Sos!Windows Movie maker problem!

DumBunny · Post by **DumBunny** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 6:31 pm

I'm not sure which fourm to put this in so I'm just gonna post it here.
Ok, I just got XP like a couple months ago and I've started using Windows Movie maker, I'm a quick learner so it wasn't hard to use the program but... Then it began getting errors everytime I added or tried to view a part of my music video. And I just finished now of my best AMVs ever and when I'm trying to export it onto my computer it gets an error at about 51%.

I'm just wondering if anyone else has this problem and if anyone knows how to fix it! Because I'm really mad cause I love this music video alot but I can't share it with you guys.

If you know any information on this topic please help me.

nailz · Post by **nailz** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 6:43 pm

did you even LOOK at the other forums? There are 2 labled "HELP". Seems like a good place to go.

DumBunny · Post by **DumBunny** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 7:03 pm

nailz wrote:did you even LOOK at the other forums? There are 2 labled "HELP". Seems like a good place to go.

ya but i don't know if it's a video problem or audio... and u don't have to be so snobby about it

badmartialarts · Post by **badmartialarts** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 7:15 pm

Try defragging your hard drive. It might work.

DumBunny · Post by **DumBunny** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 7:16 pm

badmartialarts wrote:Try defragging your hard drive. It might work.

Defragging? I'm not sure what that is. I'm pretty sure but I don't think that'll help cause I just reformatted my drive like 2 months ago.

Pyle · Post by **Pyle** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 7:20 pm

That's what he meant, 'reformatting'. Do that and it ought to work.

If that doesn't work (do that method first) try closing all open media windows.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 7:35 pm

Pyle wrote:That's what he meant, 'reformatting'.

No it's not and you know it.

Anyway:
Right-click on My Computer, select Manage, click on Disk Defragmenter in the left pane of the window that comes up. Select the drive you want and hit Defragment.

Arigatomina · Post by **Arigatomina** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 7:53 pm

Wmm has regular errors producing videos, but when it stops in the middle like that, it usually means there's a faulty clip. Try copying the clips in the middle of your timeline and pasting them into a new timeline (less than 30second of clips). Try producing that. If it stalls again, you'll know it's a clip causing the problem. Trial and error should let you find which clip it is - once you replace it, the video should produce normally.

If you can't get any 0% produced at all, it's a memory problem. Unless you're producing to a high quality dv avi - in which case you might need more disc space. o.O

/and just a note - since you're having a problem with a program (wmm), you would place the topic in the 'software help' section. ^.~

ninja007 · Post by **ninja007** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 9:16 pm

are we talking about windows movie maker 2, cuz i have a different problem with it. i can't open my project, that one thing comes up that asks you if you want to send the error report. it comes up a lot and sometimes it will open and everything works fine. but that hardly ever happens so when it does open i have to do as much as i can regardless of what time it is. its really inconvinient and i don't know what to do.

DumBunny · Post by **DumBunny** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 9:18 pm

[quote="ninja007"]are we talking about windows movie maker 2, cuz i have a different problem with it.quote]

Ya we're talking about Windows movie maker 2. It's evil!