Multiple Transitions

[Guest]

Doesn't matter it does it with WMV files as well.

The best way to make it happen is to capture 10-15 clips 1-3 minutes in
lenght. Then just drop about 10 of them on the timeline and then start
dropping in transitions betwween each clip.

It is almost like the program is loosing a pointer someplace. Because once
you get the black screen you can remove clips or manipulate the timeline and
get it to work for a while. Then once you save and come back in it is broke
again.

Very strange.

 

[Guest]

Going back to Adobe on my old system for now.

I can't think of anything else and until a new hdd arrives, and with postal
strikes here, who knows when it's going to come, I can't re-install vista
and try to recreate it.

--

Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.com

 

[Graham Hughes]

How about trying MM 2.6 for Vista?

 

[PapaJohn]

I imported a single 2 GB DV-AVI file, had MM6 'Create Clips'... put about 25
of them on the timeline, added a different transition between each pair
going from the first to the last....

No issues previewing the timeline and seeing the transitions... my system is
a Vista Home Basic one on a new $399 Toshiba Satellite laptop.

We might be working with different things without being able to compare....
as my laptop doesn't have a firewire port I can't capture with it from my
mini-DV camcorder... so I'm using a file captured on my XP laptop and copied
to the Vista system. A capture with Vista may have some file differences
than a capture by XP.

I've saved movies with hundreds of transitions in the projects on Vista, and
the only time I've run into a transition not showing up was when the project
file came into it from an XP system and the transition used in the project
was one from the XP system that didn't exist on the Vista one.

 

[Graham Hughes]

It's weird PJ, as all the movies I made whilst beta testing Vista etc I
didn't run into this problem and I had files from my dv cam via firewire and
analogue files etc.

Graham

 

[PapaJohn]

I've seen enough posts about this issue... so I think it effects many and is
worth studying. But it's hard to do when I can't get it have the problem.

MM6 in Vista auto-splits at different points than MM2.1 in XP... and handles
DV-AVI source files captured by Vista differently than those captured by XP.
I thought maybe there's a connection somehow.

Plus I'm fishing for a good topic for my weekly newsletter.

 

[Guest]

I am running version 6.0 of MM

I have some old files I imported on an XP machine I will try.

It is almost looking like some kind of resource issue, maybe with the
graphics card but I can't fine anything on the vendor site or the web.

 

[Guest]

PapaJohn:

Just did a test with some older AVI files that I imported through Adobe on
an XP system. I think it is safe to say at this point that it is not souce
media problem. We have had the same problem with three different types of
files.

It either had to be a resource issue with the video card or a coding problem
with the application where a table or datastructure is running out of space.

Again my video card is a Intel(R) 82945G Express Chipset Family.

Don

 

[PapaJohn]

my laptop's graphics card is an ATI Radeon XPress 200M Series....

if you used a pack of 25 BMP images, do you get the same thing... to rule
out it being associated with video clips?

 

[Graham Hughes]

Again my video card is a Intel(R) 82945G Express Chipset Family.

Don

This is an intergrated graphics card?
If so, what is the exact motherboard?
Can you allocate more ram to the graphics card?

 

[Graham Hughes]

If my searching is correct, then the latest driver for this chipset is
15.6.1 9/18/2007

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/fil...dows+Vista*+32&lang=eng&strOSs=164&submit=Go!

 

[Guest]

All:

Thanks for your efforts but I am not wasting any more time on this. Got a
version of Sony Vegas and put it on the same machine and it works perfectly,
has more features to boot.

Thought since I already had MM with the OS it might be an option but just
turns out to be more Microsoft crap. Vegas is only $116 so if Microsoft is
not giong to step up and help I will take my business elsewhere and not waste
my time chasing ghosts.

Thanks again for all who are trying.

Don

 

[PapaJohn]

Good luck with Vegas... for others interested, I ordered a copy of Vegas
Movie Studio 8 yesterday. Fry's has a special this week at $60, with $60 in
rebates (free after rebates) and free shipping (depending on where you
live... free to Kalamazoo).

The last time I used Vegas was to capture some high-def footage from a Sony
High Def camcorder, something Movie Maker couldn't do.

 

[Graham Hughes]

This is a user group and although a member of MS may drop in from time to
time they don't do it regluarly and expecting a reply from MS here isn't
going to happen.

We do our best, but can only go so far, and some questions remained
unanswered.

If you check out Vegas' forums then you'll find just as many disgruntled
owners of vegas, and if you go to Adobe forums it's exactly the same,
because people only go to them when they have a problem, nobody turns up
here saying what a good time they've had and disappears ;-)


The main thing is you are now happy and editing and that's all any of us
want.

 

[mother of 3]

YES!!! I found a way around this problem!!! I don't know if it will
continue to work, but I got my project done. I simply copied the pics/audio,
etc and pasted it into a new project. It's a bit of a pain having to close
out one project and open the next because you can only have one MM window
open at a time, but if it means you can get your work done, it's worth it!!!

One other thing I read on another thread in here was to remove your first
pic, then put it back in. That worked for me for awhile, then quit working.
I SO hope that the copy n paste technique keeps working!