Vista - windows movie maker:black preview screen

i am creating a video for our school's banquet,and everytime i add a
transition to any slide, the preview screen goes black and i have to get rid
of the transitions to see a picture. Sometimes even doing that doesn't work.
Anyone know what to do? i really need these transitions to make it look good.

Does it work once you save it out?
In my experience, this has typically indicated video card driver problems -
is there an update available from your vendor?

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"Rachel" <Rachel@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:4ABB6B06-3A09-4192-860C-8CC502704246@microsoft.com...
>i am creating a video for our school's banquet,and everytime i add a
> transition to any slide, the preview screen goes black and i have to get
> rid
> of the transitions to see a picture. Sometimes even doing that doesn't
> work.
> Anyone know what to do? i really need these transitions to make it look
> good.

it did work once i published it to my computer. unfortunately, i had to do
the entire project without seeing what i was creating, but once i published
it, i could still view it, thanks!

"zachd [MSFT]" wrote:

>
> Does it work once you save it out?
> In my experience, this has typically indicated video card driver problems -
> is there an update available from your vendor?
>
> --
> Speaking for myself only.
> See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
> --
>
> "Rachel" <Rachel@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:4ABB6B06-3A09-4192-860C-8CC502704246@microsoft.com...
> >i am creating a video for our school's banquet,and everytime i add a
> > transition to any slide, the preview screen goes black and i have to get
> > rid
> > of the transitions to see a picture. Sometimes even doing that doesn't
> > work.
> > Anyone know what to do? i really need these transitions to make it look
> > good.
>
>
>

"Rachel" wrote:

> i am creating a video for our school's banquet,and everytime i add a
> transition to any slide, the preview screen goes black and i have to get rid
> of the transitions to see a picture. Sometimes even doing that doesn't work.
> Anyone know what to do? i really need these transitions to make it look good.

Hi Rachel
I also had the same problem which was totally annoying. I took it back to
my computer shop and they in turn had phoned microsoft to check regarding
this problem. Apparently, microsoft were aware of this problem and were
going to do some sort of an upgrade that we could then download. I haven't
heard as yet but it should be pretty close.
Doesn't help much but at least you are doing anything wrong just a
"microsoft problem" - you'd think they could have gotten it right!

"Rachel" wrote:

> i am creating a video for our school's banquet,and everytime i add a
> transition to any slide, the preview screen goes black and i have to get rid
> of the transitions to see a picture. Sometimes even doing that doesn't work.
> Anyone know what to do? i really need these transitions to make it look good.

"Rachel" wrote:

> i am creating a video for our school's banquet,and everytime i add a
> transition to any slide, the preview screen goes black and i have to get rid
> of the transitions to see a picture. Sometimes even doing that doesn't work.
> Anyone know what to do? i really need these transitions to make it look good.

No update in sight. Anyone's got any news? It's really frustrating!
/Erik

"lola30" wrote:

> Hi Rachel
> I also had the same problem which was totally annoying. I took it back to
> my computer shop and they in turn had phoned microsoft to check regarding
> this problem. Apparently, microsoft were aware of this problem and were
> going to do some sort of an upgrade that we could then download. I haven't
> heard as yet but it should be pretty close.
> Doesn't help much but at least you are doing anything wrong just a
> "microsoft problem" - you'd think they could have gotten it right!
>
> "Rachel" wrote:
>
> > i am creating a video for our school's banquet,and everytime i add a
> > transition to any slide, the preview screen goes black and i have to get rid
> > of the transitions to see a picture. Sometimes even doing that doesn't work.
> > Anyone know what to do? i really need these transitions to make it look good.

On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 14:22:16 -0700, erik1983
<erik1983@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>No update in sight. Anyone's got any news? It's really frustrating!
>/Erik
>
>"lola30" wrote:
>
>> Hi Rachel
>> I also had the same problem which was totally annoying. I took it back to
>> my computer shop and they in turn had phoned microsoft to check regarding
>> this problem. Apparently, microsoft were aware of this problem and were
>> going to do some sort of an upgrade that we could then download. I haven't
>> heard as yet but it should be pretty close.
>> Doesn't help much but at least you are doing anything wrong just a
>> "microsoft problem" - you'd think they could have gotten it right!
>>
>> "Rachel" wrote:
>>
>> > i am creating a video for our school's banquet,and everytime i add a
>> > transition to any slide, the preview screen goes black and i have to get rid
>> > of the transitions to see a picture. Sometimes even doing that doesn't work.
>> > Anyone know what to do? i really need these transitions to make it look good.

Just for kicks I put together a quick slideshow of 64 pictures. In
turn I used every transition in Movie Maker, all 63 of them in turn.
They all dropped in fine and all played fine on my system. I did
notice some would blank the preview window during the drag and drop
phase. If you firmly hold down the left mouse button and only drop
AFTER the cursor changes to a "+" no problems at all.

So I would conclude people having problems are:

1. not dragging and dropping correctly
2. something odd in their particular setup
3. one or more source images files is causing the problem
4. one or more of the transition files are corrupt.

Read it and weep. It's a problem with their bundled movie maker. Go buy
something that works......

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943592/en-us


"Rachel" wrote:

Here we are a year on and 10 posts here and guess wot? I have used windows
movie maker many many times ..... I am taking video from my digital video
camera to edit it into a watchable movie - Also using movie maker to extract
single frames...... Oh no I'm not - all I get is a blank blank screen on the
preview. Although the entire video will play from videos. Impossible to get
single frames off and non of the complied movie will play - However the
preinstalled sample vidoe clips of the bear an butterfly play back perfect!!
No fix from micro soft - Bloody Appauling in my opinion!!!

"Rachel" wrote: