maker 2011 I have had it on this computer for approximately 2 years and I have not had a problem until recent. Just a year ago I loaded 30 minutes of AVCHD (.m2ts) video and saved the project numerous times editing over a few weeks time and made a 10 minute long HD video without any problems.
I have researched this on Google, and various forums and I can't find a fix,
PLEASE HELP.
Below is the computer in question:
Window 7 Home Premium 64 bit (6.1, Build 7601)
Service Pack 1
Dell XPS 8300
Processor: Intel Core i5-2310CPU @ 2.90GHz
Installed Memory (RAM): 6.00 GB
System Type: 64-bit Operating System
BIOS: Ver: 04.06.04 06/20/11
Page file: 2571 MB used, 9679 available
DirectX Version: DirectX 11
Display: AMD Radeon HD 6670
Driver Version: 13.152.1.8000 10/8/2013
Driver Model: WDDM 1.1
Chip Type: AMD Radeon Graphics Processor (0x675
DAC Type: Internal DAC (400MHz)
Approx Total Memory: 3829 MB
Current Display Mode: 1280 x 1024 (31 bit) (60 Hz)
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