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wendyw6718049
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April 24, 2020
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Exporting my video to my desktop Prem Elements 2018

  • April 24, 2020
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When I try export my video from my timeline to my destop I get a black screen that shows my title but when I click on the play button it is completely inactive-- there is no audio or video.  Sometimes it will show the first shot of the video but when I press play, it does not respond and when I scrub there the video there is only black

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wendyw6718049Author
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April 24, 2020

Since I'm new at this I may not understand your questions well enough to answer them.  I am exporting and sharing an MP4 file on my timeline to my desktop. My source videos came from vimeo as an MP4 file or from the clips from the tutorial that Steve Grisetti does online.  I'm not sure what my project settings are but my output settings are MP4 H.264 and HD720.  Here is a screen shot which is not very good but I'm not really familiar with this computer which is a PC.  I wondered if it was a problem with my settings because when I tried to download another video from a website a friend sent me, the same thing happend and yet when I download from vimeo onto my computer, it's perfect. Thnaks for any insight you might have.

 

 

 

Are you "Exporting and Sharing" to a MP4 file?  Can you be more specific about your steps, you source videos, your project settings and output settings?  Posted screen shots can help too!

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Steve Grisetti
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April 24, 2020

Instead of using Windows Media Player to play the file, use the more dependable, free VLC Media Player. Windows Media Player may be the only media player in the world that sometimes chokes on MP4s.

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    wendyw6718049Author
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    April 25, 2020

    That was the perfect answer.  VLC Media Player worked.  THANK YOU very much.

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    Bill SpragueCommunity Expert
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    April 24, 2020

    Are you "Exporting and Sharing" to a MP4 file?  Can you be more specific about your steps, you source videos, your project settings and output settings?  Posted screen shots can help too!

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