Photo Story 3.1 movies not transitioning right

[Guest]

I have been making movies through Photo Story 3.1 from Digital Image Suite
2006 for the past 8 months. I have a lot of transitioning such as crossfade,
etc between photos and all have looked great thus far. Last week, I finally
broke down and downloaded XP Service Pack 2 as well as other suggested
Microsoft critical security updates. 2 weeks ago, I also purchased a Western
Digital My Book external hard drive to back up my photos and other important
files. I have backed up several times thus far. I also upgraded a few days
ago to the new Windows Media Player 11.

Last night, I went to work on tweaking some of my Photo Story 3.1 movies and
once I saved them to .wmv format, when I played them in WMP 11, I noticed the
transitions were real choppy, not like before. I thought it was WMP11, so I
uninstalled that and it put back WMP10, which I had before. However the
movies are still playing back choppy. I saved the movie to a CD and played
them on another computer and they seemed okay. I even did as WMP10 and 11
suggested and dialed down the video acceleration, but that didn't help any,
if anything it made it worse.

Any ideas on what the heck happened to make the movies choppy now? I even
turned off the MY Book external hard drive to ensure it wasn't interferring
with anything and it still does it. Since I switched back to WMP10, I can
only presume that the XP SP2 or something messed with my computer video? They
worked before, but now are not working properly on my computer. Help!

-- Peppi S.

 

[John Inzer]

I have been making movies through Photo Story 3.1 from Digital Image
Suite 2006 for the past 8 months. I have a lot of transitioning such
as crossfade, etc between photos and all have looked great thus far.
Last week, I finally broke down and downloaded XP Service Pack 2 as
well as other suggested Microsoft critical security updates. 2 weeks
ago, I also purchased a Western Digital My Book external hard drive
to back up my photos and other important files. I have backed up
several times thus far. I also upgraded a few days ago to the new
Windows Media Player 11.

Last night, I went to work on tweaking some of my Photo Story 3.1
movies and once I saved them to .wmv format, when I played them in
WMP 11, I noticed the transitions were real choppy, not like before.
I thought it was WMP11, so I uninstalled that and it put back WMP10,
which I had before. However the movies are still playing back choppy.
I saved the movie to a CD and played them on another computer and
they seemed okay. I even did as WMP10 and 11 suggested and dialed
down the video acceleration, but that didn't help any, if anything it
made it worse.

Any ideas on what the heck happened to make the movies choppy now? I
even turned off the MY Book external hard drive to ensure it wasn't
interferring with anything and it still does it. Since I switched
back to WMP10, I can only presume that the XP SP2 or something messed
with my computer video? They worked before, but now are not working
properly on my computer. Help!

-- Peppi S.

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I don't have a simple fix for you...maybe
the following info will offer some ideas:

Sometimes the projects are too complex.
I guess you know there is an image limit
of 300 but with lots of panning/zooming/
transitions/music...that number is reduced.

Maybe you need more RAM.

Increasing the size of your Virtual Memory
Paging file may help. The following article
explains how:

(308417) HOW TO: Set Performance Options
in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308417

Did you also install IE7? Might be worth
a try to uninstall it:

(927177) How to uninstall Internet Explorer 7
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927177/en-us

Might be worth a try to update your video driver.
Search the support website of your video adapter's
manufacturer for an updated driver.

Also some maintenance could help:

(260897) How to Delete the Contents of the
Temporary Internet Files Folder
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=260897

Running Disk Cleanup, Error Checking and
Defrag on a regular schedule is a good idea.

(310312) Description of the Disk Cleanup
Tool in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310312

(315265) How to Perform Disk Error Checking
in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=315265
(check the two boxes..."Automatically fix file
system errors" and "Scan for and attempt
recovery of bad sectors") the utility will run
the next time you restart your computer.
(run error checking repeatedly until it finds
no errors)

(314848) How to Defragment Your Disk
Drive Volumes in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314848


--
John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

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

 

[Guest]

Thanks, John! No, I did not install IE7 as it's too confusing for me to use
(We have it at work and I don't like it at all). Anyway, I'm sure it's
something to do with my computer as it just all of a sudden started doing the
jerky transitions just a week ago and the same sized movies (about 40 that
I'm making) were just fine since October without any change in size or
content.

I did make a really short test movie and followed some advice in these
forums to download PapaJohn's and another's Photo Story 3 custom profiles. I
used the DVD profile of 780xsomething and the 1274x980 one. My movie only had
about 10 pictures in it to test it and it still took me 36 minutes to create
a DVD using NeroVision Express 2. BUT I was able (for the very first time) to
play it on not only my 15" screen computer, but a 19" TV and also a large 52"
rear projection TV with absolutely clear clarity and no jerking! In fact one
of the pictures was not good quality when played on my computer before turned
out almost crystal clear! I was amazed!!!! So it must just be my computer as
it plays okay on other computers. <sigh> Thanks for your help!