Strange you said the AVI file was shorter. My last experience about that was
that, for a 1 hour long project, the movie saved as DV-AVI was about 3
seconds LONGER than saved as WMV (and than whats indicated on the timeline).



"mtb" <mtb@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have a movie edited with about 50 clips. There is also a music track.
>For
> some transitions, the music clips or distorts.
>
> I've run into this before with titles and transitions, so the previous
> solution was to save without music, creating one continuous avi file, then
> create a 2nd project with this one avi file and add the music in.
>
> when I try this solution for my current project, the avi with no sound
> ends
> up 2 seconds shorter than it should be (3:55 instead of 3:57). Since the
> video was synched to the audio, I need it to be the same length. Or I
> need
> to be able to speed up the music by this same 2 seconds.
>
> Or, if someone has a solution as to why the music distorts at the
> transition
> points, that would solve my issue as well. My pc is p4 2G with 512M ram,
> but
> I've tried on another machine with better specs and get the same results.
> it
> seems as if movie maker just cannot process too many things at once.
>
> Thanks in Advance to whoever can help.
>
>
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