Hi there,

I am putting together a montage of pictures (over 1500) in a 1 hour
presentation to music using several transition pieces and effects of this
software. Am I exceeding the capacity of the storyboard? I am constantly
having to save this file or I am at risk of the program jamming up and I have
to forcibly shut down the application (Windows task manager) and then
restart. (This is happening several times)

Has anyone used this program for this purpose before? Our first 30 minutes
are amazing... a lot of work, though. Should I split this into 2 - 4 separate
movies and then re-manage these again using the Windows Movie Maker to bring
them together into a final product?

Any thoughts are greatly appreciated.

Tim

See the Problem Solving > Can't Save a Movie page before you get to that
point.... there isn't a length limit. At the 6 hour point you'll get a popup
message telling you that it's getting kind of long...

The limit is the complexity of your project versus your systems memory....
RAM + Virtual.
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"Tim" <Tim@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:864A1989-B6AE-4C88-A5ED-E08593141E66@microsoft.com...
> Hi there,
>
> I am putting together a montage of pictures (over 1500) in a 1 hour
> presentation to music using several transition pieces and effects of this
> software. Am I exceeding the capacity of the storyboard? I am constantly
> having to save this file or I am at risk of the program jamming up and I
> have
> to forcibly shut down the application (Windows task manager) and then
> restart. (This is happening several times)
>
> Has anyone used this program for this purpose before? Our first 30 minutes
> are amazing... a lot of work, though. Should I split this into 2 - 4
> separate
> movies and then re-manage these again using the Windows Movie Maker to
> bring
> them together into a final product?
>
> Any thoughts are greatly appreciated.
>
> Tim

I have found it is much easier to deal with if you create several shorter
clips and then re-import them back into moviemaker and piece them back
together, as your final movie.

some other tips for less problems when creating longer movies.
Try resizing all your photos (work with copies) - xp powertoy - resizer
works great.
when you import several hundred photos at 1.5 or 2mb a piece it tends to
really bog down moviemaker.
since resolution of NTSC TV is 720 x 480 your photos will be resized
when encoded anyway.

convert all music to wav format (some mp3 bitrates, and codec's give movie
maker a hard time)

create several smaller movies and the piece them together in a final movie
when possible - wait and add background music until the last step.

save, save, save. go into options and set the auto save feature to 5
minutes and then get in the habit of hitting the save icon every chance you
get.

of course - none of these are "must's" but just some tips that have helped
me save what little hair I have when creating long complex movies. -
"Tim" <Tim@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:864A1989-B6AE-4C88-A5ED-E08593141E66@microsoft.com...
| Hi there,
|
| I am putting together a montage of pictures (over 1500) in a 1 hour
| presentation to music using several transition pieces and effects of this
| software. Am I exceeding the capacity of the storyboard? I am constantly
| having to save this file or I am at risk of the program jamming up and I
have
| to forcibly shut down the application (Windows task manager) and then
| restart. (This is happening several times)
|
| Has anyone used this program for this purpose before? Our first 30 minutes
| are amazing... a lot of work, though. Should I split this into 2 - 4
separate
| movies and then re-manage these again using the Windows Movie Maker to
bring
| them together into a final product?
|
| Any thoughts are greatly appreciated.
|
| Tim

Hi Tim....you didn't mention if your end result was going to be a dvd.
However, if you are making this movie to burn to dvd, its best to make the
smaller files and import them individually into your authoring/burning
software to combine them to one movie. That way you can save all your
smaller clips in DV-AVI and not keep importing and saving, since you will
retain the resolution for sure of your originally saved clip.
But, if you are going to just show it on a computer you could bring them all
together so that they make one movie. Good luck.

"Tim" wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I am putting together a montage of pictures (over 1500) in a 1 hour
> presentation to music using several transition pieces and effects of this
> software. Am I exceeding the capacity of the storyboard? I am constantly
> having to save this file or I am at risk of the program jamming up and I have
> to forcibly shut down the application (Windows task manager) and then
> restart. (This is happening several times)
>
> Has anyone used this program for this purpose before? Our first 30 minutes
> are amazing... a lot of work, though. Should I split this into 2 - 4 separate
> movies and then re-manage these again using the Windows Movie Maker to bring
> them together into a final product?
>
> Any thoughts are greatly appreciated.
>
> Tim