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From: Angloreg (Angloreg_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 11/15/04


Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 21:09:02 -0800

Hi all :o) I'm new to this and generally like to work things out on my own,
but thing has been driving me nuts for 7 weeks now...day and night (yup yup
yup)...oh, and I'm French by the way, sorry if I'm not always clear enough,
I'm doing my best !

OK, here's the prob : I got married 2 months ago (stop laughing, that is NOT
the problem !) and 2 friends videotaped the whole thing. I uploaded the 3
tapes onto my computer in DV-AVI format. That takes me something like 13 Gb a
tape.
I then mixed the 3 tapes together, cutting the whole thing into smaller
parts (each .MSWMM part being approx 2 Mb)...adding sound and a few effects.

Now...Each time I want to save those parts into ANY format, it just won't
let me. Last time I checked, my friend Movie Maker kindly advised me that the
remaining time was a little more than 3 million minutes...so I gave up. I
then uninstalled SP2 to go back to a previous version of Media Maker...no
diff.

I follow a few advice I found on this newsgroup and cut the parts into
smaller parts, the smallest part being only...one image ! and when I choose
the format, it always tells me that the needed space on my hard drive is 3
Gb...whether the part is one image or a 15 minute movie...and the countdown
keeps increasing, even for a single image.

When I try to save the original 13 Gb movie (without any effect or
transition whatsoever) into a DV-AVI file...it works perfectly well.

Any advise before I videotape my divorce ? Thanks in advance for your
precious help and sorry if this question looks more like a novel...lol



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