OK, I am pretty adept at WMM. I got a newer computer to be able to handle the
requirements of video editing etc. However, after a few months of success
(also having converted analog to digital and edited it, movie maker will no
longer allow me to save my projects (long OR short--and I mean even 2 minutes
here) as an AVI-DV file. I refuse to save as anything else as I want to keep
the quality (especially of my DV stuff). I have spent HOURS with MS support
and am on level 3 at present but STILL they cannot figure out the problem.
When I save as AVI-DV, it starts to save and the minutes count down, but then
they stop and begin to count up to infinity if I'd let them. HELP!!! The
whole reason I bought this new computer was so I could do these videos of
family footage to give as Christmas presents. PLEASE help! Mr. Inzer---I've
seen a lot of your replies and hope you have some ideas. And yes, I have
Explorer 7 but have always had it on this machine even when MMaker was
working fine.

Re: Can't save as a movie file by John

John
Sun Nov 25 05:43:25 PST 2007

You will get good answers to your questions at this web site:

http://www.windowsmoviemakers.net/forums/

There are some real experts who help people on that site.

"sher" <sher@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:293E4F9E-3AE8-4F05-9EEB-F9A48C2601B9@microsoft.com...
> OK, I am pretty adept at WMM. I got a newer computer to be able to handle
> the
> requirements of video editing etc. However, after a few months of success
> (also having converted analog to digital and edited it, movie maker will
> no
> longer allow me to save my projects (long OR short--and I mean even 2
> minutes
> here) as an AVI-DV file. I refuse to save as anything else as I want to
> keep
> the quality (especially of my DV stuff). I have spent HOURS with MS
> support
> and am on level 3 at present but STILL they cannot figure out the problem.
> When I save as AVI-DV, it starts to save and the minutes count down, but
> then
> they stop and begin to count up to infinity if I'd let them. HELP!!! The
> whole reason I bought this new computer was so I could do these videos of
> family footage to give as Christmas presents. PLEASE help! Mr.
> Inzer---I've
> seen a lot of your replies and hope you have some ideas. And yes, I have
> Explorer 7 but have always had it on this machine even when MMaker was
> working fine.


Re: Can't save as a movie file by John

John
Sun Nov 25 06:31:20 PST 2007

sher wrote:
> OK, I am pretty adept at WMM. I got a newer computer to be able to
> handle the requirements of video editing etc. However, after a few
> months of success (also having converted analog to digital and edited
> it, movie maker will no longer allow me to save my projects (long OR
> short--and I mean even 2 minutes here) as an AVI-DV file. I refuse to
> save as anything else as I want to keep the quality (especially of my
> DV stuff). I have spent HOURS with MS support and am on level 3 at
> present but STILL they cannot figure out the problem. When I save as
> AVI-DV, it starts to save and the minutes count down, but then they
> stop and begin to count up to infinity if I'd let them. HELP!!! The
> whole reason I bought this new computer was so I could do these
> videos of family footage to give as Christmas presents. PLEASE help!
> Mr. Inzer---I've seen a lot of your replies and hope you have some
> ideas. And yes, I have Explorer 7 but have always had it on this
> machine even when MMaker was working fine.
====================================
Is your newer computer running WinXP
or Vista?

Have you tried doing a system restore to
a time before the issue began?

It may help if we had some idea of what
you tried already.

The following links may be useful.

MM2 - Problem Solving -
'Can't Save A Movie'
http://tinyurl.com/yjvztz

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

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

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



Re: Can't save as a movie file by sher

sher
Sun Nov 25 13:45:00 PST 2007


I run WinXP, it's a media center edition
You name it; I've tried it. I could make +1 hour movies before...now I'm
lucky if I can get it to save a 1:20 clip in movie mode. It all focuses on
the DVI-AV setting. Any other setting is fine...but then the quality is
garbage. About the only thing I have NOT tried is cleaning out my
computer/wiping everything out and reloading...I simply have too much stuff
that it would take DAYS to save to DVD as backup. I have plenty of space
+156G, a very high speed processor, a video card specific for doing just
this, etc. I have some video on this computer that is no where else and I
guess that is my main reason for not wanting to wipe it all out to try on a
clean computer. I've tried the windowsmoviemaker forum and tried things
they've recommended...removing excess footage from the collection, etc.
"John Inzer" wrote:

> sher wrote:
> > OK, I am pretty adept at WMM. I got a newer computer to be able to
> > handle the requirements of video editing etc. However, after a few
> > months of success (also having converted analog to digital and edited
> > it, movie maker will no longer allow me to save my projects (long OR
> > short--and I mean even 2 minutes here) as an AVI-DV file. I refuse to
> > save as anything else as I want to keep the quality (especially of my
> > DV stuff). I have spent HOURS with MS support and am on level 3 at
> > present but STILL they cannot figure out the problem. When I save as
> > AVI-DV, it starts to save and the minutes count down, but then they
> > stop and begin to count up to infinity if I'd let them. HELP!!! The
> > whole reason I bought this new computer was so I could do these
> > videos of family footage to give as Christmas presents. PLEASE help!
> > Mr. Inzer---I've seen a lot of your replies and hope you have some
> > ideas. And yes, I have Explorer 7 but have always had it on this
> > machine even when MMaker was working fine.
> ====================================
> Is your newer computer running WinXP
> or Vista?
>
> Have you tried doing a system restore to
> a time before the issue began?
>
> It may help if we had some idea of what
> you tried already.
>
> The following links may be useful.
>
> MM2 - Problem Solving -
> 'Can't Save A Movie'
> http://tinyurl.com/yjvztz
>
> File type compatibility
> with Movie Maker
> http://tinyurl.com/v8tee
>
> --
>
> John Inzer
> MS Picture It! -
> Digital Image MVP
>
> Digital Image
> Highlights and FAQs
> http://tinyurl.com/aczzp
>
> 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
>
>
>

Re: Can't save as a movie file by sher

sher
Sun Nov 25 13:58:05 PST 2007

Ok, just tried to restore system to a time before the problem...perhaps if
someone had suggested that before (say Microsoft???) but it now will not let
me go back any further than August--which is when the problem started. My
contacts with MS date to 8-6-07. So, again, I'm stuck.

"sher" wrote:

>
> I run WinXP, it's a media center edition
> You name it; I've tried it. I could make +1 hour movies before...now I'm
> lucky if I can get it to save a 1:20 clip in movie mode. It all focuses on
> the DVI-AV setting. Any other setting is fine...but then the quality is
> garbage. About the only thing I have NOT tried is cleaning out my
> computer/wiping everything out and reloading...I simply have too much stuff
> that it would take DAYS to save to DVD as backup. I have plenty of space
> +156G, a very high speed processor, a video card specific for doing just
> this, etc. I have some video on this computer that is no where else and I
> guess that is my main reason for not wanting to wipe it all out to try on a
> clean computer. I've tried the windowsmoviemaker forum and tried things
> they've recommended...removing excess footage from the collection, etc.
> "John Inzer" wrote:
>
> > sher wrote:
> > > OK, I am pretty adept at WMM. I got a newer computer to be able to
> > > handle the requirements of video editing etc. However, after a few
> > > months of success (also having converted analog to digital and edited
> > > it, movie maker will no longer allow me to save my projects (long OR
> > > short--and I mean even 2 minutes here) as an AVI-DV file. I refuse to
> > > save as anything else as I want to keep the quality (especially of my
> > > DV stuff). I have spent HOURS with MS support and am on level 3 at
> > > present but STILL they cannot figure out the problem. When I save as
> > > AVI-DV, it starts to save and the minutes count down, but then they
> > > stop and begin to count up to infinity if I'd let them. HELP!!! The
> > > whole reason I bought this new computer was so I could do these
> > > videos of family footage to give as Christmas presents. PLEASE help!
> > > Mr. Inzer---I've seen a lot of your replies and hope you have some
> > > ideas. And yes, I have Explorer 7 but have always had it on this
> > > machine even when MMaker was working fine.
> > ====================================
> > Is your newer computer running WinXP
> > or Vista?
> >
> > Have you tried doing a system restore to
> > a time before the issue began?
> >
> > It may help if we had some idea of what
> > you tried already.
> >
> > The following links may be useful.
> >
> > MM2 - Problem Solving -
> > 'Can't Save A Movie'
> > http://tinyurl.com/yjvztz
> >
> > File type compatibility
> > with Movie Maker
> > http://tinyurl.com/v8tee
> >
> > --
> >
> > John Inzer
> > MS Picture It! -
> > Digital Image MVP
> >
> > Digital Image
> > Highlights and FAQs
> > http://tinyurl.com/aczzp
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> >

Re: Can't save as a movie file by John

John
Sun Nov 25 15:16:32 PST 2007

sher wrote:
> I run WinXP, it's a media center edition
> You name it; I've tried it. I could make +1 hour movies before...now
> I'm lucky if I can get it to save a 1:20 clip in movie mode. It all
> focuses on the DVI-AV setting. Any other setting is fine...but then
> the quality is garbage. About the only thing I have NOT tried is
> cleaning out my computer/wiping everything out and reloading...I
> simply have too much stuff that it would take DAYS to save to DVD as
> backup. I have plenty of space +156G, a very high speed processor, a
> video card specific for doing just this, etc. I have some video on
> this computer that is no where else and I guess that is my main
> reason for not wanting to wipe it all out to try on a clean computer.
> I've tried the windowsmoviemaker forum and tried things they've
> recommended...removing excess footage from the collection, etc.
================================
Thanks for the reply.

Based on the info you provide...it sounds
like you have tried everything already.

As for a backup of your files...you might
consider installing a second hard drive.
It beats using a whole box of DVDs.

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

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