saving a movie

[Guest]

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?

 

[Graham Hughes]

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

 

[Guest]

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.

 

[Graham Hughes]

Check out
www.papajohn.org and both the problem solving > can't save my movie and the
acceleration and codecs pages.

Graham

 

[Guest]

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.

 

[Graham Hughes]

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

 

[Guest]

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

 

[Graham Hughes]

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

 

[Guest]

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

--
Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.dvds2treasure.com
www.simplydv.com

 

[Guest]

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

 

[Graham Hughes]

Can you run through the process you followed to make it please.

 

[Guest]

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.

 

[Rehan]

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