some movie maker test results

Some test info...
- on the front end, partial success with the CaptureWizard.exe importing video clips from my mini-DV camcorder (firewire connection)... of the 3 options for format, the Windows Media Video and the Video Device Format (AVI) work fine.... the Windows Media Video File Collection process for a whole tape stalled the first time after about 35 minutes, and 45 minutes the second time. I've filed a report on it, and have 2 great residual test sets of temporary files created and not cleaned up as they would have been if the process finished successfully.
- in the middle... Movie Maker rendering a movie project.... fantastic!!!! I tried a package that a customer couldn't render a few weeks ago, and I couldn't render on my laptop with 2 GB of RAM without dividing the 25 minute project into 4 minute segments and building it back up. Vista rendered it complete and my test system has only 512 MB of RAM.... Vista uses more than that to just wake up, before opening Movie Maker..... the rendering used one of the CPUs at 100% and the other at 50%, leaving room to do other stuff smoothly as it went.
- on the back end, making a DVD..... success after a few failures which occurred during rendering of the MPEG-2 files.... the failures happened before the actual burn started, so it was the first blank disc that ended up coming out OK.... no coasters.
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Some test info...
- on the front end, partial success with the CaptureWizard.exe importing video clips from my mini-DV camcorder (firewire connection)... of the 3 options for format, the Windows Media Video and the Video Device Format (AVI) work fine.... the Windows Media Video File Collection process for a whole tape stalled the first time after about 35 minutes, and 45 minutes the second time. I've filed a report on it, and have 2 great residual test sets of temporary files created and not cleaned up as they would have been if the process finished successfully.
- in the middle... Movie Maker rendering a movie project.... fantastic!!!! I tried a package that a customer couldn't render a few weeks ago, and I couldn't render on my laptop with 2 GB of RAM without dividing the 25 minute project into 4 minute segments and building it back up. Vista rendered it complete and my test system has only 512 MB of RAM.... Vista uses more than that to just wake up, before opening Movie Maker..... the rendering used one of the CPUs at 100% and the other at 50%, leaving room to do other stuff smoothly as it went.
- on the back end, making a DVD..... success after a few failures which occurred during rendering of the MPEG-2 files.... the failures happened before the actual burn started, so it was the first blank disc that ended up coming out OK.... no coasters.
-- PapaJohn
Movie Maker 2 and Photo Story 3 website - http://www.papajohn.org MM2 Tips and Tricks: http://www.simplydv.co.uk/simplyBB/viewtopic.php?t=4693 Online Newsletters: http://www.windowsmoviemakers.net/PapaJohn/Index.aspx