Saving to Hard Drive/Says it's saved, but hangs near the end

[Guest]

Okay - I have created a movie with about 250 still images, a basic fade
transition in between each and each image contains a video effect. I have
four songs and one title overlay. The whole thing is a little over 14
minutes long and the project file is 3.98 MB. I am wanting to burn this to a
DVD using Sonic MyDVD. Before I laid down the audio, I was able to do this
successfully by selecting "Best quality for playback on my computer" and then
opening the saved movie in MyDVD and burning the entire thing without a
hitch. Since then, I went in and added four songs and a few more transitions
and video effects, plus moved some portions of the storyboard around. I have
never touched the source files. I tried to save to my computer again and
this time it says it is finished. However, when I play it back it only plays
about 90% before it hangs on one of the images. The music keeps playing but
the video freezes. When I play it within MM2 it plays fine. What is the
problem? I tried saving to the AV-DVI (NTSC) option but it gave me the old
"disk space" error. I have over 100GB of free HD space and a full GB of RAM.
I have upped the virtual memory well passed what should be needed. Our
computer is new, has XP Media Center edition, and I am ready to scream. Any
ideas?

 

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

There's a number of things that can result in you not being able to
successfully save a movie. All of my comments and suggestions are on the
Problem Solving > Can't Save a Movie page of www.papajohn.org.
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PapaJohn

Movie Maker 2 and Photo Story 3 - www.papajohn.org
Photo Story 2 - www.photostory.papajohn.org
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[Guest]

So here is what I did to make it work:

Took out all of the music, deleted the 2nd half of the project then saved
the movie to my computer.

Next opened the original project again, took out all of the music, and this
time deleted the 1st half of the project then saved that movie to my computer

Next I imported each section of video back into a new project and relaid the
music. It worked like a charm and the whole thing saved and played without a
hitch.

Papajohn, thank you so much for your website, it is the most helpful tool on
the web for MM2. Sorry to say (not really), we won't be using this program
much longer, we are going to Adobe Pemiere Pro, much fewer headaches!!!

 

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

Thanks Michael and the best of everything with Premiere Pro... Movie Maker
is a beginner's tool, so it's good to see people graduating to the next
levels, much more so than those 'throwing in the towel'.
--
PapaJohn

Movie Maker 2 and Photo Story 3 - www.papajohn.org
Photo Story 2 - www.photostory.papajohn.org
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