I cannot open a wlmp file

Think of the project file as a printed recipe. It might say, "take a stick of butter and mix it with a cup of flour and a cup of sugar, then add 2 eggs, etc." At the top of that recipe it *lists* the ingredients you need and how to mix them, but a recipe doesn't have any actual ingredients within it.

If you take your project file to another PC which doesn't have any of the media files (ingredients), there is no way to use that recipe. It would be like giving a recipe to someone that doesn't have any of the ingredients and also doesn't have a kitchen for following the recipe.

So whenever you want to share your creation and make sure they can enjoy it, you need to actually follow the recipe using your ingredients and bake them together into a final creation (a movie file). The movie file in .mp4 format is what you can share on another PC or with your instructor. They don't need any of your original source files and they don't need to have Movie Maker either.

Many thanks for your time and response.

I edited a video I had recorded on a different PC and needed to forward the file via Dropbox but it wouldn’t open or convert.

I haven’t got Movie Maker in my own laptop so I wasn’t sure if that was why?

Thanks again,

Lisa

First, the .wlmp files is NOT a movie. It is the *project* file which just contains text. Specifically it contains a list of media files used in your project and then all the details on how much of each clip is used, their order, effects that applied, titles that are added, etc.

Second, why can't you open the .wlmp file? Is it something that you created on your computer using Movie Maker? If so, it should be able to be reopened back in the state it was when you were previously editing. The only exception would be if you did something to the media files used in the project. Each time Movie Maker loads the project, it needs to look through the list of media files to be able to show you a preview of each clip. But if you did something to rename, move or delete the original videos, you aren't going to be able to see anything. Movie Maker will instead show a yellow triangle with an exclamation point.

If you are able to reopen your project file and you are able to reload the clips, then what you want to save is the movie. Use File > Save movie. Note: this is different than File > Save project in that it creates an actual .mp4 (video) file that can be viewed on another PC.