Saving Videos Using Windows Movie Maker

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Saving Videos Using Windows Movie Maker

Postby RogerWazup007 » Sat Aug 12, 2006 12:43 am

Often when I try to save a video file I've made, I get an error saying there there isn't enough disk space; the estimated disk space for one I'm trying to save now is a whopping 33.84 GB, even though the video file itself is only estimated to be 13.16 MB. Is there any way around this, or, if not, this there another free program I can use? Thanks in advance for any replies, and I apologize if this has already been covered.
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Postby shiro_clanclan » Sat Aug 12, 2006 3:05 pm

*blinks at filesize*

...the estimated size is 33GB!? Sheesh man, uncompressed I've only seen mine get to about 2!

However, the "not enough free space" error generally has nothing whatsoever to do with free space. It's just the error that pops up whenever the encoder hits an error it can't get past.

And that error, more often than not, is with your memory buffer. The program tries to save every single clip, effect and transition into memory. If you don't have enough RAM to do that, it just gives up.

The only ways around this are:

-Save in DV-AVI format. The only problem with this format is that it may cause desynching. For some stupid reason, the encoder seems to have problems with the speed up/down effect. Also, you have to do some trickery to get DV-AVI files into a more useable format. The guide to do this is here:

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/ ... xport.html

However, if you find that there is indeed desynching, then you should default onto the other option. Splitting. That is, create pieces of your timeline. Try to encode just the first half of the project without audio. If that works, then encode the second half. Now just import the halves, add the audio back in, and encode. Voila.

If halves don't work, use thirds. If not, fourths. Et cetera.
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