check the Problem Solving > Crashes and Hangs page of my website... the
issues with Vista's Movie Maker are the same as or similar to those on XP..
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"Susan" <Susan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:92416D54-0D62-41CB-9246-113114FC1946@microsoft.com...
>I figured out how to add transitions in Timeline mode, and it works just
>fine
> so far. Thanks for pointing that out. I also clicked on restore defaults
> in
> Tools, Options, Compatibility. Nothing changed. Any other suggestions as
> to
> why things I do in Storyboard shut my computer down. (Your explantation
> of
> Codecs was helpful. Thanks.)
> --
> Susan
>
>
> "Adam Albright" wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 09:10:02 -0700, Susan
>> <Susan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>>
>> >Hello, I am trying to make very simple movies with Movie Maker that came
>> >with
>> >Windows Vista. I can create a movie in the time line just fine.
>> >However, if
>> >I go to Storyboard and try to add Transitions, my computer completely
>> >shuts
>> >down. I am extremely computer illeterate, and I can't get Microsoft to
>> >help
>> >without paying a bunch of money. Is there anything I can do on my own.
>> >(Please write like I am totally ignorant because I am in this area)
>> >From
>> >some of the things I have read, I am assuming it might have something to
>> >do
>> >with codecs, which I really don't know anything about. Please help!
>>
>> A CODEC is just an acronym for Coder-Decoder. In order for Media
>> Player, Movie Maker or any application to play or work on a video it
>> first must bring the file into memory then decompress it. When you
>> make a movie the opposite happens, the file gets compressed. Something
>> called bitrate determines how much the file is compressed. The higher
>> the bitrate the better the quality of the output but the file size
>> will also grow proportionally. The terms coding and decoding are
>> interchangeable with coder/decoder and compressing and decompressing
>> where you're discussing video.
>>
>> You can add transitions while in timeline mode too, just drag and drop
>> between two videos or two images.
>>
>> A LOT of people have reported Movie Maker hanging when dropping or
>> adding effects or transition. While I don't use Movie Maker, just for
>> kicks I dropped every single last transition Movie Maker has on a
>> series of photos just as an experiment and they all took with the
>> movie playing flawlessly. That suggested the problem lies with a
>> missing/damaged codec or there is something on your system that is
>> preventing Movie Maker from working correctly.
>>
>> One quick thing to try is in Movie Maker click on Tools/Options then
>> press the restore default button which should de associate any foreign
>> codecs that Movie Maker is too dumb to know what to do with that may
>> be on your system.
>>
>>