Problem Making Movie With WMM

[DoNKeY]

Ok guys, so I'm working on my first film, and have it already to go.  I have all the music and clips on the story board worked out, and when I play it in WMM and it plays on the little screen, its perfect and everything.  So I go to the last step in the left hand column, and select save movie to computer.  It asks me for the name, and then the quality or whatever.  First time i did the recommended one.  When it finished and I played it, it was pretty bad picture quality, and it was jumpy and froze/stuttered.  Then I went back and did it again, this time choosing a different option for quality.  Ended up saving it as like 60MB instead of the original 30MB.  This jumped up the bit rate, which I assumed to be good haha.  Same end product.  It looks so good in the actual windows movie maker thing, how do I make it look the same as that, and other movies I have seen, when its the end product, and opened in Windows Media Player?????

Thanks,
donkey

[Kermit de frog]

How long is the film?

For quality, choose "other settings"
Then try Video for local playback (2.1Mbps NTSC)

[rogerdee]

why you are rendering the film dont do anything esle on the computer just let it run its course.doing anything else on the computer will afftect the movie maker.

[DoNKeY]

Originally posted by rogerdee
why you are rendering the film dont do anything esle on the computer just let it run its course.doing anything else on the computer will afftect the movie maker.

Sorry but I don't know what you're saying.  

Oh, and its 4 minutes and 55 seconds.

[rogerdee]

when you render the video dont have anything else running on your pc,not I E explorer music or anything.just have he moie maker running anything else will take away resorces from the movie program.

[Kermit de frog]

Originally posted by Kermit de frog
How long is the film?

For quality, choose "other settings"
Then try Video for local playback (2.1Mbps NTSC)

Did this help you Donkey?

[DoNKeY]

Originally posted by Kermit de frog
Did this help you Donkey?

Let me go to the other computer and try that.

[DoNKeY]

Tried it, but still the same freezes in the video playback, with lots of freezes/shudders whenever the view changes from inside the cockpit, but its not limited to that.  Music plays good tho.

[BMathis]

If your using fraps, it's not unusual to have shudders, and freezes. Try and retake the shots you need for the film again, and see if that helps. Not sure if that's the issue for sure though. Good luck

[Kermit de frog]

Are these freezes and stutters showing up during playback in WMM?  Please check it again.

Also, post it on utube, at least part of it, so we can see what you are seeing.

[DoNKeY]

Alright will post on youtube when I get a chance.  And no, it works perfectly when I run it in WMM.

donkey

[Kermit de frog]

Make sure fraps and your AHFilm Viewer are not open while you are rendering your film with WMM.

[Fulmar]

Originally posted by bnasty
If your using fraps, it's not unusual to have shudders, and freezes. Try and retake the shots you need for the film again, and see if that helps. Not sure if that's the issue for sure though. Good luck

If you have freezes and shudders with the captured video used from fraps, its either because your settings are too high that your comptuer can't keep up or you have another program open that is eating up CPU and memory when your trying to capture film.  If the latter is not true, lower the capture quality to half-size.

[DoNKeY]

I already did lower it to half.  When I capture it, and either play that 30 second frap clip in like real player, it plays fine.  When I string all the clips together with music and play it in WMM, its fine.  But when I click "save movie to computer, name it, pick the place to save it, and then wait the five minutes for it to make it or whatever, and then open in to play in Media player, its all shuddery etc.

[Kermit de frog]

Originally posted by Kermit de frog
...Also, post it on utube, at least part of it, so we can see what you are seeing.