Help needed asap!

Well I've finished creating my amv(anime music video). Since my computer
always seemed to freeze up whenever I try to run a movie on WMM, I decided to
try something else. You see, I have these whole episodes of the anime I was
making the music video for and I just put one entire episode in the timeline,
watched through it and split up all the clips that I needed from the rest of
the video and deleted the rest of the clips from the timeline. But whenever I
try saving my project as a movie, it shows the following error:

"Windows Movie Maker cannot save the movie to the specified location. Verify
that the original source files used in your movie are still available, that
the saving location is still available, and that there is enough free disk
space available and then try again."

Is it because I didn't actually save the clips I used in the movie to my
collections folder? The saving location is still available and there is
enough disk space so those can't be what's causing this error. Help?

PapaJohn
Wed Mar 28 11:33:38 CDT 2007

it's usually a codec issue... needing your source file to be encoded with a
compressor that works well with Movie Maker. My website's Import Movie
Source Files > Video > Video Codecs page, and the other pages in that
section, might help.
--
website references are to www.papajohn.org

PapaJohn


"Dranz" <Dranz@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:DC4F6C50-5FA5-420E-91E7-20ED1E3BA4F9@microsoft.com...
> Well I've finished creating my amv(anime music video). Since my computer
> always seemed to freeze up whenever I try to run a movie on WMM, I decided
> to
> try something else. You see, I have these whole episodes of the anime I
> was
> making the music video for and I just put one entire episode in the
> timeline,
> watched through it and split up all the clips that I needed from the rest
> of
> the video and deleted the rest of the clips from the timeline. But
> whenever I
> try saving my project as a movie, it shows the following error:
>
> "Windows Movie Maker cannot save the movie to the specified location.
> Verify
> that the original source files used in your movie are still available,
> that
> the saving location is still available, and that there is enough free disk
> space available and then try again."
>
> Is it because I didn't actually save the clips I used in the movie to my
> collections folder? The saving location is still available and there is
> enough disk space so those can't be what's causing this error. Help?

FredrikIsaksson
Wed Mar 28 16:32:02 CDT 2007

I had kinda the same problem but i noticed, just by a complete accident, that
if you combine as many clips on the timeline as possible to make it as few
clips as it can be, then it might work. If i have a movie on 10 minutes with
only like 10 clips, then my computer can save it as a "real" movie. But if i
have a movie on 10 minutes but with 100 clips, then i cant save it and i get
the same dialogue screen as you get.
hope this helps you out!

"Dranz" wrote:

> Well I've finished creating my amv(anime music video). Since my computer
> always seemed to freeze up whenever I try to run a movie on WMM, I decided to
> try something else. You see, I have these whole episodes of the anime I was
> making the music video for and I just put one entire episode in the timeline,
> watched through it and split up all the clips that I needed from the rest of
> the video and deleted the rest of the clips from the timeline. But whenever I
> try saving my project as a movie, it shows the following error:
>
> "Windows Movie Maker cannot save the movie to the specified location. Verify
> that the original source files used in your movie are still available, that
> the saving location is still available, and that there is enough free disk
> space available and then try again."
>
> Is it because I didn't actually save the clips I used in the movie to my
> collections folder? The saving location is still available and there is
> enough disk space so those can't be what's causing this error. Help?

Elger
Wed Apr 04 20:20:00 CDT 2007

I had the same problem.

I used the Windows Media Encoder to convert my AVI and MPG (mpeg) files to
WMV. All of my problems disappeared!