Saving to CD half project pics save and all music

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Jason

First time movie maker having problems with playback of
burned CD. I've read most everything on Papajohns.org
concerning this issue. Here is what I've done so far.

Created and saved a new project to my hard drive that has
pictures about 100 pictures with 3 songs and some visual
effects totaling up about 72mb with a runtime of 17
minutes well under the virtual memory and ram limits. The
movie plays great from hard drive.

While preparing to burn a cd I got a low virtual memory
alert, but it also mentioned that it would be adjusting
itself to meet the required need. I believe! I left the
alert alone and the program began to burn the CD-R
anyway. I then got the message that the CD had been
burned successfully and asked if I would like another
copy. I copied a second disk.

Then I took both copies to my laptop to test them out.
They both stopped at the same picture and the music kept
playing. The total runtime was 14:26 minutes with only
28mb burned.

Thank you for your help!
Jason
 
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PapaJohn \(MVP\)

Jason,

Are you burning the CDs using Movie Maker or other software? If with Movie
Maker....

I'd suspect the hard drive if it's not finishing as expected... clear up
space, defrag, and make sure other apps are not running.

And if you can't do it with Movie Maker, you could save the movie to your
hard drive as a WMV file and copy it to a data CD.

PapaJohn
 
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Jason

Yes I'm burning CDs with Movie Maker and I defraged
yesterday, but I added about 150 pictures from Kodak CDs
for my project. I will defrag again and retry. Should I
increase my virtual memory manually or let windows
manager it for me? Current settings are minium 348mb max
768mb ram is 256mb.

Thank you,
Jason
 
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PapaJohn \(MVP\)

My Problem Solving... Checklist page has a link to an article about
optimizing virtual memory. It's about 1/2 way down the page. I prefer
setting the size manually and doing it when I know the virtual swap file
will not be fragmented.

Maybe saving the movie to the hard drive first, and then bringing it in as a
single clip and burning the CDs from it would work, needing less memory than
doing the rendering and burning as part of the same overall process.

And again, if you don't need the HighMAT menu, just copy the wmv file to a
data CD.

PapaJohn
 

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