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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: starbug on May 09, 2005, 03:26:47 pm

Title: Windows Movie Maker
Post by: starbug on May 09, 2005, 03:26:47 pm: I am trying to use it to create a movie but every time i try and save a movie i keep getting not enough space despite the fact the file is estimated to be 15 mb and i have 59gb free. I noticed when i have the task manager open, when movie maker is running tht the PF usage goes up from 180mb to 1.53gb!! Is there anything i can do to solve this, i have increased the virtual mem. i have 512 DDR and a 100gb hard disk. i know the program use's alot of mem and that its not the best program, but its all i got.
Title: Windows Movie Maker
Post by: Zarax on May 09, 2005, 03:37:50 pm: try www.papajohn.org you should find some solution there.
If that fails look for the microsoft windows movie maker newsgroup.
Title: Windows Movie Maker
Post by: aldo_14 on May 09, 2005, 03:55:48 pm: I've had VirtualDub (http://www.virtualdub.org/) recommended to me for this (tis free); to be honest I never found WMM to be particularly worthwhile (limited encoding options, bit hard to find out how to do certain things - i.e. no soundtrack overlaying AFAIK, apparently a fixed resolution).
Title: Windows Movie Maker
Post by: Zarax on May 09, 2005, 04:14:43 pm: Movie Maker is quite good if you learn to use it, setting up custom resolution and bitrate requires the Windows Media Profile Editor but it's not a great effort...
Remember it's something aimed at the very basic user and not to skilled or semipro ones...
Title: Windows Movie Maker
Post by: aldo_14 on May 09, 2005, 04:19:26 pm: Ah, but I am the basic user...............all I was doing was squeezing together 3-4 little avi clips at 800-ish resolution.
Title: Windows Movie Maker
Post by: Deepblue on May 09, 2005, 06:27:43 pm: 2 words:

Adobe Premiere.

:D
Title: Windows Movie Maker
Post by: Grug on May 09, 2005, 09:22:08 pm: One number:

US$699

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Title: Windows Movie Maker
Post by: Singh on May 09, 2005, 11:49:46 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Grug
One number:

US$699

=/

One word:
Spoiler:
Bittorrent
:p
Title: Windows Movie Maker
Post by: Zarax on May 10, 2005, 01:33:37 am: Quote
Originally posted by aldo_14
Ah, but I am the basic user...............all I was doing was squeezing together 3-4 little avi clips at 800-ish resolution.

Try the link i posted before...
You'll discover that with a bit of work you can obtain good results even with MM2...
Title: Windows Movie Maker
Post by: aldo_14 on May 10, 2005, 10:01:44 am: Nah, i got something better & free that encodes to a better format than WMV anyways.

I just dislike WMM from having to piece together a project with it and finding it to be pretty awful as a result.
Title: Windows Movie Maker
Post by: starbug on May 10, 2005, 12:24:12 pm: cheers guys, i was doing the same as aldo, just putting 4 avi clips together, the movie was only 1:20 long. i would prefer to get something like Abobe, i like there software, wot i used when i used to be at college, but its to expensive.