RE: Movie Maker Problems by JND
JND
Mon Aug 30 13:39:03 CDT 2004
Thank you for your response to this matter. the solutions have helped out
quite a bit but I'm still having problems, though more infrequently than
before. Are these common issues with moviemaker2 ??? or is it my machine that
is having this problem?
> a. Movie Maker is a Microsoft product.
> b. Here are two tips I found to be extremely useful.
>
> 1. After you start MM, press Ctrl+Alt+Del. Windows Task Manager will pop up;
> minimze it.
> 2. Every time that MM gets stuck for a very long time, close it by Task
> Manager's End Process button, then restart MM, >>> then close it regularly
> and restart it one more time. <<<
>
> As for tip #1's importance. When you start Task Manager, you'll find a new
> icon in your notification area at the bottom-right corner of your screen
> (near the clock). It's sort of like a dark-green box that sometimes gets
> filled with a bright-green color. The higher the britght-green reaches, the
> more your computer is busy - or to be more exact, the more MM is working and
> cannot be disturbed.
>
> Make it a normal habit to look at that green box before you click every
> click, or touch any option in MM. Let the green bar go down, and only then
> proceed to your next agenda.
>
> Meaning, if you split a video in your timeline and then you want to cancel
> the Fade In on the 2nd part - it should go like this:
>
> 1. Go to the exact frame BY USING THE ">>" "<<" BUTTONS below your preview
> pane - That's how you'll avoid missing the exact frame. The point where you
> split the frame is on the frame that's 1 after the last frame of the 1st
> part, and the 1st frame of the 2nd part.
> 2. Before you click split, look at the green bar. Wait for it to drop to dark.
> 3. Hit split. Wait for the bars to cool off.
> 4. Right click the 2nd part's video segment. Wait for bars.
> 5. Unmark Fade in. Wait for bars.
> 6. Right click augio segment. Wait... you get the picture.
>
> Last tip; save your project all the time. That way, even if MM goes into Not
> Responding mode, you won't lose your project.
>
> Tell me if this answered your questions.
>
>
>
> "JND" wrote:
>
> > Bigcan@aol.com and I appear to be having a similar problem. when playing
> > back Video clips the video monitor goes blank and the sound keeps playing, or
> > my computer freezes all together. I find this problem occurs mostly when I
> > And repeatedly stopping and playing a clip during editing or switching
> > between clips. I have also found that when I go to split a clip the actual
> > split point is often slightly before the picture in the preview monitor.
> > I'm running windows XP SP2 on a 3GHz HP pavilion laptop. I've only used
> > movie maker a half dozen times and these problems happen every time I try to
> > use it. Thank you for your comments regarding these issues.
> > --
> > johnydell