Re: Windows Movie Maker will not save to AVI format

From: Graham Hughes, MVP Digital Media (graham_at_simplydv.co.uk)
Date: 07/20/04 

Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 18:41:22 +0100

Have you tried all the suggestions On John's site.
Have you got all other apps turned off, included in that
internet/anti-virus/firewall/screenaver etc.
Defrag before saving.
there is enough hdd space.
Graham 

--
Graham Hughes
MVP
www.simplydv.co.uk
www.dvds2treasure.com
"Randy" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:04fd01c46e22$edb03cb0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> Graham,
>
> Windows Movie Maker projects are saved as .mswmm
> extension. When you are ready to save as a movie file, it
> gives you an array of options for .WMV files, and
> one .AVI option. Every time I try to save as a .AVI file,
> the application chugs along and after about 10 minutes or
> so crashes and prompts me to send an error report to
> Microsoft.
>
> My DVD authoring software (Click to DVD) will accept
> either .AVI or .MPG imported clips, so needless to say I
> am frustrated.
>
> I just seperated my movie file into two parts to reduce
> the size to about 4.5GB each, and it still crashes when
> trying to write to .AVI format.
>
> Any clues???
> >-----Original Message-----
> >How did you get the video on to the pc?
> >Which format is it in?
> >Also try www.papajohn.org problem solving cannot save a
> movie
> >
> >--
> >Graham Hughes
> >MVP
> >www.simplydv.co.uk
> >www.dvds2treasure.com
> >"Randy" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message
> >news:2fa9e01c46d24$c79c5c60$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> >> I've created a project in WMM that I would like to burn
> >> to a DVD on my system, which came to "Click to DVD
> >> software. This software can only import MPG or AVI
> >> formats.
> >>
> >> Every time I try and save to "DV-AVI" format, the
> >> software crashes. I tried to get around this problem by
> >> saving as a WMF and I downloaded a trial version of
> >> TMPGEnt ( a software that converts WMF to MPG.
> >> I can import the MPG I conferted from the WMF format,
> but
> >> it errors out each time it tries to create the DVD
> files.
> >>
> >> Is there some way to export or write my project to AVI
> or
> >> MPG within Windows Movie Maker? Any clues???
> >
> >
> >.
> >

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