Okay Subeta, please give me some help here.

I love the heck out of my Windows Movie Maker. I realize I can't do anything super fancy with it, I realize it may have a lot of kinks that need some working out, but compared to everything else I've used I find it's the simplest thing for me to use as well as the most effective considering the materials I have to work with.

However, I have one tiny problem - green flashes.

I'll get my video all set up and do a final run through, and I'll be super proud of it and all. Then I hit 'publish to this computer' and sit back and wait for it to do it's thing. When I go to play the video, however, it contains random green flashes that are extremely obvious.

I heard somewhere once that defragmenting your hard drive corrects this problem, and for perhaps six months it did. That, however, is no longer solving the green flash problem.

What I do is I have the video all set and ready to go, then I defragment my hard drive and find something else to do while the computer defragments itself. I don't touch it until it's done, and that's only to hit the publish button on my video.

So please, if anyone has any solutions, I'd love to hear them. I love making my videos, and I'd like to get back to it asap. Thanks in advance for the help.

Lots of people have the same problem, right up to defragmenting being a temporary fix, it seems.

I Googled it - maybe try what they suggested here.

Another forum I found said that publishing the movies in "D-AVI(NTSC) Format" fixed their problem.

I always make sure my files are Windows Media files, I have a converter just for that.

I'm not sure I can convert the files into D-AVI files, but I'll give it a try, thanks for the suggestion.

Anyone else got anything in case that doesn't work?

Edit - Converting the videos to AVI files does get rid of the green flashes, but it creates a new problem - the movie is now squished into the top half of the screen, while the bottom half is a giant green bar.

If anyone knows how to fix this particular problem that would be great, probably better than trying to fix the green flashes.

Try this:

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Sounds like the problem you're having. x)

Except I apparently do not have XVid anywhere in my computer. I tried doing a search for it and it does not exist. Is this something I should have?

I remember reading that on another forum. I think the person installed whatever that is and it fixed their problem. Maybe you have some kind of half-installed corrupted version or something? Not sure. Try Googling that problem: I saw it pop up in my results, too.

Actually, XVid is some kind of downloaded video codec pack apparently (I googled it).

Edit -

I took the leap and downloaded it, then did what the link provided a few posts above said. This has not helped.

I had the same problem. I was using wmv files though, and I tried all of those things as well. To fix it all I did was convert the clips to avi and then used the xvid "compatibility renderer" thing and it worked fine. It was a huge pain in the butt though, I was all done and I wasnt able to convert the clips unless I re split them after I had converted them to avi Dx

EDIT: If you are using other file types, maybe try doing what I did and making them AVI. If that doesnt work, or you are using avi's then I have no idea what else you could do :/

Wait, how the heck do you even use XVid? I mean, what does it do? can't figure it out

For using I meant I enabled it, sorry for the confusion. Go into start, all programs, xvid, configure decoder and then under output check the "compatibilty renderer". Xvid is a codec for the use of MPEG-4. Basicly, I just followed what was in the link Kaileia posted, after I had converted my clips to AVI format.

Edit: User link failed, so I just took the link out.

Okay but I did that and it hasn't helped the green screen issue or the green flashes. I tried reconverting the video after I made the change and then republishing it, but that hasn't done anything.