Movie Maker crashes daily for two months

been working on a video promoting my comedy show. Have tried for two months to get the doggone thing not to
freeze or hang or crash ...I understand somewhat the virtual memory issues but my presentation is 8 minutes long, I upgraded to 512,running Xp,increased my paging file to 1000mb , bought a product called Memokit which is supposed to keep it from crashing, the more I do to help the worse it gets. I finished once again today with video editing, only to have it freeze before I could add some audio...and when it goes it always takes most of the clips with it. I have to save every collection I draw from because if I delete some of the versions I've saved in My Documents it pulls the clips out of the storyboard. Cannot run any of the presentations all the way through-whether 3 minutes or 10 minutes without it hanging or freezing in some fashion.Having to save all of the previous attempts is now tying up 12GB on my hard drive...help!

Maybe the Problem Solving... Checklist at www.papajohn.org will help
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"wayoutwest" <klmncalif@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> been working on a video promoting my comedy show. Have tried for two
months to get the doggone thing not to
> freeze or hang or crash ...I understand somewhat the virtual memory issues
but my presentation is 8 minutes long, I upgraded to 512,running
Xp,increased my paging file to 1000mb , bought a product called Memokit
which is supposed to keep it from crashing, the more I do to help the worse
it gets. I finished once again today with video editing, only to have it
freeze before I could add some audio...and when it goes it always takes most
of the clips with it. I have to save every collection I draw from because if
I delete some of the versions I've saved in My Documents it pulls the clips
out of the storyboard. Cannot run any of the presentations all the way
through-whether 3 minutes or 10 minutes without it hanging or freezing in
some fashion.Having to save all of the previous attempts is now tying up
12GB on my hard drive...help!

"wayoutwest" <klmncalif@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:EC496AB6-5107-4BE3-BAB6-8BE216831911@microsoft.com...
> been working on a video promoting my comedy show. Have tried for two
months to get the doggone thing not to
> freeze or hang or crash ...I understand somewhat the virtual memory issues
but my presentation is 8 minutes long, I upgraded to 512,running
Xp,increased my paging file to 1000mb , bought a product called Memokit
which is supposed to keep it from crashing, the more I do to help the worse
it gets. I finished once again today with video editing, only to have it
freeze before I could add some audio...and when it goes it always takes most
of the clips with it. I have to save every collection I draw from because if
I delete some of the versions I've saved in My Documents it pulls the clips
out of the storyboard. Cannot run any of the presentations all the way
through-whether 3 minutes or 10 minutes without it hanging or freezing in
some fashion.Having to save all of the previous attempts is now tying up
12GB on my hard drive...help!
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I have the same freezing problems. One thing to try; load the project and
mouse click slowly through the timeline, watching the Hard Drive LED and
waiting for it to settle down before clicking further down the timeline.
Once you get to the end, can you play the entire move? Careful deliberate
mouse clicking (waiting for the HDD light to go out) seems to help on my
systems and frantic hopping around the timeline often causes a freeze (

Out of curiousity, what sort of Graphics card are you using - is it one
that's integrated on the motherboard?

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Graeme

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"wayoutwest" <klmncalif@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:EC496AB6-5107-4BE3-BAB6-8BE216831911@microsoft.com...
> been working on a video promoting my comedy show. Have tried for two
months to get the doggone thing not to
> freeze or hang or crash ...I understand somewhat the virtual memory issues
but my presentation is 8 minutes long, I upgraded to 512,running
Xp,increased my paging file to 1000mb , bought a product called Memokit
which is supposed to keep it from crashing, the more I do to help the worse
it gets. I finished once again today with video editing, only to have it
freeze before I could add some audio...and when it goes it always takes most
of the clips with it. I have to save every collection I draw from because if
I delete some of the versions I've saved in My Documents it pulls the clips
out of the storyboard. Cannot run any of the presentations all the way
through-whether 3 minutes or 10 minutes without it hanging or freezing in
some fashion.Having to save all of the previous attempts is now tying up
12GB on my hard drive...help!
------------

I have the same freezing problems. One thing to try; load the project and
mouse click slowly through the timeline, watching the Hard Drive LED and
waiting for it to settle down before clicking further down the timeline.
Once you get to the end, can you play the entire move? Careful deliberate
mouse clicking (waiting for the HDD light to go out) seems to help on my
systems and frantic hopping around the timeline often causes a freeze (

Out of curiousity, what sort of Graphics card are you using - is it one
that's integrated on the motherboard?

--
Graeme


Thanks for the quick reponse,I'm very computerilliterate so bear with me, is the grahics card the ATI Mobility Radeon Graphics- Radeon IGP 340m? Also spent yesterday letting crash and then restarting computer and it would automically save the project-so after about 10 hours of work and replacin missing clips that were deleted or? I was able to complte the project and save it intact in a file, however it won't let me save to cd,dv camcorder, to the computer, or as an e-mail attachment (it takes 2 hours each time to find that out) and says that I need something original file locations not there or something but I 've just reimported all of the clips so I know there available and everything is staying intact when I exit and come back...I'm confused and frustrated. Our agent Harmony Artist has been waiting for this video for weeks, thought I finally had. Thanks for the help! Ken McMeans

"wayoutwest" <wildwestexpress7@aol.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks for the quick reponse,I'm very computerilliterate so bear with
me, is the grahics card the ATI Mobility Radeon Graphics- Radeon IGP 340m?
Also spent yesterday letting crash and then restarting computer and it would
automically save the project-so after about 10 hours of work and replacin
missing clips that were deleted or? I was able to complte the project and
save it intact in a file, however it won't let me save to cd,dv camcorder,
to the computer, or as an e-mail attachment (it takes 2 hours each time to
find that out) and says that I need something original file locations not
there or something but I 've just reimported all of the clips so I know
there available and everything is staying intact when I exit and come
back...I'm confused and frustrated. Our agent Harmony Artist has been
waiting for this video for weeks, thought I finally had. Thanks for the
help! Ken McMeans
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Ken,

I have to admit that I'm no expert on moviemaker itself because I can't get
it to run in a stable manner to learn all about it on the systems I have
here, but I am noticing that many people who are experiencing the freezing
problem have what is called "Integrated Graphics" on their system where the
Graphics Card is actually built into the Motherboard. It is my personal
suspicion that MM2 doesn't behave on these Integrated Graphic systems as
they "steal"/share the computers normal memory (RAM).

The Radeon IGP 340 is an Integrated Graphic system and it would be no
surprise to me if that played a big part in the freezing issue. Perhaps if a
decent AGP graphics card was added to your system, it may behave better
(presuming it's not a laptop!). Hopefully within the month, I'm going to
find out if our systems behave if fitted with a new graphics card - should
be interesting! Perhaps someone else may chip in here with a recommendation
for a Graphics Card known to work well with MM2 )

Your export problem appears to be separate issue (perhaps brought about with
all the crashing) where MM2 thinks a clip is still missing. If you look at
the Audio timeline, are there any red crosses etc there? It would be
worthwhile "zooming in" on the timeline to make sure that there aren't any
really short clips (say several seconds long) that you may not have noticed
and are also showing a red cross.

I really do hope this helps you.

--
Graeme Davidson