Movie Maker freezes

[bja5150]

I need some help. I imported some DV and I imported it into Movie Maker.
Everything worked so far, but when I try and put the clip in the timeline to
start to work on it ....the system freezes. Everything become unresponsive
and the only way out is CTRL ALt DEL. I am using XP Home with SP2. I have all
the current updates. My computer is a Athlon AMD 64 bit Dual core 2.7 GHZ
with 2 GB of RAM. I am trying to import the clips into Movie Maker to clean
them up some (a little dark) and then save the bigger MPEG2 to a smaller file
size format to upload and share. I also have an older Pinnacle Studio 8 that
is giving me a similar problem when I tried to use that software. Hmmmm.
Thanks

Brent

 

[John Inzer]

I need some help. I imported some DV and I imported it into Movie
Maker. Everything worked so far, but when I try and put the clip in
the timeline to start to work on it ....the system freezes.
Everything become unresponsive and the only way out is CTRL ALt DEL.
I am using XP Home with SP2. I have all the current updates. My
computer is a Athlon AMD 64 bit Dual core 2.7 GHZ with 2 GB of RAM. I
am trying to import the clips into Movie Maker to clean them up some
(a little dark) and then save the bigger MPEG2 to a smaller file size
format to upload and share. I also have an older Pinnacle Studio 8
that is giving me a similar problem when I tried to use that
software. Hmmmm. Thanks

Brent

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Maybe these articles will offer some ideas:

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

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

Also:

How do I convert an mpeg to WMV
with Windows Media Encoder?
http://tinyurl.com/2m4gob
or...
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/Tutorials/ConvertMpeg2wmv.html


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John Inzer
Digital Media MVP

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