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lavagolem123
02-14-2006, 10:07 PM
Alright, to start off, I am making a combo video and I'm running into some strange problems when I try to save my movie. Whenever I save, it is stuck at the "Saving Your Movie" screen. After about 15-20 minutes, I see the estimation time appear. It doesn't stay at low numbers as usual...It rises over an over instead of decreasing. The number starts at like 1000 minutes, no lie. I even waited until it hit over 5000 minutes remaining. And yet, it still doesn't save. I tried re-making the movie and still, I run into the same problem. I try lowering the bit rate and still, I run into the same problem. I have over 40 GB of space on the computer and still, I run into the same problem. The save destination exists and still, I run into the same problem. There were a couple of instances in which the movie DID save BUT when I played it, most of the video clips did not show at all while some appeared and played as normal with the musci in the background. There was an alert about low memory, or not enough RAM the first time I tried saving, so I'm not sure if that's the problem. The drive I'm saving it on is the "C" drive(it's the one with over 40 GB of space). Does anybody know how to fix this? Does anybody know how to increase RAM and your virtual memory? Thanks for your help, I appreciate it!

masterwumpus
02-16-2006, 01:34 AM
How big is the movie you are saving? My only thought would be to change the size of the finished movie to something smaller. And make sure it is saving in the correct format, probably wmv or mpeg or avi or something similar.

Good luck.

ender
02-16-2006, 02:34 AM
yeah as long as its under 10 minutes it should never do that unless you are saving it at like, lossless quality.

after you go to save my movie it asks you to name the movie and where to save the file to. after that, it shows the screen of how big you want the movie to be, on the second list, you can see exactly what quality it will save as.

hope this helped