I just finished editing my movie but when I go to create it nothing happens. "Please wait while we create your movie" appears but it doesn't go any farther. Also when I try to play the entire storyboard it doesn't play. I put all the clips together without editing them and the storyboard played fine and the movie would save. All I have done to the clips for my movie is shorten them and made transitions, why is this effecting whether it will save or not?

Hi there,

I am not confident about your situation but as you loose nothing by
trying....your problem may be caused by a codec that Movie Maker does not
like. This a very common issue.

Your one-stop-don't-need-to-look-anywhere-else Solution is with a program
called "Rename Codecs".

Instead of reading miles of dross that is full of maybe's and perhaps's
just run the program, it takes a few moments to identify all of the known
codecs that cause this problem and gives you the opportunity of renaming
them, or, you can now use the new Auto feature in version 1.5 and let the
program take care of virtually everything to do with this problem

You can then run Movie Maker and immediately determine if it actually was a
codec issue. If it was a codec issue Movie Maker will now run properly. If
it was not the issue, you have lost nothing more than a short amount of
time.

Whether or not it was a codec issue you must run the program once more and
restore the problem codecs to their original names.

The two procedures together can take less time than it did to read this
message and a whole lot less than reading mountains of bumph that may or
may not apply to you.

The program "Rename Codecs" is free and available from my website.

While there it would be a good idea to check out the tutorial on how to run
the program...that will take around one minute of your time!!! Use this
quick link to get there real fast http://tinyurl.com/3ewb9
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>-----Original Message-----
>I just finished editing my movie but when I go to create
it nothing happens. "Please wait while we create your
movie" appears but it doesn't go any farther. Also when I
try to play the entire storyboard it doesn't play. I put
all the clips together without editing them and the
storyboard played fine and the movie would save. All I
have done to the clips for my movie is shorten them and
made transitions, why is this effecting whether it will
save or not?
>.
>I am having the same problem. I spent over 40+ hours
straight on one presentation only to end up with
a "corrupt" file and had to start over again. I have
experienced the exact same thing. I have WMM2. In the
knowledge base it indicated that the movie file may be
too big (I have just under 1000 pics) but when I go to
save it, it says it is only 523 MB while the CD is 700 MB
so there should be enough room. Knowledge base suggest I
do one of the following options A)reduce the movie size B)
Reduce Movie Setting C) Increase the size of the paging
file or C) save the movie in smaller sections. I also
read something about this happening if you don't have
enough RAM but I have 1 gig of RAM so that should be
plenty. I am using a Pentium 4 with 2.3 (or was it 2.4)
mhz. Another knowledge base indicated that if using a
Nvidia card you can have problems and suggested to upgrad
to Movie Maker 2 and update the Nvidia card driver which
I have also done. I am very interested to see what your
results are or what others tell you to do.

Renaming Codecs didn't work. Any other suggestions? Thanks!