Windows movie player help

[Cream Soda]

Whenever I go to make a movie from footage I took from ffxi with Fraps, it crashes often. I usually ahve to save project every minute or 2 before it crashes or I can never get anything done. Anyone know what the problem is?


Edit: Meant to say movie maker, not player in title

[Fallso]

It's a problem with windows movie maker, I always had that problem with movie maker.

I found it helped to run the whole file through the movie maker encoder first, it doesn't like working with 3gig files lol.

[Cream Soda]

Where do I get this encoder at, and thanks

[Nynaeve]

Yeah movie maker hates large files but it also has a lot of compatibility plugins and encoders loaded by default that it doesn't always need. If I have a file that's crashing it a lot I'll go in and uncheck a bunch of them. You can find them under Tools --> Options --> Compatibility tab. The Nero ones have always been a problem for me in particular. You can also use a program like Cut Assistant to break up the movie into smaller bits that movie maker might handle better.

[Cream Soda]

Wasn't too many in compatibility for me, but I unchecked all the ones that didn't have AVI in it (so that left me with 2) and still crashed right away ; ;

[Kohan]

Are you making a movie with headers, fade-ins/outs, and other special effects, or are you just trying to re-encode it?

[Cream Soda]

I get the error just from adding the video to the trey and hitting play to see how it'd come out before I did anything to it. Last night, I was having to save project every minuet or so. It was at the point to once I had my video done, the music i placed for it was about 20 seconds over and I couldn't even click the end of the video to split the rest and delete it w/o it crashing

[Pikarya]

I've used a ton of moviemaker in the past before I could afford anything along the lines of vegas. Anyways it did crash literally every so often while editing/rendering final video.

Why? Not sure, but it is Microsoft.

[Nynaeve]

What Hiroko said. Even after I removed all extra encoders I didn't need the thing will still crash sometimes just trying to load up my current collection. But it at least made it less frequent.