Windows Movie Maker?! It's being weird. Someone help?

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Windows Movie Maker?! It's being weird. Someone help?

Post by Cordate » Sun Dec 23, 2007 3:33 pm

Well, For the past 3 days, Windows Movie Maker has been a really big pain in my butt.

I go to start making a movie, right?
I clicked ONE Thing, it jams right up, and this pops up.
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Then closes automatically.
I can't make AMVs anymore, it closes when I click ANYTHING. :(


Can someone help? :roll:

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Post by BasharOfTheAges » Sun Dec 23, 2007 3:55 pm

It's a direct result of buggy software and / or "Doing it wrong" (TM). Do you use lossy footage in WMM? Compressed audio?
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Post by blackdragonthegreat » Thu Dec 27, 2007 9:19 pm

perhamps you haven't installed the right video codec...

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Post by RoaringAnimeGeek » Fri Dec 28, 2007 4:59 pm

You know what they say, the technology is only as bad as the person using it, but then again, it does fuck up. I'd uninstall it and re-install it, just to be sure. Or it's just your computer fucking up, you never know.
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Post by Phantasmagoriat » Thu Jan 03, 2008 11:16 pm

My basic approach uses solely the following:
[no more no less ...ie. uninstall any garbage on your computer.]

The only things you'll need:
-have the AMVapp installed
-install the CCCP
-use the 'stand-alone' VLC Player for playback [optional]

Video to use:
-only edit using big lossless .avi video sources; such as HUFFYUV.avi's
[but not Lagarith.avi's for WMM users. The necessary codecs come with the app]
--->your video sources can be created using VirtualDub [vdub comes with the app]

Audio to use:
-only use big lossless .wav audio sources in your editor
--->these can be created using Audacity [usually]

-read this guide
-watch some good AMV's to avoid adding more crap to the heap.

if all the above is met... there aren't many reasons for errors.
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Post by Phantasmagoriat » Thu Jan 03, 2008 11:38 pm

...I should also note that when making your video sources, disable the audio stream [under Streams>Stream list]... otherwise you'll be creating a source with good video, but it will be packaged along with an audio type... probably mp3... that could give you trouble.
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Re: Windows Movie Maker?! It's being weird. Someone help?

Post by requiett » Sun Jan 13, 2008 12:40 am

Cordate wrote:Image
I've seen this error before. You need to check the air tires. It's where the power's generated.

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Post by lissaloo101 » Thu Mar 27, 2008 2:45 am

That same thing is happening to me too, but not immediately. And it only happens when I import songs then drag them to the bottom. Once it's there, that stupid error message pops up. It's annoying. D;
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Post by JaddziaDax » Thu Mar 27, 2008 2:48 am

use an uncompressed WAV file instead of an mp3

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Post by lissaloo101 » Thu Mar 27, 2008 11:48 am

JaddziaDax wrote:use an uncompressed WAV file instead of an mp3
I really wish I knew how to do that. Lol.
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