Movie maker won't save my movie!

[Guest]

I've tried 4 times - the movie file is 2,954 mb - all the files are in their
original places on the pc (and haven't been moved or deleted) - the pics I
imported are in their original places too. Everyhing should be OK - the saved
project is able to be retrieved and shown in the storyline too-it's all there
- it just won't save it as a movie!!!!$%#@
Any ideas anyone???????
Cheers

Andrew

 

[John Inzer]

I've tried 4 times - the movie file is 2,954 mb - all the files are
in their original places on the pc (and haven't been moved or
deleted) - the pics I imported are in their original places too.
Everyhing should be OK - the saved project is able to be retrieved
and shown in the storyline too-it's all there - it just won't save it
as a movie!!!!$%#@
Any ideas anyone???????
Cheers

Andrew

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What happens when you try to save?

Are you saving to your hard drive?

What format are you saving in?

Maybe the following articles will
offer some ideas:

MM2 - Problem Solving -
'Can't Save A Movie'
http://tinyurl.com/yjvztz

File type compatibility
with Movie Maker
http://tinyurl.com/v8tee

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John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

 

[Guest]

========================================
What happens when you try to save?

Are you saving to your hard drive?

What format are you saving in?

Maybe the following articles will
offer some ideas:

MM2 - Problem Solving -
'Can't Save A Movie'
http://tinyurl.com/yjvztz

File type compatibility
with Movie Maker
http://tinyurl.com/v8tee

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

 

[Guest]

I get the "Moviemaker can't save because:
1. the file is bigger than 4GB - it isn't
2. the destination is not available - it is and
3. the files have been moved or deleted - they haven't.

I have saved to c drive - and to desktop on c drive.

Saving in "best for use on the computer" - probably .wmv i would imaging.

Since posting I have made a short movie and saved it - it saved instantly.
I tried to blow out the total memory as per the web site you gave me - it is
not showing that it is using more than is available anyway.
I then tried AGAIN AND - yes!!!! it started to save - but then..... OH
KNOW!!!! it froze at 24% and the 'time to go' started to go up!

Any more ideas?
My pc is modern: 2.93GHz processor; 512 MB ram and 120 GB HD with 86
available.

Is the size (2,954MB) of the fillum the problem?????

Cheers
Andrew

 

[Guest]

One thing-at the moment I have 4 files that contain all the clips (and one of
those contains all the still pics) in the 'Collections' window to the left of
the main window in the application. I have then 'dragged' the clips onto the
storyboard/timeline where I'm making the 'project' but leaving the
'Collections" as separate entities

Is it OK to leave these as separate and discrete files in the 'Collections'
window or should I select and paste them all into the one 'Collection'
window???

Andrew

 

[PapaJohn]

leaving them in the collections as is, or rearranging to suit... doesn't
make a difference to your projects....

once a clip is dragged into a project, the info in the proect file is
totally independent of the collections... you could delete all the clips in
the collections without effecting any of the projects that use the same
clips.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the reply - OK - that's one less thing it can be.

I have now tried twice more to save this thing-both times it has got to 55%
and 'frozen'. There is no MS message - it just stays at 55% and the "time to
go" indicator starts going north instead of south - it gets to (say) 200
minutes to go then starts indicating their is 201 mins; 202 mins; 203 mins
etc etc. I have left it for hours and it just stays frozen with the time to
go indicator going up.
George

 

[Graham Hughes]

What file types are you using?
John gave you this link earlier
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/Tutorials/MovieMaker/File_type_compatibility.htm

 

[Guest]

Ok - thanks for the reply Graham.

The file types are WMV vid and jpg for the stills - all the trannies and
everything else is stock standard.

I would guess that the jpg's were the trouble except that:

1. I tried to make the movie in NERO from the wmv files of the individual
downloads from my video camera - I added some 'automatic' NERO trannies to
the files first - it told me (as it was going in to 'burn to disc' mode) that
the whole movie was about 13GB!!! and that it wouldn't fit on the media I was
using (a single layer DVD 4.7GB disc). Movie Maker was consistently telling
me that the whole movie was 2,930 odd MB - 2.9 GB!!

Anyway, I chopped 1/4 of the movie off (in NERO) and it saved to disc OK.

Then I thought - well it's a memory problem in Movie Maker - why don't I
chop up the movie I have taken 4 days to make in there and save to 3 discs.
I've just finished doing that and have 3 discs of great movie!!

I don't know what all this shows but Movie maker definitley needs to to be
improved to give the user better information about what's going on - it'd
save hours of experimentation.

Hope all this is of use to others.

Cheers
Andrew

 

[Graham Hughes]

an hour of high quality movie will be 13gb, if in dv.avi form. The
authoring software will then convert this to mpeg2 and one hour at 13gb will
fit on a disc of 4.7gb when converted.

A wmv is already compressed and so a 13gb wmv will not go much smaller when
made into an mpeg2. How long in time was the movie.

 

[Guest]

Have you saved it to your hard drive under "my videos" ? Or you can save it
on a CD but only Media Player will play it off your computer. MOvie maker is
only for storing "projects". You need to save it on your harddrive or disk
first, then go from there. If you're hoping to get it to play on a DVD it's a
whole other process. You need special software to transfer what you created
there to a format that will play on a dvd player. I got Sonic Roxio (and use
Media Player 8) but I'm having problems of my own. It's not the software I
had to buy but Windows itself. Hope this helps or isn't a stupid "DuH" reply

 

[Radicalreels]

Hope this is ok to start here? When I click save to my computer.... 4
minutes pass, then it tries to save to CD... with 29 million minutes
remaining! I can not get it out of the maker, in any possible way! I can not
do a system restore, because of some (J drive error. I have searhed for an
answer for months! I hope someone here knows what's wrong? Thanks for any

 

[John Inzer]

Hope this is ok to start here? When I click save to my computer.... 4
minutes pass, then it tries to save to CD... with 29 million minutes
remaining! I can not get it out of the maker, in any possible way! I
can not do a system restore, because of some (J drive error. I
have searhed for an answer for months! I hope someone here knows
what's wrong? Thanks for any help! RAD helpAmy" wrote:

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It's always best to begin a new thread when you have a question.

Anyway...have a look at the following links:

Movie Maker 2 - Problem Solving -
'Can't Save A Movie'
http://tinyurl.com/yjvztz
or
http://www.papajohn.org/MM2-Issues-CantSaveMovie.html

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

Which file type should I use in Movie Maker?
http://tinyurl.com/6n66g3
or...
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/Tutorials/MovieMaker/WhichFileTypeInMovieMaker.htm


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John Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

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