Movie Maker

Movie Maker does not start on test system here. It provides a message about
video card requirements being insufficient. However same system used in XP
has no trouble with video card for video editing software (from multiple
vendors).

Tried simple test. This is a dual boot system with XP Pro installed on C
drive. Movie Maker from XP is there. Moved to that directory and started
that version (XP Movie Maker running on Vista). It starts up just fine and
all video editing functions are working.

Ed

I've got a WinSAT rating of 4, and it says my card is incompatible. Ppppft!

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"Ed Dixon" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Movie Maker does not start on test system here. It provides a message
> about video card requirements being insufficient. However same system
> used in XP has no trouble with video card for video editing software (from
> multiple vendors).
>
> Tried simple test. This is a dual boot system with XP Pro installed on C
> drive. Movie Maker from XP is there. Moved to that directory and started
> that version (XP Movie Maker running on Vista). It starts up just fine
> and all video editing functions are working.
>
> Ed
>

It's amazing to me what a huge impact your video card has in Vista. I knew
you needed certain things for the Aero Glass. But apparently there's much
more to it than that.



For what it's worth, Movie Maker works fine in 5308 for me. The only real
difference I noticed is that when you import from a video camera it opens a
separate little import app (the same one that opens when you choose File >
Import from Camera or Scanner in Photo Gallery). On the Publish side it has
the option to write to DVD and uses DVDMaker for the job. The format options
are much different in both directions. Other than that I don't recall any
major changes.



PapaJohn mentioned being able to import directly from a VOB on DVD, but I
haven't tried that yet.





"Ed Dixon" <> wrote in message
news:...

> Movie Maker does not start on test system here. It provides a message
> about video card requirements being insufficient. However same system
> used in XP has no trouble with video card for video editing software (from
> multiple vendors).
>
> Tried simple test. This is a dual boot system with XP Pro installed on C
> drive. Movie Maker from XP is there. Moved to that directory and started
> that version (XP Movie Maker running on Vista). It starts up just fine
> and all video editing functions are working.
>
> Ed
>

Same DOA status for build 5384.

Ed

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Thanks... Ed Dixon
"Ed Dixon" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Movie Maker does not start on test system here. It provides a message
> about video card requirements being insufficient. However same system
> used in XP has no trouble with video card for video editing software (from
> multiple vendors).
>
> Tried simple test. This is a dual boot system with XP Pro installed on C
> drive. Movie Maker from XP is there. Moved to that directory and started
> that version (XP Movie Maker running on Vista). It starts up just fine
> and all video editing functions are working.
>
> Ed
>

I tried the same thing and also found the the XP version of Movie Maker works
fine in XP, in fact even faster and better than in XP, and this is without
actually installing it, just clicking on its exe file on my XP drive. I
wonder how different the new version is from the XP version? Can anyone
comment? What makes the Vista version need so much more power? Or is it
just a way to make hardware companies happy by requiring new systems, video
hardware, etc.


"Ed Dixon" wrote:

> Movie Maker does not start on test system here. It provides a message about
> video card requirements being insufficient. However same system used in XP
> has no trouble with video card for video editing software (from multiple
> vendors).
>
> Tried simple test. This is a dual boot system with XP Pro installed on C
> drive. Movie Maker from XP is there. Moved to that directory and started
> that version (XP Movie Maker running on Vista). It starts up just fine and
> all video editing functions are working.
>
> Ed
>
>
>