Topic: Creating a DVD - Azzy i am stuck again..................................

[Annette]

Hi Azzy - it feels like if all else fails hit the forum.
I am able to drag video clips onto Windows Movie maker and play them all individually as well as all together but i am unable to save and view again. My PC keeps freezing  and when i boot back up everything i have saved is gone ..................what am i doing wrong the deadline is looming (30th Nov).

Is there anyone able to help?

[Emma]

Hi Azzy - it feels like if all else fails hit the forum.
I am able to drag video clips onto Windows Movie maker and play them all individually as well as all together but i am unable to save and view again. My PC keeps freezing  and when i boot back up everything i have saved is gone ..................what am i doing wrong the deadline is looming (30th Nov).

Is there anyone able to help?

Hi Annette
Can you click on 'File' and then 'Save project'?Or does your computer freeze as you do that?

[JimmyTheHoover]

Annette - have you plenty of free disk space on the drive you're saving to ?

Jim

[Annette]

I can click and save file, even name it but when i come to open it again it just wont and keeps freezing.

[Annette]

Annette - have you plenty of free disk space on the drive you're saving to ?

Jim

I have tried three different laptops Jimmy and i am having problems with all of them .....

[JimmyTheHoover]

So can you import a "third party" vid clip (not one of your own) and simply save that or is it just with "your" clips ?

What format are your clips ?

What version of Movie maker ?

Jim

[Annette]

So can you import a "third party" vid clip (not one of your own) and simply save that or is it just with "your" clips ?

What format are your clips ?

What version of Movie maker ?

Jim

Don't make the questions too technical Jimmy or i wont be able to answer you.
I have the clips i want on CD, i have imported them to my video and put them where i want them, then when i open it up again they are not there. My computer freezes so i close down and start again and its not there or if it is there it will not open as all my clips have red crosses on them. Does that answer your question Jimmy?

[JimmyTheHoover]

Not really 

Have you tried by copying the clips first from the CD to the hard disk on the PC and then importing into Moviemaker ?

Jim

[Annette]

Not really 

Have you tried by copying the clips first from the CD to the hard disk on the PC and then importing into Moviemaker ?

Jim

Yes i have tried all sorts of methods these last few weeks but no real success. When i first saved clips they were mpg, they then converted to vpj's which no-one could access. Azzy converted them to........ (i have forgotten sorry) so that they would be compatable with other projects at work and i am still no further forward. Is there any mileage in buying a package that will be better/easier than what i am using. I have downloaded some which don't work and then un-installed them again.

[JimmyTheHoover]

Worth rying this free basic package first VIDEOPAD ?

http://www.tucows.com/preview/604873

Jim

[Annette]

Worth rying this free basic package first VIDEOPAD ?

http://www.tucows.com/preview/604873

Jim

Just clicked on it and it's done an error scan identifying 676 errors what does this mean?

[JimmyTheHoover]

Click the download button - NOT the "spyware scan" one ?

Jim

[Annette]

Click the download button - NOT the "spyware scan" one ?

Jim

ok

[JimmyTheHoover]

Annette - theres a much newer vesion available if you use "help update" when you've installed the download.... upgrades from V1 to V2.1...

Jim

[Annette]

Annette - theres a much newer vesion available if you use "help update" when you've installed the download.... upgrades from V1 to V2.1...

Jim

I have downloaded and started to create dvd by importing some clips. I have saved and named it but again when i open it i have nothing there. Instead of the red crossed last time i now have black squares. What i am doing wrong ? or is it my PC?