What can I do if I upgrade to Windows XP SP2 and Windows Movie Maker 2.1 is not installed successfully?

re: What can I do if I upgrade to Windows XP SP2 and Windows Movie Maker 2.1 is not installed successfully?

Nektar — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 16:44:00 GMT

What I do not understand is why you have removed Movie Maker from the download center. Previously you could download Movie Maker 2.0 from the download center or from the Windows Media website. If Movie Maker 2.1 was also available for download it would have solved many issue. Why should I have to download a 270 SP2 file in order to get Movie Maker? And do not tell me Movie Maker is like Internet Explorer and is so integrated with the operating system.

re: What can I do if I upgrade to Windows XP SP2 and Windows Movie Maker 2.1 is not installed successfully?

Dean Rowe — Tue, 18 Jan 2005 22:04:00 GMT

One of the reasons we pulled MovieMaker 2.0 from the Microsoft download site was that you could run into problems if you tried to install MovieMaker 2.0 when you already had MovieMaker 2.1 installed with SP2. As the MovieMaker 2.0 setup was written before SP2 existed it doesn't know to not try to overwrite 2.1.
The other main reason is that MovieMaker uses various system components especially the Windows Media SDK and Direct Show. It would have been a lot more work to test it with the various different combinations of all the components on an SP1 system. As we want to make sure we release something that has gone through a lot of testing and we feel is reliable, we focused testing on SP2.
I know this isn't ideal for everyone but if you ever look at the MovieMaker newsgroups there are still other sites that offer MovieMaker 2.0 for download for those folks that have a reason not to upgrade to SP2.

re: What can I do if I upgrade to Windows XP SP2 and Windows Movie Maker 2.1 is not installed successfully?

Larry — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 23:09:00 GMT

Having same problem as above. I checked all of the files and All EXEPT "moviemk" show the new version but that file still shows 2.0 Any Ideas?
Larry

re: What can I do if I upgrade to Windows XP SP2 and Windows Movie Maker 2.1 is not installed successfully?

Dean Rowe — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 00:40:00 GMT

If you right click the MovieMk.exe file in explorer, select Properties, and click the version tab, what does it say for file version?
Thanks
Dean.

re: What can I do if I upgrade to Windows XP SP2 and Windows Movie Maker 2.1 is not installed successfully?

typhoon — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 00:58:00 GMT

I am in charge a a small computer editing lab at out schools tv studio and we use Movie Maker 2.1, Premie 6.5, Videowave 4,5, Imovie (On mac os 10.2.8) and Final cut pro. I was wondering though, why does Movie maker rarley get updated. Version 1 came out way back in Windows ME days then 1.1 came out a while later then 2.0 in Jan of 04 and 2.1 in Nov 04. My quesion is why is there a full year gap between 2.0 and 2.1? Why cant you guys just release verions every couple of months. I mean from 2.0 to 2.1 there were like no new transitions, no new effects no new nothing except for codec control and Gpedit. It seems like if almost a year goes by there should be a pretty good amount of new material.

I do like that the program is real time editing though.

re: What can I do if I upgrade to Windows XP SP2 and Windows Movie Maker 2.1 is not installed successfully?

Dean Rowe — Fri, 21 Jan 2005 19:18:00 GMT

I'm glad you like the fact that we do everything in realtime. There are a lot of factors which go into when we make a release of Movie Maker. First of all we want to make sure that we release a high quality version of MovieMaker that has gone through thorough testing. There is a lot of work our test team does, to make this happen, including testing MovieMaker when some of the components we use change. So although I don’t think you’ll ever see us release something every two months (I don’t think most people would want updates that frequently anyway), hopefully we can get more consistent updates out in the future.

re: What can I do if I upgrade to Windows XP SP2 and Windows Movie Maker 2.1 is not installed successfully?

Ron — Fri, 28 Jan 2005 17:16:00 GMT

Thanks for this page, I checked that all files were the correct ones. But I did find remenant
older version dll and help manual in another
folder, so the overwrite could not be too clean. Every time I open WMM2.1, a pop-up appears and says program will have to close.
But if you leave the pop-up there, you can import and view ect, but soon as you drag something down to the time line it freezes?
Confused!

re: What can I do if I upgrade to Windows XP SP2 and Windows Movie Maker 2.1 is not installed successfully?

Dean Rowe — Sat, 29 Jan 2005 03:07:00 GMT

If it crashes then if you can send me the bucket number of the crash I can try to find out what's going on.

To get the crash bucket number:
1. Use Movie Maker to generate the crash. When you are prompted, click
the button to send the data to Microsoft.
2. Immediately after sending the data, go to "Control Panel" |
"Administrative tools" | "Event viewer".
3. In Event viewer, choose the "Application" node of the tree on the
left.
4. Sort the data by "Date", and scroll to the most recent
entries.
5. Look for entries where the "Type" is "error" and have red "X"
icons. Double click on them to "open" them.
6. One of the last (most recent) red entries should be for MovieMaker
and have a "bucket number" in the description field

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R Hawkins — Wed, 09 Feb 2005 21:30:00 GMT

Movie maker stopping saving the movie to hard disk at 99% with 10 seconds left.

re: What can I do if I upgrade to Windows XP SP2 and Windows Movie Maker 2.1 is not installed successfully?

Dean Rowe — Thu, 10 Feb 2005 00:22:00 GMT

If you've checked that you have the right version of all the DLL's then the next step I would take is to see if you can turn off any of the filters in the compatibility tab. See this blog entry for further details.
http://blogs.msdn.com/deanro/archive/2004/08/22/218501.aspx

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