Friday, August 17, 2012

~Creative Confines~ 

Well, it's not confines on my creativity as it is confines on my ability to share a particular work from it. Allow me to explain. The video I have been working on, which I desired to be the first ever of mine uploaded on this blog, currently seems to be oo involved to be saved properly using Windows Movie Maker. I have enough space on my harddrive, but I believe there is too much memory being used during the actual saving process, or some, similar technical issue, and I'm quite sure it's due to all the scenes I loaded into it. I have been able to save another large movie file ~which was to be the second I desired to upload here~ so, yes, I'm pretty positive it's the amount of scenes I have in my "masterpiece" that is preventing it from being saved.

Now, when I say 'saved', I mean as an uploadable file. Anyone who uses WMM knows what I'm talking about. It is saved currently as a file I can open up in WMM to tweak and such and watch on there, but it's not the type that can be saved onto a site, to my knowledge. I need to save it as a movie file, and that's where the issue is occurring. Basically it informs me that I do not have the space, when I have acres of it (31GB free, and the largest this video could be is *maybe* an estimated 60MB, or there about). So, I've tried a few different things -attempting to save it in different/smaller formats, clearing out even more space on my harddrive, attempting to save it first thing before I have other things running- all in vein. I have some more ideas to try out, but right now that video's progress from this point on appears to be on hold.

Disappointing....I hope I can share it with you all, soon!!

[ and for those with the suggestion in mind that perhaps I should try and trim it down, scene-wise, *sigh* "the producer's plight"! I'll look into that, as well. But I doubt it would feel at all right if I omitted things...So, short of gutting my trusted laptop to expand it's memory, my video will either be less-than-desired or less-than-shared. I choose to work towards a fourth choice! : ) ]