Moviemk 2 TOTAL TRASH! IT WILL STOP WORKING

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I've had movie maker 2 for several months now and it's been working fine until a week ago. I've been working hard on a movie for school which is due in several weeks and this program stops resoponding. The video also freezes when I'm playing it back, but the audio keeps going in mm2 and when it's saved to the computer and playing through windows media player. I've tried almost everything! I've gone on papajohn.org and restored my computer when it used to have regular movie maker, reinstalled that then download mm2. This didn't work, and I've tried about everything on that web site. I keep getting the same problem even when I start a new project. It's too bad microsoft won't reply to this newsgroup. I guess they don't care about their customers

-Filmgeek
 
I had a problem with the movie stopping. It was stopping on a particular transition. Apparently, the transtition file was corrupted. I dleted the transition and selected a different transition and it corrected the problem. Are you using transtitions?
 
I've had movie maker 2 for several months now and it's been working fine until a week ago. I've been working hard on a movie for school which is due in several weeks and this program stops resoponding. The video also freezes when I'm playing it back, but the audio keeps going in mm2 and when it's saved to the computer and playing through windows media player. I've tried almost everything! I've gone on papajohn.org and restored my computer when it used to have
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regular movie maker, reinstalled that then download mm2. This didn't work, and I've tried about everything on that web site. I keep getting the same problem even when I start a new project. It's too bad microsoft won't reply to this newsgroup. I guess they don't care about their customers.

Wel, MM2 is free. You get what you pay for. Edit Studio, on the other
hand ...
 
Movie Maker is a component in Windows XP.
XP Pro retails for $299, and XP Home for $199.

That's hardly "free" ...

-Bob
____________________________
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Media Center Edition
www.microsoft.com/ehome


fine until a week ago. I've been working hard on a movie for school
which is due in several weeks and this program stops resoponding. The
video also freezes when I'm playing it back, but the audio keeps going
in mm2 and when it's saved to the computer and playing through windows
media player. I've tried almost everything! I've gone on papajohn.org
and restored my computer when it used to have
regular movie maker, reinstalled that then download mm2. This didn't
Click to expand...
work, and I've tried about everything on that web site. I keep getting
the same problem even when I start a new project. It's too bad
microsoft won't reply to this newsgroup. I guess they don't care about
their customers.
 
I wouldn't call XP pro free my friend. Looks like with these guys, if you pay zero, that's exactly what you get. Does ANYONE have ANYTHING to say about all this freezing and incomplete saves stuff ? Please get a workable patch on the site... Some of use have worked long and hard on our projects and we can't get the JOB DONE!
 
fine until a week ago. I've been working hard on a movie for school
which is due in several weeks and this program stops resoponding. The
video also freezes when I'm playing it back, but the audio keeps going
in mm2 and when it's saved to the computer and playing through windows
media player. I've tried almost everything! I've gone on papajohn.org
and restored my computer when it used to have
work, and I've tried about everything on that web site. I keep getting
the same problem even when I start a new project. It's too bad
microsoft won't reply to this newsgroup. I guess they don't care about
their customers.
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Movie Maker is a component in Windows XP.
XP Pro retails for $299, and XP Home for $199.
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Rubbish - it's not a component at all. Explorer is a component. You're
buying the OS, not MovieMaker. In your terminology, Wordpad is also a
component and it's features are limited, so people buy other, more
suitable, office applications.
 
Hywel,

Perhaps "component" was not the correct term
to use. But MM _IS_ included with Windows XP,
and it is therefore _NOT_ free.

Your analogy to Wordpad is a poor one. People
buy more advanced word processors because they
want more features -- not because Wordpad
doesn't work.

People aren't typically complaining about MM's
lack of features -- they're complaining because
they are having problems getting its supported
features to work properly. There's a big
difference between the two...

-Bob
____________________________
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Media Center Edition
www.microsoft.com/ehome
 
Hywel,

Perhaps "component" was not the correct term
to use. But MM _IS_ included with Windows XP,
and it is therefore _NOT_ free.
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Would XP be any cheaper if MM wasn't included? I doubt it, too. People
don't pay $200 for XP so that they can use MM. They pay because they
believe they'll be getting a more robust operating system. MM is a no
charge option.
 
Point is, if you're going to invest time and money in developing software, might as well make it useful. It's a shame this software has so many important flaws, the user interface is a whole lot of fun and simple to use.
 
if you want to buy a computer and os with well written included software, go with imovie on a mac. otherwise, buy something else like adobe premiere.
 
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