Slides stop playing

My daughter is putting together a slide show of photos for her senior class
with background music using WMM version 5.1. When I save it to a movie file
and play the wmv back it will stop on one slide and not go to the next while
the time and music continue as they are supposed to. Is there something I can
change to fix this? The slide show is about 60 minutes long and the save
process appears to run smoothly. The error has occured on different slides at
different time periods into the show. Thanks.

Graham
Mon May 19 14:27:07 PDT 2008

Sounds like the problem most people have with a file format mismatch, this
should help.
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/Tutorials/MovieMaker/File_type_compatibility.htm

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Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.com


"Tom" <Tom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:03BFEC32-3BE6-4335-B61A-3AE1CCC187A6@microsoft.com...
> My daughter is putting together a slide show of photos for her senior
> class
> with background music using WMM version 5.1. When I save it to a movie
> file
> and play the wmv back it will stop on one slide and not go to the next
> while
> the time and music continue as they are supposed to. Is there something I
> can
> change to fix this? The slide show is about 60 minutes long and the save
> process appears to run smoothly. The error has occured on different slides
> at
> different time periods into the show. Thanks.

Tom
Tue May 20 04:46:00 PDT 2008

Thanks Graham,
Short of converting 400 photos to bitmaps or starting over in Photo Story
any other suggestions?

"Graham Hughes" wrote:

> Sounds like the problem most people have with a file format mismatch, this
> should help.
> http://www.myvideoproblems.com/Tutorials/MovieMaker/File_type_compatibility.htm
>
> --
>
> Graham Hughes
> MVP Digital Media
> www.myvideoproblems.com
>
>
> "Tom" <Tom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:03BFEC32-3BE6-4335-B61A-3AE1CCC187A6@microsoft.com...
> > My daughter is putting together a slide show of photos for her senior
> > class
> > with background music using WMM version 5.1. When I save it to a movie
> > file
> > and play the wmv back it will stop on one slide and not go to the next
> > while
> > the time and music continue as they are supposed to. Is there something I
> > can
> > change to fix this? The slide show is about 60 minutes long and the save
> > process appears to run smoothly. The error has occured on different slides
> > at
> > different time periods into the show. Thanks.
>
>
>

Graham
Tue May 20 11:45:00 PDT 2008

MP3 is the worst file to use, so if you've used that as your music, that's
where I'd start.

If that doesn't work, 400 pictures is an awfully large project for MM, so
I'd split your project into say 4 and see if the individual ones work ok. If
they do, save all 4, then join up the 4 dv.avi or wmv files you've made into
one big file.
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/Tutorials/MovieMaker/SplitComplexProject.htm

Well I'd start by converting say 10 pictures and do a test project.

If it works, then you can use an autofeature in apps like irfanview
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/WebPages/UsefulProgrammes.htm
Which will batch change all your pics.
Then you can try to fool MM into thinking your bitmaps are your jpegs, by
renaming them to jpeg .

--

Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.com


"Tom" <Tom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks Graham,
> Short of converting 400 photos to bitmaps or starting over in Photo Story
> any other suggestions?
>
> "Graham Hughes" wrote:
>
>> Sounds like the problem most people have with a file format mismatch,
>> this
>> should help.
>> http://www.myvideoproblems.com/Tutorials/MovieMaker/File_type_compatibility.htm
>>
>> --
>>
>> Graham Hughes
>> MVP Digital Media
>> www.myvideoproblems.com
>>
>>
>> "Tom" <Tom@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:03BFEC32-3BE6-4335-B61A-3AE1CCC187A6@microsoft.com...
>> > My daughter is putting together a slide show of photos for her senior
>> > class
>> > with background music using WMM version 5.1. When I save it to a movie
>> > file
>> > and play the wmv back it will stop on one slide and not go to the next
>> > while
>> > the time and music continue as they are supposed to. Is there something
>> > I
>> > can
>> > change to fix this? The slide show is about 60 minutes long and the
>> > save
>> > process appears to run smoothly. The error has occured on different
>> > slides
>> > at
>> > different time periods into the show. Thanks.
>>
>>
>>