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Hi Cari,
A little over a week ago you helped me out, and hopefully this will be my
final question.
My original question was:
papajohn.org seems to have a solution to my problem, but it's an incredibly
impractical solution. Here's a quote from his site:
8/23/04 - My movie file, even though it is basically the same compostion
project as the original seems to be limited to near 50 MB. The program works
fine for about 9 to 11 minutes and then the music continues, but the slides
discontinue to flow (either it freezes on the last slide or it goes black) I
have tried several attempts since the original and all have the same symptoms
and all fall in the range of 48 MB to 51.5 MB I have tried other output
formats too, NTSC for example, all high quality, but the same results. >
(Microsoft) We've seen other reports of this behaviour especially on
timelines with a lot of transitions. The good news is that we made a fix in
Windows Movie Maker 2.1 within Windows XP SP2 so this problem is far more
unlikely to occur. If you don't want to install SP2 yet you can also try the
following workaround. Sometimes just trying to save your movie again will
work, as it doesn't always repro 100% of the time. If in your case it is
consistenly failing then the other suggestion I have is to save your movie as
a DV-AVI file first. To do this, when you're on the Movie Settings page
choose "Other Settings" and select DV-AVI from the list (if Other Settings
isn't visible then click "Show more choices..."). Play back the resultant
DV-AVI file to make sure that it's OK. If you ultimately want a DVD, you
should be able to import that DV-AVI file into Sonic MyDVD. If you want to
save it as a WMV file to save disk space you can also import the DV-AVI file
back into MovieMaker, drag it down to the timeline then publish it again as a
WMV file with your choice of profile.
~~~~~~~~~~~
That's exactly my problem. I've tried saving my slideshow twice now, and
both times it's had this problem. One thing I noticed while saving it was
that both times it suddenly jumped to 98% and stayed there for about five
minutes, and if it did this at 33 %, then the error occured a third of the
way through the video. It almost made it through the second time --- it was
so close --- so I'm just going to keep trying until it gets it. Saving it as
a DV AVI file requires six THOUSAND megabytes of storage, and there is no way
I'll do that. Does anyone have any tips other than to keep tryin?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
You recommended saving it as a WMV file, which I was more than willing to
try. My movie is a pictures slideshow with a lot of transitions, which I
understand is what's giving me all this trouble. I separated it into two
parts, the first being 26 minutes and the second thirteen. The second saved
as a WMV file fine, but the first gives me the exact same error as saving it
as best quality for this computer did. So, essentially, my question is: Is
there any way, at all, to save the 26 minute slideshow without error? Will
any of the possible video types save the entire thing? The biggest problem
with saving at as DV-AVI is that I'm sending it to many people, none of whom
would want a 6 gig file. Do you know of any options, or are 26 minute
slideshows just not compatible with Windows Movie Maker?
Thank you so, so, so, much for all of the help you've given me already,
- Ferg
Hi Cari,
A little over a week ago you helped me out, and hopefully this will be my
final question.
My original question was:
papajohn.org seems to have a solution to my problem, but it's an incredibly
impractical solution. Here's a quote from his site:
8/23/04 - My movie file, even though it is basically the same compostion
project as the original seems to be limited to near 50 MB. The program works
fine for about 9 to 11 minutes and then the music continues, but the slides
discontinue to flow (either it freezes on the last slide or it goes black) I
have tried several attempts since the original and all have the same symptoms
and all fall in the range of 48 MB to 51.5 MB I have tried other output
formats too, NTSC for example, all high quality, but the same results. >
(Microsoft) We've seen other reports of this behaviour especially on
timelines with a lot of transitions. The good news is that we made a fix in
Windows Movie Maker 2.1 within Windows XP SP2 so this problem is far more
unlikely to occur. If you don't want to install SP2 yet you can also try the
following workaround. Sometimes just trying to save your movie again will
work, as it doesn't always repro 100% of the time. If in your case it is
consistenly failing then the other suggestion I have is to save your movie as
a DV-AVI file first. To do this, when you're on the Movie Settings page
choose "Other Settings" and select DV-AVI from the list (if Other Settings
isn't visible then click "Show more choices..."). Play back the resultant
DV-AVI file to make sure that it's OK. If you ultimately want a DVD, you
should be able to import that DV-AVI file into Sonic MyDVD. If you want to
save it as a WMV file to save disk space you can also import the DV-AVI file
back into MovieMaker, drag it down to the timeline then publish it again as a
WMV file with your choice of profile.
~~~~~~~~~~~
That's exactly my problem. I've tried saving my slideshow twice now, and
both times it's had this problem. One thing I noticed while saving it was
that both times it suddenly jumped to 98% and stayed there for about five
minutes, and if it did this at 33 %, then the error occured a third of the
way through the video. It almost made it through the second time --- it was
so close --- so I'm just going to keep trying until it gets it. Saving it as
a DV AVI file requires six THOUSAND megabytes of storage, and there is no way
I'll do that. Does anyone have any tips other than to keep tryin?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
You recommended saving it as a WMV file, which I was more than willing to
try. My movie is a pictures slideshow with a lot of transitions, which I
understand is what's giving me all this trouble. I separated it into two
parts, the first being 26 minutes and the second thirteen. The second saved
as a WMV file fine, but the first gives me the exact same error as saving it
as best quality for this computer did. So, essentially, my question is: Is
there any way, at all, to save the 26 minute slideshow without error? Will
any of the possible video types save the entire thing? The biggest problem
with saving at as DV-AVI is that I'm sending it to many people, none of whom
would want a 6 gig file. Do you know of any options, or are 26 minute
slideshows just not compatible with Windows Movie Maker?
Thank you so, so, so, much for all of the help you've given me already,
- Ferg
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