Cannot Complete Publish Movie

[The Dog Breeders List]

I have a movie that is about 12 minutes long. No matter which setting I
select from "More settings, It comes up with the Cannot complete publish
movie. I last selected Windows media Low bandwidth, and it says the space
needed is 10.32 MB. I have tried to publish to a USB drive with 74 GB
available with the same error. I have trimmed downed the move on a trial
down to 45 seconds of movie, and I can publish the movie. I am running
Windows Vista Home Premium, 2 gb of ram and 20 GB of hard space available.
Should I try another program like Pinnacle or Roxio?
Bob

 

[John Inzer]

I have a movie that is about 12 minutes long. No matter which setting
I select from "More settings, It comes up with the Cannot complete
publish movie. I last selected Windows media Low bandwidth, and it
says the space needed is 10.32 MB. I have tried to publish to a USB
drive with 74 GB available with the same error. I have trimmed downed
the move on a trial down to 45 seconds of movie, and I can publish
the movie. I am running Windows Vista Home Premium, 2 gb of ram and
20 GB of hard space available. Should I try another program like
Pinnacle or Roxio? Bob

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You may have some incompatibility issues
with your source files. Have a look at the
following articles:

File type compatibility with Movie Maker
http://tinyurl.com/v8tee
or...
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/Tutorials/MovieMaker/File_type_compatibility.htm

Which file type should I use in Movie Maker?
http://tinyurl.com/6n66g3
or...
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/Tutorials/MovieMaker/WhichFileTypeInMovieMaker.htm

 

[The Dog Breeders List]

I can view the full movie in MM in the trailer and edit the movie. The
problem I am having is publishing the movie to my hd, dvd or CD.
Since I can publish an 11 second movie does that mean I do not have a
compatibility problem, but something else ?

 

[John Inzer]

I can view the full movie in MM in the trailer and edit the movie. The
problem I am having is publishing the movie to my hd, dvd or CD.
Since I can publish an 11 second movie does that mean I do not have a
compatibility problem, but something else ?

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I still think it may be incompatible files
but maybe it's a resource issue. Try
doing some maintenance and see if
it helps...empty your TIF Folder, run
defrag, etc. And it may help if you
disconnect from the net and close all
programs...especially virus scanners
before you open Movie Maker.

 

[Graham Hughes]

I'd go compatibility as well, a short movie may only have the compatible
file in, it may be that the file will work on it's own, but when compiled
with 2 or more it chokes MM.
What are your source file types?

 

[The Dog Breeders List]

I guess my last post didn't work. I shut down my firewall, virus checker and
Internet connection. This allowed me to publish about 50% of the movie
before going into the error mode again. I currently have 19 GB available on
the HD with 2 GB memory. I've defrag the hd and ran Norton 360 to delete the
temp files. What is the compatibility file?

Thanks for your help.

 

[Pamela]

I'd go compatibility as well, a short movie may only have the compatible
file in, it may be that the file will work on it's own, but when compiled
with 2 or more it chokes MM.
What are your source file types?

--

Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.com

 

[Pamela]

I have the same problem. I can make a 15 minute movie in MM V6 and my
project runs fine, but when I try to publish it (to DVD or as an AVI file to
my computer) it tells me after completing a certain % that it cannot publish
because a source file might be missing, or there isn't enough space in the
location I am saving to - which is rubbish It tells me before it starts
publishing that movie size will be 3.37GB and I have 172.68 GB available so
there is no space issue. The source files aren't missing either. I don't
believe this is a compatible problem. I get it with every MM project over 6
mins long regardless of the files types which are standard digital movie and
still photos files from Cannon digital cameras. I am running Vista Ultimate.

 

[Graham Hughes]

Std digital movies from a canon stills camera are probably not a compatible
file type.
The ixus takes MOV files, which aren't. Often it may cope with a small
incompatible file, but then stop when you add more or longe ones.

 

[John Inzer]

Std digital movies from a canon stills camera are probably not a
compatible file type.
The ixus takes MOV files, which aren't. Often it may cope with a
small incompatible file, but then stop when you add more or longe
ones.

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Canon movie files are .avi...

GSpot says:
mjpg / Motion JPEG including Huffman Tables

It may be dumb luck but I have a Canon and the
movie clips work fine in MM2.1 )

Maybe the JPEGs would work better as .bmps.

--

John Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

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

 

[Graham Hughes]

I looked on the canon site at the first range of models on their list ;-)
Maybe we need the exact model number to be sure what is being used.

John, I think you must be lucky to have mjpegs working, my father has a
camera which uses those and neither of us can use them.

I'd still vote for converting them to wmv.

 

[The Dog Breeders List]

Hello, my Canon is a DC330.
Bob

I looked on the canon site at the first range of models on their list ;-)
Maybe we need the exact model number to be sure what is being used.

John, I think you must be lucky to have mjpegs working, my father has a
camera which uses those and neither of us can use them.

I'd still vote for converting them to wmv.

--

Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.com

 

[Graham Hughes]

A dvd camcorder.
Try this to convert to wmv
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/Tutorials/ConvertMpeg2wmv.html

 

[John Inzer]

I looked on the canon site at the first range of models on their list
;-) Maybe we need the exact model number to be sure what is being
used.
John, I think you must be lucky to have mjpegs working, my father has
a camera which uses those and neither of us can use them.

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They are easy to convert to .wmv with Windows
Media Encoder but luckily I haven't had issues
with them.

It would be interesting to know why some users
have such problems with formats and others do
not.
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I'd still vote for converting them to wmv.

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As a general rule...this is certainly the best idea.

--

John Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

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

 

[Graham Hughes]

If we found that one out we could all sit around with our feet up drinking
tea and eating home made biscuits

 

[John Inzer]

If we found that one out we could all sit around with our feet up
drinking tea and eating home made biscuits

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Sounds good to me.

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John Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

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