Saving Movie Takes Long Time

[Guest]

Had a 20 minutes Movie Maker movie which wouldn't save during the next few
years. Cut it into 3 (a project in itself, since it contains songs that are
timed to video clips) and attempted to save a mere 5 minute movie (DV-AVI,
and other formats). As I type this, it is counting up the minutes that it
will take to save it. It just passed 14 million minutes, which is a few
years.

I am saving to PC, from one HD to another, have many GIGs of free space, the
final output was only going to be 1.2 GIG, both drives are NTFS, WIN XP Pro.
Sure, I could cut this movie in half and splice the song, hoping it will
rejoin properly. And then I'd only be at 7 million minutes. And it hasn't
even reached 1% done. This is 3rd try. I let previous try go for an hour,
never reached 1% and minutes kept climing (and that was on smaller format).

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

And the specs of the PC(s) are? Did you defrag and run a Disk Cleanup prior
to editing?

 

[Guest]

Hmmmm. How is it I keep forgetting the fact that I'm driving a '57 Edsel
that has to be pulled by horses on hot days? Pentium II, 300 mZ, 256 RAM.
That about answers it, perhaps. But, as slow as that is, wouldn't it still
be able to at least begin the saving process?

 

[Armand Hammer]

It will take about 26 years for it to complete.

 

[Guest]

You're a gosh darn genius gump. But I knew that already, as I had my
calculator nearby.

UPDATE: Friend donated Pentium III, installed my 2 HDs in it, all is working
well and faster. Defragged my data drive. Saving movies still an issue.

I tried a test with a song that I trimmed down to 1 minute and two short
video clips that total about 30 seconds. It's up to 4 million minutes
required and counting. Started the save about 5 minutes before checking.
Took the song off of the timeline and tried with just the two video clips and
within a minute it tells me I'll have to wait 1 million minutes.

NOTE: I've been using Tab Media Encoder to convert my camera's MOV files to
AVI format. I only have the choice of uncompressed (a codec issue). The
AVIs are huge. Is this the problem? One clip is 48 MB but only 20 seconds.

Is it better to edit clips and sound in the collections area, then drop into
the timeline? In other words, if I drop a 5 minute song onto the timeline
then trim it down to 1 minute, does it still need to store all 5 min?

 

[Armand Hammer]

In all seriousness, how much memory does the new pc have?