[danielbier8]

I use Windows Movie Maker all the time. Yes, it's often slow, and it crashes sometimes, but it's the best I got. I made a 6-7 minute long movie, with various movie clips, transitions, titles, effects, etc. I've done this many times before with no unusual problems. Everything on the timeline functions, and the preview plays perfectly. But whenever I go to save Save Movie File, it will go through naming the new movie file, the save location, the size and type of file to save it as, but whenever it gets to actually creating the movie it crashes. It queues up the status bar, it starts at zero percent, the computer is humming away. Then I get this error message:


Application Error - moviemk.exe

The exception unknown software exception (0xc00000fd) occurred in the application at location 0x7c90e8e8).


After that, it closes. Any ideas?
(I have WMM version 2.1.4026.0 for Windows XP)

[midders]

I think you're reaching the limits of the software; visit the tools section at Videohelp (link in sig) and try another editor.

[danielbier8]

I figured out the problem. An .avi file I had downloaded and converted had become corrupted. Without affecting playback or the preview, the corruption stalled and crashed WMM when it tried to crunch the video clip while saving the movie. It was rather time consuming- I had to break up the sections of the WMM project and try to save each as a separate movie until I narrowed it down and found which movie segment was corrupted- it all worked out. Thank you for your help.