Vista Movie Maker Crashes Rendering (EVERYTIME) HELP

Okay, I'm ready to toss this program even though I love using it. I can make
the nicest videos in a the shortest amount of time with Windows Movie Maker.
It's all I ever really needed. Now I've been trying to use the Vista Version
on my full Home Premium version on a computer wtih 2gb of RAM a GeForce 6800
video card and a 3.2 Athlon 64 rig. I can edit the video (WMV's) without any
problems as it's stable as rock, but as soon as I go to render it, the video
which is only 3 and half minutes, it crashes within seconds. I've heard that
Nero is a fault, I've unistalled that, I've disabled the capatibility codecs
in the program to no avail. The weird thing is when I just drop my clips in
there without any transition or music or cutting all together it will render
it. But if I drag and drop clips have fades and music, it chokes.

What can I do? I've tried removing the music and leaving everything
else...didn't work, I tried removing all transitions, it didn't work. Is
there a solution or something else to try? PLEASE!

Can you pleae post your Vista questions in the Vista newsgroup,
windows.vista.music_pictures_video

--

Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.com


"Chad Coleman" <cecolema@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:82525062-6CF1-4D1C-8393-007797842DB3@microsoft.com...

> Okay, I'm ready to toss this program even though I love using it. I can
> make the nicest videos in a the shortest amount of time with Windows Movie
> Maker. It's all I ever really needed. Now I've been trying to use the
> Vista Version on my full Home Premium version on a computer wtih 2gb of
> RAM a GeForce 6800 video card and a 3.2 Athlon 64 rig. I can edit the
> video (WMV's) without any problems as it's stable as rock, but as soon as
> I go to render it, the video which is only 3 and half minutes, it crashes
> within seconds. I've heard that Nero is a fault, I've unistalled that,
> I've disabled the capatibility codecs in the program to no avail. The
> weird thing is when I just drop my clips in there without any transition
> or music or cutting all together it will render it. But if I drag and drop
> clips have fades and music, it chokes.
>
> What can I do? I've tried removing the music and leaving everything
> else...didn't work, I tried removing all transitions, it didn't work. Is
> there a solution or something else to try? PLEASE!

Curiosity question...this is a MovieMaker newsgroup, why send him to another
one? Aren't the MovieMaker guys taking questions on Vista's MM? Seems like
the newsgroup you referred him to supports a lot of stuff, with MM being
only a small part of that, and its easy for the MM questions to get lost in
the process...

Chad - one thing to consider is that nVidia's Vista drivers aren't quite
finished. You might want to visit their web site (weekly?) and get the
newest drivers...

Dana Cline - MCE MVP

"Graham Hughes" <graham.hughes@dvds2treasure.co.uk> wrote in message
news:e6OQzuXYHHA.4692@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...

> Can you pleae post your Vista questions in the Vista newsgroup,
> windows.vista.music_pictures_video
>
> --
>
> Graham Hughes
> MVP Digital Media
> www.myvideoproblems.com
>
>
> "Chad Coleman" <cecolema@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:82525062-6CF1-4D1C-8393-007797842DB3@microsoft.com...

>
>

Dana Cline - MVP wrote:

> Curiosity question...this is a MovieMaker newsgroup, why send him to
> another one? Aren't the MovieMaker guys taking questions on Vista's
> MM? Seems like the newsgroup you referred him to supports a lot of
> stuff, with MM being only a small part of that, and its easy for the
> MM questions to get lost in the process...

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windowsxp.moviemaker to be exact
and that's why the redirection to:
windows.vista.music_pictures_video

--
John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

Yeah, I've already asked my lead who set up the groups and why they didn't
duplicate the "windowsxp" groups for Vista. I don't expect an answer, but
I'll certainly be asking again when I'm out there next week...

Dana Cline - MCE MVP

"John Inzer" <oobie@doobie.xyz> wrote in message
news:ePDX9cZYHHA.588@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...

> Dana Cline - MVP wrote:

> ==============================
> windowsxp.moviemaker to be exact
> and that's why the redirection to:
> windows.vista.music_pictures_video
>
> --
> John Inzer
> MS Picture It! -
> Digital Image MVP
>
> Digital Image
> Highlights and FAQs
> http://tinyurl.com/aczzp
>
> Notice
> This is not tech support
> I am a volunteer
>
> Solutions that work for
> me may not work for you
>
> Proceed at your own risk
>

I actually found the answer to the problem. Apparently there is a nasty bug
with the program when you mute your video clips individually. I muted them
as I wanted one clip to have sound. When I unmuted them, and then used the
master slider of the sounds coming from only the music the video rendered
flawlessly. I hope they fix this bug soon....


"Chad Coleman" <cecolema@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:82525062-6CF1-4D1C-8393-007797842DB3@microsoft.com...

> Okay, I'm ready to toss this program even though I love using it. I can
> make the nicest videos in a the shortest amount of time with Windows Movie
> Maker. It's all I ever really needed. Now I've been trying to use the
> Vista Version on my full Home Premium version on a computer wtih 2gb of
> RAM a GeForce 6800 video card and a 3.2 Athlon 64 rig. I can edit the
> video (WMV's) without any problems as it's stable as rock, but as soon as
> I go to render it, the video which is only 3 and half minutes, it crashes
> within seconds. I've heard that Nero is a fault, I've unistalled that,
> I've disabled the capatibility codecs in the program to no avail. The
> weird thing is when I just drop my clips in there without any transition
> or music or cutting all together it will render it. But if I drag and drop
> clips have fades and music, it chokes.
>
> What can I do? I've tried removing the music and leaving everything
> else...didn't work, I tried removing all transitions, it didn't work. Is
> there a solution or something else to try? PLEASE!