windows movie maker

[Guest]

dear all

I've only recently started using windows movie maker and am at my first
'project' to reate a film. I've managed finally the digital files from my
Sony camera onto my computer and have imported them into windows movie maker.
But once I start creating the storyboard, the program crashes. It is not a
memory porblem of my laptop so I'm not sure what causes this and how I can
resolve it.

Apart from using software, I'm completely computer illeterate. Please bear
this in mind when you give me advice.

I hope you can help me

kind regards
KR

 

[Graham Hughes]

First advice is to always open your own thread with your own question, as
doing it this way can mean it often gets lost.
By Sony cmaer, do you mean stills camera that takes video?
If so the files it produces will not be compatible with movie maker and this
will cause the crash.
See this page,
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/Tutorials/MovieMaker/File_type_compatibility.htm

Out of interest, if you are computer illiterate, how do you know it is not a
memory problem?

 

[Guest]

Hello

My camera is a digital camera, not video. The files it produces are mpg
files. I do manage now from time to time to make a film, add music, titles
etc but on a regular basis it still throws me out, not sure what it causes
it. We've tried different hings, like changing the filters in the options
menu.

With regards to the memory, I don't know this for sure of course, as I am
indeed illeterate, but I bought a really expensive laptop with special
gaming, video, multimedia and whatsoever tools which I never use, so I'm
hardly using the capacity of my laptop, so I'm assuming it can't be a memory
problem, but maybe you can tell me how I can check this?

thanks
KR

 

[John Inzer]

Hello

My camera is a digital camera, not video. The files it produces are
mpg files. I do manage now from time to time to make a film, add
music, titles etc but on a regular basis it still throws me out, not
sure what it causes it. We've tried different hings, like changing
the filters in the options menu.

With regards to the memory, I don't know this for sure of course, as
I am indeed illeterate, but I bought a really expensive laptop with
special gaming, video, multimedia and whatsoever tools which I never
use, so I'm hardly using the capacity of my laptop, so I'm assuming
it can't be a memory problem, but maybe you can tell me how I can
check this?

thanks
KR

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Did you miss the link Graham posted for you?

Try these links:

Movie Maker 2 - Importing MPEG Files
http://tinyurl.com/eajjh

File type compatibility with Movie Maker
http://tinyurl.com/v8tee

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MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

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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

 

[Graham Hughes]

I would say 99.99% it is the mpg file that the camera produces, but to test
things like memory you need specialist tools or download programmes.