Photos "stick" on playback

[Mighty Oz]

I just made a movie consisting entirely of still photos
(some digital, some captured on scanner), music and
titles. When I play the movie, sometimes the video will
get stuck on one picture, holding it on-screen far longer
than I intended, followed by a race through subsequent
photos. I thought MovieMaker 2.1 was supposed to be
more "stable." Comments?

 

[Graham Hughes]

MM2.1 is more stable, but it's primary use is for video editing. If you do a
lot of "slideshows" with stills, consider downloading, for free now,
Photostory 3, which is designed for stills and will integrate with MM.
Otherwise, ensure pictures are all the same size, so MM isn't having to work
on resizing them, use bitmaps as these are handled better than jpegs.

 

[Eeeyore]

I have had thgis problem before:

It may be your PC perrformance on playback....rather than the file.
A simple test is to increase the priority of the movieplayer and see
what effect this has if any (note this will not damage anything, but
you may need to reboot afterwards depending upon the priority you give
to the process - so dont have any work open you could lose):
1. Shut down all applications except the one playing the movie....have
the movie playing
2. Start task manager (ctrl-alt-del)
3.Select the processes tab
4.Start the movie playing
5. Identify the process that is used to play the movie - it will be
the one using a significant amount of CPU (windows media player is
WMPlayer)
6. Right mouse click the process ->set priority to high (note if set
to realtime nothing else will run at all)
7. Run the movie again.....ie click play
8. check if it still sticks.
9. shut down the player

If it is smoother/changed it is probably limited resources on
playback, but the file is ok. (This was my problem) - when rendered to
DVD the playback should be fine

If the play is unchanged (ie still sticks and in the same places) then
it is the rendering....I don't know the overall solution cause it
could be a number of issues.....you could try giving moviemaker
(moviemk.exe higher priority during the rendering process....but you
probably need better advice than I can give.

 

[KDE]

In addition to the other comments, make sure you are actually talking about
a movie file saved to your computer and not just the "preview" option. the
preview is not anywhere near the quality of the final saved movie (depending
on file save options)


| I just made a movie consisting entirely of still photos
| (some digital, some captured on scanner), music and
| titles. When I play the movie, sometimes the video will
| get stuck on one picture, holding it on-screen far longer
| than I intended, followed by a race through subsequent
| photos. I thought MovieMaker 2.1 was supposed to be
| more "stable." Comments?