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[metal_head_3767]

Thats rather large.  Are you using Video for broadband 512 kbps?

[fgow55]

Yes again it is a three hour 10 minute movie

[metal_head_3767]

Oh that sounds about right. 

Try closing everything except windows movie maker so nothing is using the file and saving it on your desktop.

[fgow55]

Nope

I am going to try and trim the moving into two section and see if that works

[fgow55]

Damn that didn't even work.  This is very odd.....

[metal_head_3767]

Yea it is.  Do you have service pack 2?  There was an update to windows movie maker with it.

This must suck.  You went though all those steps and on the last button you need to press you get an error. : P

[fgow55]

I will try a different movie and see if I get the same results

[fgow55]

It must be that particular movie because I just tweeked my audio and video for Superman returns, it is encoding as I type.  Hrmmm

Oh well I guess My Black Box dosn't need The Green Mile on it.

[BigB]

I am getting the same error as fgow55

“Window Movie Maker cannot save the move to the specified location. Verify that the original source files used in the move are still available that the save location is still available and that there is enough free space available and try again.”

I have plenty of space and tried rebooting just opening Movie maker. I have SP2 so back to the drawing bored. I was tryig to encode Lord of the Rings Return of the king.

[BigB]

I just found this

http://www.papajohn.org/MM2-Issues-CantSaveMovie.html

I guess this is a common problem. It has some ideas to what to do to fix it. The first ones i am going to try is

"If your wmm2filt.dll isn't 'registered', the error message will pop up quickly when you start the rendering process... for either a WMV or DV-AVI type. This happens with MM2.1; I haven't tested it with MM2.0 (let me know if you check it). The Setup > MM2.1 page has more info about this and other issues you'll have if one or more of the DLLs are not registered.


When an external USB2 Drive is set to 'Optimize for quick removal' and you can't save a movie as a DV-AVI.


When I put an internal Western Digital disc drive into an external enclosure and connect it by USB2, one of the drive's properties (Start > right click My Computer > select the external drive > right click and go to its Properties > Hardware tab > select the external drive > Properties > Policies) is set to 'Optimize for quick removal' so I don't have to use the Safe Removal utility in XP before disconnecting it. The other option is 'Optimize for performance'... which enables write caching in Windows... and I need to use the Safe Removal utility.
Optimizing for quick removal lets me render movies as WMV files, and small (30 second) ones as DV-AVI, but I have to switch to 'Optimize for performance' to render a 5 minute movie to a DV-AVI file on the external drive.

When QDV.DLL isn't registered - a key file needed to save a movie as a DV-AVI type.


For some reason the codec needed to save a DV-AVI file isn't registered. Try registering it manually per this post:
11/26/04 ...try this magic line on your Start -> Run dialog: regsvr32 %windir%\system32\qdv.dll when you press OK it should result in a message: "DllRegisterSever succeeded in qdv.dll". Afterwards restart WMM and try saving the file as DV AVI again.

When the version of QASF.DLL isn't up-to-date - it's a key file needed to save a movie as a WMV type.


12/16/03... I then went hunting for QASF.DLL. I suggest if you're getting a SA MOVIE (error) you visit this link as your first port of call.. and download the file relevant to your OS. I can happily report my MM2 is working like a treat again. "

[Wakebrd21]

The problem I am having is when it says to go to file and click save AVI. It doesn't say that on mine. It only gives me the option to save BMP. Please help. I am stuck on this part I guess. And also where do you pull up the  compression part to pick the microsoft mpeg 4 file?

[metal_head_3767]

metal_head_3767, did you try taking your ripped dvd and sticking it into encode360 instead of movie maker? I just feel like it interacts with media encoder better and may give more stable results.

My settings are in my sig.. they seem to work well for me.

Edit: I just noticed you'd need to mux the video and audio first, simple enough with vdub?

Thats just one more step.  I read that the maker of encode 360 is planning on adding vob support.  When he does I will take out the movie maker part and use encode 360.

[EyeBaller]

Thats just one more step.  I read that the maker of encode 360 is planning on adding vob support.  When he does I will take out the movie maker part and use encode 360.

It's not really an extra step if you're using Gordion Knot anyway, from what I remember of Gordion Knot (used it a lot a couple of years back..) it can mux the audio for you, leaving you with an .avi you can plug into Encode360. The nice thing with Encode360 is that it's automated too.. set a folder for monitoring, save the rips from Gordion Knot into that folder and Encode360 will start encoding straight away with your settings and spit out the .wmv.

I agree though, if .vob support is added to encode360 it's gonna be a killer app!

[mechanicalglove]

I'm having trouble on deciding what file to open.

[madlib]

would you also please add how to add subtitles? thanks

[metal_head_3767]

@ mechanicalglove
In that dvd every scene might be a different file.  Open up all of them a see what you get.

@ madlib

I tried looking for a way to add subtitles but I don't think it is possible with DVD2AVI

[mechanicalglove]

When I was previewing it on my computer(checking to see what was part of the actual movie), it was in Japanese. Now, I'm not done with converting it into .avi but I'm kinda worried that it'll be in japanese. Will it be in japanese when I put it on my Zune or not?

[metal_head_3767]

Under audio there is an option to select the audio track.