No Video After Saving

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After saving my MM2 movie (about 600 jpg's with MP3 music), the saved .wmv
(created with the 'Save to my computer' option) shows only the beginning 3
title pages, then hangs displaying the last title screen, and continues for
the next hour with music only. It plays fine from within MM, just fails from
the saved file. Also, I notice that the saved file is only about 54 MB
instead of the aprox. 450 MB it says it is saving at creation time. So I
assume something is going wrong in the save process and the video is not
getting saved. I didn't get any error messages during the save process and
have plenty of disk space.

Ideas?
Thanks, Ken Gregg
 
I reloaded the project and did another 'Save to my computer' and this time it
worked properly. I didn't change anything - just loaded the original project
and saved it again. My resulting .wmv is about 250 MB instead of the 450 MB
MM says it will take, but it plays fine.

Something must not be quite right with MM's 'create' process...

Thanks,
Ken Gregg
 
Wow -- your PC must have a lot of RAM to be able to successfully publish a
timeline with 600 source JPGs! When I'm editting slide shows for my
personal use I rarely exceed about 50 in any one MSWMM file, partly to avoid
a huge publish process at the end, but also to keep managable the amount of
tweaking to slide and audio alignments after adding or removing a slide or
title near the begining.

I reciently did a 25 minute slide / video show -- with a total of 350 JPGs
and about 8 minutes of video. I used eight separate MSWMM files, and
created eight separate .WMV files and tied them all together for the
presentation by creating a Playlist in Windows Media Player to show the .WMV
files in sequence. Later creating a DVD of the show having each section in a
separate .WMV file made for "natural" chapter points.
 
I think the machine I was doing this on has 512MB RAM. It is a long publish
process, and also a long DVD burn process, (I use a Sonic DVD burner program)
but I didn't want to deal with separate chapters. I needed it to be a
stand-alone DVD which would play through without manual intervention.

I also tried this on a smaller machine with 256MB RAM and MM chokes after a
few minutes and tells me it can't finish. The finished product on DVD runs a
little over an hour and is about 4 GB in size.

Thanks for the reply,
Ken Gregg
 
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