Ray, if you want to simplify your life and the experience of creating your
own movies don't use Windows Movie Maker. The product is not mature enough
regardless of it's stated version 2.xx.

Help yourself, find another product to use.

Everyone is finding programming errors and doing the QA job for MS.

Bob M


"ray@buytelescopes.com" wrote:

> OK, so I see that a lot of people have had the same problems as me but
> none of the solutions have worked for me. I have scoured PJ's site and
> this NG but WMM is still crapping out on me. I had the problem of it
> crashing as soon as I start it up and I finally narrowed it down to
> renaming qedit.dll. Oddly enough, if I renamed it to qedit.dll.bad it
> still crashed, if I named it qeditbad.dll WMM would open (although I
> did receive an error message from DirectX 9 saying that changing that
> file name may make my system unstable). I also uninstalled anything
> that had anything to do with transitions that I could find but
> intervideo. I did rename the dir for intervideo and WMM would still not
> load. The only thing that would let it load was to rename qedit.dll.
>
> OK, so now WMM is loaded and it lets me capture video from my camcorder
> (44 min video) and when it comes time to import the vid into the
> working space, i get "<filename>.wmv could not be imported. Class not
> registered". WMM will not import any file into the working space.
> PLEASE HELP!
>
>

THE BEST BIT OF ADVICE I'VE SEEN!
After months of stress, fiddling, searching and questioning I've come to the
conclusion the best thing to do with home movies is put them on VCR tape and
screw trying to create dvd's. its a shame and a waste of technology but for
f***'s sake my life is more important than wasting hours and hours to create
expensive coasters. When Bill Gates gets off his rich arse and makes a prog
that doesn't freeze everytime you dare to use it then i'll happily come
back, christ i'd even buy it if it worked! until then...

Sorry to hear you're having problems. I can tell you that renaming qedit.dll
is not going to help. Even if it helps you launch MovieMaker, you won't be
able to do hardly anything as we rely on qedit.dll for a lot of core
functionality.

If MovieMaker is crashing on startup then that is generally caused by having
a lot of DirectShow filters on your system. Typically you can work around
the problem by temporarily renaming applications that have installed
DirectShow filters. It sounds like you tried renaming InterVideo, but you
may also have to rename other folders as well. You can find the list of the
DirectShow filters that you have installed on your system by running the
"dxdiag" program, clicking Save All Information. It will create a text file
with the information. If you want me to take a further look, please feel
free to email me that file directly and I'll see if I can help you out.

Regards
Dean.
Windows Movie Maker Team, Microsoft
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.

"Bob M (usa)" <BobMusa@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:44E68F87-98A8-4475-B65F-16E9EA661AEB@microsoft.com...
> Ray, if you want to simplify your life and the experience of creating your
> own movies don't use Windows Movie Maker. The product is not mature
> enough
> regardless of it's stated version 2.xx.
>
> Help yourself, find another product to use.
>
> Everyone is finding programming errors and doing the QA job for MS.
>
> Bob M
>
>
> "ray@buytelescopes.com" wrote:
>
>> OK, so I see that a lot of people have had the same problems as me but
>> none of the solutions have worked for me. I have scoured PJ's site and
>> this NG but WMM is still crapping out on me. I had the problem of it
>> crashing as soon as I start it up and I finally narrowed it down to
>> renaming qedit.dll. Oddly enough, if I renamed it to qedit.dll.bad it
>> still crashed, if I named it qeditbad.dll WMM would open (although I
>> did receive an error message from DirectX 9 saying that changing that
>> file name may make my system unstable). I also uninstalled anything
>> that had anything to do with transitions that I could find but
>> intervideo. I did rename the dir for intervideo and WMM would still not
>> load. The only thing that would let it load was to rename qedit.dll.
>>
>> OK, so now WMM is loaded and it lets me capture video from my camcorder
>> (44 min video) and when it comes time to import the vid into the
>> working space, i get "<filename>.wmv could not be imported. Class not
>> registered". WMM will not import any file into the working space.
>> PLEASE HELP!
>>
>>

I don't think blaming Bill Gates is going to help any since there are
millions of users, such as myself, who have NEVER had Movie Maker freeze up
except when it is my own fault through something I did wrong.
Whatever problem you are having is not because WMM freezes "everytime you
dare to use it" and the fact is the program DOES work. How about, just for
kicks, you tell us what's wrong and maybe it can be fixed.
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"themink" <themink@leaveitoutblueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
news:B7N3f.24351$U9.2464@fe3.news.blueyonder.co.uk ...
> THE BEST BIT OF ADVICE I'VE SEEN!
> After months of stress, fiddling, searching and questioning I've come to
> the conclusion the best thing to do with home movies is put them on VCR
> tape and screw trying to create dvd's. its a shame and a waste of
> technology but for f***'s sake my life is more important than wasting
> hours and hours to create expensive coasters. When Bill Gates gets off his
> rich arse and makes a prog that doesn't freeze everytime you dare to use
> it then i'll happily come back, christ i'd even buy it if it worked! until
> then...
>

Preempted that suggestion of changing size and saved to computer as High
Quality video....ok
sixe is 663mb with 70 Gb avail, onto Nero, load video, create chapters min
length 117 got to 57% froze.
Tried again with 180 sec sensitivity low (all this for a third of a dvd 1.49
out of 4,38 Gb!) and noted these:
CPU usage 100%
Phys mem:
total 1048096
avail 715024
sys cache 255688

Kernel Mem
total 52600
paged 43584
non paged 9052
PF usage 271 mb

Totals
handles 7160
threads 413
processes 40

Commit charge (K)
total 278584
limit 2520632
peak 440028

Froze at 36%

will do arbitary chapters next and try and proceed.
hey ho!

it's not a memory issue... you have plenty...
--
PapaJohn

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Online Newsletters: http://www.windowsmoviemakers.net/PapaJohn/Index.aspx

"themink" <themink@leaveitoutblueyonder.co.uk> wrote in message
news:BEn5f.146244$RW.1040@fe2.news.blueyonder.co.u k...
> Preempted that suggestion of changing size and saved to computer as High
> Quality video....ok
> sixe is 663mb with 70 Gb avail, onto Nero, load video, create chapters min
> length 117 got to 57% froze.
> Tried again with 180 sec sensitivity low (all this for a third of a dvd
> 1.49 out of 4,38 Gb!) and noted these:
> CPU usage 100%
> Phys mem:
> total 1048096
> avail 715024
> sys cache 255688
>
> Kernel Mem
> total 52600
> paged 43584
> non paged 9052
> PF usage 271 mb
>
> Totals
> handles 7160
> threads 413
> processes 40
>
> Commit charge (K)
> total 278584
> limit 2520632
> peak 440028
>
> Froze at 36%
>
> will do arbitary chapters next and try and proceed.
> hey ho!
>