Re: Saving avi project to movie is taking increasing eternity.....
- From: ndsteve24 <ndsteve24@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 14:35:26 -0800
First of all, you don't deserve a response of anykind. Most people when they
have problems, they ask questions. They don't rant and bitch the length of a
novel. Secondly, had you bothered to peruse any previous posts, you might
find that MM has issues for some people with JPEGs.
I suggest you learn how to ask for help or go away!
"ocean" wrote:
> Well, that was an unhelpful response. Why even bother writing it? Yes, I am
> frustrated. For good reason. And I know pretty well how to use my pc. And Ive
> already spent a small fortune in purchasing this notebook computer, as much
> as i could have spent in buying a used car or motorcycle, and rightly so
> expect that it will come with programs which already work well. I should not
> have to go buy other programs to do the same tasks. Although I have done so,
> and they havent worked any better. Not being rich, i dont have disposable
> income to keep buying new software when i already have a program to do the
> tasks, and rightly expect my hard earned money to not have gone to waste with
> it.
>
> I posted here for input, while yes also expressing my honest frustration
> with the apparent tendancy of people & companies to put products into the
> market to make money when they are still unrefined, faulty and
> userunfriendly.
>
> So, after going to bed last night with the movie file being "saved" into a
> small file format supposedly final size of around 558 MB from a mere 37
> minutes of dv edited footage with minimal effects created in WMM, i came
> back this next morning after selecting to save to hopefully see its finished
> saved file - instead its STILL in process of being "saved" and, now at
> "2216330 minutes remaining" and climbing STILL higher with no progress
> indicated on the progress bar. - This is absolutely NUTS!
> If you have no empathy or understanding why this would be frustrating to
> have so much valuable time, money & energy wasted in trying to use this
> program then please and would rather just dismiss my valid questions and
> frustration like previous poster then please dont bother replying with
> dismissing comments. If you do have some workable insight or knowledge in
> this issue
> (and understand that my and others venting sometiimes like ive done comes
> from the feeling that consumers are often stuck with spending their a
> significant amount of our hard earned money & time on products which are
> designed and marketed before their really refined and their bugs worked, and
> with more emphasis on proprietary constraints then interoperability &
> efficiency of use, out in the interest of making more money quicker for their
> sellers who seem to respond like the person who replied previously or
> completely ignoring our time, situations and resulting frustrations.)
> For those who do respond to questions on this forum with sincerity &
> empathy - thank you.
>
> "Graham Hughes" wrote:
>
> > Couldn't be bothered to read all of this, why not spend some of your money
> > and buy an app which does what you want then? dv-avi is the one constant in
> > all apps, so you may well be struggling here.......
> >
> > If you have red x#s you've either deleted or moved the original file, maybe
> > learning how to use your pc would be of greater benefit than writing such
> > long posts of utter rubbish.
> >
> > --
> > Graham Hughes
> > MVP Digital Media
> > www.myvideoproblems.co.uk
> > www.dvds2treasure.com
> > www.simplydv.com
> >
> >
> > "ocean" <ocean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:EE32E339-1F98-46FD-BEDC-76E80301DE90@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Why is WMM so poorly made that it crashes more often and regularly then
> > > the
> > > sun comes up in the morning? This REALLY needs to be paid attention to and
> > > fixed, along with the user-unfriendly design chosen by microsoft in only
> > > allowing to save to wmv and HUGE avi files which take forever and a
> > > lifetime
> > > to create and save - allowing we even have enough disc space left over to
> > > save them due to the deliberately userunfriendly save to media options in
> > > wmm.
> > > So after spending many, many days and 6-15 hours during these days trying
> > > to create a simple movie file from captured video from my minidv video
> > > camera
> > > that should / could have only taken maybe 2 friggin hours if the program
> > > wasnt designed with such proprietary greed and in available output formats
> > > (wmv & giant sized avi) and dealing with constant, literally every minute
> > > freezing from wmm when trying to do the simplest of tasks such as sending
> > > a
> > > small jpg file or avi file to timeline or selecting a transition effect.
> > > So now Im trying to simply save this project into a movie file, i
> > > initially
> > > selected the greedy hog dvavi setting to save to which, for a mere 37
> > > minute
> > > file with minimum transition effects and only one tiny added audio file
> > > started showing like 989999 minutes remaining (while increasing this time
> > > to
> > > complete as i watched it supposedly saving the file to a file useable to
> > > archive to dvd and or at least to start to have it in some movie format so
> > > its not lost).
> > > Too many frustrating, precious, unreplaceable & valuable time and energy
> > > has
> > > been wasted by microsoft wmm crashing, freezing and erasing or "losing" my
> > > edited save movie projects - so that when ive restarted wmm and attempted
> > > to
> > > open saved projects it instead brings up the images of the clips in my
> > > saved
> > > projects - but not really! Instead they all are the shape of the clips but
> > > white with big red X in the middle of the shell of each clip of
> > > mysteriously
> > > "unsaved" projects.
> > > Why WMM doesnt make it simple, effective & easier (which microsoft could
> > > easily do if they cared at least as much about integrity, honor and others
> > > as
> > > they do about greed, money and selfishness under the guise of
> > > egalitarianism)
> > > to use stable, reliable, versatile software and save our projects into
> > > truly
> > > archival standalone media files and directly dvd authoring formats like
> > > mpeg,
> > > etc with harddrive, memory and userfriendly / conscious, file size
> > > formats!?.
> > > Im pretty fed up with the amount of inherent, completely unneeded
> > > cumbersomeness, perpetual crashing, and resourcehogging / way too much
> > > tiime
> > > consuminness of these programs. And this MyDVD software being touted by
> > > wmm
> > > sites is telling - as i have that software program and its utter garbage!
> > > Hardly works for anything, and its layout, designs and options as well as
> > > actual reliability to burn is kindergarden level. Atrocious and a waste of
> > > precious time as often as not.
> > > So here i am still watching the "saving movie..." minutes still rising ...
> > > at 132802 minutes AND RISING STILL - to save my project to an estimated
> > > 558MB
> > > file format to playback on computer small size. As at this point at least
> > > to
> > > get the thing to save at all so all is not lost AGAIN after hours upon
> > > hours
> > > upon hours upon wasted bloody hours of using this bloody faulty program
> > > when
> > > it should could have only taken an hour or two instead of going on a week
> > > and
> > > a frigging half due to such instability and GARGANTUANLLY HUGE file size
> > > options we are forced into saving into tiny narrow range to use by
> > > microsoft.
> > > And my computer works fine otherwise. I also just ran scann disc and
> > > defrag from before startup (i forget what thats technically called when
> > > ran
> > > below normal windows operating mode) and have about 10 gigs of harddrive
> > > space. Which should be way more then enough space to save, edit and do
> > > convert a measlly 40 minutes of digital video footage from this wedding im
> > > trying to save and burn into dvd movie.
> >
> >
> >
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