WMM2 doesn't even try to save
- Hareoic
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WMM2 doesn't even try to save
Whenever I try to save my movie in WMV format, regardless of the option I select, it says it's trying to save but then gives me an error message. No progress bar, nothing. Now I don't THINK the movie is big enough that it should be having such problems, but then again I only just found out that switching to Huffyuv encoding instead of Lagarith makes it stop freezing so I haven't got any clue as to why it can't save. Can somebody give me some advice as to how to do it? (I don't want to have to cut it into pieces, because then it falls out of sync since Movie Maker seems to overestimate the length) I've had this problem before, and since the DV-AVI option is... a bad choice, from what I've observed before, I'd like it if somebody could tell me how to fix this
Movie Specs:
2:55.47 / 175.47 seconds
102 clips
3 fade transitions
18 Fade outs, to black
18 Fade ins, from black
No other effects used
All clips encoded in Huffyuv format
All clips encoded in RGB
All clips measure 640x480
Computer Specs:
Video : nVidea GeForce 7900 GS (256 MB RAM)
Processor : Pentium D (3.00 GHz)
Physical Memory : 2045 MB
Virtual Memory : 15937 MB
OS: Windows XP Professional
WMM Version : 2.1.4026.0 / 5.1
(any other important information I should list?)
Movie Specs:
2:55.47 / 175.47 seconds
102 clips
3 fade transitions
18 Fade outs, to black
18 Fade ins, from black
No other effects used
All clips encoded in Huffyuv format
All clips encoded in RGB
All clips measure 640x480
Computer Specs:
Video : nVidea GeForce 7900 GS (256 MB RAM)
Processor : Pentium D (3.00 GHz)
Physical Memory : 2045 MB
Virtual Memory : 15937 MB
OS: Windows XP Professional
WMM Version : 2.1.4026.0 / 5.1
(any other important information I should list?)
- Autraya
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are your source clips help on different drives? This used to screw up for me esp if I used an External HDD.
Also you could try saving the project file (not exporting the movie) as a different name a then delete 90% of your timeline and see if you can get it to export then...? if that doesn't work the problem could be a number of other things.
also is your audio in .wav format?
the DV_AVI export always works fine with me *shrugs*
And lastly, have you turned your computer off and then back on again recently? and not run other programs, just go straight into WMM and try exporting that movie file?
Also you could try saving the project file (not exporting the movie) as a different name a then delete 90% of your timeline and see if you can get it to export then...? if that doesn't work the problem could be a number of other things.
also is your audio in .wav format?
the DV_AVI export always works fine with me *shrugs*
And lastly, have you turned your computer off and then back on again recently? and not run other programs, just go straight into WMM and try exporting that movie file?
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- Hareoic
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Actually I can do it if I remove a certain number of clips and/or effects. The thing is that the computer should be able to handle more than that. It's got enough Virtual Memory and such, so I'm trying to figure out why it won't save. It never gets past the 'estimating time remaining' part, and that really frustrates me.Autraya wrote:are your source clips help on different drives? This used to screw up for me esp if I used an External HDD.
Also you could try saving the project file (not exporting the movie) as a different name a then delete 90% of your timeline and see if you can get it to export then...? if that doesn't work the problem could be a number of other things.
also is your audio in .wav format?
the DV_AVI export always works fine with me *shrugs*
And lastly, have you turned your computer off and then back on again recently? and not run other programs, just go straight into WMM and try exporting that movie file?
- Hareoic
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Huh, interesting fact: I can't seem to make my MP3 file into a WAV without losing enough fractions of a second (at least according to WMM) for the synchronization to be thrown off. I've saved it as a WAV file in both Creative Wavestudio and Winamp, so if there's something that'll save it in a WAV format Movie Maker will recognize and not get too much time shaved off, I'd like to know.
I saved the song as a WMA, though, using Movie Maker itself and managed to save that as a DV-AVI and found the sound quality to be horrible and, yes, it fell out of sync when I reimported the audio in VirtualDubMod. So I don't think that the DV-AVI is a very feasible option for me.
I saved the song as a WMA, though, using Movie Maker itself and managed to save that as a DV-AVI and found the sound quality to be horrible and, yes, it fell out of sync when I reimported the audio in VirtualDubMod. So I don't think that the DV-AVI is a very feasible option for me.
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It's not the hardware that's the problem, it's the software.Hareoic wrote:Actually I can do it if I remove a certain number of clips and/or effects. The thing is that the computer should be able to handle more than that. It's got enough Virtual Memory and such...
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Yup, that's right. I remember doing a project in WMM on my school's multimedia player yet I still had to split the file into two. It just won't save for whatever reason,so you're better off just combining several saves.BasharOfTheAges wrote:It's not the hardware that's the problem, it's the software.Hareoic wrote:Actually I can do it if I remove a certain number of clips and/or effects. The thing is that the computer should be able to handle more than that. It's got enough Virtual Memory and such...
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