Difficulty in rendering transitions - Q to Papa John

[Guest]

I produced a 15 minute ski movie with plenty of short action clips and many
transitions (including some of MM2 winter transitions) and movie maker 2
refuses to render this to DV AVI (but will to WMV9 - highest quality PAL). If
I take out all the transitions it renders quickly to DV AVI but obviously
screws up the look and feel of the movie without the transitions. I also get
the occasional skip in the music backing track which I see described elswhere
as being attributable to MP3 files when rendering directly to Dv AVI. I see
a solution for music problem is to render to WMV then drop that back in as a
single clip to MM2 and render again to DV AVI which works first go for the
music. My question is ---- isnt this killing the quality of my video? ie
first to WMV and then to AVI?

by the way I have a recent high spec machine with 1 gig of ram and separate
120gb hard disk only for movies and am at a loss to understand the
transitions rendering issue. Also your site is great...it saved me hours of
frustration. Tim

 

[steve]

Havent done this before but I've seen in written many a
time. I think the problem is in your MP3 files. I believe
what you have to do is leave your audio background but
delete all your video then save as a separate movie. So
now you have a movie with only 'audio' (wva). Then in the
project with your movie, remove the background audio track
(with mp3 files) and place your 'audio only' movie there.
With the audio now in wva format, not mp3 format, it
should render.

I'm sure others will chime in if I'm not quite right.

Good luck.

 

[steve]

oops, I think I should have said, WMA for the audio file
format that is created when rendering a movie, not WVA.