Re: PapaJohn help

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From: PapaJohn \(MVP\) (PapaJohn_at_CharterMI.net)
Date: 02/09/05


Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 12:05:10 -0500

Yes...

test your setup by saving something as a DV-AVI file on your hard drive and
use the WinDV utility (link on the Digital Camcorders > Intro page of my
site if you need it) to copy it from there to your camcorder.

-- 
PapaJohn
Movie Maker 2 and Photo Story 3 - www.papajohn.org
Photo Story 2 - www.photostory.papajohn.org
.
"Randy" <Randy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:DEB5B9EE-8126-4CDC-9EFF-FC06ACB2B49A@microsoft.com...
> PapaJohn,
> Does saving a movie to the hard drive require a rendering process that 
> uses
> a temperary file?  I have done this and the movie playes fine on the hard
> drive.  But I still can't render this movie to my cameria tape!
> Randy
>
> "PapaJohn (MVP)" wrote:
>
>> Hi Randy,
>>
>> When changing the location of MM2's temporary files, it's best to browse 
>> to
>> the folder you want to use rather than typing it in.... that'll preclude 
>> any
>> typos.
>>
>> On the temporary files that Movie Maker creates, look in the folder for 
>> new
>> subfolders with names like the one I just created: WMT1D.tmp
>>
>> It's a folder and under it is another folder with a really long
>> alpha-numeric name like {AE742F52-958A....etc, etc.).... in that 
>> subfolder
>> is the temporary video file with the normal name of your movie.
>> -- 
>> PapaJohn
>>
>> Movie Maker 2 and Photo Story 3 - www.papajohn.org
>> Photo Story 2 - www.photostory.papajohn.org
>> ..
>> "Randy" <Randy@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:3466EA4C-FB03-48DD-91E7-63F6D24DBD75@microsoft.com...
>> > Back on 1/24/05 we started a thread, but I still have been unable to
>> > render
>> > my movie to DV cameria tape.  (I have now successfully saved the movie 
>> > to
>> > my
>> > hard drive, and also to a CD-RW, except for the last 5 minutes I only 
>> > had
>> > sound due to being low on virutal memory.)  Per your suggestion to 
>> > remove
>> > any
>> > of the "DV-AVI files from the temperary folder that MM was using, I 
>> > have
>> > removed all of the ".tmp" files, but there is still a lot of "stuff" 
>> > still
>> > in
>> > that default folder: (C:\Documents and Settings\Tmp\Local 
>> > Settings\Temp\)
>> > This apperaently helped, because when I tried again to render the move,
>> > the
>> > error message,"movie did not transfeer to your DV camera", did not come 
>> > up
>> > untill after 40 minutes and it had been coming up after 5 minutes 
>> > before.
>> > This 23 minute movie, which I have suscessfully rendered before, takes
>> > about
>> > 2.5 hours.
>> > 1) How do you determine if any DV-AVI files were left in the tempory
>> > folder,
>> > so that I can remove them...Do they have a certain file extension?
>> >
>> > Also I tried to just replace the C:\ temperary file with D:\ but it
>> > wouldn't
>> > let me change. So I typed in D:\WUtemp\ and that seemed to take, so I
>> > tried
>> > to render again , but the same error message came up after about 5
>> > minutes.
>> > 2) Is there a proper proceedure to change the C:\ temperary folder to 
>> > D:\
>> > ?
>> > Thanks again for your help.
>> > Randy
>> >
>> > -- 
>> > RR
>>
>>
>> 


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