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[lavendergaia]

So, I know I've been a whiny complainer the past few days and I'm sorry. But it looks like Windows Movie Maker is fully corrupted so everything I've ever done with it is going to be lost. Which is about as fun as it sounds because I have one vid finished and my Bela vid that I've been working on for a YEAR will also be lost. At this point, I'm

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[write_light]

So is the only issue that you can't download a working, uncorrupted copy of WMM? If so, just save the files until you have a better copy. Unless it corrupted the files along with itself. :(

In other news, your scrollbar image was wider than my layout, so it came with its own scrollbar. Whih I was forced to use. I feel smarter.

[lavendergaia]

The problem is that if I uninstall my current version of WMM, then it's going to lose all of my clips. and then the video probably won't work right because it'll be searching for clips that no longer exist. And we searched for the bin because we thought we might be able to save them, but it looks like that part is corrupted too.

Oh, good, so I can pass on knowledge. Maybe that was the point of needing that for my teaching certificate?

[write_light]

I have no idea how WMM operates, but is it creating movie files that exist utterly inside it's own interface (and can't be saved separately and reopened)? Or are they now unextractable? Or corrupt in and of themselves?

[lavendergaia]

From what we've figured out, it basically loads the clips into an interface and then when you add the clips to the timeline it creates links, not actual clips. So if I redownload WMM, the links/clips won't be there anymore, and the project will not be able to find what it's looking for. Does that make any sense? I feel like I'm not making sense.

[write_light]

No, you ARE! :D I'm just trying to help out blindly. Now that I see how it works, I would have to agree you are screwed. Sorry. You might try asking on message boards related to WMM. Have you been here? http://www.windowsmoviemakers.net/Forums/Default.aspx

[lavendergaia]

Oh, I have not. I will check that out. Thank you! I've just been constantly refreshing the help thread I started at the Microsoft homepage and they've been, shockingly enough, supremely unhelpful.

[write_light]

Never ask the maker to explain why their product is ineffective. :D Ask other users how to fix the GD thing. Much more efficient use of time.

[lavendergaia]

Haha, fair enough. I guess I like to have more hope in companies than I should.