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Windows Movie Maker unable to save Movie

Discussion in 'Windows XP' started by tgp1994, 2007/05/28.

  1. 2007/05/28
    tgp1994

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    I just made an 8 minute movie. When I try to save the .wmv file to my computer, it always says that something is missing and it cannot continue.

    Replys are greatly appreciated!
     
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    tgp1994 - Welcome to the Board :)

    Can you be more specific? .....
    Give us a clue here :)
     
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    tgp1994

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    Oh, sorry :)
    It gives me a farily long warning message, but to sum it up, it says:
    Windows Movie Maker cannot save the movie to the specified location...verify that the original source files are in your movie...saving location is still available, etc.
     
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    Yup. I checked and there are no Xs. And I am using 2.1.
    Also, I'm not using Vista.

    There may be something though...

    I am using some music files in my video that are mp3. They just happened to work becuse I changed the extension. However, whenever I try to open those music files with Windows Media Player, it always acts like it doesn't know the extension. Could there be a connection in here somewhere?
     
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    You really can't do that and expect the file to open - the file format remains that of the original extension.
    Absolutely :)

    Dump the audio and see if the movie will save - I suspect you have found the cause of your problem.
     
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    Darn, it still doesn't work. I even formally converted the maybe corrupted MP3 music into a wave file, but that doesn't even work.

    If it will help, all the clips in my movie (about 50, around there) are all in .AVI format. Other than that, I can't really figure out why it's suddenly not working. I did recently upgrade my memory, but I don't think that should effect anything.
     
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    Start from the beginning - it may be longwinded, but may tie down the culprit.

    Take a couple of the clips and see if the movie saves. If it does repeat with a sound track added. If those two exercises work OK the problem lies in one of the subsequent files - video or audio.
     
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    That's just odd. It will save my original movie (with now cutting out) under DV-AVI (NTSC). The file's gigantic, and I'm trying to get it under 20 mb. Does this tell you anything?
     
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    Well, it still doesn't work if I try to use any save compression. Also, I did a clean boot, yet it still doesn't work.
     
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