Open WLMP files in your browser
The project Windows Live Movie Maker saved, found years later on an old laptop or a backup. See its storyline right here and make the movie again as an MP4 from its photos, videos and music. Nothing leaves your device.
Or drop it anywhere on this page
What you'll see
Your project opens as its storyline: the photos, videos and title cards one after another, with the captions and music beside them, and Make the movie plays it into an MP4.
- Storyline, captions and music • Each clip where Movie Maker put it
- Photos and videos • Their pictures on the clips once dropped with it
- Titles and captions • Their words, colors and fonts
- Make the movie • An MP4 with its transitions, titles and sound
About WLMP
Movie Maker 2011 and 2012, part of Windows Essentials, saved each project as a small XML file: the paths of the photos, videos and songs it used, then every clip in the storyline with its length, its transition, its pan and zoom and its effects, the title cards and captions with their words, colors and fonts, and the music and narration with their volume. Microsoft stopped offering Movie Maker in 2017, and nothing else opens its projects.
Filepeek reads it as Movie Maker laid it out: the storyline of photos, videos and title cards one after another, each transition over the end of the clip before it, the captions where they sit over the video, and the music and narration beneath. Drop the project with its photos, videos and songs and each clip shows its pictures, found by its file’s name wherever they are now.
Make the movie plays the storyline into an MP4, as Movie Maker did when you saved the movie: the photos with their pan and zoom, the videos, the title cards and captions, each transition as a fade, and the clips’ own sound mixed with the music. Movie Maker’s animated text effects and fancy transitions come out as plain fades.
Windows Live Movie Maker project
.wlmp
Format
- MIME type
- application/xml
- Made by
- Microsoft
Inside the file
- Holds
- Storyline, captions, music and narration
- Media
- Photos, videos and songs, by their paths
- Format
- XML
- Made by
- Movie Maker 2011 and 2012
Opens in every browser
Filepeek opens WLMP projects and makes their movie in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari. On their own, browsers only download them.
- YouChromeOpens through Filepeek
- YouEdgeOpens through Filepeek
- YouFirefoxOpens through Filepeek
- YouSafariOpens through Filepeek
Apps that open WLMP
- WindowsMovie Maker, discontinued in 2017 • Clipchamp doesn’t open it
- MacNo app opens it
- iPhone and iPadNo app opens it
- AndroidNo app opens it
Questions
How do I open a WLMP file without Movie Maker?
Drop it on this page or press Peek a WLMP. It opens as its storyline in your browser, on Windows, a Mac, an iPhone or Android, with nothing to install.
How do I turn a WLMP into a video?
Drop the project with its photos, videos and music, then pick Make the movie in Export. Filepeek plays the storyline into an MP4 on your device, which any phone, computer or website plays.
Why do my clips show their names instead of pictures?
A WLMP only keeps the paths of its photos, videos and songs, never the files. Drop the project together with them, or the folder they’re in, and each clip finds its file by its name.
Why is my movie silent?
The sound comes from the videos and songs dropped with the project. Movie Maker’s WMA songs and WMV videos don’t play in browsers, so their sound is left out. A song saved as MP3 or M4A plays.
Do my titles and effects come out as in Movie Maker?
The words, colors, fonts and places come out as Movie Maker set them, and pan and zoom moves in or out. Its animated text effects and its fancy transitions come out as simple fades.
What about MSWMM files?
Those are Windows Movie Maker 2.6’s projects from Windows XP and Vista, a different format of their own. They open on their About card.
Can I still download Movie Maker?
No. Microsoft stopped offering Windows Essentials in 2017, and Clipchamp, which replaced it, doesn’t open WLMP projects.