Saving Movie File

I made a slideshow with still photos, transitions and audio tracks. When I save the project as a movie, it reads as 125MB. Then after it burns onto the hard drive, in my video folder it reads as 62MB. When I play the movie back on Windows Media Player, the audio runs through the entire sequence. However, about half way through the slideshow the pictures freeze and stop coming. I have tried re-saving half a dozen times. I cannot figure out why the project is not saving the entire slideshow, but rather just all the music and half the still pictures. Please help! I'm trying to make an end of the year video for my high school students and the last days of school are fastly approaching. Please email if you can: eparker78@msn.com

Thank you
Eric Parker

Eric,

There's a number of things it could be. See the Problem Solving > Can't Save
a Movie page of my site.
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"eparker" <eparker78@msn.com> wrote in message
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> I made a slideshow with still photos, transitions and audio tracks. When
I save the project as a movie, it reads as 125MB. Then after it burns onto
the hard drive, in my video folder it reads as 62MB. When I play the movie
back on Windows Media Player, the audio runs through the entire sequence.
However, about half way through the slideshow the pictures freeze and stop
coming. I have tried re-saving half a dozen times. I cannot figure out why
the project is not saving the entire slideshow, but rather just all the
music and half the still pictures. Please help! I'm trying to make an end
of the year video for my high school students and the last days of school
are fastly approaching. Please email if you can: eparker78@msn.com.
>
> Thank you!
> Eric Parker

Hi there,

You may have a bottleneck where once all of your resources are used up the
result is as you describe. Movie Maker is known for this sort of thing.

Your simplest approach would be to sub-divide your project into convenient
blocks and then save those as smaller videos which you can then import and
join them together.

On the speed issue itself. There are some tutorials and FAQ's on my web
site that might help. You might want to check out the one on Disk Drives.
Badly configured a hard drive can cause all sorts of issues...but have a
wander through, you may find something that rings a bell somewhere..

Good Luck

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obtained by publishing in any format other peoples work

I have exactly the same problem but my computer is only a week old and there is no way it can be a problem with resources, i have over a gig of ram and 400 gig of hard disk so i am really stuck. Anyone got any suggestions? Is there an update of moviemaker being made?