Trouble a brewn' with Windows Movie Maker

So I'm making this video in windows movie maker. I can save my movie maker file just fine but when ever I go to save it as a movie, you know compile everything I've done, the problems occur. It just can't do it. It gets stuck and doesn't do anything. I eventually just cancle it and have to wait for it to finish. I have a theory though:
When ever you go to compile your project file into the actual movie WMM takes all the clips and stores them in the RAM (or Page File Memory if you run out of RAM) so that it can work with them. Since I have so many clips that run the gammit from being 1.4 mb all the way to 17.6 mb, I don't have enough RAM or Page File memory to do this. I have watched in the control panel as WMM went to compile the movie, and the amount of memory WMM is using suddenly sky rockets and eventually all of my Page File Memory (yes, all 1.64 Gigs of it) gets full and then WMM stops working. When I cancle the compile all but a little of the Page File Memory goes away and the amount of RAM that WMM was using goes back to normal.

Well, if thats right, should I just buy some more RAM or incread the size of my Page File Memory. Is that really how WMM works? Let me know your thoughts.

 

Windows Movie Maker is primarily designed for low end video making. If you are doing so many clips and the files are so large that you could FILL a DVD, than yes I suggest either a beefier computer altogether, more RAM, and even a better program to edit video with.

I myself use Windows Movie Maker or iMovie to edit Video, but I am no pro and my movies end up being 300 to 500 MB tops (when ready to burn to DVD).

I have 1GB of RAM and get along fine. You may need much more.

 

Well see, its weird because when windows movie maker is all send and done my movie file only ends up being 70 mb. But I can literally just watch my pagefile memory (which I increased to 2000 mb) just fill up and then watch the amount of RAM WMM go from like 4000K to 300000K. Weird. I'm not making an excessivly long video. Its only like 8 minutes so far. I just have a lot of like 2-15 seconds clips in it. Its a counter-strike video. What I do is I record the demo which is saved as a .dem file. Then I go back and play the demo in counter-strike and record the section I want with a program called Fraps. Fraps churns out uncompressed video files. Then I use a program called Virtualdub to compress those files using the Microsoft Mpeg4 V2 video codec. Once I do that I have the clips that I'm ready to use in WMM.