I seem to have run into a quirky problem. I have about a 6 minute project that I want to get into wmv format so I can put up in the gallery for some friends to see. I usually turn to Windows Movie Maker to do this with an avi file exported from PE4. Windows MM gives the ability to make it as close to the cap (50MB) for uploading to the gallery. So I bring my avi file into MM and it says that 71MB is what it should take. I lower it to 52MB and export it - it comes out to 48MB. It looks fantastic... except about 45 seconds from the end I have one still image that should last on the screen for about 3 seconds. When playing this back that image turns out to be a blip and then it is gone. I review the avi file and it looks fine.
So one may say to just export it from PE4. Yes I did that and the 3 second clip shows up file. The only issue is that the file is 22MB and obviously the quality is not as good.
So now to my question... are there any other good alternatives to Windows MM? I tried Nero 7, but it doesn't export to WMV.
Bob D