Re: Audio/Video...what the hell?

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From: Dean Rowe [MS] (deanro_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/17/04


Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 11:43:31 -0800

When you say the same things happen or it doesn't save at all. What happens
when it doesn't save? Do you get an error message?

There are no other programs I know of that can read in the MovieMaker
project format. However there are programs that can read in WMV and DV-AVI
files and create DVD's and Video CD's. Do you want to do that or just copy
the WMV file to a CD? There's a bunch of information about this on
PapaJohn's website under CD Burning... and DVD Software see
http://www.papajohn.org

If you do want to create a DV-AVI file you can do that by going to Other
settings: on the Movie Setting page within the Save Movie Wizard and
selecting DV-AVI from the list. (If Other settings: isn't visible then click
on Show more choices...). It sounds like you may have already tried this
though. Did you have enough free hard space for the DV-AVI file? DV-AVI
files tend to be much larger than WMV files so they do require a lot more
hard disc space.

What speed processor do you have on your machine? Do you happen to have a 2
processor machine?

Sorry if I have more questions then answers
Regards
Dean Rowe
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:ed2701c40c32$cd1351b0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> 1.) No, I saved a previous movie perfectly fine.
> 2.) The timeline is 10 minutes long and the only
> transitions are clips overlapping to blend and fade.
> 3.) Either the same thing happens when I save it to my
> computer or it doesn't save at all.
> 4.) I don't know how to save it as a DV-AVI file to a CD,
> but when I tried doing that for my hard drive it gave me
> an error message that says, "Windows Movie Maker cannot
> save the movie to the specified location. Verify that the
> original source files used in your movie are still
> available, that the saving location is still available,
> and that there is enough free disk space available, and
> then try again."
>
> Thanks for the response. I understand that these
> questions are necessary in order to solve my program. One
> more question: are there any programs that can import the
> WMM file directly without changing it, and then just burn
> it from there?
> >-----Original Message-----
> >I don't want to overload you with questions but here are
> some questions to
> >see if we can narrow down the problem.
> >Does this problem happen on all projects or just this
> one? What does your
> >timeline look like? Do you have a lot of transistions
> between clips? Have
> >you tried just publishing the timeline to a WMV file on
> your local machine
> >to see if it also happens or is it only when you save to
> a CD?
> >Could you try saving the movie as a DV-AVI file to see
> if that still shows
> >the problem?
> >Regards
> >Dean Rowe
> >This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
> confers no rights.
> >
> >"A. Patel" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote
> in message
> >news:ba9001c40be0$c4f1d760$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> >> I have tried burning my video on to a CD over a
> dozen
> >> times, but I get the same result: at seemingly random
> >> times, it locks up on a visual but the audio continues
> to
> >> the end. Sometimes, if it freezes on a picture, the
> >> picture is flipped upside-down.
> >> I've looked on PapaJohn's site and on other sites,
> >> but I couldn't find anything about this particular
> >> problem.
> >> I'm not sure if I described the problem accurately,
> >> so if you need clarification, I won't be surprised.
> >> Thanks for your time.
> >
> >
> >.
> >



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