saving my movie to my computer in order to burn it to a dvd

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it seems like i have been working on this movie for forever now. i have
looked through this site for help and it seems i have tried everything. i
finished my movie which is about 12 minutes long and everytime i try to save
it to my computer and to an DV-AVI file it goes to 21% and then stops and
that warning sign comes up saying theres not enough free disk space or the
source files are missing and what not. well i have tried splitting my movie
up into different sections to make it smaller and that doesnt work. i have 2
different types of video files in my movie, some are .wma and some are .mpg.
i tried making a new movie w/ just .wma files and that works so is there
anyway to convert my .mpg files to .wma without have to start my movie over
again?
 
The MPG files are almost certainly the problem, convert it to AVI.
To convert from MGP I use AVS Converter
www.avsmedia.com
also you can check out this site for information and software for converting
virtually anything:
http://www.videohelp.com/convert
As far as starting your movie over all you really need to do is import your
newly converted AVI file and replace the MPG with the AVI.
 
Thanks for your reaction but I have found that my original film before import
in WMM is an AVI-file so I don't have to convert I think. So I have a
AVI-file, I will edit the film wiht WMM and than I want to export the 'new'
movie as a AVI-file because I think that is the best sort of file I can use
to burn later a VCD/SVCD/DVD from the edited movie.

J.P. Barnhoorn
 
Oké, clear, but the problem is still that I cannot export the movie as a
AVI-file. So I am still looking for the solution for that problem!

JP Barnhoorn
 
Ok there are still a few possible other reasons that it isn't working.
The files aren't MPG like you first suspected so that isn't the issue.
You tried splitting the project and that didn't work so complexity probably
isn't the issue.
That leaves two other typical possibilities.

1) Is your hard drive formatted NTFS or FAT32?
To find out right click the harddrive from "My Computer" and select
properties.
Under the [General] tab you will see (File System: {either NTFS or FAT32}
If it is FAT32 then that is almost certainly where your problem is since
DV-AVI files are very large uncompressed video files and the FAT32 file
system only allows a maximum file size of 4GB.
For info on converting to NTFS see this website:
http://www.aumha.org/win5/a/ntfscvt.htm

2) A codec problem.
To fix a codec problem there are various steps to take.
Check out my website "Movie Maker -> [Trouble Shooting] Codec Problems"
 
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