Windows Vista Movie Maker Custom Profiles

In the interest of saving someone else a whole bunch of time...

I was creating a video that I wanted to publish to the web like we do on Channel9 and the default export settings in the Windows Vista version of Windows Movie Maker included only a handful of output formats.

Ok, easy enough, the help says: Yes, you can create your own movie settings and then publish your movie using the movie setting you create. To create a custom profile, you must first install Windows Media Profile Editor. Windows Media Profile Editor is automatically installed when you install Windows Media Encoder 9 Series. You can download and install Windows Media Encoder 9 Series from the Windows Media Encoder Web site

and that's all good so I downloaded the WM9 Encoder installed it and created the profile I wanted...

But, where do I put it?

So... I went hunting the proverbial snark and found this article, that says you should put them in <Drive>:\Program Files\Movie Maker\Shared\Profiles, again all well and good but the folder doesn't exist...

Me, thinking that Vista had put the folder somewhere else when hunting more snark and eventually found the forums at WindowsMovieMakers.net that had the answer.... You have to create the Profiles folder manually!

Putting the profile I'd created into that folder made it work... but it took me an hour to figure it out.

Hopefully, this blog post will save someone out there that hour sometime in the future!