Vague infroduction, fairly hefty problem.
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vidding_livejournal_ark2Hi. I've been vidding as a hobby since May, using WMM of all things. I've tried Ulead (nice, but won't organize imported clips in any way, shape or form - is this because it was a trial version?) and Vegas (more complicated than the actual Video/Radio program I went to college for a while back) but despite its huge, insane bugs, when it works WMM is still the program I understand and can utilize the best.
That is, until it started refusing to save my project. Not as a movie file, but just as the project itself, claiming there wasn't enough memory to complete the operation. As with most claims WMM makes when it farts, this is bull. I have two hard drives with pleeeeeenty of space left on each. WMM won't even save a completely clear "project" with no music, no footage. Not one bit. PapaJohn's site, as usual, is offering jack squat in the way of assistance and I've sorted through the archives here, but no luck. Has anyone else heard of this? How can I get it to behave, please?
That is, until it started refusing to save my project. Not as a movie file, but just as the project itself, claiming there wasn't enough memory to complete the operation. As with most claims WMM makes when it farts, this is bull. I have two hard drives with pleeeeeenty of space left on each. WMM won't even save a completely clear "project" with no music, no footage. Not one bit. PapaJohn's site, as usual, is offering jack squat in the way of assistance and I've sorted through the archives here, but no luck. Has anyone else heard of this? How can I get it to behave, please?
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Date: 2006-09-12 02:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-12 03:19 pm (UTC)I also use WMM and have learned how to amp it up a little depending on how much juice your starting with of course. In order to up your virtual memory so that WMM will stop complaining take the following steps... Working with XP, so this may be different on different OS's...Go into the start menu, click open the control panel, click open System, In System Properties click Advanced, Look at Performance, this should be first choice (Visual effect, processor schedualing, memory usage, and vitual memory) click on settings, Should be in Performance Options now, click on advanced, and at the bottom see the virtual memory block, click the change button, Now you should be in virtual memory and you want to click the custom size... My initial size is set to 1000Mb and my Maximum size is set to 1500Mb, to change yours just backspace the number and add a new number. My space available is 57,332 Mb... so gage from how much space you have available to how much you want to allot to Virtual Memory. Now hit ok, ok, ok to all open windows and restart your comp. This setting has stopped all of my vitual memory issues with WMM, but it sure has not stopped the other million and 1 problems that I have with it, but it is such a challenge that I could not imagine using another vid maker... Hope that helps :)
Thank you very much for the advice...
Date: 2006-09-13 03:03 am (UTC)Re: Thank you very much for the advice...
Date: 2006-09-13 03:22 am (UTC)Re: Thank you very much for the advice...
Date: 2006-09-14 01:39 am (UTC)Re: Thank you very much for the advice...
Date: 2006-09-14 01:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-12 03:47 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-13 02:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-14 01:59 pm (UTC)-You go to Library Manager, create one or more "Custom Folders" by hitting New, then name them.
-You can switch between the default folder ("Video") and the Custom Folders by using the pulldown menu (down-arrow) next to the word Video in Storyboard mode.
-You can then add external clips by hitting the folder-button, or internal clips by dragging them up from the timeline. I don't think you can move them directly from one folder to another, but you can approximate this by dragging them down to the timeline, switching folders, then dragging them back up.
Hope this helps!
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Date: 2006-09-12 03:58 pm (UTC)Depending on how complex and how long you have worked on this vid, if WMM does the same thing, you can have a ton of HD space taken up by these files. And depending on how much space you have allocated to 'caching', then this might be a part of the problem.
Good Luck!
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Date: 2006-09-13 02:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-09-13 03:57 am (UTC)I occasionally delete all those files even in the middle of vid as sometimes the files just takes up too much HD space. I haven't had any problems doing this.
I don't know how WMM would react, but I would rec that you try this process at the end of a vid after you've generated your final file. Then go back and play with your project file and see how your vid reacts.
Better safe than sorry.
:)
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Date: 2006-09-13 05:41 am (UTC)no subject
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