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IT · Guest

I have a complex project for my husband 50, I put a lot of clips together
matching it with sound, frame by frame, a lot of work, saved the project -
Movie Maker does not want to open it with the message "unspecified error"
First I thought it might be memory problems. I cleaned the harddrive,
killed some big files which were in “collection” for some projects. I have
700 Mb RAM and 17 Gbt harddrive disk memory, so the memory should not be a
problem.
I tried to save just a little project, with one clip – it gives the same
error and does not open it.
By some reasons it opens all the collection, even when I don’t need it in
my new project. I suspect that it wants to find all the references, even the
old and deleted ones and does not want to work on the new project without it.
Allright, I made my N6 attempts to save at least a small part of the
project (700 Mbt) as a movie, and not only as a project. Save as a movie,
please, all the clips are in the directory in front of me, no crosses”, all
of them are playing fine – Nope, it says that can’t save as it is missing
some clips or sources are missing or modified. I did not touch the sources,
but edited a clip directly in the timeline.
By some reasons it keeps memory of my very first project, which I lost,
and so I deleted references to it. When I try to save it as a movie or when I
check new project file properties it shows the 1st project name… Does it let
me to work on the new project or I am stuck with the unfinished old one?

I check CPU usage when it is frozen - only 2-4 % in use, and the "program is
running"

I aksed papaJohn - he sent me to read his comments, thank you very much, but
I did not find the answer to my problem

I am struggling with this project (5 converted vobs to AVI) for a week, I
aready work by small pieces, but I can't open them also now, and the matter
is simple, there is something wrong in WMM - I can't afford loosing all my
work.

Over to somebody who knows...
IT

Graham Hughes · Guest

you converted the vons to avi, but what sort of avi?

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Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.co.uk
www.dvds2treasure.com
www.simplydv.com

IT · Guest

avi - compressed MPEG4 video Codec V... - can't see the whole line. I
transfer it from vob using div2avi program

I have to re-load the laptop after every step of the project, which is 5
minutes long...
I started several small pieces (4) each 4-6 minutes, in order to make the
movie of one hour - Movie Maker freezes and can't "chew" any longer
project... It seems that I have to do 10 or so of pieces, but the bigger the
collection, the more disfunctional my laptop becomes... It does not want even
to restart until I push the power button...

I keep most of the clips and wav files on the desktop and access to it
through the network - still does not help in functioning... It complaines on
insufficient resources when I import a file from a desktop to the collection,
so I should shut down the laptop and then only it let me import...

Any ideas what's next?

"Graham Hughes" wrote:

Graham Hughes · Guest

MM does not work well with this type of file, see if you can find a
converter to change it to dv-avi or wmv, then import into MM.

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Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.co.uk
www.dvds2treasure.com
www.simplydv.com

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