File Size Limitations on MS Movie Maker files

[Randy]

System Info:
1.4 Ghz machine, Windows XP op Sys. 512 MB Ram

Background:
I recently dumped the Windows Milenium OS and had
installed the Windows XP in hopes that i could get Movie
maker working. It helped tremedously for now I could
compile movies w/o getting errors.
I ran my first trial movie (actually a 20 minute slide
show with music) it was large, but it compiled high
quality, large file at 69 MB.
After this, I continued to restore my PC from the OS
installation, and added other S/W including MS Works. Now
my movie file, eventhough it is basically the same
compostion project as the original seems to be limited to
near 50 MB. The program works fine for about 9 to 11
minutes and then the music continues, but the slides
discontinue to flow (either it freezes on the last slide
or it goes black) I have tried several attempts since the
original and all have the same symptoms and all fall in
the range of 48 MB to 51.5 MB
I have tried other output formats too, NTSC for example,
all high quality, but the same results.
Any help would be apprecited.

 

[Dean Rowe [MS]]

We've seen other reports of this behaviour especially on timelines with a
lot of transitions.

The good news is that we made a fix in Windows Movie Maker 2.1 within
Windows XP SP2 so this problem is far more unlikely to occur. If you don't
want to install SP2 yet you can also try the following workaround.

Sometimes just trying to save your movie again will work, as it doesn't
always repro 100% of the time. If in your case it is consistenly failing
then the other suggestion I have is to save your movie as a DV-AVI file
first. To do this, when you're on the Movie Settings page choose "Other
Settings" and select DV-AVI from the list (if Other Settings isn't visible
then click "Show more choices...").

Play back the resultant DV-AVI file to make sure that it's OK. If you
ultimately want a DVD, you should be able to import that DV-AVI file into
Sonic MyDVD. If you want to save it as a WMV file to save disk space you can
also import the DV-AVI file back into MovieMaker, drag it down to the
timeline then publish it again as a WMV file with your choice of profile.
Regards
Dean Rowe
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[Randy]

Thanks for the help, I will give it a try. Is Windows XP
SP2 an upgrade for Windows XP Professional?

 

[Dean Rowe [MS]]

Yes, SP2 is the latest service pack for Windows XP. It's free and should be
available soon from Windows Update if it isn't already there.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/default.mspx has some more details.

Cheers
Dean Rowe
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[randy]

it appears that SP2 isn't ready yet. But did the DV-AVI
thing last nite and recreated the video in the format
desired, and it worked.
thanks again.
Randy