Error Opening Movie Maker Project (Redirected)

[fullmetalguitar]

I accidentally posted this in the wrong group, but someone kindly informed me
of my mistake.

I'm using Windows Movie Maker with XP and no, no IE7. Now, when creating my
video there were no issues really. I saved it a couple times, but I didn't
actually have to open it again during its creation because I kept WMM running
the whole time I was making it. After it was completed I tried to save it as
a movie file. I've done this plenty of times with no issue, but the progress
bar stuck at 89% and then the estimated time remaining went up. (65 seconds,
then 1 minute, then 4 minutes) I canceled and then attempted to save again,
but encountered the same issue. I restarted my computer and then when I tried
to open the project I was informed that WMM had enountered an error and
needed to close, so sorry.

It's very important that I rescue this file, because it was a creative
project and there is basically no way I could redo it. Especially because
when I tried to do that, create another version of it, I had the same error
when trying to open THAT saved file. However, WMM is okay when opening other
projects I've finished long ago, at least for now.

Please... can anybody help me, and soon?

 

[John Inzer]

I accidentally posted this in the wrong group, but someone kindly
informed me of my mistake.

I'm using Windows Movie Maker with XP and no, no IE7. Now, when
creating my video there were no issues really. I saved it a couple
times, but I didn't actually have to open it again during its
creation because I kept WMM running the whole time I was making it.
After it was completed I tried to save it as a movie file. I've done
this plenty of times with no issue, but the progress bar stuck at 89%
and then the estimated time remaining went up. (65 seconds, then 1
minute, then 4 minutes) I canceled and then attempted to save again,
but encountered the same issue. I restarted my computer and then when
I tried to open the project I was informed that WMM had enountered an
error and needed to close, so sorry.

It's very important that I rescue this file, because it was a creative
project and there is basically no way I could redo it. Especially
because when I tried to do that, create another version of it, I had
the same error when trying to open THAT saved file. However, WMM is
okay when opening other projects I've finished long ago, at least for
now.

Please... can anybody help me, and soon?

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You may have some incompatibility issues
with your source files. Have a look at the
following articles:

File type compatibility with Movie Maker
http://tinyurl.com/v8tee
or...
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/Tutorials/MovieMaker/File_type_compatibility.htm

Movie Maker 2 - Importing MPEG Files
http://tinyurl.com/eajjh
or...
http://www.papajohn.org/MM2-Importing-Video-MPEG2.html

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John Inzer
Digital Media MVP

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