Re: Movie Maker problems

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From: Bob [MVP] (bob_at_nospam.org)
Date: 03/10/04


Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 22:44:33 -0500

Rob,

You've got the wrong newsgroup. You want
microsfot.public.windowsxp.moviemaker. You might also want to
take a look the problem solving page at www.papajohn.org

-Bob
____________________________
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Media Center Edition
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/mediacenter

"Rob" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:9f2701c40651$342a6dd0$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> Hi. I am trying to, using Windows Movie Maker v.2, edit a
> video I shot, up the video quality so my lips don't look
> like I am lip synching, and burn it to a CD or DVD. Right
> now, whenever I try to click on any part of the
> storyboard, the program just closes completely. It is
> very frustrating. I have called Tech Support many times,
> spending total 4-6 hours with them and the problems just
> keep getting worse. First, I was trying just to get it to
> a CD, but it kept saying that it couldn't burn it because
> the files were in different places and other things.
> Sometimes, for no reason at all, my CPU usage shot us
> from 10-30% to 100%. Then, Movie Maker would stop
> resonding and I would have to restart the entire program
> without getting the chance to save. I guess I started to
> take the file recovery system for granted, because this
> happened at least 10 times in the hours I spent editing
> it. I never really got that problem solved, all I do is
> keep Task Manager open so I can monitor my CPU usage.
> After that, while talking to Microsoft Tech Suport, I
> downloaded ACE mega Codecs pack v.5.93, that the Tech
> Support guy said would work. Well, it actually coruppted
> my Movie Maker file so I couldn't open it again. Somehow,
> I was once again able to at least open my file, but with
> some restrictions. When I tried to click on any
> storyboard icon or play any thing, the whole program
> dissapears. I have no idea why. Then Tech Support said to
> download a file converter so I could at least play my
> video on another program, ie. Media Player, Quick Time.
> Nothing works. When I try to convert it, it says that it
> doesn't recognize the file or it can't work w/ it. I
> thought the Codec pack was supposed to fix that. Oh well.
> Sorry for it being so long, but I had a ton of problems.
> Thanks to those that help me out.



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