WMM Rendering Troubleshoot

From Sims99Wiki

If you are rendering a movie with Windows Movie Maker (WMM) and get this error:

Windows Movie Maker cannot save the movie to the specified location. Verify that the original source files used in your movie are still availabe, that the saving location is still available, and that there is enough free disk space available, and then try again

Do not be alarmed. It is a common problem with WMM. It usually happened when you have a lot of clips and used a lot of effects/transition. First, make sure you double check that you have all the original clips and enough disk space. If they’re all in check, it means your movie is too “heavy” for WMM to render. The solution is to split up the movie into two parts.

Below are the steps in splitting your movie:

1. Render (save movie file) the first half of your movie and (for the purpose of this tutorial) name it Movie 1. Do this by deleting the second half of the movie. For example, if your movie is 4 minutes long, you only need the clips from 0’0”-2’00”. Delete the rest (2'01" - 4'00") of the video and render the remaining clips.

(NOTE: If you’re doing a music video, make sure you delete the whole song. If you’re using a voice over, you can render it together for the first half, but you need to delete or rearrange it for the second half)

2. Reopen the project file without saving it. Do the same thing as step 1, but this time you want the second half of the movie so you need to delete the clips from 0’0””-2’00”. Save if as Movie 2.

3. Open a new project. Import Movie 1 and Movie 2

4. Drag them into the timeline respectively

5. Add the music/dialogue

6. Render it as one movie.

If splitting it into two parts still doesn’t work, try three and so on.