HELP TRYING TO BURN MM2 MOVIE TO DVD

[Guest]

Hello, I have read a lot of posts from PapaJohn when helping Tiffany's issue. I to am having an issue close to hers. But, I am helping my mother-in-law with a 41 minute slide show of pictures. For some reason I am not able to "save as" then rename the file with a (AV, WMV ect..) It puts the WSWMM extension on it. I am unable to get it to play at all. She is using Sonic My DVD and has burned movies in the past, as I have assisted her in this. However, this time it isn't working at all. It starts to convert and gives an error message that the file is in use by another program. Nothing is open at all, I even looked in the processes and nothing that I could see was running associated with MM2. It also stated something about the log file. The kicker is, it is for a wedding in two weeks. Tonight I was going to uninstall the Sonic My DVD and try reinstalling it to see if that will work at all.

Any help would be great! Like I said it won't let me save it as another file type. Is their a bug in this or am I over looking something?

Please advise.

 

[Graham Hughes, MVP Digital Media]

You are saving the project.
Go.....
File
Save movie file
my computer
enter your file name and choose where to save it
press next
choose show more choices
other settings
and chooxe dv-avi from the drop down list.
and you should have a dv-avi file to import in to sonic.
Graham

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Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.simplydv.co.uk

Hello, I have read a lot of posts from PapaJohn when helping Tiffany's

issue. I to am having an issue close to hers. But, I am helping my
mother-in-law with a 41 minute slide show of pictures. For some reason I am
not able to "save as" then rename the file with a (AV, WMV ect..) It puts
the WSWMM extension on it. I am unable to get it to play at all. She is
using Sonic My DVD and has burned movies in the past, as I have assisted her
in this. However, this time it isn't working at all. It starts to convert
and gives an error message that the file is in use by another program.
Nothing is open at all, I even looked in the processes and nothing that I
could see was running associated with MM2. It also stated something about
the log file. The kicker is, it is for a wedding in two weeks. Tonight I
was going to uninstall the Sonic My DVD and try reinstalling it to see if
that will work at all.

Any help would be great! Like I said it won't let me save it as another

file type. Is their a bug in this or am I over looking something?

 

[Guest]

Graham,
Thank you for your help. I followed your steps perfectly. But after I select it, I wait a few seconds and it goes straight to the end with a message. MM2 could not finish your movie. Make sure all the files are in the correct location, enough disk space and try again. Hmm... I have 1gb ram, proc is 2.8 disk space is 40gb.... I have scan disked, de fraged... still to no avail will it let me finish this. Any more suggestions? You help would be greatly appreciated!!

 

[Rehan]

Are you using Sonic My DVD? Latest versions will be able to work directly
with WMV format so try saving to "high quality video" which saves in WMV
format.

 

[Guest]

Actually, the burning isn't the problem yet. What is happening when I save it as a dv-avi it goes through the deal of saving.... then it comes up with an error. The project wasn't saved, telling me to check to make sure that the files are there and that I have enough disk space. The pc is a 2.8ghz 1gb ram, and a 30gb hd. 16.5gb free space. The clip is 41min long. I know that I have all and then some for systems requirements. I have all the latest windows up dates, I have scanned disked, defraged, rebooted and tried again. Still the same error. I have checked and rechecked the files, and to no avail they are all there. I also have tried to to save it as other file types just to see if I can get it to save. I normally can figure out this stuff fairly well, but this one has me stumped, and since this is for my mother-in-law and it is for a wedding. The pressure is on... So any other ideas, comments, suggestions that you have or would like me to try please let me know.
Sorry I forgot to let you know this version The My Sonic is v5.2.1
I upgraded to MM2... double-checked the windows updates, all is good. The only thing that isn't installed is .NET and I don't want that on her pc. I have checked as much as I can think of. I am at a different location, but am able to remote in to her pc to to try what ever you suggest..

 

[Graham Hughes, MVP Digital Media]

It's not a very big hdd for such a good pc. 41 mins will take up about 9gb,
plus space for temp files for any transitions/titles etc that are included,
so this could mean getting quite full.
To test the system can you make a little movie of say 5 mins and see how
that saves?
Check out
www.papjohn.org problem solving > can't save a movie

It may be bnest to split teh file up in to say, 10 minute blocks and see if
you can save them seperatel;y, as htere may be a problem with one bit, which
doesn't show up. This way you can narrow it down to a ten minute block and
then down from there!

The dvd sonic will be able to take multiple avi's and put them together
anyway.

Graham

--
Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.simplydv.co.uk

Actually, the burning isn't the problem yet. What is happening when I save

it as a dv-avi it goes through the deal of saving.... then it comes up with
an error. The project wasn't saved, telling me to check to make sure that
the files are there and that I have enough disk space. The pc is a 2.8ghz
1gb ram, and a 30gb hd. 16.5gb free space. The clip is 41min long. I know
that I have all and then some for systems requirements. I have all the
latest windows up dates, I have scanned disked, defraged, rebooted and tried
again. Still the same error. I have checked and rechecked the files, and to
no avail they are all there. I also have tried to to save it as other file
types just to see if I can get it to save. I normally can figure out this
stuff fairly well, but this one has me stumped, and since this is for my
mother-in-law and it is for a wedding. The pressure is on... So any other
ideas, comments, suggestions that you have or would like me to try please
let me know.

Sorry I forgot to let you know this version The My Sonic is v5.2.1
I upgraded to MM2... double-checked the windows updates, all is good. The

only thing that isn't installed is .NET and I don't want that on her pc. I
have checked as much as I can think of. I am at a different location, but am
able to remote in to her pc to to try what ever you suggest..

 

[Guest]

I guess that the hard drive will be my conclusion. It was a nice drive till she got involved in making these movies!!

Yes, I am able to make short movies 5 minutes in duration. This was before this monster of a project came along. I am unaware of how to split up this file, since it is in a whole.

What I will do tonight is add in a drive temporarily and save it to the second drive. It will either be 20 or 40gb. Not sure what spares I have in my office. Of course these will be empty and NTFS format same as the pc. I will attempt this later on tonight and I will post any issues and or questions tomorrow.

However, I do want to thank you for all your help and assistance in this matter!

 

[Guest]

Graham,

OK, I added a 120gb hd and the program ran for aprox. 2hrs. Then the same error occured. This couldn't be this big could it? I know the it is 41 min long, and before I could understand the drive space issue, as it only took 15 min before erroring out. Then I added a 20gb drive, same deal. Now I have 120gb and I still get an error. What else can I do here? I am starting to feel that this will not happen.

Any more advise please advise!

Kevin

 

[Graham Hughes, MVP Digital Media]

Have you tried splitting it up into smaller components?
Also have you read www.papajohn.org problems saving a movie?
Graham

--
Graham Hughes
MVP
www.simplydv.co.uk
www.dvds2treasure.com

Graham,

OK, I added a 120gb hd and the program ran for aprox. 2hrs. Then the same

error occured. This couldn't be this big could it? I know the it is 41 min
long, and before I could understand the drive space issue, as it only took
15 min before erroring out. Then I added a 20gb drive, same deal. Now I have
120gb and I still get an error. What else can I do here? I am starting to
feel that this will not happen.

Any more advise please advise!

Kevin

before this monster of a project came along. I am unaware of how to split up
this file, since it is in a whole.second drive. It will either be 20 or 40gb. Not sure what spares I have in
my office. Of course these will be empty and NTFS format same as the pc. I
will attempt this later on tonight and I will post any issues and or
questions tomorrow.

 

[Guest]

Yes I have read that artical, and found some information useful. I did an update and it still errored out. Which from what I have been reading sounds more like a general error message. No, I have not tried splitting up the file yet. I did read that someone made a movie a lot larger than this one. That is why I have yet to split it up.
I am able to make short vids. It maxes out the processor, RAM and about .5gb of the page file and sometimes more. 2.5 hrs later, it errors out.
What is the deal that I have also read about turning off the codexes? And downloading more of them?? Could you shed some light on that for me? I guess I should ask if you think that would even help? How do I do it if you think it would help?

 

[Guest]

Ok, How do I split this file??? Once I have selected a point where a transetion ends, how do I select the point fwd to delete???

 

[Graham Hughes, MVP Digital Media]

position timeline marker at spot to split at, chose clip split and tehn
select part to delete and press delete. Remember to save as a different
project.

--
Graham Hughes
MVP
www.simplydv.co.uk
www.dvds2treasure.com

Ok, How do I split this file??? Once I have selected a point where a

transetion ends, how do I select the point fwd to delete???

 

[Graham Hughes, MVP Digital Media]

Meant to come back down to this one. As I've been away a couple of days I
started at the bottom and then found PJ's excellently graphical work!!!

 

[got3girls]

Hi I've been reading alot of the posts and I actually have the opposite
problem - I took a short (15 second) video clip of my daughter with my "old"
VHS-C camcorder, dubbed it onto a DVD with my DVD recorder, and now want ot
save it as a either a WMV, MP4, AVI file on my vista PC so I can then send
/download it. I can view teh clip no problem with media center ... but how
can I save it as a file to my PC?