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My windows movie maker keeps not responding Help!?!?!?

Question One :OK I am try to make a movie and my windows movie maker keeps not responding So it makes it impossible to make a movie so is there anything that i can get that is easy to work with like movie maker.Like downloading something from download.com or can i get my movie maker to stop help please!

Answer 1:
Did you mean it is not responding then it freezes or shuts down? If you are using a large number of contents or items for your movie, the software can shut down as well.

Sometimes the software will shut down automatically without giving you time to save your project. Go to Options under Tools. Click on the General Tab. See the three checkboxes and the second one said, “Save Autorecover info every ___ minutes”? This will help automatically save your work every any given number of minutes so you do not lose so much work you already done. I recommend saving it automatically very often because you never know. A power failure will happen, the computer suddenly crashes or the software just shuts down. I would automatically save 2 minutes.

You can go to www.papajohn.org and see the left pane. There, you will find a folder, “Problem solving… xp.” Click the plus sign by that to expand the tree and find the document about hangs and crashes. There’s lots of information about the issue.

Do you really need this many contents for your movie? Sometimes you need to remove items unless you really really need them. Welcome to the world of editing!! I hope you are using windows movie maker 2.1 and not 2.0. You will need service pack 2 for 2.1. The fact that you need to restart your system tells me that it is possible that you have too many programs running at once in the background when using windows when using the software. Close out any programs you do not feel you need. You can hold down alt+del+ctrl buttons to get to your task manager. Review any programs you have running. If any of them look strange or should not be running just hit “end task.” Do the same but go to the processes tab and see if any look strange or should not be running and hit “end processes.” If you don’t know what any of those or abbreviations mean, just do a google on them before ending them. You do not want to end processes that can affect your operating system if you do not know what you are doing!! Uninstall any programs you do not need.

Also, sometimes other filters can interfere with windows movie maker. Go to Options then Tools again and go to the compatibility tab. Uncheck any filters that may be causing a problem.

Answer 2: Yes there is a way to get some effects/transitions that windows movie maker do not have. Here is a sample how this is done. However, different effects/transtions have different names and codes. Instructions may vary, too. You can go to the forum for windows movie maker users to find codes for different effects and transitions by going to www.windowsmoviemakers.net then click on “forums” located on top right side of page. Once you know what effect/transtions you want, just follow the instructions. Let’s use the “rain effect” as an example.
1. Go to your C drive.
2. Go to Program Files
3. Locate the movie maker or windows movie maker folder.
4. Locate the “shared” folder.
5. Create a new folder by right clicking in the shared folder. Name it “AddOnTFX.”
6. Now you have a new folder you will need. Now copy this code:

7. Open Notepad by going to Start>All Programs>Accessories and find Notepad if you aren’t sure how to find it.
8. Paste the code on Notepad.
9. Go to “Save As” under “File” in the Notepad.
10. In the “Save As” dialog box, find the “AddOnTFX” folder in the “Shared” folder in your movie maker or windows movie maker folder that is located in Program Files.
11. In the “Save As Type” field in the Save As dialog window, use the drop down arrow and select “All Files.”
12. Now name your file “Comp A add B.xml.” Must be spelled exactly the same way and must be a capital C for Comp. Must also add the xml extension. We want it to be a xml file. If you do not add the xml extension, it will be a txt file.
13. Leave the Encoding field alone as it is.
14. Now click “Save” and close up Notepad.
15. Open up windows movie maker and go to the transitons pane . (Must be closed down first then restarted.)
16. Look for the transitions, “Comp A add B” and “Comp B and A.” If it not there, make sure you did follow the above instructions as exactly stated. If still a problem, email me.
17. Now download the rain effect from herehttp://download.yousendit.com/DBA6C87169E4CB98. Save it wherever you want to save it on your computer where you can find it. Email me if you need me to upload it to another uploading site and let me know what uploading site usually works for you.
18. Get your video clip you want to put the effect on and the video of the rain effect you just downloaded and saved and put them in your timeline
19. Now drag the Comp A add B or Comp B add A (either one will work) and put it between the clips.
20. Drag the transition to the left over the first clip but do not drag it over too far or the transition will disappear. While the rain effect video doesn’t last long, you can copy the rain effect video and paste it after the original rain effect video and keep going til you feel the effect lasts long enough. Combine the rain effect videos by highlighting the clips. Then hold down ctrl and select “Combine” under “Clip” in windows movie maker. Now your rain effect video is longer in length! You can now just drag the Comp A add B or Comp B add A to the left over the first clip as long as you want and you got a rain effect for your video clip! Oh yeah, if you do not see the Comp A add B or Comp B and A, be sure to close down windows movie maker and restart before finding it again.
To find more effects and transitions, you can go visit this thread for Windows XP: http://www.windowsmoviemakers.net/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=74030 on the Windows Movie Maker forum. Visit this thread for Windows Vista: http://www.windowsmoviemakers.net/Forums/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=33

Email me at bigboy105us@yahoo.com if you have any questions, problems or need help.