Do I not have enough memory?

[Guest]

I currently have a Dell 8100 Pent. 4...but only 256 RAM...I worked on a movie
for about a year. It is a mix of pictures, video and audio...about 40
minutes into it everything from loading the file to importing anything was
taking way too long so I started creating mini movies and importing them in
to the larger movie to finish it, never considering my memory speed. I am
running the original WMM that comes with XP b/c SP2 screws up my computer.
MM says I need a little over a Gig to save it to my computer. After about 2
hours of trying it returns this: "Verify that the orignal source files is
used in your movie are still availiable, that saving location is still
avaliable, and that there is enough free disk space avaliable, then try
again." All my source files are available (none show up as a blank "X"
slide). I purchased an external hardrive and copied over files as backups
but never moved any to a different folder or anything. Sorry for the length,
but do you think this is just a memory issue, or could it be something else?
I have put a lot of time and effort in this.

 

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

see the Problem Solving > Can't Save a Movie page of my website. it has info
about your memory needs and how to check.
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[Guest]

Thank you it is definetly a memory issue. Your site was very informative. So
is my hour and 20 minute video just out of the question to make then...how
much memory do think is needed? Is any improvement in memory going to help?
Any more suggestions?

 

[Wojo]

I have one computer with only 512MB and it renders movies with no problem at
all. More memory renders movies faster and I don't have a box with only 256
to check out but 512 seems to work ok.
-Wojo

 

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

512 MB seems to be the usual today.... and with that I tend to keep my
movies in segments about 15 minutes long. But the limits are project
complexity, not time... so rendering a full 1 hr 20 min one works fine if
it's not too complex.

and you can always bump up your virtual memory setting without having to
purchase more RAM...
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[Guest]

Ok thank you...I tried boosting up the virtual memory but it didn't help too
much...I am most likely going ot invest in upgrating my physical memory.
Thanks again for the advice.