Why can't I save my movie?

[Kate]

I have created a slideshow of photographs, with music and captions. I put a
CD-R into the disc drive and clicked save to CD, it allowed me to select the
movie name etc and went to the screen saying "your movie is saving" but the
bar remained on 0% for about 5 minutes and then a message came up saying
"Windows movie maker cannot save the movie to the specified location. Verify
that the original source files used in your movie are still availabe, that
the saving location is still available and that there is enough free disk
space available and then try again." The original source files are there, the
blank CD is in and has enough space but it still won't save. I have tried 3
times now to save it to disk and also tried selecting 'save movie to my
computer' and the same message appears.

please help!

 

[Saga]

Are you able to view the entire movie within MovieMaker(MM)?

Since the message comes up when you attempt to save to CD or
the computer, I suspect that the problem is not with the CD
specifically.

Perhaps one of the files (music or photos) is in a format that is
not compatible with MM.

Aside from better advice, one possible path to take, if you can't
find a solution to this dilema, is to test with only a fraction of
the photos and/or without music and try to save to the computer
to test different scenarios in an attempt to isolate the culprit.

Saga

 

[Kate]

I can play the Movie from start to finish with no problems in Windows movie
player so I dont think it's anything to do with the source files.
I want to try to save it to my hard drive so I can then try to save it to
disc but I cant even save it to my hard drive. I try to save it as a wmv file
and the same message comes up.
It might be because of the computer memory size... if this is the case then
is there a way of transferring the file that is saved in windows movie maker
to another computer and trying to save it to disc from there? I have saved
the movie onto my pen drive and tried to open it on windows movie maker on my
home computer but it comes up with red Xs where the pictures should be.

I'm at the point where Im just trying to find any way to save it into the
movie format and then i can go form there.

 

[Gord Dibben]

Are you saving the movie or just the project file?


Gord

 

[Kate]

The project file is saved on my laptop. I am trying to save the movie now so
I can play it away from my laptop and burn it on to disc.

 

[Kate]

When I tried to save it last a message appeared at the bottom of my screen
saying "your system is low on visual memory. windos is increasing the size of
your visual memory paging file. during this process memory requests for some
applications may be denied." could this be to do with why it is not saving?