Premature Termination

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Used Movie Maker 2.1 for 15 hours on my Dell Dimension 4700. Have a 15 min
movie that comprises about 12 clips, three sound effect clips and several
title overylays. Originally, it played from beginning end. With
modifications to the movie, it plays for about 4 minutes to the end of a
clip, then jumps to the end of the movie. Trial and error removal of clips
fixed the problem the first time (never understood why it fixed it). However,
it happened again. Could not find a similar problem in the Forum. Would
appreciate any help.

Thanks.
 
In most cases this is due to a corrupt or unsupported file type.
Often times if you have a filetype the WMM doesn't like it will behave
erratically in that sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't and other times
it causes strange behavior.
What types (extensions) are in your project?
-Wojo
 
From "Properties", each movie clip is of file type "video clip" with a suffix
of .AVI. For each video clip file that was transferred from the camera to my
computer, a specific file with a suffix of .THM file was also created. Each
audio clip is a "WAVE Audio File" with a suffix of .WAV.

I have since reproduced the error by adding a specific clip, testing it to
show "no premature termination". Then I splitting the new clip. When I play
the movie, the movie jumps to the end of the movie (premature termination)
when it reaches the end of the clip that I just added. It plays through the
split properly, but not the clip. Every time that I reach that spot, it
prematurely terminates. UNFORTUNATELY, this does not happen EVERY time I use
the split technique.

Any ideas?
 
If it is the same clip that does this every time it happens then I think the
clip is probably corrupt.
AVI is a bit different than most video types since there are so many
different AVI codecs so it is possible that downloading the Windows XP codec
pack from http://www.free-codecs.com/ may do the trick for you. It may or
may not work but it is a simple step to find out. If it does seem to be the
same clip all the time then try a bunch of tests without that clip to see if
you can reproduce the problem or not. If you can then the codec pack may
help, if not then it is likely a bad file which you "may" be able to fix by
converting it to WMV. For that check out this website:
http://www.videohelp.com/convert
 
I visited free-codecs.com and found many codec packages. I chose
XP_Codec-Pack_1.3.4, downloaded and installed it using all of the default
settings. I rebooted, then restarted Windows Movie Maker, opened my project,
then hit play. The viewer changed from "Pause" to "Play"; however, the movie
did not play. Did I choose the wrong Pack?
 
I had problems with the codecs and instead followed your advice to save the
"last clean version" of the movie, then use it as input for a new movie.
This was successful and I appreciate your expertise.
 
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