The project being too big doesn't usually make WMM crash but to make sure
try just dragging one of the AVI clips to the timeline and save that using
the same quality settings.
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-Wojo
MVP - Windows Digital Media
www.wojos-web.co.nr
"RedHeadPeter" <RedHeadPeter@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> New to movie maker. Had some old 8mm cine digitised - came as MPEG2 so
> had
> to go through process of converting to .avi files.
> Assembled project - quite big, 80 minutes long with audio sound track,
> captions and transitions.
> When I try to Save to my computer either in best format for computer
> playback or to High Quality video (PAL) it starts but within seconds tells
> me
> Movie Maker has encountered an error and must close.
> Is my project just too big? or what?