Windows Movie Maker freezing? Alternatives?

[wundahoss]

Hi,

Used WMM before & remember it froze frequently or crashed, but trying to organise home vids now & it's doing it all the time! Doesn't seem to matter whether I'm starting a new project, opening an existing short or long one, adding one or many clips, but it keeps freezing(not responding) & I end up having to control+alt+delete out.

I have WinXP & 512mb RAM. I have the vid files on an external hard drive.

[Baldrick]

You could try windows live movie maker, http://explore.live.com/windows-live-essentials-beta

Or else would I try Magix movie edit pro, Vegas movie studio, Videostudio X3 or Premiere Elements . $50-$100.

[Bjs]

And this happens with those files on the external drive or system drive as well.

You may try Videospin

[neomaine]

Hi,

Used WMM before & remember it froze frequently or crashed, but trying to organise home vids now & it's doing it all the time! Doesn't seem to matter whether I'm starting a new project, opening an existing short or long one, adding one or many clips, but it keeps freezing(not responding) & I end up having to control+alt+delete out.

I have WinXP & 512mb RAM. I have the vid files on an external hard drive.

Wundahoss,

More than likely you're feeding WMM a codec that it can't handle. Look carefully at the help and see what is accepted.

[wundahoss]

Hi,

Thanks for suggestions. After writing this request, I then googled 'WMM freezing' & came up with a WMM forum & link to http://www.papajohn.org/ which, under troubleshooting>crashes & hangs had a list of codecs & other fixes. All apparently good now, touch wood!