Windows Movie Maker

by **Jaise** » April 6th, 2005, 6:42 am

heeeey all,

A question thats been buggin me for a while....

I used to make like mini movies with a webcam (it was quite poor really) in Windows Movie Maker. Everything would go well, i would edit it, put music in, voice over etc, but the thing i found was that after a while (at a certain point of the making), Windows Movie Maker would always freeze :S. I mean ALWAYS freeze, it was really annoying because it meant you could only use it for about 5 mins before it froze each time! Anyways, im just wondering why really, my laptop is a recent make with 40GB, 512 ram etc.

Any ideas?

by **Robert Paulson** » April 6th, 2005, 3:53 pm

I found this program to be really buggy. It needs a huge hunk of ram ( I was using 640meg in 2002 and that still didn't help) as it will use all resources of your PC. Its just a bad program all the way around but I havent used it in years.

by **Rigby** » April 6th, 2005, 4:17 pm

key word here

windows

by **Jaise** » April 6th, 2005, 4:56 pm

lol, fair do's guys. Thank you both,

Do you have any suggestions for good movie making programs?

by **Robert Paulson** » April 6th, 2005, 7:10 pm

ULead may be what your looking for.

by **Jaise** » April 7th, 2005, 1:25 am

Ah cool, thanks buddy.

by **Robert Paulson** » April 7th, 2005, 3:37 am

You can try it for free http://www.download.com/Ulead-VideoStud ... 34257.html

I got a copy free with my DVD burner, so its actually cheaper to by a DVD burner than the program by itself. That doesn't make much sense. Its a nice tool for general video editing.

by **Jaise** » April 7th, 2005, 6:28 am

aaah cheers man, you're one in a million! Any idea on how much it is?

by **Robert Paulson** » April 7th, 2005, 6:56 pm

The Ulead site says it $99. I bought a lite on DVD burner a about 8 months ago for $75 and got the program for free. Go figure

by **Barista** » April 7th, 2005, 7:07 pm

If you have a Macintosh, then get iMovie. Actually if you have OSX on your mac, it will already come with. It is a very easy to use movie editing program.

by **Hat** » April 7th, 2005, 7:47 pm

Speaking of RAM i just upgraded a day ago to 1.5 GB!!!! Congratulations to me. It chopped my rendering times in half, which is very pleasing.

by **xbay** » April 7th, 2005, 8:46 pm

Are you on a Mac or PC? I've got 512 MB in my PC. It isn't too bad for what I do, which is mostly After Effects.

by **Robert Paulson** » April 7th, 2005, 11:26 pm

He's using Windows Movie Maker so its a safe bet its a PC. ;)

by **Jaise** » April 8th, 2005, 1:41 am

lol! i've got 40GB on mine, i heard aparently Adobe was good. I think (when i get camcorder) i'll try both Adobe and ULead and see how it goes.

Thanks a lot for the help everyone!

by **Robert Paulson** » April 8th, 2005, 3:06 am

Jaise, check your PM's and hit me back.

by **Outbound** » April 8th, 2005, 4:08 am

Jaise wrote:lol! i've got 40GB on mine, i heard aparently Adobe was good. I think (when i get camcorder) i'll try both Adobe and ULead and see how it goes.

Thanks a lot for the help everyone!

You got 40 GB of RAM?!

That must be some PC...

by **Robert Paulson** » April 8th, 2005, 7:14 am

Yah, he got a little mixed up with what people were saying I think.

laptop is a recent make with 40GB, 512 ram etc.

Thats from the first post. Generally Laptops are not ideal for editing video

by **Jaise** » April 8th, 2005, 8:37 am

ooooooooooow poop, and yeah sorry i meant 512 my bad! lol

by **xbay** » April 8th, 2005, 9:51 am

Robert Paulson wrote:He's using Windows Movie Maker so its a safe bet its a PC. ;)

lol. That question was directed at MagicHat.

by **Rigby** » April 8th, 2005, 3:03 pm

yeah, windows movie maker is ok, provided it runs stable, if it doesnt you might want to go for something bigger. if you're looking into buying something, id personaly go with Adobe Premiere Elements ($99) its like the regular premiere, only stripped down. if it runs as stable as the full version does then its worth it, i tried ulead and it was very just slow and clunky.

by **Jaise** » April 8th, 2005, 5:59 pm

hmmmmmmmmmm......*thinks hard* what to try...

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