New (to me) problem

[Jim Shulthiess]

I created a new movie, 2+G in Windows MovieMaker and tried to save it
ass an AVI. Window opened saying six minutes to save. After half an
hour, window was indicating 99% completion, and sat there for another
hour, when I gave up. Tried it twice more with the same result. Saved
it as a WMV in about eight minutes.

Any suggestions as to a solution?

Jim

 

[John Inzer]

I created a new movie, 2+G in Windows MovieMaker and
tried to save it ass an AVI. Window opened saying six
minutes to save. After half an hour, window was
indicating 99% completion, and sat there for another
hour, when I gave up. Tried it twice more with the same
result. Saved it as a WMV in about eight minutes.

Any suggestions as to a solution?

Jim

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It may never complete...but I would suggest
waiting longer...who knows...it might finish.

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[Wojo]

Yup, what John said.
WMM does tend to sit at 99% for a longer period of time. Papajohn explained
why once but the reasoning slips my mind. I believe it has to do with the
file finishing up then moving from the temp folder to the final destination.

 

[Jim Shulthiess]

Found it to be true, so I now save to high quality and can't see any
significant difference when burning a DVD with Ulead DVD Shop. Now if I
could only get MM2 to be consistent while trying to edit videos I'd be
all set. One time I load up a bunch of clips on the time line and they
play just fine. Edit a clip by cutting of part of it, and the whole
time line won't play, or will play without sound. The only I can get
back to work is to reboot and start over. Frustrating! I'm almost
ready to go back to 98SE which worked much more reliably for me.<G>

Jim

 

[Wojo]

I have found a significant difference between High Quality NTSC and DV-AVI
but only when I have video with high speed movement or a lot of transitions
and audio cuts. I have now began to use Papajohn's Custom Profile for High
Def WMV files and that works great even with the videos that previously
caused problems when using the High Quality profile.

As far as the issues you are having I have occasionally run into this
problem which is why I make my cuts in the collections rather than on the
timeline. Also you aren't by chance working with MPEG's are you? It sounds
like that could possibly be the problem.
-Wojo