My ? is this. I am trying to save a music video to my computer...it goes up
to 99% then it stops and freezes up. Am i doing something wrong?

"coder1024" wrote:

> fyi, I was able to resolve the below issue by combining multiple shorter
> clips into single clips (i.e., create a new project, drop in the clips of
> interest, save as a movie, then replace the clips in the original project
> with the combined clip). I did this in several places and then re-tried
> creating the movie and it worked fine.
>
> Looks as though there's some limit wrt the # of items in your movie and you
> get into trouble if you exceed that.
>
>
> "coder1024" wrote:
>
> > I've created a movie with about 75 video clips (all with sound), some still
> > images, 10 mp3 clips for music, and various title overlays.
> >
> > Anyway, as I was creating the movie, I would periodically test the save
> > operation to create the movie so I could watch it and see how it played.
> > This worked fine.
> >
> > I finally added the last section of clips to the movie and I can no longer
> > save it successfully. One of the following things happens:
> >
> > - it hangs for awhile, then gives me an error saying it can't continue due
> > to memory or disk space issues
> > - i get a whole slew of codec memory allocation error dialog boxes
> > - WMM itself crashes
> > - it'll have a really high estimate which eventually drops down, it runs for
> > awhile and I get a blank movie or a small movie file (3MB)
> >
> > Note that I'm selecting "Other settings: High quality video (large)". Its
> > as though I've exceeded some limit or something. I tried making a copy of
> > the project file and deleting a number of items. This seemed to fix it, but
> > I don't want to cut out content.
> >
> > My system specs are below. Any ideas?
> >
> > Pentium D 2.8GHz
> > 2GB RAM
> > 120GB free HD space
> > approx. 20GB of source material used to create the movie
> > final movie when creation was successfull was up to about 80MB
> > target movie running time approx 11 mins
> >
> >