Losing my video (goes black) during trimming

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Xtatic

I've been using Movie maker to make videos before, but I just got a new
flash-camcorder and when I try to trim the clips, I lose my video and my
screen goes black -I still have audio though.
I have looked on this site and seen the suggestions about filters -I have
only two when I check my tools and compatibility -a video decoder and audio
decoder (ffdshow) - that I downloaded with the camcorder. I can turn both or
one of these on or off and it makes no difference.
Any thoughts on what to try next?
 
what type of video files are they? if you don't know, what's the brand and
model camcorder? they may not work with Movie Maker; if so, they would need
conversion before importing.
 
Xtatic said:
I've been using Movie maker to make videos before, but I just got a
new flash-camcorder and when I try to trim the clips, I lose my video
and my screen goes black -I still have audio though.
I have looked on this site and seen the suggestions about filters -I
have only two when I check my tools and compatibility -a video
decoder and audio decoder (ffdshow) - that I downloaded with the
camcorder. I can turn both or one of these on or off and it makes no
difference.
Any thoughts on what to try next?
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You may have some incompatibility issues
with your source files. Have a look at the
following articles:

Movie Maker 2 - Importing MPEG Files
http://tinyurl.com/eajjh
or...
http://www.papajohn.org/MM2-Importing-Video-MPEG2.html

File type compatibility with Movie Maker
http://tinyurl.com/v8tee
or...
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/Tutorials/MovieMaker/File_type_compatibility.htm

Which file type should I use in Movie Maker?
http://tinyurl.com/6n66g3
or...
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/Tutorials/MovieMaker/WhichFileTypeInMovieMaker.htm


Also:

How do I convert an mpeg to WMV
with Windows Media Encoder?
http://tinyurl.com/2m4gob
or...
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/Tutorials/ConvertMpeg2wmv.html

--

John Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

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This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk
 
I was having the same problem also and how I fixed it was by importing the
original video into WMM and just publishing it. Then I imported the WMM file
and used that for editing.

I am using Windows Vista and my camcorder is a Memorex
 
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