mm2 creates only partial .wmv file

[Guest]

i continue to "save movie file," then "select best quality for local playback
on my computer" and, after several minutes, i am told that movie maker has
finished making my movie (.wmv format). i've done this many times before with
success, however the last three or four tries, even after the program
indicates that the .wmv file is finished saving and ready for playback, only
about half the movie will play. the movie stops on one image in the movie and
the music keeps on playing. any ideas out there?

 

[Dean Rowe [MS]]

We've seen other reports of this behaviour especially on timelines with a
lot of transitions.

The good news is that we made a fix in Windows Movie Maker 2.1 within
Windows XP SP2 so this problem is far more unlikely to occur. If you don't
want to install SP2 yet you can also try the following workaround.

Sometimes just trying to save your movie again will work, as it doesn't
always repro 100% of the time. If in your case it is consistenly failing
then the other suggestion I have is to save your movie as a DV-AVI file
first. To do this, when you're on the Movie Settings page choose "Other
Settings" and select DV-AVI from the list (if Other Settings isn't visible
then click "Show more choices...").

Play back the resultant DV-AVI file to make sure that it's OK. If you want
to save it as a WMV file to save disk space you can
then import the DV-AVI file back into MovieMaker, drag it down to the
timeline then publish it again as a WMV file with your choice of profile.
Regards
Dean Rowe
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