Rendering Difficulties with Movie Maker 5.1

[eskaggs]

I am attempting to edit and save/render a video file for a webinar my company
recently conducted. I've successfully edited my file. However when I save
it, the estimated time creeps up and up into the hundreds/thousands of
minutes and percentage completion doesn't get past 6% or so. It never makes
any progress. CPU utilization is 0-2% for Movie Maker during this time. I
would expect something much higher.

The source file is wmv, with only three minor edits in he beginning -
Clipped the start time and then clipped out .75 sec w/in the first 5 seconds.


Original run time is 48 mins. file size is 39.9MB, frame rate is 29.97 and
ave data rate is 14KB/second.

I'm attempting to render to WMV at broadband rates of 150kbps w/ 15fps.

I get the same result whether the file is edited or not, or if I save the
unedited file as AVI or WMV.

Computer is XP SP 2 Dual core 2.2GHz w/ 2GB RAM.

I've spent some time researching this issue but no luck.

Many thanks in advance for feedback. Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[John Inzer]

I am attempting to edit and save/render a video file for a webinar my
company recently conducted. I've successfully edited my file.
However when I save it, the estimated time creeps up and up into the
hundreds/thousands of minutes and percentage completion doesn't get
past 6% or so. It never makes any progress. CPU utilization is 0-2%
for Movie Maker during this time. I would expect something much
higher.

The source file is wmv, with only three minor edits in he beginning -
Clipped the start time and then clipped out .75 sec w/in the first 5
seconds.


Original run time is 48 mins. file size is 39.9MB, frame rate is
29.97 and ave data rate is 14KB/second.

I'm attempting to render to WMV at broadband rates of 150kbps w/
15fps.

I get the same result whether the file is edited or not, or if I save
the unedited file as AVI or WMV.

Computer is XP SP 2 Dual core 2.2GHz w/ 2GB RAM.

I've spent some time researching this issue but no luck.

Many thanks in advance for feedback. Any help is greatly appreciated.

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Maybe the following links will offer some useful info:

Movie Maker 2 - Problem Solving -
'Can't Save A Movie'
http://tinyurl.com/yjvztz

File type compatibility
with Movie Maker
http://tinyurl.com/v8tee

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John Inzer
Digital Media MVP

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

 

[eskaggs]

Thanks for the post. I'd looked at that last night and am leaning toward
corruption. The other page recommendation had some decent utilities to try
for checking quality, codec of the file and also converting to other formats.
My next attempt will be to convert to a WMM friendly AVI and try this all
over again.

 

[eskaggs]

John - Thanks again. I used SUPER and GSpot from the site you recommended to
come up with what I think is the problem. We use GoToWebinar as a webinar
facility at work. It records the webinar in a .wmv format. However,
analysis shows that the codec is a proprietary Citrix/GotoWebinar codec. I
think Win MM is rejecting based on the codec as well as Adobe Premier PRO CS3
and SUPER. I'd hoped to use SUPER to convert from wmv to dv-avi for a fresh
start but it gives an error.

Thanks again.

 

[explorich]

I am attempting to edit and save/render a video file for a webinar my company
recently conducted. I've successfully edited my file. However when I save
it, the estimated time creeps up and up into the hundreds/thousands of
minutes and percentage completion doesn't get past 6% or so. It never makes
any progress. CPU utilization is 0-2% for Movie Maker during this time. I
would expect something much higher.

The source file is wmv, with only three minor edits in he beginning -
Clipped the start time and then clipped out .75 sec w/in the first 5 seconds.


Original run time is 48 mins. file size is 39.9MB, frame rate is 29.97 and
ave data rate is 14KB/second.

I'm attempting to render to WMV at broadband rates of 150kbps w/ 15fps.

I get the same result whether the file is edited or not, or if I save the
unedited file as AVI or WMV.

Computer is XP SP 2 Dual core 2.2GHz w/ 2GB RAM.

I've spent some time researching this issue but no luck.

Many thanks in advance for feedback. Any help is greatly appreciated.

 

[PapaJohn]

See the comments about screen capture wmv files on my website's Import Movie
Source Files > Video > WMV page.

The bottom line is that Movie Maker seems to need source files with
keyframes, and screen capture wmv's often don't use them. Conversion to
another file is needed.