dv.avi = 13gb per hour.
1 hour 40 mins = 22gb

As you only have 31gb free there is no room for the tempoaray files required
to build your movie.

I suspect freeing up at least another 30gb will mean that the dv.avi will
then save.

WMV being much more compressed will fit on such free space as you have.

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Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.com


"Mark" <m.doherty@snet.net> wrote in message
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>I have a finished movie project which I want to save to my computer. I
>need to save as DV-AVI(NTSC) format as I plan to burn to a DVD. It starts
>up fine enough but when it gets to around 31% it starts to hang. I
>attempted it several times. Same result. I had no problem saving to my hard
>drive using a .WMV, or high quality NTSC format.
>
> My project is saved on a 250GB external hard drive with a USB connection.
> I have 2GB of RAM, 31GB of free pc disk space, and run XP Pro.
>
> Any suggestions to make this work? My movie run time is about 1 hour and
> 40 minutes.
>
> Thanks
>