Windows Movie Maker and YouTube

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http://live.pirillo.com/ – Wow. Pixie and Wicket sure were tiny the day we brought them home. Watching them in Windows Movie Maker reminds me of a question from a chatter recently. He wants to know how to convert a .WMM file into an .AVI file for use on YouTube.

The .wmm file format in Windows Movie Maker is not actually the movie file. That format is for your working project. It includes everything you’ve added or will add. If you actually want to publish the file to a movie format, there are a few steps to take:

Click the “Publish movie button”
Push it to your computer
Name the file
Choose the quality setting that is good for playback on your computer. That should be the default setting
Save / publish the movie. This automatically puts it into a .WMV format, which is uploadable to YouTube

Make sure your videos are compressed under 100MB. YouTube doesn’t allow anything larger to be uploaded, even by me.

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23 Comments

lucy

September 2nd, 2007
at 8:07am

My movie file won’t save past 92%. I’ve tried different settings, but that didn’t help. Do you know a way I can fix that

Unknown

December 30th, 2007
at 5:07pm

where is the publish movie button

skittlez

January 13th, 2008
at 5:20pm

where is the publish movie button?

Mikaela

February 3rd, 2008
at 7:45am

My movie file won’t save past 32%. How do I fix that?

Lydia

February 9th, 2008
at 8:13pm

My movie file won’t save past 19%. How can I fix that?

Lyndon

March 17th, 2008
at 6:19pm

WHERE IS THE PUBLISH MOVIE BUTTON!!!

Xstar98x

March 18th, 2008
at 1:11pm

I have uploaded a video to youtube using the same movie maker (and i found the button…) but when it gets to youtube the quality goes down…AlOT! what should i do?

David

March 29th, 2008
at 11:25am

Where is the publish movie button?

KAv

March 30th, 2008
at 8:01pm

I published the movie,butit still wont upload to youtube even after cuting it down to 100 MB. What am i doing wrong?

Yazkin

April 13th, 2008
at 2:13pm

The “Publish Movie Button” is actually another button that pops up and says what do you want to post it as? (world, computer, utv etc.) and upload it to computer…THATS what you do

jake

May 3rd, 2008
at 4:47pm

Thank you so much,

I have looked all over the internet and could not find the solution to my problem.

This helped me out a lot thank you so much!

I Need Help

June 13th, 2008
at 3:01pm

How do you find the publish movie button!!!?? i looked all over WMM and i cant find it!!!! SOMEONE HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Julz

August 10th, 2008
at 7:02am

I Have Published It But When I Get To Youtube I Cant Find My Movie Its Not There

What Will I Do ?

S.

September 4th, 2008
at 1:17pm

ok people answers:
- The Publish movie button is under File
- The reason why ur video might not save past a certain percent is because either u dont have enough RAM space, enough space on your drive ( Switch to D Drive as a save place ) or you dont have the thing saved or you saved it and deleted and then saved it might mess up
****GET MOVIE MAKER 2*******

jade

December 1st, 2008
at 4:07pm

ok i have a BIG problem… whenever i try to publish my movie on the default one it wont work it just goes to the page then says “Windows Movie Maker has stopped working” then if i try to publish it to the middle settings it wont work… now i know what ur thinking u probably think i dont have enough room on wmm BUT I DO it says that mine takes 11.84 mb and i have 49.19 gb more… and it still wont publish it just says the same thing “Windows Movie Maker has stopped working” and i have looked on the internet and it says that mb are SMALLER than gb so it should work right? plz help me!

Anthony

December 9th, 2008
at 6:37am

Im having a problem, When I upload a video from you tube-its a narrated video- it only plays the audio but the video is black! I dont know what to do i’ve looked all over, any way you can help? Thanks very much!

martha368

December 24th, 2008
at 4:12am

What “publish movie”????

Helmet Vanga

March 8th, 2009
at 12:42pm

It is clear people are having problems with feature “publish”
While working on your clip or photo slide as u go along save as and here give a name to your project whether u r done or not. When U r done completly go to FILE and choose SAVE MOVIE FILE, here give it a name and just use the default folder. This file that you just save is the one you need to upload to youtube, not the project.
Those having problems with % and not finishing the file saving most likely are having system problems. Like too many things open caused the memory to go down. Check your memory regardless your OS XP or Vista. to check memory go to Start, Right click on My computer choose Properties, ??? of RAM that is the amount of your memory. If your memory is less than 256MB of Ram buy more memory or make 1GB which is the minum standard. H.V.