Sound Cuts Out after 1 Hour & 26 Minutes

[Guest]

I have produced a Movie 1:41:43.93 in length with titles, transitions, ending
credits, original soundtrack, and background music. All sound cuts out at
1:26:22 even though the video portion and ending credits proceed to the end.
When I am running a Dell DPS Gen 4 system with Windows XP Professional and 4
GB of memory. I am using Windows Movie Maker (Build
2600.xpsp_sp2_gd2.070227-2254: Service Pack 2) Windows Movie Maker Version
2.1.4026.0.

When I Save it to my computer the sound is missing from the same spot. What
can I do?

 

[John Hanley]

Your Audio track on the Timeline view should have the blue trace of the
audio; what do you see on your Audio track during the time period after
1:26:22? Does the line of audio squiggles continue into the silent period?
(The Audio track is the one just below the Transition track). Just
wondering if possibly the Audio in that period was muted or removed by
accident.

 

[Guest]

The blue Trace on both Audio and Audio/Music Tracks continue past the spot
where the sound cuts out. I checked the segments before and after that spot
to see if they have been muted and they haven't. I selected volume without
changing it and temporily got back the sound for that segment, but when I
went back to play through the spot, I lost all sound at the same place. Then
I eliminated the segment where the problem was occuring and it cut out in the
middle of the next segment the same distance into the project. The problem
seems to be time limit related.

 

[PapaJohn]

it could also be a codec issue, when you use source files that don't work
well with Movie Maker... what types of video and audio clips are you using
in that part of the movie?

 

[Guest]

All Video segments are AVI (mpg while working in the project). The music are
all MP3. The problem seems to be a time limit. If I used Movie Maker to
burn it on a DVD, maybe that's all that would fit. I am however, using
Creator 9 to cut the DVD from the computer file created by Movie Maker. But
the problem does not occure there. The computer file created by Movie Maker
has the sound missing from the last 15 minutes of the film.

 

[Graham Hughes]

I'm 99% sure that it is your source files which are the problem, mpg video
files and mpg audio files do not work well in movie maker, in fact to get to
the point you are at is very lucky.

Quickest option.
Try making two smaller projects, so cut the original in half, then save your
movies.
Start a new project and jopin the two together again.

Longer option,
Convert all the files to MM compatible ones, so wmv or dv.avi video and
wav/wma/wmv audio, then remake the project.


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Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.com

All Video segments are AVI (mpg while working in the project). The music
are
all MP3. The problem seems to be a time limit. If I used Movie Maker to
burn it on a DVD, maybe that's all that would fit. I am however, using
Creator 9 to cut the DVD from the computer file created by Movie Maker.
But
the problem does not occure there. The computer file created by Movie
Maker
has the sound missing from the last 15 minutes of the film.