Movie Maker Locks UP

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Subject: Movie maker Locks up while Making Movie 11/19/2004 4:55 PM PST

By: Greg In: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general

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I have made a couple movies I have made and sent 1st one. However I have
recently retired from the military.And I was working on my last drill movie
with the National gaurd.I have the movie downloaded and am working on the
story board and transitions.I had this problem once before before I
reformatted.Now here it is again I have a new Dell XPS all the upgrades here
is the fault message I copied from the advanced system information (Fault
Log) Friday, November 19, 2004 Applicatio n Hang Fault bucket 115810024 . Not
sure if that helps but I hope someone can help me out.I had 22 years in the
service was over in Desert Storm and Sheild....my Gaurd Unit is getting ready
to head back to Iraq 12-18 months...I felt pulled to serve again but my wife
and Kids said no...Soooooo anyhoot sob story aside i really would like to get
this fixed Movie Maker is great and easy I just cant figure out why it locks
up on me.Ohh I can be E-mailed at (e-mail address removed) Greg Hall

 

[Dean Rowe [MS]]

Hangs can sometimes be caused by third party filters that been loaded within
MovieMaker, If you have SP2 installed then you can try to turn some of them
off in the compatibility tab, see my blog for further details.
http://blogs.msdn.com/deanro/archive/2004/08/22/218501.aspx

Alternatively there is another potential solution of the MovieMaker FAQ at
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/21/faq.mspx. See the
below Q&A. Unfortunately, although this may cure the hang, it will affect
the editing performance, especially on larger timelines.

Q. What can I do if Windows Movie Maker stops responding when I drag
the playback indicator on the timeline for a project that has a lot of
audio, video, images, or titles on the storyboard/timeline?
A. You can prevent this from happening by adding a new value in
Registry Editor.

Note Before making any changes in Registry Editor, you should back up
valuable files on your computer and the Windows Registry itself. For more
information about Windows Registry, see the Windows Help and Support Center.

To add a new registry key for Windows Movie Maker to prevent the
timeline from not responding

1.
Click Start, and then click Run.

2.
In the Run dialog box, type regedit.exe, and then click OK.

3.
In Registry Editor, navigate to the following location:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MM20]

4.
Click anywhere in the pane on the right that contains the
different registry keys and corresponding values.

5.
On the Edit menu, point to New, and then click DWORD value.

6.
For the new registry key name, type DynamicSourcesforPreview, and
enter the value 0.

7.
Close Registry Editor and restart Windows Movie Maker.


Windows Movie Maker should no longer stop responding when you drag the
playback indicator on the timeline.

Important This change can decrease the performance of Windows Movie
Maker.



Regards
Dean Rowe
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