saving a movie

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Help, please.....when I try and save a movie, which comprises both movie
clips (avi, I think - off my digital camera) and stills (jpegs), it won't
save and I think it's because it can't detect one or more source files. How
can I find out which source file it can't find?
 
Are you using movie maker?
If so, does it play properly on the timeline?
Does it give any error messages? If so what are they?
Graham
 
Yes, using movie maker; it does play properly on the timeline (and indeed I
can save the porject onto a disk and play that so long as the computer has
Windows Movie Maker); the message was something like: one or more source
files are not available/can't be detected or somesuch.
 
sorry guys but i cant seem to make a new topic so i choose one that was close
so please bear with me, i am a little frustrated right now.
i have created a movie from a capture device (pinnacle studios digital
dazzle 80) for xbox games for my "CLAN" which is a group of guys that get
together and play games against other clans online. i capture the online play
and then edit sounds ,narration and music to the gameplay.
i have completed the movie and saved it to my computer but it shows as a
WMM file icon and file type in my Documents. when i need to upload it to my
hosting site i dont believe it will let me use wmm as a file type, and others
will not be able to view it i should use another but cant seem to convert it,
please give me some suggestions.
 
What you are saving is the project file, which is a list of instructions for
mm to make it load what files/transitions you used.
YOu need to go to save movie
File
Save movie file
and then follow the wizard.

Graham
 
i already finshed the movie on MM it is saved and in my videos folder and
shows up as a wmm file which cannot be played on any media player to my
knowledge. i tried saving the movie three different times to ake sure i didnt
pcik the wrong option when saving and i only get the option to choose WHERE
the file goes then i get a screen that lets me choose the biterate and at the
bottom it still shows the file type as wmm.
what am i not doing right?

thanks wusker
 
Are you sure it's wmm, and not wmv?
How did you capture the movie in the first place. Do you have a digital
camcorder, use firewire and picked the capture as a dv-avi file option?

Graham
 
ok i saved the movie right and, and i tried to save it to my personal web
files on comcast ( my isp) and it says its too big,
my last clan movie was 22megs and this one is captured with a higher
biterate and runs at 2000+ kbps and the last one ran at 800+ kbps, so is
there anyway to capture it and compress it or make it smaller so it wont be
so large that i cant run it from my hosting site.

just wondering and thanks for the help again.
Yours truly, Wusker
 
Please forgive me if this post is in the wrong place--this is my first post.

I'm having difficulty (first burned movie in MM). I created a series of
stills, videotape, animated gifs, etc. in a movie for my son and daughter in
law. I also added a variety of music clips I downloaded.

When I save in DV-AVI (before I burn to DVD), the movie plays well until it
gets to the point where I do a series of stills in a row (3 seconds each),
and it doesn't play all the pics--although the music continues on. This is
confusing because I do this same procedure earlier in the movie, and
everything plays fine. Some of the pics that do appear are even upside down!
Once the movie gets past this series of 3 second photos, the remainder plays
fine.

Please help if anyone can--I need this movie for my granddaughter's
impending birth! Thank you.
 
Note that there exists a dedicated newsgroup for Movie Maker:
microsoft.public.windowsxp.moviemeker

For your problem see the "Problem Solving - > Cant save a movie section of
www.papajohn.org
 
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