With 33 line items in my laptop's MM6 Compatibility List, this quirk kept me
busy for hours yesterday as I tracked it down. It's now the 4th 'What Can go
Wrong' item on my website's Vista > Publish Movies page. Here's how I wrote
it.
Issue: Sometimes When I mix a Photo Story 3 wmv file in a movie project with
other clips, everything shows fine in the finished movie except the part
from the story, which is just blackness.
Resolution: This happens on my Vista Home Basic laptop when the audio of the
story is muted in the MM6 project and the New Soft Audio Encoder Filter is
listed and checked in the Tools > Options > Compatibility list. If I uncheck
the filter (or rename it - c:\Program Files\Common
Files\NewSoft\NSM2AEnc.ax) and resave the movie, the story clip shows as
usual. If I unmute the audio of the story and lower the volume to zero to
quiet it, the movie also renders fine with the filter checked.
Although I can consistenly repeat the issue, I'm guessing this is really a
symptom of a more basic problem that I don't understand. I'm glad I got this
far with it yesterday. It's another nudge for me to keep routinely working
with all line items unchecked.
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PapaJohn (MVP)