Stupid WMM

rammfan87 · Post by **rammfan87** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 1:18 pm

I'm a newb at making music videos, I use Windows Movie Maker, which is probably my first mistake. But, when I have the clips in a timeline, I edit them how I want, but then I push "play" and each seperate "clip" I have freezes for about 1 second each time it goes to the next "clip."

So, other than using something better than Windows Movie Maker, any suggestions? Does anyone else use this program? Or are there better free programs to edit video with?

Godo · Post by **Godo** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 1:46 pm

It's just probably a bad clip, probably AVI. In Movie Maker, take the whole clip into a new project and save it into a new movie file, and the problem is solved.
But if I have misunderstood, forgive me.
In that canse, have you checked the settings of playing a project?

Rocketman · Post by **Rocketman** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 1:57 pm

Windows Movie Maker is pretty good, actually. The problem is likely your clip.

Also: Rammstein rules.

Post by **desirecampbell** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 2:00 pm

I've never had a problem with Movie Maker specifically. The only time anything went wrong was due to a codec problem.

The culprit is almost assuredly the clip itself.

rammfan87 · Post by **rammfan87** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 2:14 pm

Okay, thanks. I'll try saving the whole movie as a different format. That's probably what's wrong. I haven't always had that problem. So is it AVI that WMM has problems with?

BlueSky · Post by **Kaboom** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 5:47 pm

Oh, I had the same problems with a few old clips of mine. It's just something about the way the clip is compressed, or the settings, or whatever.

If you really wanna use the clips, what I did was put only those clips on the timeline in WMM, then saved them as completely new movie files. It saved it in a different format or whatever from the original, and they worked fine.

rammfan87 · Post by **rammfan87** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 5:59 pm

Alright. Sounds simple enough. Don't know why I didn't think of that.

Thanks!