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I am having trouble saving my AMV with Windows Movie Maker.

Postby maniaxe » Sun Jul 02, 2006 1:04 pm

I finished making my first AMV with Windows Movie Maker, but it won't let me save it as an AVI file. Whenever I try saving it as an AVI file, it crashes. Does anyone know how I can fix this?
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Re: I am having trouble saving my AMV with Windows Movie Mak

Postby Cornwiggle » Sun Jul 02, 2006 1:07 pm

maniaxe wrote:I finished making my first AMV with Windows Movie Maker, but it won't let me save it as an AVI file. Whenever I try saving it as an AVI file, it crashes. Does anyone know how I can fix this?


Well, first you CAN'T save it as a compressed Avi.

The best you can do with compression is some settings with "higher quality" WMV.

There is an option that is "DV Avi" that doesn't compress it, but renders it as a HUGE "Dv Avi". That works on VirtualDubMod then you can clean it up and save it as an avi.

Tell me what settings you're using, I'm not sure.


Anyway, I think either

1. You should restart your computer and try again.
2. Your computer doesn't have enough RAM to properly do it, so try closing out from a lot of programs and signing out from the internet.

That's what I got so far.
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Postby maniaxe » Sun Jul 02, 2006 1:44 pm

I made a mistake. I just realized that it saves a WMV file and not an AVI file. Anyway, I tried resetting the computer and then saved it as a regular WMV file. It didn't work and it crashed again. I then tried saving it as "DV Avi", but I got the same problem.
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Postby maniaxe » Sun Jul 02, 2006 1:45 pm

Wait, my mistake. What acutally happened the second time was that it said that it would take over 100 000 minutes for it to save which is way too long. There clearly was a problem with the program.
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Postby Cornwiggle » Sun Jul 02, 2006 2:00 pm

maniaxe wrote:Wait, my mistake. What acutally happened the second time was that it said that it would take over 100 000 minutes for it to save which is way too long. There clearly was a problem with the program.


Hmm, usually saving as a DV Avi takes like...one minute and my computer has SHITTY RAM.

Because it doesn't compress it.

What I would suggest is this: If this doesn't work I don't know what will.

http://cnet.search.com/search?chkpt=ast ... 2&tag=srch

This will increase your RAM, and might help. Install that and if it doesn't work I don't know. =/
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Postby maniaxe » Sun Jul 02, 2006 2:36 pm

To be honest with everyone, I used VirtualDubMod to convert my VOB files that I ripped from a DVD with DivX format. I used DivX because I have it and it is able to convert it to a small file size, so I thought it would be convenient. Would that effect my video? If so
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Postby Hellmaster Inu » Sun Jul 02, 2006 2:40 pm

maniaxe wrote:To be honest with everyone, I used VirtualDubMod to convert my VOB files that I ripped from a DVD with DivX format. I used DivX because I have it and it is able to convert it to a small file size, so I thought it would be convenient. Would that effect my video? If so


You shouldn't be converting your footage to DivX to edit with it. If you are going to convert your footage to AVI and not use Avisynth, then encode them to AVI files using the Huffyuv or Lagarith codec, since they're loseless and you don't lose any quality encoding with them. It takes up more space, but it will make your video look better. Not to mention that you'll run into a lot of problems trying to edit with footage compressed with DivX or Xvid.
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Postby maniaxe » Sun Jul 02, 2006 3:01 pm

Well, I do have VirtualDubMod, but I do not know how to access AviSynth.
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Postby Arigatomina » Sun Jul 02, 2006 7:46 pm

You've already made the video, right? Two quick fixes:

1) You can convert your source clips to huffyuv and replace the originals (wmm shouldn't notice as long as they're the same length and have the same file name). If you're getting errors because of the xvid codec, they'll be solved.

2) You can cut your project into pieces, produce each piece, and link them back together in virtualdub. You'll need to use an avisynth script to open the files in vdub (using the directshow filter).

If you get the "1million minutes" error, it's either the codec or there's a bad clip in the project. Cutting the project into pieces will help you find that bad clip and replace it. If it just crashes in the middle of producing, or tells you "can't produce - check your files, not enough disc space, etc" then your timeline is too detailed for wmm to produce. Then you *have* to cut it into sections - that, or dumb down the timeline by removing fades, transitions, effects, and very short clips.

Try copying the first thirty seconds of your timeline and pasting it into a new project. If you can produce that section, then it's not the xvid codec causing the problems. It's either a bad clip, or the timeline being too complicated.
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Postby maniaxe » Mon Jul 03, 2006 9:56 am

Thank you, but how can I convert them to huffyuv?
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Postby Arigatomina » Mon Jul 03, 2006 12:06 pm

When you download the amvapp package from the guides, you get a codec called huffyuv. You also get a program callled VirtualdubMod. Open the VirtualdubMod program and click 'file' and 'open' and then select one of your source files. Then click 'audio' and select 'no audio' and click 'video' and select 'compression' and then select 'huffyuv' and click 'ok'. Then click 'video' and 'fast recompress'. Then click 'file' and 'save as avi' and type in a name then click 'save.'

If you haven't read the guides to get vdub and huffyuv, that's the first place to start:
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/ ... mvapp.html
Click 'Download' and once it's downloaded, install it on your computer.
And since that's the second time you've been linked to the same guide in this thread, you might try browsing it from the main page. It's on the "member main page" at the bottom left, a link called "How to guides". You click that and then click the guide titled "all things audio and video".
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Postby Cornwiggle » Mon Jul 03, 2006 12:21 pm

Arigatomina wrote: If it just crashes in the middle of producing, or tells you "can't produce - check your files, not enough disc space, etc" then your timeline is too detailed for wmm to produce. Then you *have* to cut it into sections -


You don't know how many times I've had to do that. :'( It sucks.
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Postby maniaxe » Mon Jul 03, 2006 1:43 pm

Thank you. I got the AMV App pack, but why would I have to choose "no audio"?
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Postby maniaxe » Mon Jul 03, 2006 2:12 pm

Thank you. I got the AMV App pack, but why would I have to choose "no audio"?
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