Publishing hangs, never finishes

[Kimberly]

I have tried several times to publish my movie via Windows Movie Maker, but
the publishing process hangs between 13-16% every time. The video files came
off of my digital camcorder. I am trying to publish it in "Windows Media DVD
Quality," and it says that it will take a little over 3GB of space. The movie
is 2 hours and 14 minutes long. I have not changed the location of any of the
video files, and both disk drives that I have tried publishing to have more
than enough space. I am running Vista Enterprise, and I have tried running
the Movie Maker program as an administrator for the publishing process. As a
last resort, I rebooted my machine, ran Movie Maker as an administrator, and
tried again, but obviously that did not help.

I have been researching this for the past several hours, but I can't seem to
find anything that proves helpful. Any guidance that any of you can provide
will be GREATLY appreciated. Thanks in advance!

 

[PapaJohn]

check my website's Problem Solving > Can't Save a Movie page

 

[Kimberly]

Your website is actually one of the ones that I looked at earlier. There is a
lot of information on there--can you narrow down what you think might be
going wrong based on the information that I have listed below? Some more
information, the machine I am using has 3GB of RAM. It couldn't possibly be a
RAM constraint, could it? I am going to try uninstalling Windows Media Player
and reinstall it now...

 

[PapaJohn]

Movie Maker by design seems to be limited to using 2 GB of memory....

2 hrs 14 minutes could be a big complex project as my rule of thumb is to
keep projects to under 15 minutes.... but it depends on the complexity of
the projects... batches of still pix at 5 seconds each with transitions
between each is much more complex than four 1/2 hour video clips.

WMV DVD quality needs more memory to render than DV-AVI.

And not knowing if your file types are all compatible, it's too hard to
suggest anything more than I have on my site to help you explore it.