Can't save movies to my computer

[Guest]

I have Windows XP media center edition. When using Windows Movie Maker, I can
create and edit movie files just fine, right up until the point where I can
save the movie. It appears to save, gives no error messages, but the movie
files are always 0 bytes long and have nothing in them.

I have tried reinstalling Windows Media player, reinstalled the codecs,
everything I could think of or find on Papa John's website. It still does not
work. Any other ideas?

 

[Mac]

Can you find anything in the Event Viewer?

 

[Guest]

What's the Event Viewer?

Can you find anything in the Event Viewer?

 

[Mac]

The Event Viewer will display detailed system logs of internal events. Look
here...

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/.../xp/all/proddocs/en-us/snap_event_viewer.mspx

 

[Guest]

What am I looking for in there?

The Event Viewer will display detailed system logs of internal events. Look
here...

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/.../xp/all/proddocs/en-us/snap_event_viewer.mspx

 

[Mac]

Anything that happens around the same date/time that you have a problem.

 

[Guest]

I don't find anything except some events with MSN Messenger that don't happen
at "exactly" the same times. ESENT is what it says in the description.

 

[Wojo]

Do you have Internet Explorer 7 installed?
If so try uninstalling it, your computer should revert back to IE6, and see
if that does the trick.
Some users have had problems with Movie Maker after installing Internet
Explorer 7.

Otherwise what types of clips (file extensions) are in your project?
How long is the project?
How many transitions etc...?

 

[Guest]

Mostly Jpegs and Gifs. Not a lot of transitions. About 13 MB.

 

[Wojo]

JPG's sometimes cause problems but not usually.
13MB is probably not a very complex project so that wouldn't be the issue.

What about Internet Explorer 7?

-Wojo

 

[Guest]

I tried removing it, but no effect there either.

 

[Guest]

Is there a way to reinstall it?

I tried removing it, but no effect there either.

 

[John Inzer]

Is there a way to reinstall it?

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You can download IE7 from the following site:

Windows Internet Explorer 7
for Windows XP SP2
http://tinyurl.com/yc28dc


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John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
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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

 

[Guest]

Sorry, didn't make myself clear. Is there a way to reinstall Movie Maker?

 

[John Inzer]

Sorry, didn't make myself clear. Is there a way to reinstall Movie
Maker?

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Reinstall WinXP SP2.

Download Windows XP SP2
http://tinyurl.com/6ubys

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

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

 

[Guest]

I redownloaded Service Pack 2. It worked right one time and then started
doing the same thing all over again.

 

[Guest]

I tried reinstalling it. It worked once and then started behaving the same way.

 

[Wojo]

I think we need to start over then.
Did you try saving a simple video? Just import a couple images and add a
transition and see if that saves.
Also did you try a lower setting such as saving it for email or one of the
other smaller settings files?