Help me plz WMM is being annoying

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Help me plz WMM is being annoying

Postby chinito » Fri Apr 20, 2007 4:14 pm

I like to use WMM and i have maked many amvs and the problem now is that it just shuts down. All i see is the window open and it's blank. How can i fix this?

Oh and my computer has 1 gb of ram, 3.0 P4, and 75 gb out of 190 left in it.
Could any of these be the problem
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Postby CrackTheSky » Fri Apr 20, 2007 4:27 pm

What codec are the clips you're using encoded in?
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Postby KholdStare88 » Fri Apr 20, 2007 5:18 pm

I personally find this best to work with.

When EDITING your videos, turn OFF all codecs EXCEPT the Xvid codec.

When SAVING your MOVIE file, turn OFF all codecs EXCEPT the DivX codec.

For some reason, ffdshow (never use it no matter what) crashes your WMM often. The Xvid codec produces minimal lag when editing and the DivX codec produces the best results when saving. And for your sake please set auto-recovery on every 3 minutes. This is coming from someone who edits on 3 GB RAM computers using WMM. (Yes I know it's a waste not learning better editing programs; I'm getting there.)
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Postby KholdStare88 » Fri Apr 20, 2007 5:20 pm

Oh and one more thing. Any kind of splitters, media splitters, audio splitters, image splitters, wood splitters, baby Jesus splitters, are BAD.
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Postby CrackTheSky » Fri Apr 20, 2007 5:34 pm

KholdStare88 wrote:When EDITING your videos, turn OFF all codecs EXCEPT the Xvid codec.


No. You should not be editing with anything but a lossless codec, which XviD and DivX are NOT.
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Postby KholdStare88 » Fri Apr 20, 2007 5:51 pm

There isn't any other codec available in WMM.
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Postby Autraya » Fri Apr 20, 2007 5:51 pm

F-ah-ku
read it :?
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Postby KholdStare88 » Fri Apr 20, 2007 5:51 pm

I should clarify, if there are, a file that's more than 1 GB would immediately crash WMM within 3 frames.
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Postby Autraya » Fri Apr 20, 2007 5:53 pm

KholdStare88 wrote:There isn't any other codec available in WMM.

Don't make me beat you with a large wet tuna.
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Postby KholdStare88 » Fri Apr 20, 2007 6:05 pm

Basically that's it. You have to import your videos already compressed in a lossy codec or else the file size will be too big for WMM to handle. Unless you have a super computer, I haven't been able to work WMM with a lossless codec.
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Postby JaddziaDax » Fri Apr 20, 2007 6:12 pm

uh my computer can handle lossless codecs in wmm O.o i dont think its all that "super" O.o

oh yea and:

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Postby Autraya » Fri Apr 20, 2007 6:16 pm

... *beats to death with a large wet tuna*
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Postby Autraya » Fri Apr 20, 2007 6:32 pm

KholdStare88 wrote:I personally find this best to work with.

When EDITING your videos, turn OFF all codecs EXCEPT the Xvid codec.

When SAVING your MOVIE file, turn OFF all codecs EXCEPT the DivX codec.

For some reason, ffdshow (never use it no matter what) crashes your WMM often. The Xvid codec produces minimal lag when editing and the DivX codec produces the best results when saving. And for your sake please set auto-recovery on every 3 minutes. This is coming from someone who edits on 3 GB RAM computers using WMM. (Yes I know it's a waste not learning better editing programs; I'm getting there.)

There's RAM and then there's Corsair DDRII 800mghz 5-1-5 track, 3 gb of that shit is what really counts (provided your system board takes it).
To be honnest even 'super computers' will lag with this program when you start to edit in a more detailed manner in this program.


but onto the important stuff, wtf would you turn off all codecs to edit in wmm? if you uninstall huffyuv or any other codecs you can't import and edit with it!

YOU SHOULD EDIT WITH HUFFYUV encoded clips in WMM.
YOU SHOULD EXPORT TO DV_AVI or highest possible quality!

and you both need to Read ErMaC & AbsoluteDestiny's Friendly AMV Guides and download the AMVAPP
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Postby KholdStare88 » Fri Apr 20, 2007 7:42 pm

Well I'm not sure what computer you have but if I don't turn off everything, my computer freezes.
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Postby JaddziaDax » Fri Apr 20, 2007 7:55 pm

if your computer is freezing perhaps you should make smaller/shorter clips?
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