(also posted on the WMM.net forums - I'm pretty desperate here)
I'm really new to this, and I was having such a great time until I found
that WMM absolutely refuses to take the entre second season of the show I was
taking clips from. I get "WMM has encountered a problem and needs to close"
every single time I try to import one of these episodes.
I have done a few hours worth of reading and searching, but the common
solution to this common problem don't seem to work for me: I've un-checked
every single filter in Tools > Options > Compatibility. Could it still be a
problem codec with everything un-checked?
papajohn.org also says "A video clip with an .avi extension might be a
DV-AVI file that should work... [b]or an Xvid encoded one that doesn't[/b]."
According to Gspot, these episodes are Xvid-encoded. BUT, so are all of the
first season, and they import to WMM just fine!
So, I've no idea what the exact problem is. Do I need to change something
about WMM to get these files to import? Do I need to change something
somewhere else on my computer (rename files perhaps? Only, I thought you
didn't have to do that if you had WMM 2.1 - that un-checking would
suffice...)? Do I need to convert/recompress these files? If the latter,
what's the best way to do that? Will they lose quality?
I would reeeeallly appreciate help with this. I had so wanted to make this
little video, and was super excited upon figuring out the basics of WMM. Then
this great big brick wall...