Re: Movie Maker Stops Responding

I also have same problem --- Movie Maker simply stops responding whenever
I attempt to save or "finish" the movie. Initially it worked but not
anymore. Anybody got any idea?

Alex


"twon" <twon17@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:034e01c33759$0829f3d0$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> I've been trying to save an M-peg video to my Dv Camera.
> The first time I did it, the transfer went through
> without any problems. After some editting and changes
> when I went to export the video Movie Maker stopped
> responding. Now it won't allow me to do anything when I
> go to the finsih movie task section, save video, send to
> DV camera, nothing. I've checked all help topics and
> trouble shooting tips, I have 256 MB of Ram and more than
> 1/2 of my hard deive open.
>
> Any ideas??
>
> Twon
>

Publish failures are typically due to “complexity” of the timeline. More
images, transitions, effects, and titles tend to cause a higher memory
footprint and increase the likelihood of observing the stalled publish
problem (or outright failing directly). Typical problems are failing
gracefully (i.e. showing the publish failure page) or stalling, where the
publish time remaining increase but no progress is made and CPU usage is
near idle levels. Setting the page file to automatically resize is
helpful, but often the first publish will still fail, as the page file hasn’
t grown to accommodate the usage level, and thus the first few memory
writes fail.

Similarly, the transitions, effects, and titles have issues with some video
chipsets that don’t provide all the necessary DirectX interfaces.

Some failures that show up as the application crashing during render are
due to problems in 3rd party decompression codecs.

Workaround steps are:
1. Delete the second half of your project (make sure you’ve got a
backup!)
2. Save the project to a high quality profile (E.g. High Quality
Video (large), or DV-AVI)
3. Undo the deletion of the 2nd half of the project, and now delete
the 1st half
4. Save the 1st half to a high quality profile.
5. Import both these final published files into Movie Maker, and drag
them both to the storyboard
6. Save at the final bitrate/profile you want.



This should work, if not, try breaking it into 3 pieces.

It’s the complexity of the timeline’s that is causing us to use a whole
bunch of memory, and hang. By doing it in sections, the “final” timeline
only contains two clips, and can easily be published.



Chris[MSFT]
===
Additional Information -
WMP FAQ -
http://www.nwlink.com/~zachd/pss/pss.html

Movie Maker FAQ -
http://pws.chartermi.net/~papajohn/MM2.html

Plus! DME FAQ -
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/plus/dme/FAQ.asp

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I also have same problem --- Movie Maker simply stops responding whenever
I attempt to save or "finish" the movie. Initially it worked but not
anymore. Anybody got any idea?

Alex


"twon" <twon17@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:034e01c33759$0829f3d0$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> I've been trying to save an M-peg video to my Dv Camera.
> The first time I did it, the transfer went through
> without any problems. After some editting and changes
> when I went to export the video Movie Maker stopped
> responding. Now it won't allow me to do anything when I
> go to the finsih movie task section, save video, send to
> DV camera, nothing. I've checked all help topics and
> trouble shooting tips, I have 256 MB of Ram and more than
> 1/2 of my hard deive open.
>
> Any ideas??
>
> Twon
>