windows movie maker Jill 6/23/2007 7:16:00 AM When publishing movie on movie maker either saving to pc or writing to disc the cpu usage goes from 2% up to 100% and is using a hell of a lot of memory Surely this isnt right and something is going on here that needs sorting Any advice appreciated

Re: windows movie maker Adam Albright <AA[ at ]ABC.net> 6/23/2007 1:46:11 PM On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 00:16:00 -0700, Jill <Jill[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: [Quoted Text] >When publishing movie on movie maker either saving to pc or writing to disc >the cpu usage goes from 2% up to 100% and is using a hell of a lot of memory >Surely this isnt right and something is going on here that needs sorting > >Any advice appreciated Rendering (publishing or finalizing) a movie is an intensive task and will put a load on your CPU, (can make it run hotter) ditto for spiking memory usage and having near constant hard drive activity. This is normal and will be more noticeable on less powerful systems. I wouldn't worry about it unless your system becomes very sluggish WHILE rendering. In other words you should still be able to multi-task and use your computer for other tasks at the same time without strain. This is one of those situation when the rendering application will hog as much resources as it can (to get the job done faster) but should if working correctly still give up resources to other applications.

Re: windows movie maker Jill 6/23/2007 2:39:00 PM I have AMD athlon 64 dual core processor and 1024 ram was able to do other things at same time. As this is 2nd pc in 2 months because of motherboard failure was concerned that I maybe had major problems again. I take it then than this is normal and no need for concern. "Adam Albright" wrote: [Quoted Text] > On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 00:16:00 -0700, Jill > <Jill[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > > >When publishing movie on movie maker either saving to pc or writing to disc > >the cpu usage goes from 2% up to 100% and is using a hell of a lot of memory > >Surely this isnt right and something is going on here that needs sorting > > > >Any advice appreciated > > Rendering (publishing or finalizing) a movie is an intensive task and > will put a load on your CPU, (can make it run hotter) ditto for > spiking memory usage and having near constant hard drive activity. > This is normal and will be more noticeable on less powerful systems. I > wouldn't worry about it unless your system becomes very sluggish WHILE > rendering. In other words you should still be able to multi-task and > use your computer for other tasks at the same time without strain. > > This is one of those situation when the rendering application will hog > as much resources as it can (to get the job done faster) but should if > working correctly still give up resources to other applications. > >

Re: windows movie maker Adam Albright <AA[ at ]ABC.net> 6/23/2007 3:54:03 PM On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 07:39:00 -0700, Jill <Jill[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: [Quoted Text] >I have AMD athlon 64 dual core processor and 1024 ram was able to do other >things at same time. >As this is 2nd pc in 2 months because of motherboard failure was concerned >that I maybe had major problems again. >I take it then than this is normal and no need for concern. Yep, playing certain high end games and video rendering are two of the most demanding things you can ask any computer to do, even a high end one because so many pixels are getting moved around. With video games you obviously see a lot of movement and rapid changes on your monitor. With rendering you often are changing many thousands of pixels in each frame and at 30 frames a seconds things get kind of busy meaning both a lot of disk activity and calculations within the CPU registers which is memory intensive. ;-)