Vista Movie Maker transitions jitter

I have Windows Vista, all the latest updates. Running Windows Movie
Maker. When I put a transition in between two videos, the transition
is ALWAYS jerkey. It does this on every transition I try. For
example, if I use a fade where it's supposed to fade from one scene to
another, it somewhat works, but several times during the transition it
jumps back to the original unfaded screen. Jittery, jerky, whatever
the term is.

OK, I read that Vista uses the graphics card hardware to make these
transitions so I tried several different driver revisions on my nVidia
7900. No luck so I removed the nVidia 7900 and put in an nVidia
6800. No change, exact same result.

I then go into Movie Maker Tools->Options and make sure there are NO
filter drivers present except for quartz.dll. So far so good.

So here I am at a loss and I do not know what to try. Any ideas are
appreciated. Thank you.

JR wrote:
> I have Windows Vista, all the latest updates. Running Windows Movie
> Maker. When I put a transition in between two videos, the transition
> is ALWAYS jerkey. It does this on every transition I try. For
> example, if I use a fade where it's supposed to fade from one scene to
> another, it somewhat works, but several times during the transition it
> jumps back to the original unfaded screen. Jittery, jerky, whatever
> the term is.
>
> OK, I read that Vista uses the graphics card hardware to make these
> transitions so I tried several different driver revisions on my nVidia
> 7900. No luck so I removed the nVidia 7900 and put in an nVidia
> 6800. No change, exact same result.
>
> I then go into Movie Maker Tools->Options and make sure there are NO
> filter drivers present except for quartz.dll. So far so good.
>
> So here I am at a loss and I do not know what to try. Any ideas are
> appreciated. Thank you.
==========================
Just wondering...how much RAM do
you have?

FWIW...This is a WinXP newsgroup...
it may be worth a try to post in the
following Vista group:

Discussions in Windows Vista
Music, Pictures, and Video
http://tinyurl.com/yqjkwz

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

On Aug 21, 9:11 am, "John Inzer" <oo...@doobie.xyz> wrote:
> Just wondering...how much RAM do
> you have?

2 GBytes of RAM

> FWIW...This is a WinXP newsgroup...
> it may be worth a try to post in the
> following Vista group:

I will try there too. Thank you!

JR wrote:
> On Aug 21, 9:11 am, "John Inzer" <oo...@doobie.xyz> wrote:
>> Just wondering...how much RAM do
>> you have?
>
> 2 GBytes of RAM
=====================
Thanks for the reply...
2 GBs should be adequate.

Have you tried reducing your
Graphics Hardware Acceleration?

(272193) PI: How to Troubleshoot
Graphics Issues
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=272193
(scroll down to: Windows Vista)

If it improves the issue, you still have
a problem with your video driver.

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

How much ram do you have on the graphics card?
What cpu?
Is this an XP upgraded pc, or a made for vista pc?

--

Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.com


"John Inzer" <oobie@doobie.xyz> wrote in message
news:OJwtFmB5HHA.5360@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
> JR wrote:
>> On Aug 21, 9:11 am, "John Inzer" <oo...@doobie.xyz> wrote:
>>> Just wondering...how much RAM do
>>> you have?
>>
>> 2 GBytes of RAM
> =====================
> Thanks for the reply...
> 2 GBs should be adequate.
>
> Have you tried reducing your
> Graphics Hardware Acceleration?
>
> (272193) PI: How to Troubleshoot
> Graphics Issues
> http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=272193
> (scroll down to: Windows Vista)
>
> If it improves the issue, you still have
> a problem with your video driver.
>
> --
>
> John Inzer
> MS Picture It! -
> Digital Image MVP
>
> Digital Image
> Highlights and FAQs
> http://tinyurl.com/aczzp
>
> Notice
> This is not tech support
> I am a volunteer
>
> Solutions that work for
> me may not work for you
>
> Proceed at your own risk
>

On Aug 21, 2:15 pm, "Graham Hughes"
<graham.hug...@dvds2treasure.co.uk> wrote:
> How much ram do you have on the graphics card?
> What cpu?
> Is this an XP upgraded pc, or a made for vista pc?

This is a high end Dell XPS410 (dual core, not sure of the speed right
now). Made for Vista PC (not upgraded from XP). Video card has 256MB
of RAM. All high end stuff. Very strange. I am wondering if nVidia
has a driver issue. I have the option to try Adobe Premiere Elements
so I might give that a shot.

JR wrote:
> On Aug 21, 2:15 pm, "Graham Hughes"
> <graham.hug...@dvds2treasure.co.uk> wrote:
>> How much ram do you have on the graphics card?
>> What cpu?
>> Is this an XP upgraded pc, or a made for vista pc?
>
> This is a high end Dell XPS410 (dual core, not sure of the speed right
> now). Made for Vista PC (not upgraded from XP). Video card has 256MB
> of RAM. All high end stuff. Very strange. I am wondering if nVidia
> has a driver issue. I have the option to try Adobe Premiere Elements
> so I might give that a shot.
================================================
Did reducing your Graphics Acceleration make any difference?

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

On Aug 21, 2:53 pm, "John Inzer" <oo...@doobie.xyz> wrote:
> Did reducing your Graphics Acceleration make any difference?

I don't know yet. I am at work and it's my home system with the
issue. However, my nearly identical Dell XPS 410 here at work doesn't
allow me to adjust any graphics acceleration options. It states that
"Your current display driver does not allow changes to be made to
hardware acceleration settings." I am pretty certain I will get the
same message at home.

There are some settings in the Nvidia Control Panel that I might try
tweeking. Thanks again.

JR wrote:
> On Aug 21, 2:53 pm, "John Inzer" <oo...@doobie.xyz> wrote:
>> Did reducing your Graphics Acceleration make any difference?
>
> I don't know yet. I am at work and it's my home system with the
> issue. However, my nearly identical Dell XPS 410 here at work doesn't
> allow me to adjust any graphics acceleration options. It states that
> "Your current display driver does not allow changes to be made to
> hardware acceleration settings." I am pretty certain I will get the
> same message at home.
>
> There are some settings in the Nvidia Control Panel that I might try
> tweeking. Thanks again.
===========================================
You cannot adjust the hardware acceleration? Which
version of the nVidia 7900 GS driver are you using?

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

Well I'm about to give up on Movie Maker. Hours wasted is getting to
be too much. As you might recall, I had massive flickering during
scene transitions with Movie Maker under Vista. Everything else was
fine. Nothing I tried, from changing video cards, video drivers,
settings, etc., would resolve it.

So, I tried a different solution. I downloaded Movie Maker 2.6 for
Vista. This is the older XP Movie Maker that I have used before with
great success. I tested the transitions and it worked SMOOTHLY. All
was looking great. I then spent an hour creating a new set of movies
and burning to DVD. All was happy.

Not so fast. Now another very strange issue. Each video clip I
created has a sound problem. Here is the problem. Take 10 video
clips and put them into the timeline with transitions between each
clip (some titles too). Start to play the video. This isn't burned
to DVD or anything. This is a straight DV-AVI generated directly from
Movie Maker. It starts out just fine but on the second scene or
third, the sound just drops out completely and it never comes back.
Scroll back to the start of the video and you have sound again.

There is something on my system with Movie Maker 2.6 dropping the
audio. For the record, within Movie Maker, in the preview window, if
I press play on say the 2nd or 3rd scene, I DO have audio.

Very frustrating.