Answer to saving movie problems

[Guest]

After much hair pulling I kinda figured out how to make my large movie work.
I was using strictly MM2 w/ over 150 still photos. Every photo had a
transition and an effect. Which I read on a post helps bog it down. Plus a
lot of my photos were scanned w/ the highest dpi. Which also slows things.
Well, when I would go to save my movie, then watch it, it would come to a
dead stop half way through. So I took some advice from different posts on
this site and started over. I used Photo Story 3 to put the pictures
together. I did all the panning and zooming this way and I didn't add music.
Then I saved it and imported it into MM. I then added music and text to all
the photos. I saved it and it worked. It was pretty time consuming, but now
I know how photo story really does help when using a lot of still photos.
Thanks to all who offered help on this topic. I am no longer clueless!!
Julie

 

[John Inzer]

After much hair pulling I kinda figured out how to make
my large movie work. I was using strictly MM2 w/ over 150
still photos. Every photo had a transition and an
effect. Which I read on a post helps bog it down. Plus
a lot of my photos were scanned w/ the highest dpi.
Which also slows things. Well, when I would go to save my
movie, then watch it, it would come to a dead stop half
way through. So I took some advice from different posts
on this site and started over. I used Photo Story 3 to
put the pictures together. I did all the panning and
zooming this way and I didn't add music. Then I saved it
and imported it into MM. I then added music and text to
all the photos. I saved it and it worked. It was pretty
time consuming, but now I know how photo story really
does help when using a lot of still photos. Thanks to all
who offered help on this topic. I am no longer
clueless!! Julie

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I'm glad you discovered a workable solution...

Thanks for the update.