Music is skipping

[jen]

in the 'video' - all of the music skips?? anyone know why?

 

[Scott M.]

Could be a number of thinngs:

Not enough RAM
Slow hard drive
Fragmented hard drive
Running video over a network
Bad audio codecs

 

[Guest]

Could it be those things even if the music files play fine
when NOT in 'moviemaker'?? It only happens once the songs
are imported.....

Thanks for your reply!

 

[Scott M.]

It could be. The music is embedded within the video file so to say that
regular music plays fine is really not a good test. A video file is much
more resource intensive than a straight audio only file.

 

[Guest]

I'm using an MP3 file as a background track which sounds perfect when played in the movie maker preview window, but it skips when the movie is outputted. I've outputted both to DVD and back to my DV cam. Everything about the 20 minute video is perfect except for this music track

I can't imagine it's becuase of a slow computer. I've got a brand new Pentium 4 2.6 G with frontsize bus and hyperthreading and 512 M ram

Does anyone have any suggestions? It's really a bummer to have the music skip like this.

 

[Scott M.]

What about your hard drive? Has it been defragged lately? What is its seek
time? Are you reading/writing the file(s) to/from a network or slave drive
(that's a big cause for skipping)?

I'm using an MP3 file as a background track which sounds perfect when

played in the movie maker preview window, but it skips when the movie is
outputted. I've outputted both to DVD and back to my DV cam. Everything
about the 20 minute video is perfect except for this music track.

I can't imagine it's becuase of a slow computer. I've got a brand new

Pentium 4 2.6 G with frontsize bus and hyperthreading and 512 M ram.

Does anyone have any suggestions? It's really a bummer to have the music

skip like this.

 

[Guest]

The hard drive is brand new and 95% empty. That's not it. I actually found a work-around on the papa john site which worked for me. Basically, output the movie in 2M Windows Media format, bring it back in to MM2 and then output again to DVI format. This fixed the problem, however it did lower the quality of the music somewhat, but is much better than the skipping.

 

[Scott M.]

I wouldn't rule the hard drive out yet. The fact that it's new and mostly
empty are good, but what are the seek time and read/write speeds?

The hard drive is brand new and 95% empty. That's not it. I actually found

a work-around on the papa john site which worked for me. Basically, output
the movie in 2M Windows Media format, bring it back in to MM2 and then
output again to DVI format. This fixed the problem, however it did lower the
quality of the music somewhat, but is much better than the skipping.

 

[Paul Thompson]

I also had a problem with music skipping. I found by
adding any kind of Video Effect to the video clips ('ease
in', 'increase brightness', 'ease out', etc.) the problem
disappeared.

Hope this helps.