How do you divide long videos on WindowsMovieMaker and render it in order so the sound doesn't get messed up?

Question

During long videos made on Windows Movie Maker, the sound tends to have a popping sound and interferes with the enjoyment of the visual. I have an 11 min. vid that does this. I've heard there was a way to divide and render videos so this doesn't happen but the one place I found online where I can get this info-- well, the guy wants money to teach you. I really can't afford what he's charging so I thought I'd try to get the answer here. Thanks!

Answer 1

Sometimes the popping is from hardware. Try freeing up space on your hard drive and do a defrag before you render the movie. You might also try to note where the popping is and try to render the movie to that point if you can, and then render a second clip after that one, and then merge the two together.

Dividing it at that point depends on how you did the movie. If you can control where all the clips are, then just put all the ones before the popping sound together and render, and then repeat for the next segment. If it's already put together and the sound is already in there, you probably can't fix that.

Is there a chance you can redo the audio, and then render the movie with no sound and then put in the audio later? I know you said it's an 11 minute video, so maybe that's not an option, but in case you have, say, a slideshow with a musical background, you can try to render just the slideshow, and then render it again with the music in place.

I've had the same problems before when rendering a 1 hour wedding video using Video Studio, and I usually had to break it up into 10 minute clips, and then piece them together. Right at 10 minutes, I put in a transition to a picture or a black screen, so that when I put my next clip in, I would start it with that same image so that it looked seamless. But after I upgraded my hard drive and had a lot of free space to work with, the popping went away. It would sometimes come back, but I would just defrag and it wouldn't be an issue anymore.

Sorry this is rambling, but hopefully it gives you some ideas as to where to start. Hopefully it's as easy as a defrag or freeing up space on your hard drive, but if you have to render parts over, maybe this gives you an idea as to where to start.