Publishing issues with Windows Movie Maker

We have a Dell XPS 410 with Windows Vista that we bought less than a year
ago. We have made a 25 minute vacation video with footage from my Sony
Handycam Hard Disk Drive (DCR-SR42) and still pictures from that same
Handycam and from my digital camera that we have saved on our computer. We
added some effects nothing too major and music from our Itunes library.
After hours and hours of putting this together we cannot get it to publish!
We have made other smaller videos using similar stuff and they have published
and burned fine.

When I publish to the computer is says: Windows Movie Maker cannot publish
the movie to the specified location. Verify that the original source files
used in your movie areare still available, that the publishing location is
still available, that there is enough disk space available, and then try
again.

When I try to publish straight to a DVD it gets to about 3% or so and then a
box pops up that says there was a fatal error and it cannot continue.

We have tried to publish the movie to different places on our computer with
the same results.

Carmen wrote:
> We have a Dell XPS 410 with Windows Vista that we bought less than a
> year ago. We have made a 25 minute vacation video with footage from
> my Sony Handycam Hard Disk Drive (DCR-SR42) and still pictures from
> that same Handycam and from my digital camera that we have saved on
> our computer. We added some effects nothing too major and music from
> our Itunes library. After hours and hours of putting this together we
> cannot get it to publish! We have made other smaller videos using
> similar stuff and they have published and burned fine.
>
> When I publish to the computer is says: Windows Movie Maker cannot
> publish the movie to the specified location. Verify that the original
> source files used in your movie areare still available, that the
> publishing location is still available, that there is enough disk
> space available, and then try again.
>
> When I try to publish straight to a DVD it gets to about 3% or so and
> then a box pops up that says there was a fatal error and it cannot
> continue.
>
> We have tried to publish the movie to different places on our
> computer with the same results.
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Sounds like a system resource issue or
possibly a compatibility issue with your
source files. Maybe the following articles
will offer some ideas:

Movie Maker 2 - Problem Solving -
'Can't Save A Movie'
http://tinyurl.com/yjvztz
or
http://www.papajohn.org/MM2-Issues-CantSaveMovie.html

File type compatibility with Movie Maker
http://tinyurl.com/v8tee
or...
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/Tutor...patibility.htm

Which file type should I use in Movie Maker?
http://tinyurl.com/6n66g3
or...
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/Tutor...MovieMaker.htm

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John Inzer
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