Odd Windows Movie Maker Problem?

[foggytown]

Or just my incompetence.

I have some digital videos on Sony Digital 8 format and I decided to
transfer them to my PC and thence to CD or DVD. So I rigged up the
cable between the HandyCam and the PC and opened WMM and clicked on
record, started the camera in playback. Everything worked like a charm
and I ended up with a nice .WMV file which plays well through Windows
Media Player. Great!

Then why can't I do the same thing with the second tape? I've tried it
with and without using clips (final size either way about 27 MB) but I
always get the same problem. Whenever I try to play the saved WMV file
on Media Player the player immediately says "stopped" and shows
nothing. If I try to play the time line it plays fine. And then when
I try to click on a clip afterwards I get told by WMM that the file
isn't there any longer.

I have no idea what's going on. I even went to Microsoft site and
tried to download the 2.1 version of WMM but all I got was a bunch of
security updates.

Anyone help me here?

FoggyTown

 

[Will Denny]

Hi

Have you tried the MM News Group:

news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windowsxp.moviemaker or
http://aumha.org/nntp.htm

You can't download MM 2.1 - it's part of SP2.

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Will Denny
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User
Please reply to the News Groups

 

[Guest]

Foggytown,
I, too, have tried using the Movie Maker program. I experienced some of the
same problems. It seems that the more video you load onto your computer the
more the program crashes. I had no trouble until the movie got to be about
an hour long (finished)and I still had about 4 tapes worth of video to go
through. I got so frustrated that I deleted the whole thing and dumped the
idea.