Save Movie Wizard is SLOOOOW!

I am trying to save my first movie and am using
MovieMaker 2.1 with Windows XP on a Sony laptop with
512MB of Ram and 3GZ processor, and plenty of space on
the hard drive.

The problem is that I started the save an hour ago, it's
13% done (and seems to be stuck there) and says it has
over 750 minutes remaining, and still climbing. The show
has a title slide, about 300 still images, and a 4 min.
movie.

Is this a normal amount of time for a movie like this to
be saved?

Why isn't it going beyond the 13% completed stage? Is it
just because it's using the processing power just to
calculate the remaining save time?

PapaJohn
Tue Sep 28 15:58:50 CDT 2004

If you check your CPU usage with Task Manager, and Movie Maker isn't
cranking away with lots of CPU usage, then it's stuck and canceling the save
is appropriate.

There's a number of things it could be. See the Problem Solving > Can't Save
a Movie page of my site.
--
PapaJohn

Movie Maker 2 - www.papajohn.org
Photo Story 2 - www.photostory.papajohn.org

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"Ralph Tomaccio" <RKorday@aol.com> wrote in message
news:3d2101c4a593$852cfc70$a301280a@phx.gbl...
>I am trying to save my first movie and am using
> MovieMaker 2.1 with Windows XP on a Sony laptop with
> 512MB of Ram and 3GZ processor, and plenty of space on
> the hard drive.
>
> The problem is that I started the save an hour ago, it's
> 13% done (and seems to be stuck there) and says it has
> over 750 minutes remaining, and still climbing. The show
> has a title slide, about 300 still images, and a 4 min.
> movie.
>
> Is this a normal amount of time for a movie like this to
> be saved?
>
> Why isn't it going beyond the 13% completed stage? Is it
> just because it's using the processing power just to
> calculate the remaining save time?

Ralph
Wed Sep 29 12:33:39 CDT 2004

Thanks for all your research into moviemaker. The first
thing I did was to defragment the hard drive. That seemed
to work for the most part.

I say for the most part because, even though I was able
to save the whole movie in a much more reasonable time,
when I went to play it, after 14 minutes of the 28
minutes it kept playing (the progress bar kept moving),
but the screen was black for the whole remainder of the
movie.

I trashed that one and tried it again. This time the same
thing happened, but much earlier in the movie.

Any ideas as to what's going on?

Gorak
Wed Sep 29 14:33:52 CDT 2004

Ralph Tomaccio wrote:
:: Thanks for all your research into moviemaker. The first
:: thing I did was to defragment the hard drive. That seemed
:: to work for the most part.
::
:: I say for the most part because, even though I was able
:: to save the whole movie in a much more reasonable time,
:: when I went to play it, after 14 minutes of the 28
:: minutes it kept playing (the progress bar kept moving),
:: but the screen was black for the whole remainder of the
:: movie.
::
:: I trashed that one and tried it again. This time the same
:: thing happened, but much earlier in the movie.
::
:: Any ideas as to what's going on?

I've had this happen to me with a large (300+ pictures) slide show project.
It only seems to happen when you render to DV-AVI. Although many in this
newsgroup always recommend saving as DV-AVI, I've found that saving at the
highest quality WMV format solves the above problem and I can't see a
difference in quality. (at least in photo shows). My DVD burning software
(Nero) accepts WMV files as input for burning a DVD, so that is not a
problem either.

Ralph
Wed Sep 29 16:01:52 CDT 2004

My movie is large, too. Close to 400 stills, (3)30 sec.
movie clips, 2 music clips, and transitions between each.
Through in a beginning and ending title slide with motion
and a few effects to boot. I still need to add some
background music.

It was all saved as a WMA file and I still am having a
problem. Won't saving as DV-AVI make a substantially
larger file size? This is my first movie, so I am not
familiar with formats etc. as yet.

Have I reached, or exceeded, the limits of MovieMaker?


>I've had this happen to me with a large (300+ pictures)
slide show project.
>It only seems to happen when you render to DV-AVI.
Although many in this
>newsgroup always recommend saving as DV-AVI, I've found
that saving at the
>highest quality WMV format solves the above problem and
I can't see a
>difference in quality. (at least in photo shows). My DVD
burning software
>(Nero) accepts WMV files as input for burning a DVD, so
that is not a
>problem either.
>
>
>
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