Windows Movie Maker is a piece of CRAP!

[Punjabikurie]

I have used this Movie Maker for Window XP and it keeps stalling on me. I
have never worked with such a bad software even, even a software which I have
designed myself, doesn't work this bad. Making long story short, for XP it
is very bad software, it keeps making my PC fun like crazy and still doesn't
save the file to a CD, when you have spent like hours trying to work on a
stupid project, not because your slow but because of the lame software.

 

[John Inzer]

I have used this Movie Maker for Window XP and it keeps stalling on
me. I have never worked with such a bad software even, even a
software which I have designed myself, doesn't work this bad. Making
long story short, for XP it is very bad software, it keeps making my
PC fun like crazy and still doesn't save the file to a CD, when you
have spent like hours trying to work on a stupid project, not because
your slow but because of the lame software.

=================================
Saving to a CD is not a good idea anyway.

It would be best if you save the project to your
hard drive in a movie format...(.avi or .wmv).

Then import the movie into your Authoring
software and burn your CD or DVD.

Some projects are so large and complex...
they exceed a system's resources.

--


John Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

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

 

[Gord Dibben]

WMM works very well for a multitude of users.

Creating *.wmv files with video and sound that can be saved to CD or DVD in
various formats.

Perhaps RTFM may apply in your case?

Or post some questions about specific problems rather than just ranting.

Maybe supplying a few details about your source video or photo formats and
how you are trying to save.


Gord

 

[LVTravel]

I have used this Movie Maker for Window XP and it keeps stalling on me. I
have never worked with such a bad software even, even a software which I
have
designed myself, doesn't work this bad. Making long story short, for XP
it
is very bad software, it keeps making my PC fun like crazy and still
doesn't
save the file to a CD, when you have spent like hours trying to work on a
stupid project, not because your slow but because of the lame software.

Actually for a "free" piece of software it is very functional. While it has
been included with the operating system it is basically a gift from
Microsoft.

If you care to read good information on why you are having problems I would
direct you to PapaJohn's web site www.papajohn.org which not only has good
help for problem resolution but information on how to generally use the
program, what file types work best and if you don't have the best file
types, methods of conversion.

 

[jonrodfg2]

hey i have i noob question.. im not sure how to delete parts of a skate video
that im editing.. like deleting scenes and such as

 

[John Inzer]

hey i have i noob question.. im not sure how to delete parts of a
skate video that im editing.. like deleting scenes and such as

===========================
Maybe something in the following
tutorial will work for you:

"Splitting A Clip In MM2.1"

Drag the video/audio clip to the
Timeline.

Play the video/audio by clicking the
"Play" button under the view screen.

You will see the Playback Indicator
(vertical line) advancing across the
timeline.

Click the "Pause" button at the point
where you wish to trim and type...
Ctrl+L or click the "Split" button at the
bottom of the view screen.
(you can also make adjustments by
dragging the Playback Indicator)

Make as many splits as you want and
remove the unwanted clips by right
click / delete.

And...Movie Maker 2.1 only displays every
other frame. (does not apply to Vista Movie
Maker 6)

In order to see all frames in WinXP Movie
Maker 2.1, the following info from PapaJohn
may be useful:

===

Movie Maker 2 shows you every-other-frame
when doing project editing. MM1 and Movie
Maker in Vista show you each frame.

It's usually not a problem when skipping over
the in-between frames, but sometimes you
notice a flickering frame in a clip that is a 'stray',
and you can't see or cut it out.

If you apply the Slow - Down - Half video effect
to a clip in the timeline, you are then seeing
each frame rather than every other one. You
can see the problem frame and split it out.
Then remove the effect from the clip to return
it to normal.


--


John Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

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

 

[howard]

I couldn't find what discussion group this was, but at least it seems you
guys know about movie maker so I'd like to pass along my problem.

I'm running movie maker in XP. I've been downloading digital video (not HD)
into movie maker, taking PPT slides and converting them into JPEG and then
inserting them into the movie. All the sudden, if I split the video to insert
the slide, the program freezes. The video won't play when I push the forward
button, it won't save, it won't play, it won't do anything. I have to just
shut it down.

Any ideas on what has changed or how I might fix it?

Thanks

 

[PapaJohn]

Those are classic symptoms of using video files that don't work well in
Movie Maker, and should be converted to ones that do. Downloaded files are
often flash, Divx, Xvid compressed files which should be converted.

My website's Import Movie Source Files > Video section has comments and
pointers.