Need help when saving a movie file!

[Kazac]

Ive saved a few movies in the past from Windows Movie Maker. But I've just
recently created a new one and when I go to save my movie onto my pc a
message pops up telling me I cannot save the movie to the specified location
because either I have no disk space, the saving location is unavailable or
the original sorce files are unavailable. I know I have enough space, I know
the place I want to save my movie exists and when I play my movie back no
clips are missing so all my files are still there but it will not let me save
it. Can anyone help?

 

[John Inzer]

Ive saved a few movies in the past from Windows Movie Maker. But I've
just recently created a new one and when I go to save my movie onto
my pc a message pops up telling me I cannot save the movie to the
specified location because either I have no disk space, the saving
location is unavailable or the original sorce files are unavailable.
I know I have enough space, I know the place I want to save my movie
exists and when I play my movie back no clips are missing so all my
files are still there but it will not let me save it. Can anyone help?

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You may have compatibility issues with
your source files.

Have a look at the following articles:

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

--

John Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

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

 

[Kazac]

Thankyou John you helped me out big time. After reading the articles you sent
I realised that because I had a lot of small few second clips windows movie
maker had trouble processing them when I came to save the movie. So I had to
first save the project as a DV-AVI (PAL) which converts your clips into one
big clip then save it as a movie file. You lose a lot of quality this way but
at least you get your video.

 

[John Inzer]

Thankyou John you helped me out big time. After reading the articles
you sent I realised that because I had a lot of small few second
clips windows movie maker had trouble processing them when I came to
save the movie. So I had to first save the project as a DV-AVI (PAL)
which converts your clips into one big clip then save it as a movie
file. You lose a lot of quality this way but at least you get your
video.

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Maybe you could retain the quality if you
use a custom profile when saving:

Movie Maker 2 - Saving
Movies - Custom WMV Profiles
http://tinyurl.com/s2vgu
or...
http://www.papajohn.org/MM2-SavingMovies-CustomProfiles.html

Movie Maker 2 -
Quality Settings in Custom Profiles
http://tinyurl.com/258h32
or...
http://www.windowsmoviemakers.net/PapaJohn/95/Quality-Settings-in-Custom-Profiles.aspx
(PapaJohn's Newsletter # 95)

Creating Custom Profiles
for Windows Movie Maker 2
http://tinyurl.com/cuny7
or...
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/expert/customprofile.mspx

--

John Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

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