It could just be a Movie Maker glitch. That happened to me once (back when I was making one of the two vids I've ever done); every time I went to add an effect or transition, MM would crash., and I would swear at it like a drunken sailor. That could be the problem here - it's a hardware acceleration thing, not a vid file screw-up.
Here's how you fix it (if you're using XP): Right-click on your desktop, and select Properties. When the 'Display Properties' window comes up, go to the Settings tab. Hit the little Advanced button, where another little screen will pop up; click on the Troubleshoot tab. You should see a slider bar, with 7 notches, going from None to Full. Move the slider to the third from the left; the little blurb underneath should read something like 'Diable all DirectDraw and Direct3D' blah, blah.
Apply those settings and restart your computer, and you should be shiny.
(Of course, if it *does* turn out to be a file mess-up, I've got all the eps-and the BDM-in pretty .avi file, which I'd be more than happy to upload for you.)
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sforzinda
Don't download the season over again just yet...
Date: 2006-09-12 08:59 pm (UTC)Here's how you fix it (if you're using XP): Right-click on your desktop, and select Properties. When the 'Display Properties' window comes up, go to the Settings tab. Hit the little Advanced button, where another little screen will pop up; click on the Troubleshoot tab. You should see a slider bar, with 7 notches, going from None to Full. Move the slider to the third from the left; the little blurb underneath should read something like 'Diable all DirectDraw and Direct3D' blah, blah.
Apply those settings and restart your computer, and you should be shiny.
(Of course, if it *does* turn out to be a file mess-up, I've got all the eps-and the BDM-in pretty .avi file, which I'd be more than happy to upload for you.)