RE: Movie Maker Problems

From: rmarko (rmarko_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 08/30/04 

Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 01:15:02 -0700

A few things to consider.

a. Movie Maker is a Microsoft product.
b. Here are two tips I found to be extremely useful.

1. After you start MM, press Ctrl+Alt+Del. Windows Task Manager will pop up;
minimze it.
2. Every time that MM gets stuck for a very long time, close it by Task
Manager's End Process button, then restart MM, >>> then close it regularly
and restart it one more time. <<<

As for tip #1's importance. When you start Task Manager, you'll find a new
icon in your notification area at the bottom-right corner of your screen
(near the clock). It's sort of like a dark-green box that sometimes gets
filled with a bright-green color. The higher the britght-green reaches, the
more your computer is busy - or to be more exact, the more MM is working and
cannot be disturbed.

Make it a normal habit to look at that green box before you click every
click, or touch any option in MM. Let the green bar go down, and only then
proceed to your next agenda.

Meaning, if you split a video in your timeline and then you want to cancel
the Fade In on the 2nd part - it should go like this:

1. Go to the exact frame BY USING THE ">>" "<<" BUTTONS below your preview
pane - That's how you'll avoid missing the exact frame. The point where you
split the frame is on the frame that's 1 after the last frame of the 1st
part, and the 1st frame of the 2nd part.
2. Before you click split, look at the green bar. Wait for it to drop to dark.
3. Hit split. Wait for the bars to cool off.
4. Right click the 2nd part's video segment. Wait for bars.
5. Unmark Fade in. Wait for bars.
6. Right click augio segment. Wait... you get the picture.

Last tip; save your project all the time. That way, even if MM goes into Not
Responding mode, you won't lose your project.

Tell me if this answered your questions.

"JND" wrote:

> Bigcan@aol.com and I appear to be having a similar problem. when playing
> back Video clips the video monitor goes blank and the sound keeps playing, or
> my computer freezes all together. I find this problem occurs mostly when I
> And repeatedly stopping and playing a clip during editing or switching
> between clips. I have also found that when I go to split a clip the actual
> split point is often slightly before the picture in the preview monitor.
> I'm running windows XP SP2 on a 3GHz HP pavilion laptop. I've only used
> movie maker a half dozen times and these problems happen every time I try to
> use it. Thank you for your comments regarding these issues.
> --
> johnydell

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