WMM Woes T.T

jhning · Post by **jhning** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 9:53 am

I'm getting a little irritated with using this programme now already. I think WMM is getting a little cranky when i split the video in to many m any tiny clips to have the Flash effect. I'm using the song Pompeii (so u know the timing is kinda, very fast). It took me very long to complete the first 50 secs of the song. Anyway, Can someone help to alleviate my problems?

1.) I'm ok with is when it freezes when i click play, coz i always save the movie file to check the synching. BUt it kinda irritated me when i haven even started editing for a few minutes, a window saying that WMM has encounted some problems, so i gotta end the programme now. I didn't even have time to edit my video, and i'm forced to end this programme. is there anything i can do to solve this?

2.) It freezes when i save my file too. I saw this on the other thread, so i guess i'll try the solutions accordingly.

3.) When i cut the clip in WMM, the subtitle part i cut away. But when i save it, i can see it!! Previouly when i saved under the "Best quality for playback", i don't see any subtitle. When i tried saving in NTSC format, it came out!!

I didn't open any othe programmes and its crashing like hell already. Does the amount of space in my hard drive matters? I have 8% free space in the E drive i'm using, which is 18.66 GB.

I guess i can try to solve qn 2 and 3 (i think i use virtual dub to cover the subs). Please help me solve qn 1, because i can't work on my amv if i keep getting interupted. Thank you

mangamannumber1 · Post by **mangamannumber1** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 12:07 pm

what i have found works best for flashes in wmm is if you:

1. Do all of you sycing and timing with normal sized clips

2. Put a fade in and out from white or black on clips i want to flash, then split in into many clips, the fade efect should stay when you split them.

sorry if it's no help

CrackTheSky · Post by **CrackTheSky** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 2:46 pm

How are the files encoded?

jhning · Post by **jhning** » Sat Dec 16, 2006 11:53 pm

To mangamannumber1:

1.What do you mean by "normal sized clips "?
2. For the Flash effect, i do it a little different from you. I cut my clips into many tiny pieces, then i add the "Fade in/out from white/black". I believe splitting into too many tiny parts (as small as 8 clips per sec), is causing me the problem of saving and editing.

To CrackTheSky:
Er sorry, how do i check that?

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 12:18 am

pinch hitting for CrackTheSky: Kariudo...
the easiest way is probably to get Gspot

if your clips are big...really big (like entire episodes) WMM may have a hard time keeping up.

having many flashes or other effects/transitions can also overload WMM.

there are a few other threads aorund that deal with WMM and its troubles with saving. The most common solution is to break your movie up into parts and export them seperately...then re-combine then in another program (I think people use virtualdubmod)

jhning · Post by **jhning** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 1:08 am

Oh.. i see. hmm.. i tried saving in "DV-AVI (NTSC)" mode then i import it into virtual dub to remove the subs plus adding the stream, but (maybe because of the frequent fade out/in) I see thin black lines across the screem when it fades in/out. How do i resolve this?

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Sun Dec 17, 2006 1:28 am

your footage is deinterlaced right?
could you post a screenshot?

(I'm thinking its either color banding or interlacing)