Re: W Moviemaker crashes due to large file size by PapaJohn
PapaJohn
Mon May 19 10:11:54 PDT 2008
When you connect by firewire from a DV camcorder, and opt for WMV... the
capture goes first to a temporary DV-AVI file, and then as time permits,
Movie Maker builds the wmv file fromt the temp DV-AVI file. You might be
needing more hard drive space for the temp file and some elbow room as it
builds the wmv.
External USB2 drives are modest in price and work well to capture to.
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"Sridhar" <Sridhar@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E2197CA8-D429-42DD-9990-3350F60FF52B@microsoft.com...
> Yes when I capture with Win DV, it plays OK with windows media player.
> I just learned from another source that AVI files appear better on TV than
> on Computer while it is other way around for WMA type files that I am used
> to
> in the past.
>
> So in future I may try to use AVI format, however I may need to increas my
> hardrive capacity due to larger files.
>
> But I still need to find the reason why WMA file type capturing is not
> working now that was there before.
>
> Thank anyway for your response
> regards
> Sridhar
>
> "PapaJohn" wrote:
>
>> Your new files sizes for DV (DV-AVI) files of 225 mb per minute are
>> appropriate when connecting and capturing DV by firewire... your smaller
>> ones before would have been more compressed, and not DV-AVI.
>>
>> If you capture a clip with WinDV, does it play OK with Windows Media
>> Player
>> before you import it into Movie Maker?
>>
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>>
>> PapaJohn (MVP)
>>
>>
>> "Sridhar" <Sridhar@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:0E31366C-AC5C-4DD2-B39B-83BC944D80A7@microsoft.com...
>> > Hello
>> >
>> > I have been using Windows Movie maker for more than three years without
>> > any
>> > hassles on my computer running Windows XP
>> >
>> > Recently I have encouintered a problem in capturing video from by DV
>> > camcorder
>> > The programme crashes within few seconds of capture (in less than 30
>> > seconds)
>> >
>> > So I started trying various other video capture prorgammes like AVS
>> > /Cyberlink Power DVD/ WinDV. Both Powever DVD & Win DV generates
>> > unusually
>> > very large size file of about 225 mb per minute. In the past normally
>> > it
>> > take
>> > 15 minutes of capture to generate such a large size file of 225 mb size
>> > file.
>> >
>> > AVS software similar to Windows Moviemaker, ends up with error message
>> > after
>> > couple of seconds for the reason I am short of memory resoucres,
>> > prompting
>> > me
>> > to shut down other programs. But Moviemaker just crashes without even
>> > any
>> > error message.
>> >
>> > So I tried upgrading my hardware by increasing the RAM capacity from
>> > 760
>> > mb
>> > to 1500 mb. Still there is no solution to this problem.
>> >
>> > It appears to me, there is something wrong in video compression engine
>> > of
>> > the computer on the operating system Windos XP rather than to a
>> > specific
>> > video capture programme, be it Windows Moview maker / Power DVD / Win
>> > DV
>> > /AVS
>> > or whatever it may be.
>> >
>> > Only ultimate plan I have as a last resort is to try reinstalling
>> > Windows
>> > XP.
>> > Before that, could anyone having a clue on what the problem might be
>> > give
>> > me
>> > suggestions to trouble shoot this problem
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance
>> >
>> > regards
>> > Sridhar
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>