Windows Movie Maker

Scorpo · Post by **Scorpo** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 9:52 am

I'm trying to import the whole FMA collection into WMM for an AMV I'm working on. All but three episodes will go in. The three that won't all stop at 16% with 3 minutes remaining, and WMM just freezes and eventually dies. Is there anyway to fix this?

Thanks

angelx03 · Post by **angelx03** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 9:55 am

What format are the clips in?

Scorpo · Post by **Scorpo** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 9:58 am

MPEG Layer-3 @128kbps and XVID compression

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 12:26 pm

editing programs hate xvid and divx
if you have the amvapp. open up your footage in vitrualdub(/mod) and re-encode with a lossless codec such as huffyuv or lagarith.
the files will be really big, but it should/will work

if you need huffyuv &/or virtualdub
go to the following:
http://neuron2.net/www.math.berkeley.ed ... ffyuv.html (I think you need the full C++ source code)
and here
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... _id=352709

gangstaj8 · Post by **gangstaj8** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 5:18 pm

Are you importing them with the option that creates clips for you? I don't know if it will help, but you might want to try turning that option off. Also, WMM sucks at handling memory. How much RAM do you have, how is Windows handling your Virtual Memory, and is there anyway you can get around importing the entire collection at once? Just some things to consider.