Saving A Finished Movie

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I have a movie project with about 200 pictures and 10 music files (about
150MB total) and after about 20 mins it completes the save. However, when I
open the movie, about half way through the movie freezes on a picture but the
audio track continues to run.

Any ideas?

Also, what is the best way to save the completed movie so I can play it on a
dvd player?

thanks,
 
Scott said:
I have a movie project with about 200 pictures and 10 music files
(about 150MB total) and after about 20 mins it completes the save.
However, when I open the movie, about half way through the movie
freezes on a picture but the audio track continues to run.

Any ideas?
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First......PhotoStory 3 would be a better app
for working with still shots.

PhotoStory 3 For Windows
http://tinyurl.com/4f869

You may have some incompatibility issues
with your source files. Have a look at the
following article:

File type compatibility with Movie Maker
http://tinyurl.com/v8tee
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Also, what is the best way to save the completed movie so I can play
it on a dvd player?

thanks,
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The following links may be useful:

Turn your Movie Maker 2
video into a DVD
http://tinyurl.com/4k97d

Wojo's Web...DVD Creation
http://tinyurl.com/g64gb

Burn a Movie Maker Project to DVD
http://tinyurl.com/644me

How do I make a DVD
http://www.rehanfx.org/faq.htm

Windows Movie Maker Forums
http://www.windowsmoviemakers.net/forums/

Movie Maker 2 and DVD Burning Software
http://www.papajohn.org/MM2-DVD.html

Burning DVDs With Windows Movie Maker 2
http://tinyurl.com/jqfz

How do I save my movie as a
DV-AVI file in Movie Maker?
http://tinyurl.com/8ktlw

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John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk
 
John -

Thanks for your help. I have already completed the movie so I would hate to
have to start over with a new app. Is there a way to change the file type to
bitmap within my collections or do I need to go the source files, resave,
then replace all of my jpeg files with bitmap files? This would be tedious
since I have loaded 200 pix already.

Thanks.
 
Scott said:
John -

Thanks for your help. I have already completed the movie so I would
hate to have to start over with a new app. Is there a way to change
the file type to bitmap within my collections or do I need to go the
source files, resave, then replace all of my jpeg files with bitmap
files? This would be tedious since I have loaded 200 pix already.

Thanks.
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No, you cannot change the format of
the source files after thay have been
imported into Movie Maker. Prep
work must be done prior to importing.

And..there's no guarantee that converting
the formats of your source files is the fix.

The followng article may offer some
additional ideas:

Prepping Still Pix for Import
http://tinyurl.com/v9vo9

I would suggest trying a shorter project
with Movie Maker and also the same one
with PhotoStory 3. Personally I've learned
a lot through experimentation. You may
have better luck with .wma, .wav, .bmp...
than with .mp3 and .jpg.

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk
 
Hmmmm.... yes you can change your source files after importing and using in
projects.... what you can do differs with the source files. See my website's
Manage Your Files > Source Files page.
 
PapaJohn said:
Hmmmm.... yes you can change your source files after importing and
using in projects.... what you can do differs with the source files.
See my website's Manage Your Files > Source Files page.
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I guess anything is possible if you have the
patience and knowledge but I don't see any-
thing about converting .jpg files to .bmp files
and continuing to successfully edit and save
the project from the original .mswmm file.

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk
 
That's part of what I say with this paragraph...

"You can edit a picture that has been used as a source file. Change it's
dimension, edit it with PictureIt or Photoshop, even change the file type
(but keeping the same name and extension)."

by "change the file type" I mean if you have a picture named problem.jpg you
can change it to problem.bmp file. Movie Maker won't accept the replacement
at the start, but if you then rename problem.bmp to problem.jpg and have it
in the same folder as the original source file, than the collections and
projects that use problem.jpg will work fine with the replacement. It's a
..bmp in disquise.

I guess I need to change my wording.
 
PapaJohn said:
That's part of what I say with this paragraph...

"You can edit a picture that has been used as a source file. Change
it's dimension, edit it with PictureIt or Photoshop, even change the
file type (but keeping the same name and extension)."

by "change the file type" I mean if you have a picture named
problem.jpg you can change it to problem.bmp file. Movie Maker won't
accept the replacement at the start, but if you then rename
problem.bmp to problem.jpg and have it in the same folder as the
original source file, than the collections and projects that use
problem.jpg will work fine with the replacement. It's a .bmp in
disquise.
I guess I need to change my wording.
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Ok...now it makes sense.

Thanks.

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk
 
I recently had that and found it to be lack of RAM. Shut down as many
programs as you can that are running in the background. Eventually it worked.
My old computer wouldn't even save it, not enough RAM to support the file.
I bought a Tevion DVD Maker from Aldi that came with a Cyberlink authoring
program. I paid 40 bux is all and I can burn to DVD.
Good Luck!!
 
Break your project into a few subprojects by saving copies of your project
and deleting parts of it in the copies. Render each one to movie (ctrl-P)
and finally put them together by bringing them into a new project.
 
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