Movie Maker will not make any movies

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I have a project due and i was using Movie Maker to put my clips together and
edit them. Then after I'm done I go to save the movie. But everytime it comes
up with the message saying that it can't save to the specified location. I
try to change where i'm saving it to and I make sure all the video files are
still available. I also make sure that there is enough room for the file.
I've tried everything Movie Maker tells me to do but it wont save. Also, when
i try to save other movies on different accounts, it still comes up with the
same message. I don't know what to do and I'm tight on time to get my project
finished. I need help.

Stu
 
Stu, there are people who know a lot more than I do, but they are probably
all out celebrating today!! ha ha ha And since you are time constrained I
might be able to give you an idea or two. There is probably an offending
clip/picture/audio somewhere in your movie.....first since you are sure all
of your clips are in their place, you could name and 'save' your project
first to know you have it available. And then, I would 'delete' the clips
on the timeline so that I only have about 'half' of the movie remaining...for
example, the first half remains. Then I would save that as 'movie1' in the
format you choose. After that I would bring in your project again and this
time delete the clips in the first half of the movie (make sure you know
which one to stop at)....and then save this second half as 'movie2'.
Hopefully, both of them would save correctly and you could bring them back in
and put them together on the timeline and then save the whole movie. If
that doesnt work you could break the movie down into even further smaller
parts until you found the 'offending' clip/picture/ or audio. Just an idea
before someone who knows more comes along to help ya. Good luck!
 
One more thing to look at, and it may be on Papajohn's "can't save a movie"
page, but do you know if your hard drive is formatted NTFS or FAT32? If it
is FAT32 then it could simply be that your project is larger than 4GB in
which case you will not be able to save it due to size limit constraints in
FAT32.
 
Wojo said:
One more thing to look at, and it may be on Papajohn's "can't save a movie"
page, but do you know if your hard drive is formatted NTFS or FAT32? If it
is FAT32 then it could simply be that your project is larger than 4GB in
which case you will not be able to save it due to size limit constraints in
FAT32.
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I am sorry but none of these help me at all and I have plenty of rrom on my
hard drive in teh GB's and the project in on;y about 3MB. All the original
movie files are in the same place and nothing has changed. The destination
location on on my hard drive C. This is a single home computer that is not
connected to any other computer. I spent about 4 hours today creating and
editing this movie and now I can't do anything with it. The movie is about
an hour and 4 minutes long. I saved the project and it load into movie maker
just fine with no error messaged that is can't find the source material. So
why is this stupid program refusing to save this file. I ahve used Movie
Maker many times and never had this problem till now. I am beginning to hate
all these movie maker and editign programs as they all hardly ever work the
way they are supposed to. This is version 2.1 whcih is supposed to be so
much better. It's not, it;s worse.
 
I wouldn't be so quick to say the editing programs don't do what they are
supposed to do since generally it is when we are doing something they aren't
supposed to do that we have problems.
Such as working with unsupported filetypes (such as MPG) or filetypes that
are known to cause problems (such as JPG or MP3). Also a problem creator is
downloading some of the free codec packages available on the internet since
many of them are bad codecs and will also cause these types of issues. What
are the type(s) of files you are using in your project and are there a lot
of transitions and/or effects in it? It is possible that the problem stems
from the project being too complex although that generally results in a
movie trying to save but only getting through a certain percentage instead
of not even trying to save as your project seems to be doing. I can't even
think of a problem in this area that isn't covered in Papajohn's can't save
a movie troubleshooting section.
 
Ok. I have never had problem with Movie Maker before. I use only WMV files.
The movie is 52min 16sec long. There are transistions between the major
scene changes but not on the many sub scenes that Movie Maker creates when
downloading the original EMV files that were made within the RCT3 game.
These are high resolution movie files in the WMV format. There are no still
pictures and only 4 or 5 titles superimposed over the proper movie scene
start. The file size is 809.60MB and the free space on my hard drive is
96.71GB.

Now, why won't movie maker save this file and tells me it cannot save to the
specified device as it might not be there anymore, or that the original files
are not where they where (I have not moved them and the Project loaded just
fine and brought all the movies in). The soundtrack is right where I loaded
it from. There is no reason I can see that this wonderful Movie Maker
program that everyone raves about, shouldn't save this movie as it's supposed
to.

I did a lot of editing, cliping movie scenes and adding music to an
otherwise silent movie. Isn't this what Movie Maker is all about? If you
cannot edit the movies, whats the point?
 
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