Problems with Windows Movie Maker

Toxie_punk · Post by **Toxie_punk** » Sun Jan 05, 2003 2:05 pm

Ok technically speaking I'm not a total newb, I've had WMM for about a year now and I've completed two videos. But recently its just becoming rediculous. Every time I tell it to perform and action it takes forever, whenever I try doing anything else on my computer when wmm is running it seems to slow the whole computer down, and I keep getting a pop up that says my virtual memory is too low. Is anyone else using this program experiencing the same difficulties? Any advice?

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Sun Jan 05, 2003 2:07 pm

WMM is crappy, but what is your source footage?
How much ram do you have?
What are your virtual memory settings?

Actually you're not suppose to be able to do anything else while you render your video. It should pretty much swallow all your CPU power while rendering.

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~klinky

Toxie_punk · Post by **Toxie_punk** » Sun Jan 05, 2003 4:23 pm

My source footage is a video capture from the Gundam movie Chars Counterattack, I have 128MB of Ram, and my virtual memory, which I did reset, is Initial 192 and Max 500. I'm not doing anything while rendering it's just when the basic program is running it seems to slow everything else down

Synthangel · Post by **Synthangel** » Sun Jan 05, 2003 5:51 pm

Ouch. 192-500 virtual memory? I dunno how much memory captures need to edit and stuff, but I'm using my DVD source files, and my computer with 512 DDR RAM lags even with my virtual memory set to 4 gigs.

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Sun Jan 05, 2003 6:36 pm

Actually what codec are you capturing to?

Also if it's telling you that it's running out of virtual memory then it probably is.

I would just use the option to let windows handle it, or set it obscenely high.

~klinky

RadicalEd0 · Post by **RadicalEd0** » Sun Jan 05, 2003 6:46 pm

I have a problem with WMM..
its made by microsoft

KSweeley · Post by **KSweeley** » Sun Jan 05, 2003 9:44 pm

There's a newer version of Windows Movie Maker that's available for download from Microsoft's website. Try downloading that new version and see if that corrects the problems.

Org Profile · Post by **VicBond007** » Sun Jan 05, 2003 11:19 pm

Couple of potential answers...

Whenever we get a user that is experiencing slow system performance, we always run ad-aware on it first. You see, pretty much anything that you download for "free" from the internet (most filesharing apps) come with little applications that monitor what you do, and/or turn your CPU's idle cycles for their own advertising benefits. Ad-aware will remove said components (run in safe mode!) and is freely available from www.lavasoftusa.com

Your HD might also be starting to fill up. For optimal HD performance, you need at least 10% free on every partition. This includes virtual memory/swap space. So do a little math and see what you've got free. It might be time to back some stuff up to CDR.

Generic windows crapout. I'm guessing you're running a win9x build (98/ME). When was your last reinstall? You may want to consider reinstalling windows. I know, it's a lot of work to set everything back up again (sh*t, I do it every 2 months) but sometimes it's really worth it.

Virus scanners. Realtime virus scanners kill performance because they check files as their created. With video editing, that's like, ALWAYS because it has to build temporary files to play to the screen. If you recently installed a virus scanner, disable it. This was my problem a while ago and I was tearing my hair out trying to find out what it was.