Snail-Speed Video Import & Project Loading

[Guest]

Newbie question: WMM 2.1 takes minutes to import small (say 10 MB) .avi videos.
Loading my first project (about 10 clips worth 4 minutes of playing time)
takes ten to twelve minutes. What is wrong?
The hardware is Core Duo 6400, 2 GB RAM, ATI X1600 Pro, with XP Pro Sp2.

Hints much appreciated.

Andrés

 

[John Inzer]

Newbie question: WMM 2.1 takes minutes to import small (say 10 MB)
.avi videos. Loading my first project (about 10 clips worth 4 minutes
of playing time) takes ten to twelve minutes. What is wrong?
The hardware is Core Duo 6400, 2 GB RAM, ATI X1600 Pro, with XP Pro
Sp2.

Hints much appreciated.

Andrés

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Are you importing from your hard drive or an
external source? (should be faster from your
hard drive)

Maybe your virus program is scanning the files?
Try disabling your internet connection, Close all
programs ...especially virus scanners before
opening Movie Maker.

Also it may help to do some maintenance:

Running Disk Cleanup, Error Checking and
Defrag on a regular schedule is a good idea.

(310312) Description of the Disk Cleanup
Tool in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=310312

(315265) How to Perform Disk Error Checking
in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=315265
(check the two boxes..."Automatically fix file
system errors" and "Scan for and attempt
recovery of bad sectors") the utility will run
the next time you restart your computer.
(run error checking repeatedly until it finds
no errors)

(314848) How to Defragment Your Disk
Drive Volumes in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314848

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John Inzer
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Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

 

[Guest]

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Are you importing from your hard drive or an
external source? (should be faster from your
hard drive)

Maybe your virus program is scanning the files?
Try disabling your internet connection, Close all
programs ...especially virus scanners before
opening Movie Maker.

Thank you for your time.
Loading from hard drive. Virus scanner not running, disk error-checked and
defragmented. The problem must be somewhere else. To add: when clicking
cancel in the 'import file' or 'open project' dialog, MM hangs for a few
minutes.

Andrés