Strange WMM problem...

Nagurikorosu · Post by **Nagurikorosu** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 11:12 am

I have returned with a strange, uh, (for lack of a better term) "glitch" for WMM.

The glitch is whenever I try to add a video effect, MM just disappears, its not even on task manager, and there's NO error message to be seen. It just shuts off.

Has anyone ever esperienced this (no snarky remarks necessary, thanks... Your humor is already appreciated)?

Could this be due to:

Audio codec, DivX v3.x

Video codecs, 3ivX and/or DivX v3.x

Or could it be DivX Anti-Freeze?

An inquiring mind wants to know.

Thanks in advance for your help, (and also for the time before).

Radical_Yue · Post by **Radical_Yue** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 11:42 am

Never use DivX/Xvid clips in WMM.

Bring them into Virtual Dub Mod and rerender as either huffyuv or lagarith. (The file will be large, but it will maintain quality)

But then again, if you plan on rendering your overall video as WMV format, I sugest trying out the codec Intel Indeo 4.5 for substantialy smaller files.
I don't know just how they behave in WMM since I haven't tried them in it. It doesn't maintain the quality perfectly, but if you just plan on rendering the video in WMV, it doesn't really matter.

If you don't have VirtualDubMod, then download this:

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/ ... mvapp.html

8bit_samurai · Post by **8bit_samurai** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 11:42 am

I have this happened to me before frequently. I;m not entirely sure what causes it, I haven't figured it out yet. Usually for me I had multiple programs running (firefox usually wmp 11 being one of them). what worked for me (so far) is I downgraded to 10 and closed rest of the programs. Afterwards it never closed on me (yet). If that doesn't work then I'm not sure what it is

8bit_samurai · Post by **8bit_samurai** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 11:44 am

Radical_Yue wrote:Never use DivX/Xvid clips in WMM.

or it could be that. usually they're green screen and mess up alot. sorry bout that. you beat me.

Nagurikorosu · Post by **Nagurikorosu** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 11:47 am

I pretty sure my firefox isn't running or that my WMP is above 9. I can't take away my DivX codecs, or the movie won't play for WMP. But I never tried playing it on Realplayer...

I'll guess I have to see this VDM of which Radical_Yue speaks. Thanks for the help. *crosses fingers*

Nagurikorosu · Post by **Nagurikorosu** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 12:24 pm

Radical_Yue, thanks so much! Your first suggestion worked like a charm, and getting rid of the DivX codecs, like 8bit supported, and downloading the codec. Finally.

Now if WMM will save, just like it did before, I can die a happy woman.

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 1:28 pm

sounds like your WMM has progressed to stage 4 deterioration(sp)
this is like a slippery slope, it's hard to get better again (in other words...WMM just plain sucks)
you may have to export small segments of your project and re-combine them later (using VirtualDub(/Mod) or avisynth)

SweetNymph · Post by **SweetNymph** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 3:26 pm

Radical_Yue wrote:Never use DivX/Xvid clips in WMM.

Why not? They work for me. In fact, I'm opening them in WMM and saving as a movie file so I can use them in Vegas.

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 3:45 pm

http://www.amvwiki.org/index.php/DivX_Editing
that's why

8bit_samurai · Post by **8bit_samurai** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 9:23 pm

If nothing else, it really screws up the picture quality. I learned that the hard way. I compared my recent AMV that has FFVII footage that was (and still is) in DivX format that I used to edit with with another AMV that just has FFVII. My footage really sucked compared to that one. Here's a small segment from one (and only) opinion on that AMV

General seciton in opinion wrote:...Capture Quality-My only complaint was the FF7 clips, sometimes they would look good and other times they would look horrible...