Help me with WinMovieMaker, plz.

[DoubleVee]

I recorded a lot of gameplay footage with FRAPS, whjile I was watching my game in battle recorder....

Then, I made a movie...cut some parts out, added music...title..credits..all that.

Then went to save to my computer, and it wouldn't do it...it just shows me an error message:

Either this:

ERROR: Could not allocate memory for Fraps codec.

or this:

[!] WinMovieMaker cannot save the movie to the specified location. Verify that the original source files used in your movie are still available, that the saving location is still available, and that there is enough free disk space available, and then try again.
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I tried testing, trying to save a sample movie...it worked fine...

So, I dunno what's the problem:confused: ...btw, my movie is 10min and 38sec long, and I used free version of FRAPS with 30sec videos

And I have 2.1 WinMovieMaker...2GB RAM

Please HELP!!!

[Sir. Xios]

This same thing happened to me, and i couldn't work out how to fix it. You may want to try copy sections of the movie into new projects (e.g. break it up into a few parts) then put them all back together when they are rendered. I have switched to "Premiere pro" now, so no longer have this problem.

[Jacky]

I use the unregistred version of fraps 2. But one movie of 30 seconds is like 200 MB. Maybey your out of disk space ;)

[Canuck]

Your first problem may be due to your movie being extremely huge in fraps format well over 5 gigs. I think you run into problems when trying to render anything over 2 gigs.

Your second problem sounds like you either deleted or moved the original fraps AVI.

[DoubleVee]

Your first problem may be due to your movie being extremely huge in fraps format well over 5 gigs. I think you run into problems when trying to render anything over 2 gigs.

Your second problem sounds like you either deleted or moved the original fraps AVI.

I'm not missing any files and I do have more than enough disk space, 30+GB....

but, I think you are right with fraps beinh over 5gb...cuz my thing is 10min long and each video is a little over 1/2 gb....so basicly FRAPS is G@Y :p

but, how can I fix this...I'm really mad that I will have to redo the movie, cuz it came out perfect and took me almost 2 days(my first movie)

and...when I watched the recording of fraps...in WMA they looked pretty good, not liek the original game thoiugh, quality wise.

but when I made a movie and watched it through WinMovieMaker...it all look very pixelated like crap...is that normal...and why is it like that, is WMM g@y too?!:p :laugh:

[imported_NeoRicen]

It's not Fraps' fault it's Movie Maker, you'll need to use a different Video Editing Program, the best are Sony Vegas and Adobe Premiere but they are quite expensive and I don't know of any good free ones.

[DoubleVee]

It's not Fraps' fault it's Movie Maker, you'll need to use a different Video Editing Program, the best are Sony Vegas and Adobe Premiere but they are quite expensive and I don't know of any good free ones.

*cough*limewire :D

[Colder]

what neo said.....MM has always had problems (for me anyway) rendering and saving movies that either have a lot of base infomation or are longer than 5minutes......as for as editing goes you can try premeire pro and elements for 30 days off of adobe's website. Me personally i'd start with elements because it's a hell of a lot easier to learn than pro

[DoubleVee]

I got Premier Pro from Limewire about 8 hours ago(since my last post) and I'm still learning :D

[Swanston]

Alot of the suggestions in the replys are useful, but I have a much easier, method. This happens when you have way too much uncompressed AVI movies, and compressing it all at once to a .wmv is hard for a crappy program such as WMM2. Thus in the quality selection you must pick DVI NTSC then you will get a huge movie file, import that into WMM2, then pick a smaller one, I like to pick NTSC for local playback 2.1 mbps.

[Karate hand]

I got Premier Pro from Limewire about 8 hours ago(since my last post) and I'm still learning :D


so i guess u didnt pay for it, thats not good, :evil:

[Buck4]

I had the same problem once so i put the fraps avi into virtualdub and changed them in to an inteo-video 5,10 avi when they were all ready i then used win to join them up into a divx film.

[DoubleVee]

Thanks a lot for support, guys. I appreciate that. ;)

Now, I have a new problem.

I redid the whole movie in Premier Pro...

I think I rendered it, but now the file is 2GB (lol)...I think I forgot(don't know how) to comress it...so please help...:D

I'll post a link to my first movie, when it'll be done

[Colder]

to compress, instead of just exporting to movie...export to movie encoder and pick a type *.avi, .mpg, .wma whatever then it will compress the file with that type, should make it a lot smaller.

[DoubleVee]

Yeah...it's my fault...:cry: :wall:

I forgot to click on "Settings" Tab before saving the movie...in that Settings section, it lets you choose the codec and compressor, all that

[DoubleVee]

Okay, as I said before, I'm still learning...lol

I have a new problem/question.

When I went to Export > Movie... > Settings... > General

I chose File Type - Microsoft AVI

But in Settings > Video

What compressor should I choose?

Here is the list:

1. 3ivx D4 4.5.1. Pro Video Codec
2. Cinepak Codec by Radius
3. DivX(r) 5.2.1. Codec
4. Huffyuv v2.1.1. - CCESP Patch v.0.2.5.
5. Intel Indeo Video R3.2
6. Intel Indeo Video 4.5
7. Intel IYUV codec
8. Ligos Indeo(r) XP Video 5.2
9 - 11. Microsoft MPEG 4 Video Codec (V1,V2,V3)
12. Microsoft RLE
13. Microsoft Video 1
14. Microsoft WMA 9
15. VP31 Compressor
16. VP60 Simple Profile
17. VP61 Advanced Profile
18. VP62 Heightened Sharpness Profile
19. XviD MPEG 4 Codec
20. None

Took so much time to copy all this crap :cussing: :censored:

[DoubleVee]

*bump* Come on People...Time is ticking

[Keyelite]

i use XviD MPEG 4 Codec

you really dont even need most of those, i never touched half of them anyways.. divx or xvid is the way to go for compression

Again, i chose xvid becasue you can download the codec (less than 700 kb) without any spyware or anything unlike divx, assuming someone does not have both codecs to start

[DoubleVee]

i use XviD MPEG 4 Codec

you really dont even need most of those, i never touched half of them anyways.. divx or xvid is the way to go for compression

Again, i chose xvid becasue you can download the codec (less than 700 kb) without any spyware or anything unlike divx, assuming someone does not have both codecs to start

Thanks a lot

[DoubleVee]

1. 3ivx D4 4.5.1. Pro Video Codec
3. DivX(r) 5.2.1. Codec

^^ messed up the video, so at some point it will sort of freeze and be very pixelated.

19. XviD MPEG 4 Codec.....make Adobe Premier Pro freeze....btw, I think I have 7.0(is there such a version) instead of 1.5

I'm trying to render the movie with #6

Update #6 didn't compress the video that much, it became 1GB instead of 2GB

I don't know what else to try, so I'm gonna download 1.5 from limewire

Maybe, it will work better

[Keyelite]

sent a PM

[RAF92_Warhawk]

hmm, with adobe premier pro, my video always turns out small and the sound gets all distorted.... kinda strange...

[DoubleVee]

Alot of the suggestions in the replys are useful, but I have a much easier, method. This happens when you have way too much uncompressed AVI movies, and compressing it all at once to a .wmv is hard for a crappy program such as WMM2. Thus in the quality selection you must pick DVI NTSC then you will get a huge movie file, import that into WMM2, then pick a smaller one, I like to pick NTSC for local playback 2.1 mbps.

That helped, movie is done :)

btw, funny sig

[Hayden-G]

Your second problem sounds like you either deleted or moved the original fraps AVI.

Yes, thats usually the problem.