My Windows Movie Maker 2 does not seem to work correctly

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Hello!
I have problems with Windows Movie Maker 2: first of all, it seems to "eat up" all the free space in the hard drive. I have 2.90 GB of free space, but I only manage to make a movie of 25 minutes (PAL high quality video, about 3 MB per minute). The amount of the free space left melts with every second, then it says that there is no more free space, and finishes with a movie of about 100 MB only! Then it turns out that there is still plenty of free space left...
Also, I tried to insert a title to my movie many times, but as soon as I start typing the title, the program simply turns off and brings me back to the desktop! No error report is shown, it is just off!
Can I change the settings somehow, or do you have a patch which would solve the problem?
 
Sounds like you need a bigger hard drive or more free space.
Also you might want to see whats running in the background and turn off some programs.
You might also want to post what operating system, amount of ram you have

WINDOWS MOVTE MAKER 2
System requirements
Windows Movie Maker requires the following minimum system configuration:

Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition or Windows XP Professional
A 600 megahertz (MHz) processor, such as an Intel Pentium III, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Athlon, or equivalent processor
128 megabytes (MB) of RAM
2 gigabytes (GB) of free hard disk space
An audio capture device (to capture audio from external sources)
A DV or analog video capture device (to capture video from external sources)
An Internet connection (to save and send a movie to the Web or to send a movie as an attachment in an e-mail message)
To optimize the performance of Windows Movie Maker, the following system requirements are recommended:

A 1.5 gigahertz (GHz) processor, such as an Intel Pentium 4, an AMD Athlon XP 1500+, or equivalent processor
256 megabytes (MB) of RAM
The following software is required to play back a movie:

Microsoft Windows 98 or later or Windows NT® 4.0 or later
Software that can play Windows Media Video (WMV) files, such as Microsoft Windows Media Player 7.0 or later (Windows Media Player 9 Series is
 
I can make a movie just fine and save it and burn it, the problem i'm having is everytime i try to put a title in or add an affect the whole screen just dissappears and it goes back to my desktop. I don't think this has anything to do with my ram or memory which i happen to have plenty of both.
 
You're right. See the Problem Solving > Acceleration and Codecs page of
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mikey said:
I can make a movie just fine and save it and burn it, the problem i'm
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having is everytime i try to put a title in or add an affect the whole
screen just dissappears and it goes back to my desktop. I don't think this
has anything to do with my ram or memory which i happen to have plenty of
both.
 
Hello!
I have problems with Windows Movie Maker 2: first of all, it seems to "eat up" all the free space in the hard drive. I have 2.90 GB of free space, but I only manage to make a movie of 25 minutes (PAL high quality video, about 3 MB per minute). The amount of the free space left melts with every second, then it says that there is no more free space, and finishes with a movie of about 100 MB only! Then it turns out that there is still plenty of free space left...
Also, I tried to insert a title to my movie many times, but as soon as I start typing the title, the program simply turns off and brings me back to the desktop! No error report is shown, it is just off!
Can I change the settings somehow, or do you have a patch which would solve the problem?
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Windows uses a temp file while creating the movie. I imagine with so little
disc space you are running out of temporary (swap file) file space. That's
why it requires 2 gig of free hard drive space, and why you seem to have
plenty of space when you finish.

Howard
 
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