Having Trouble Making Movie?

This section discusses the problems you may face when making a movie.

Movie synchronization problems:

The video and audio in the created movie may go out-of-sync due to the following reasons.

• A significantly large difference between the video frame rate of the output movie and the original movie may cause the video and audio streams of the created movie to go out of synchronization. If there are multiple video clips added to the timeline then the ôAuto Selectö feature selects the highest frame rate to preserve the video smoothness. Try keeping the frame rate as close to the original video clip as possible.
• The audio compressor MPEG Layer-3, in rare cases, causes the video and audio streams of the created movie to go out of synchronization. The audio or video may finish first. However, MPEG Layer-3 is a very good compressor and usually provides higher compression compared to other compressors. If you face this problem then select another audio compressor. Almost all Microsoft compressors are safe to use.
• Synchronization problems may even come up if the start time of both video and audio clips is different. Please ensure that the start time of both the streams is the same. To know the start time select the clip and view its start time in the status bar.

Video created is much shorter:

The created movie may be of a much shorter length than what you might have edited in the timeline. This may happen due to the following reasons

• If the selection sliders are visible when you select Make Movie then Video Edit Magic makes a movie of only that portion of the timeline. Please ensure that the selection sliders are not visible when you select Make Movie.
• When making movie after selecting Microsoft ADPCM as the audio compressor, the make movie process may not render the entire movie. Generally, the make movie process completes normally up to 50% and then jumps to 100% complete. This means that you will have only a part of the movie saved. If you face this problem then select another audio compressor.
• If the original file is a WMV file and converting this file completes midway then ensure that this WMV is seekable. Open the original WMV file in Windows Media Player and see if you are able to seek to any random position. If not, then the WMV file is not indexed and hence cannot be edited. To fix this problem, we have to make the file seekable. You can add the WMV file to the timeline and without editing it further make a movie to a temporary AVI file. Use this AVI file for all further editing.

Saving AVI files with odd dimensions:

When saving to AVI format you might get this message "The selected video and/or audio compressor cannot be used. Please select another compressor and try again." Then here are a few points that might help.

• Many of the compressors do not support odd dimensions, by default the selected dimension is automatically converted to multiple of 4 and it is strictly recommended so that compressor failure may not be their while making movie. To specify automatic conversion of the selected dimension to the multiple of 4 a checkbox is provided. Please ensure that this option is checked.
• Some video and audio compressors may also be incompatible. From the Audio Compressor box, select Uncompressed and try making the movie. If you are able to make the movie then the problem is with the selected audio compressor.