Windows Movie Maker crashes/freezes

**Greenman** · October 14th, 2014, 01:47 AM

Hi there
Recently my Windows Movie Maker XP version has crashed and frozen up dozens of times and just today I tried to make an on-screen credit appear and fade but as soon as I added it to the timeline the bloody thing crashed.

Does anyone know how to fix it? And before you say try YouTube I did several times wading through loads of fixes which didn't work so it has nothing to do with the codecs or filters-UNLESS something is blocking it.

Can anyone suggest a cure OR something that I might have overlooked, and not mentioned by these people on their Youtube videos?

Thanks.
GM

**flywax** · October 14th, 2014, 05:17 AM

mine did too when i used to run xp!
i never tried this, but you could uninstall it and then reinstall
windows movie maker for xp maybe the program got corrupted somehow!

**Greenman** · October 14th, 2014, 07:14 PM

Yeah I tried that as a last resort-short of threatening my machine with a large stick a la John Cleese(Basil Fawlty thrashes his car when it won't start) and I have also removed another player BUT now it crashes when I attempt to add any credits or on-screen titles-VERY frustrating!!!

**Greenman** · October 15th, 2014, 09:06 AM

UPDATE: I downloaded K-Lite Codec Pack last night and got back the view of the video clips BUT it still crashes or freezes on me when I try to do any editing or trimming OR try to add an on-screen credit-HELP!!!! I think my days of making videos are over thanks to Microsoft-everyone hates them for withdrawing updates to their products for XP users-you underestimated your world clients MS.

**pharoahegypt** · October 15th, 2014, 09:34 AM

the frightening thing is.... if i've been told correctly.... our British government still runs on XP too..!!!??? (shudders)

**NIN** · October 15th, 2014, 10:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pharoahegypt

the frightening thing is.... if i've been told correctly.... our British government still runs on XP too..!!!??? (shudders)

Oh yes, they do around here at the local council & joke (job) centres

cost cutting b^$t***$

Bring on the malware !

**blondifan** · October 15th, 2014, 12:01 PM

Windows XP Movie Maker crashed on me from day one, I believe.
Windoze 7 seems more stable although still crashes and fails, but I miss little things like 'Flip Horizontally' and the familiar format (etc). I see only 'rotate' in 'Live Movie Maker', which spins you round but takes you back to where you started.
I'm looking forward to the day when I sell my property and can afford an Apple Mac.

On a not wholly unrelated note Cyberlink Power Producer provided interesting alternatives, if not another process to an end result in conjunction with movie maker, before monitor screen resolution and differing XP/7-64 bit resolution became an issue. I tried Pinnacle Studio which was similar to XP's Movie Maker and also crashes and a Ulead disc I don't think I ever loaded.

Find myself missing the days when I had a life.

**Greenman** · October 15th, 2014, 02:06 PM

I tired another reinstall of MMk2 and soon after that I edited a videoclip and that went fine, then it froze me out, so I restarted, and went to add a credit first and lo and behold...it crashed again. It seems I can't do anything with it now and I've followed video after video and tip after tip online and at forum(Microsoft) and NOTHING works. I've even removed two programs that had added some codecs and that doesn't seem to have done the trick. I have Wondershare's video maker thing so I am going to try that. If not, well it looks like my days of making videos are over. And yes I have Windows Live Movie Maker on my laptop, so I tried that and as I was saving it guess what THAT crashed as well-sheesh, you can't win either way!!

It just shows how piss-poor Microsoft are/were with their movie making systems. Thank goodness it worked long enough for me to make a special 50th Anniversary video with music and pictures scanned in of my parents four years ago-I'd been working on the idea for months.

**pharoahegypt** · October 15th, 2014, 05:04 PM

Just a thought GM.... are you trying to insert one specific image at the time it always crashes..? Maybe its the image that's causing the issue? Just a side thought. PhEg.

a435843 · October 15th, 2014, 07:21 PM

Windows Movie Maker is a tough product to use, definitely not being worthy of installing all of those codecs. A free package, though it hasn't been updated recently, but comes with tons of codecs already included, is DVD Flick. It doesn't have a ton of features, about the same as WMM, but it has just about every codec that you might need, plus is quite stable. One caveat is that it doesn't handle picture CD's or DVD's, however, a separate disk made with WMM is a decent option.

October 14th, 2014, 01:47 AM	#1
Greenman Live Legend of VEF Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Underground lair somewhere in the world Posts: 20,353 Thanks: 30,936 Thanked 383,520 Times in 19,356 Posts	Windows Movie Maker crashes/freezes Hi there Recently my Windows Movie Maker XP version has crashed and frozen up dozens of times and just today I tried to make an on-screen credit appear and fade but as soon as I added it to the timeline the bloody thing crashed. Does anyone know how to fix it? And before you say try YouTube I did several times wading through loads of fixes which didn't work so it has nothing to do with the codecs or filters-UNLESS something is blocking it. Can anyone suggest a cure OR something that I might have overlooked, and not mentioned by these people on their Youtube videos? Thanks. GM __________________ There was only ONE Greenman, and you accepted no substitutes! To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. Rest in peace MaxJoker-you will be sorely missed. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. 20,000: Milestone reached!

October 14th, 2014, 07:14 PM	#3
Greenman Live Legend of VEF Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Underground lair somewhere in the world Posts: 20,353 Thanks: 30,936 Thanked 383,520 Times in 19,356 Posts	Yeah I tried that as a last resort-short of threatening my machine with a large stick a la John Cleese(Basil Fawlty thrashes his car when it won't start) and I have also removed another player BUT now it crashes when I attempt to add any credits or on-screen titles-VERY frustrating!!! __________________ There was only ONE Greenman, and you accepted no substitutes! To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. Rest in peace MaxJoker-you will be sorely missed. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. 20,000: Milestone reached!

October 15th, 2014, 09:06 AM	#4
Greenman Live Legend of VEF Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Underground lair somewhere in the world Posts: 20,353 Thanks: 30,936 Thanked 383,520 Times in 19,356 Posts	UPDATE: I downloaded K-Lite Codec Pack last night and got back the view of the video clips BUT it still crashes or freezes on me when I try to do any editing or trimming OR try to add an on-screen credit-HELP!!!! I think my days of making videos are over thanks to Microsoft-everyone hates them for withdrawing updates to their products for XP users-you underestimated your world clients MS. __________________ There was only ONE Greenman, and you accepted no substitutes! To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. Rest in peace MaxJoker-you will be sorely missed. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. 20,000: Milestone reached!

October 15th, 2014, 09:34 AM	#5
pharoahegypt Vintage Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Middle England Posts: 4,491 Thanks: 10,176 Thanked 43,618 Times in 4,154 Posts	the frightening thing is.... if i've been told correctly.... our British government still runs on XP too..!!!??? (shudders) __________________ Arguing with a intelligent person is hard; but arguing with a stupid person is impossible!

October 15th, 2014, 12:01 PM	#7
blondifan Vintage Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 4,406 Thanks: 55,000 Thanked 60,211 Times in 4,401 Posts	OutdatedOutmodedOveratedOutvotedOur rageisOutrageousObselecence Windows XP Movie Maker crashed on me from day one, I believe. Windoze 7 seems more stable although still crashes and fails, but I miss little things like 'Flip Horizontally' and the familiar format (etc). I see only 'rotate' in 'Live Movie Maker', which spins you round but takes you back to where you started. I'm looking forward to the day when I sell my property and can afford an Apple Mac. On a not wholly unrelated note Cyberlink Power Producer provided interesting alternatives, if not another process to an end result in conjunction with movie maker, before monitor screen resolution and differing XP/7-64 bit resolution became an issue. I tried Pinnacle Studio which was similar to XP's Movie Maker and also crashes and a Ulead disc I don't think I ever loaded. Find myself missing the days when I had a life.

October 14th, 2014, 05:17 AM	#2
flywax Vintage Member Join Date: May 2011 Location: Interweb's Posts: 1,068 Thanks: 3,961 Thanked 15,656 Times in 1,113 Posts	mine did too when i used to run xp! i never tried this, but you could uninstall it and then reinstall windows movie maker for xp maybe the program got corrupted somehow!

October 15th, 2014, 02:06 PM	#8
Greenman Live Legend of VEF Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Underground lair somewhere in the world Posts: 20,353 Thanks: 30,936 Thanked 383,520 Times in 19,356 Posts	I tired another reinstall of MMk2 and soon after that I edited a videoclip and that went fine, then it froze me out, so I restarted, and went to add a credit first and lo and behold...it crashed again. It seems I can't do anything with it now and I've followed video after video and tip after tip online and at forum(Microsoft) and NOTHING works. I've even removed two programs that had added some codecs and that doesn't seem to have done the trick. I have Wondershare's video maker thing so I am going to try that. If not, well it looks like my days of making videos are over. And yes I have Windows Live Movie Maker on my laptop, so I tried that and as I was saving it guess what THAT crashed as well-sheesh, you can't win either way!! It just shows how piss-poor Microsoft are/were with their movie making systems. Thank goodness it worked long enough for me to make a special 50th Anniversary video with music and pictures scanned in of my parents four years ago-I'd been working on the idea for months. __________________ There was only ONE Greenman, and you accepted no substitutes! To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. Rest in peace MaxJoker-you will be sorely missed. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. 20,000: Milestone reached!

October 15th, 2014, 05:04 PM	#9
pharoahegypt Vintage Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Middle England Posts: 4,491 Thanks: 10,176 Thanked 43,618 Times in 4,154 Posts	Just a thought GM.... are you trying to insert one specific image at the time it always crashes..? Maybe its the image that's causing the issue? Just a side thought. PhEg. __________________ Arguing with a intelligent person is hard; but arguing with a stupid person is impossible!

October 15th, 2014, 07:21 PM	#10
a435843 I got myself banned Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 582 Thanks: 2,249 Thanked 5,433 Times in 566 Posts	Windows Movie Maker is a tough product to use, definitely not being worthy of installing all of those codecs. A free package, though it hasn't been updated recently, but comes with tons of codecs already included, is DVD Flick. It doesn't have a ton of features, about the same as WMM, but it has just about every codec that you might need, plus is quite stable. One caveat is that it doesn't handle picture CD's or DVD's, however, a separate disk made with WMM is a decent option.