Rehan, Papajohn & the Kellys,
Thanks for your help! I am very new to both using help forums and creating a
movie from my videotapes. I recently purchased a DELL 8400 with 1.83 Gb. of
RAM and a dual 160 Gb hardive(s) in order to prepare movies from my Panasonic
CCD videocamera and some pictures that I digitized with my scanner. Thanks to
you, I now know to save as .bmps.
In addition, because I did not know that MM2 was part of my XP Professional
operating system or Office XP 2003 (I am not a techie.), I purchased Roxio
Easy Media Creator version 7 at the same time as I purchased my new computer.
I captured both tapes from my video camera successfully into the Roxio
program, but never discovered how to import them into the Roxio storyboard.
Then, completely by luck, I opened MM@ and proceeded to use it. Everything
went well and after I had impoted digital still pictures, narrated most of
them, added titles, etc., I saved the "project" as a movie to my hard drive
(My Documents/videos). I then played the movie and it was wonderful. As we
watched the movie, I felt that some parts were duplicates and others too
long. I then re-opened the project and proceeded to split some clips and
delete the unwanted part, add more titles, etc. My goal was to shorten the
project so that I could burn it to disk and share it with friends whom we had
met on our cruise. When I attempted to save the newly edited, much shorter
603 MB, project as a movie, I received an error message that some of the
original source files were missing, deleted, renamed, etc, and that I should
replace them. When I went to My Documents/Videos, the VideoCap1 file was
missing, so I recaptured it. I thought that I was on my way.
I then returned to the project and imported VideoCap1. It took six minutes
but ended up in the clip box above the final copy of my project below. I then
tried to save as a movie again and received the same missing source files
message. I looked at the clip box? above and noted that VideoCap1 had
displaced VideoCap2 and also that all the still pictures that I had imported
were gone from the box.
I have spent two weeks editing this project. The final version is still in
MM2 as a project, but I can not save it as a movie. Do I have to start from
scratch again? Can I import the MM2 project into Roxio Easy Media Creator 7
and save the project as a movie. Should I switch to the Roxio program or stay
with MM2. I would really appreciate your advice. I have logged papjohn and
the kelleys in my favourites folder. I look forward to your reply.
Not-so-Cheerful Charlie
"Rehan" wrote:
> Hi CheerfulCharlie
>
> Btw, you dont come out a very cheerful right now :-) But things can change
> to better if you spend some time on www.papajohn.org especially the Problem
> Solving section.
>
> Normal culprits for your problem (Cant save a movie..) are:
>
> * Fragmented hard disk (need defragmenting)
> * Use of MP3 audio or MPEG clips (need converting to WAV and AVI / WMV)
> * Overly complicated project (need splitting into smaller sub-projects)
>
> There are other possibilities as well so go check the site.
>
> Goodluck.
>
>
> --
> Rehan
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>
>
>
>
>
> "Cheerful Charlie" <Cheerful (E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
> message news:756A8548-CAB7-47E6-922C-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > This is my first time in a help forum and I am not a techie. I didn't know
> > how to post a question, so have replied to something related to my
> > problem.
> >
> > Like other posts, I am having a problem saving/creating a movie from a
> > project in MM2. I captured two tapes from my panasonic CCD digital video
> > camera, used them to start a new project and the videos went into my
> > storyboard with no trouble. I imported a number of digital pictures (jpg)
> > onto the storyboard, added some titles and narrated several stills. The
> > first
> > time that I saved the project as a movie, everything went well except that
> > it
> > was too big to save to disk, so I saved to "My Videos" folder on my hard
> > drive. I played the movie and it went well. I had a great feeling of
> > accomplishment, but wanted to reduce the size of the movie so I could save
> > it
> > on a CD and share it with fellow travelers.
> >
> > I returned to MM2, opened the project and proceed to delete clips, split
> > clips and delete one of the splits, etc., until it should have been small
> > enough to save to a CD. (I know nothing about different kinds of CDs. I am
> > currently using an R CD.)
> >
> > I tried to save the project as a movie to CD and my computer kept telling
> > me
> > that there was no CD in my CD burner. There was and I could open it by
> > going
> > to My Computer and clicking on D drive.
> >
> > I then decided to save the project as a movie to my hard drive. MM2
> > informed
> > me that there were things missing from the original or samething like
> > that. I
> > am very frustrated. I have spend many hours over two weeks editing the
> > project. I can play it on the MM@ viewer and like the final result. I want
> > to
> > make the project into a movie. Can anybody recommend a solution?
> >
> > Thanks in advance! Chuck
> >
> > "Stephen" wrote:
> >
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I have a problem burning my movie to a CDRW disc and then having it play
> >> back. It seems that the burning part is done okay, but when I try to play
> >> it
> >> back in a viewer only the music has recorded fully but the collection of
> >> still pictures used in the movie are not all showing up. It usually
> >> freezes
> >> at a point somewhere in the movie, while the music keeps playing. I know
> >> all
> >> the pictures have been placed properly because when I go in to check in
> >> movie
> >> maker, they are all still there.
> >>
> >> The movie file is 20 minutes long. Is this too long? Too big for WMM to
> >> handle? Are their settings which will allow WMM to compile and burn a
> >> large
> >> movie easier?
> >>
> >> I've tried burning about 6 times now and each time the movie plays
> >> pictures
> >> for a different length of time, then freezes at different points
> >> throughout
> >> the movie, leaving only the music playing.
> >>
> >> I have a Gigabyte of memory, so I know that's not the problem. I have a
> >> 1.3
> >> Gigahertz processor, ATI Radeon 6800 video card. I think my computer
> >> should
> >> be able to handle this. I believe it's WMM where the problem lies. I
> >> suspect
> >> it's something to do with the settings. The help file is currently no
> >> help,
> >> it just seems to be either too vague or just confusing.
> >>
> >> Please help. :-)
>
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