Problem with saving to DV-AVI format.

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Hi,

Recently I created about an hour long video in Windows Movie Maker 2 from various clips I've recorded from my digital camcorder. What I'm trying to do is create a VCD out of these clips and I believe the first thing I have to do is save it to *.avi format so that TMPG-Enc or any other encoding software can convert it to VCD specifications.

The problem I'm having is that WMM will not save the file using the DV-AVI profile. It keeps giving an error message that says, "Windows Movie Maker cannot save the movie to the specified location. Verify that the original source files used in your movie are still available, that the saving location is still available, and that there is enough free disk space available, and then try again."

I know for a fact that all the movie files I'm using are still avaliable, the saving location is avaliable, and that there is enough free disk space. WMM estimated that the movie would be 12 gig when saved and I have 45 gig free. My file system is NTFS so I know that's probably not the problem.

What makes this interesting is that I can save the compilation to any WMV bitrate, just not *.AVI. I can create *.AVI files out of several other clips on my harddrive, just not this compilation. I've also saved this compilation of clips to *.AVI a couple of days ago and decided to delete it since I had already used it. Well, it turns out I needed to change a couple of things so I want to recreate it and now I'm having a problem.

Thanks for any help in advance.
 
There's a number of things it could be. See the Problem Solving > Can't Save
a Movie page of my site.

But, if you saved it OK recently, I'd start with a defrag and just try
again.
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Icy said:
Hi,

Recently I created about an hour long video in Windows Movie Maker 2 from
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various clips I've recorded from my digital camcorder. What I'm trying to do
is create a VCD out of these clips and I believe the first thing I have to
do is save it to *.avi format so that TMPG-Enc or any other encoding
software can convert it to VCD specifications.
The problem I'm having is that WMM will not save the file using the DV-AVI
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profile. It keeps giving an error message that says, "Windows Movie Maker
cannot save the movie to the specified location. Verify that the original
source files used in your movie are still available, that the saving
location is still available, and that there is enough free disk space
available, and then try again."
I know for a fact that all the movie files I'm using are still avaliable,
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the saving location is avaliable, and that there is enough free disk space.
WMM estimated that the movie would be 12 gig when saved and I have 45 gig
free. My file system is NTFS so I know that's probably not the problem.
What makes this interesting is that I can save the compilation to any WMV
Click to expand...
bitrate, just not *.AVI. I can create *.AVI files out of several other clips
on my harddrive, just not this compilation. I've also saved this compilation
of clips to *.AVI a couple of days ago and decided to delete it since I had
already used it. Well, it turns out I needed to change a couple of things so
I want to recreate it and now I'm having a problem.
 
As an extra, did you just remove the .avi file? or any of the source files
at the same time?
Graham
 
Well, I tried defragging the system, but when I opened WMM and tried to encode in DV-AVI format, it still gave me the same error message.

I also only removed the DV-AVI file for sure, none of the source files were touched.

Any other suggestions that may help fix this problem? Thanks a lot.
 
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