Normally I don't use my blog as a therapeutic way to vent my anger, but it's either that or break the monitor....so I'm trying to restrain myself. The situation is this, I have a year old tower with Vista Ultimate on it. I also own a windows xp laptop, and am borrowing a mac desktop currently. You might have a urge to say, "nate, do you really need that many computers"... Well... fight it..because how many computers I have is not the focus of this article. With the windows xp I'm satisfied, with the Mac (tiger) I'm quite ecstatic, and with the Vista...lets just say I would pay more for poop in a box. But I digress... the real beef I have is with movie maker. The first issue I have is that it comes up with hundreds of error message all the time, then shuts down and I loose my work. Second, I can only have music or a narrative, not both. Three, it only lets me have one line of video... Four, it's cumbersome. Five, it claims to work with a wide variety of video. Yet, try to export your video and it will come up with the bogus error message "File will not save, error: not enough space, project files may be missing, or drive may be unavailable". "Oh, really?...that specific, huh?" I mean, come on, that's like three separate problems there. Anyway, it turns out that there are a number of files that often cause problems. they are are; (Video) Mpeg, MOV, Mjpeg and divx-avi (Music/Audio) MP3 (Stills/Pictures) Jpeg. This makes me laugh...these are main types of formats, some even consider them industry standards. How could Movie Maker not notify the user of this when it lets you edit these files? How come Microsoft didn't patch this up? So, I spend 5 hours of work, only to deal with two more hours of hassle. Basically, in the end I got it to work for 5 minutes, enough to produce a very small video. Your welcome to see it (I will post it in this blog)...unfortunately it's about the best I can do. I guess the moral of the day is don't expect to eat lobster when you starting with S***,
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