OK, I'm desperate peeps...

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Hi all :o) I'm new to this and generally like to work things out on my own,
but thing has been driving me nuts for 7 weeks now...day and night (yup yup
yup)...oh, and I'm French by the way, sorry if I'm not always clear enough,
I'm doing my best !

OK, here's the prob : I got married 2 months ago (stop laughing, that is NOT
the problem !) and 2 friends videotaped the whole thing. I uploaded the 3
tapes onto my computer in DV-AVI format. That takes me something like 13 Gb a
tape.
I then mixed the 3 tapes together, cutting the whole thing into smaller
parts (each .MSWMM part being approx 2 Mb)...adding sound and a few effects.

Now...Each time I want to save those parts into ANY format, it just won't
let me. Last time I checked, my friend Movie Maker kindly advised me that the
remaining time was a little more than 3 million minutes...so I gave up. I
then uninstalled SP2 to go back to a previous version of Media Maker...no
diff.

I follow a few advice I found on this newsgroup and cut the parts into
smaller parts, the smallest part being only...one image ! and when I choose
the format, it always tells me that the needed space on my hard drive is 3
Gb...whether the part is one image or a 15 minute movie...and the countdown
keeps increasing, even for a single image.

When I try to save the original 13 Gb movie (without any effect or
transition whatsoever) into a DV-AVI file...it works perfectly well.

Any advise before I videotape my divorce ? Thanks in advance for your
precious help and sorry if this question looks more like a novel...lol
 
I didn't think getting married was the problem....but being for 2 months and
wrestling with Movie Maker problems for 7 weeks just makes me wonder what
you were doing the first week.

Check the Problem Solving > Can't Save a Movie page of my website... if you
can save as DV-AVI but not WMV, it might be a case of a wrong version of
QASF.DLL.
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PapaJohn

Movie Maker 2 - www.papajohn.org
Photo Story 2 - www.photostory.papajohn.org
Photo Story 3 - use the menu branch at www.papajohn.org

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Hi again :o)

DV-AVI is the format I'd like to use to save my movie...but movie maker
won't let me save it into any format (wmv, etc...). I read carefully almost
all of your site (and by the way, it feels good to know some people out there
are working their asses off to help us, so thank you for that), but didn't
find the solution there. I can't save either as DV-AVI, nor as wmv.

....oh...and since you were wondering what we were doing the first
week...every DVD should have its "bonuses" right ? ;) haha

Guy
 
How about defragmenting your hard disk thoroughly?
Also what about converting any MP3s to WAVs or WMAs?
Are you using any other format video clips such as MPGs? If so why have you
not converted them to AVIs.
Some people would also say you must not use JPGs either. So why not convert
those to BMPs as well.
However I still have my suspicions on the codecs in your system. Dont tell
me you have not eliminated that possibility... What have you been doing...

Dont know if I sound like your wife... but I sure do like mine ;-)
 
Hi again Rehan

I : - just defragmented my hard disk
- converted JPGs to BMPs
- am only using Avi files

....and the problem is still the same. Even for a project than includes 2
images, or 10 seconds of Avi video, it tells me that the size of the movie
will be approx. 9 Gb, and that my movie should be ready shortly after the
human race will have disappeared from the surface of this planet...and no one
would wanna wait that long for a wedding movie right ?

Any advice as to my codecs ? What should I download ? Where should I get 'em
? Can you think of any other solution ?

Many thanks, I know I'm a pain in the b*** but Movie Maker is too :o)
 
If you were using Movie Maker 2.1 (comes with SP2) you could have tried the
new Compatibility Tab to mark off the codecs in use. otherwise go through
the list of codecs mentioned on Papajohns website and individually eliminate
them by renaming etc.

ww.papajohn.org -> Problem Solving -> Acceleration and codecs

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Rehan
www.rehanfx.org - get more effects and transitions for Windows Movie Maker
 
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