Picture Video - crash,crash,crash

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Hi there,

I am putting together a movie of a recent trip. It consists fo 180 photo's,
music & animated captions. Problem is the program keeps crashing, it just
hangs with no movement. Its impossible to work with now, am I using too many
pictures?

Need to get this sorted out, any ideas?

Many thanks,
 
This problem is related to how Movie Maker allocates
space, specifically how it allocates space for still
images. The more images, transitions, effects, and titles
in the project the higher memory footprint and the
increased the likelihood of experiencing problems when
publishing (Save Movie file...). You may get a better
experience publishing by changing the setting of the page
file to automatically resize (usually the first publish
afterwards will still fail since the page file has yet to
grown to accommodate the usage level).

Unfortunately to work around this problem you may have to
divide your project up so that fewer stills (<50) are
being published for a given project. To do this:

1. Save your project.

2. Divide up the project so that ~50 images are on the
Timeline or Storyboard. Delete the remaining portion of
the project (you will want to leave any transitions,
effects, or titles in place. If you have a music file or
narration that you want to play throughout the video,
temporailly remove it for this first phase).

3. Save the project to a high quality profile (E.g. High
Quality Video (large), or DV-AVI)

4. Undo the deletion of the portion of the project (or re-
open the project file), and now delete the next portion.

5. Save to a high quality profile.

6. Repeat until you have published all of the clips in
your project.

7. Import the published files back into Movie Maker, and
drag/place them on the timeline/storyboard in the order
that you would like them. Replace anything that was on the
Audio track, if you removed it in Step #2.

8. Save at the final bitrate/profile you want.

It's the complexity of the timeline that is causing us to
use a whole bunch of memory, and hang. By doing it in
sections, the "final" timeline only contains a few clips,
and should published without further problem.

Thanks,
Dave
 
David,
This is the exact same problem I have been experiencing!! (see posting
"MM2.1 stops responding during storyboard edit 9/22/2004")

Spliting pictures into >50 image segments may be a workaround for this
probelm, but it's not a good long term solution. It would make it extremeley
cumbersome to "tweak" pictures and transitions when reviewing the entire
production.

Two question for you (I assume you are a Microsoft employee?):

1) As a workaround, would it help to manually set the page file to an
'unusally high' number? (e.g., min of 1000 and max of 5000) I have tried
setting Windows to manage the page file but it still hangs when the
storyboard becomes complex (many images and transitions) and even tried
manual page file settings but probably not to a high enough number. I have
also found that deleting (limiting) the number of images in each collection
seems to help reduce the frequency of hangs... although eventually, it does
still crash.

2) Is Microsoft working on a patch to resolve this issue?

I really like MM2. It is very easy to use.. and, quite powerful for the
average person (like me). Now that I am "hooked", I guess I'll have to
consider purchasing an alternative, mid-priced, product if MM2 issues can't
be resolved (any alternative product suggestions?).

Thanks a bunch!
~Sark
 
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