My project is messed up! Help!

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I just finished a long vacation in Italy... 10 days... had tons of video and
worked with it (during the vacation) on my laptop that I brought with me.
After tons and tons of work, clipping, editing, titles, music, etc., I ended
up with a video project was about 1.45 hours long. I went to save it to DVD
thinking it might be too big, but I gave it a shot. I thought, what the heck,
I'll always have the original project file to go back to and maybe chop up
into smaller pieces if there's any problem. Well, I gave it a shot and it was
taking too long (so I went back to the Movie Maker and reopened the project).
When I went back to the original project, there are tons of pieces of the
timeline that have a big red "X" on them... indicated that the program can't
find the files, I think? THAT A TON OF WORK LOST! I could maybe fish around
and find them, but that would take days for a project this big. Why did the
original project get so mesed up? I've noticed that once any movie is saved,
The project loses the source file locations. How can I fix this?

And isn't there some time of phone assistance I can seek? I'd be willing to
pay for it.


-Francis
 
I'm not sure why it got messed up (are you sure none were move or are on a
CD?)
But it may not take days to find them all. In many cases if you right click
on one of the X's and click locate it will not only find that file but
automatically find all the other as well since they were likely moved
together.
 
OK, got it working this afternoon. I went into my system and maxed out my
virtual memory, then went tback and hunted around for the "lost" clips. Once
I found the first two, Movie Maker magically automatically found all the rest
for me.
 
So here's a final question: a week ago, I made a much smaller movie for a
friend of mine. Now I'd like to go back and find it myself. When I tried to
do that, the original stuff really IS gone off of my computer. But I still
have the DVD I burned in making the movie. How can I get the DVD movie stored
on my hard drive?

-Francis
 
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