Movie Won't Save

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I went to save my movie and I got the message:
"Windows Movie Maker cannot save the movie to the specified location.
Verify that the original source files used in your movie are still available,
that the saving location is still available, and that there is enough free
disk space available, and then try again."

I checked all three of these things and went to save again, only to get the
same message three more times. I tried saving to different locations but I
kept getting that message. Can anybody help me?
 
I didn't understand a lot of the stuff on those pages. I'm sort of new at the
entire making videos thing.
 
Then you should tell us some info about your system... RAM, free disc
space....

and about your project... how long is the overall duration, what type of
source files are you using, about how many clips

and your version of XP and Movie Maker.... and a little history of your MM
usage... is this your first try? can you render a small project OK to both
WMV and DV-AVI files?
--
PapaJohn
Movie Maker 2 and Photo Story 3 website - http://www.papajohn.org


SpaceMonkey52 said:
I didn't understand a lot of the stuff on those pages. I'm sort of new at
the
entire making videos thing.
Click to expand...
 
My computer has 512 MG of Ram, and about 23.7 GB of free disc space.

My projects overall length is 3 minutes and 15 seconds and has 43 AVI format
clips.

I have XP Home Edition and Movie Maker 5.1 This will be my first MM project.
I've tried saving smaller projects as tests and I've been able to do it with
no problem as a WMV and a DV-AVI.
 
Thanks... it all seems reasonable... just need to know a bit more about the
AVI files... the codec used to compress them... get the GSpot utility (link
on the Setup > Other Software page of my site)... open one or more and check
the codec info. If they are compressed with a Divx or Xvid codec, they could
be problematic.
 
Apparently the problem has fixed itself, because I was just able to save the
complete vid in both formats. Thanks for the help.
 
I have this same problem.

My video is 30 minutes long and won't save in dv-avi. It will save as a
large file but not dv-avi.

Help...

Nick
 
I have the same problem as well. I can save the file to DV-AVI (NTSC) format
but not to WMV. I downloaded the Gspot, do I have to re-open movie maker to
get it to work or is that part of the problem at all?
 
I was finally able to burn my movie.

The problem was the movie was too complex.

I had to break it down into 4 segments, saving each segment one at a time to
my computer. You have to be very careful not to lose your original work.
Save a copy of that before you start deleting.

Once I saved the movie to my computer, I reimported it to WMM, and then
instead of having 100 pictures, transitions, music, and clips, I just had 4
clips.

WMM was able to render the whole project to a nice 6 GB DV-AVI file.

Took forever though. Overall, I'm somewhat displeased with the program.
I'm looking forward to the next upgrade.

Nick
 
Mine's a 30 minutes clip with photos, videos, musics, transitions & effects.
It was able to save as movie file in the recommended format. I tried
splitting to the first 2 minutes but the problem still persists. It stay put
as 0% & the remaining time keeps increasing.
 
Hi Christabel
It was able to save using the "recommended" settings but you can't save
using what settings?
You split it so you are only saving the first 2 minutes? And still it
doesn't work so it is likely not a complexity problem but rather a codec
problem or a bad clip. See my Movie Maker -> Trouble Shooting section for
some possible reasons for this as well as Papajohn's "Can't Save a Movie"
section.
www.wojos-web.co.nr
www.papajohn.org
--
Wojo
MVP - Windows Digital Media

Wojo's Web: www.wojos-web.co.nr
Also please visit:
www.remember-christopher.dostweb.com/christopher
 
It wasn't able to save in any settings; not even the recommended one.

I split the 30 minutes long project to 2 minutes each but still there was no
luck to save it as a movie file.

I shall follow your links & see what I can do about it. Will revert soon.

Many thanks!
 
I would try again. It was likely a problem during the download.
I have downloaded that particular codec pack from that same link numerous
times so it should work fine.
-Wojo
 
I just downloaded the ZIP file to be certain and it worked just fine.
Any more problems you can email me through my website and I will email the
ZIP to you but you need to be able to receive attachments of 6mb to be able
to do this.
-Wojo
 
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