I've just discovered WMM and it seems nice and simple and the ideal program
for my needs (plus its free ;-)

However, I haven't been able to get beyond capturing a chunk of video before
I hit a big snag, so maybe someone here can help with my problem.

I'm aiming to archive some old VHS home-movie tapes by converting to DV (via
a Sony HC1000E mini-DV cam), capturing into WMM as DV-avi, editing down to
around 5GB chunks and then saving to DVDs.

I've captured my 30min tape via WMM, but the resultant clip only appears to
be a few seconds long when dragged to the timeline in WMM. This is odd
because the file saved to disc is the full 6GB 30min version and plays just
fine in WMP etc when double clicked. And when I click on the clip's file in
WMM, its properties show it as 6GB too.

How do I get the full file to appear in the timeline so that I can edit out
redundant scenes to reduce it to a convenient size?

Thanks in advance,
-Neil F.

"neil f" wrote in message
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I've just discovered WMM and it seems nice and simple and the ideal
program for my needs (plus its free ;-)

However, I haven't been able to get beyond capturing a chunk of video
before I hit a big snag, so maybe someone here can help with my problem.

I'm aiming to archive some old VHS home-movie tapes by converting to DV
(via a Sony HC1000E mini-DV cam), capturing into WMM as DV-avi, editing
down to around 5GB chunks and then saving to DVDs.

I've captured my 30min tape via WMM, but the resultant clip only appears
to be a few seconds long when dragged to the timeline in WMM. This is odd
because the file saved to disc is the full 6GB 30min version and plays
just fine in WMP etc when double clicked. And when I click on the clip's
file in WMM, its properties show it as 6GB too.

How do I get the full file to appear in the timeline so that I can edit
out redundant scenes to reduce it to a convenient size?

Thanks in advance,
-Neil F.

Long time since I had a look at it. When you import the Video File it will
or should make clips based on the starts and stops of your film making. You
may have stopped importing as soon as you saw the first clip so try
importing from the HDD again.
Note though Movie maker does not make DVD's for viewing on an external
Player as it outputs in DVavi or wmv.
The DV avi could be rendered with Nero or such to make one but then if you
have Nero you could edit with that

Long time since I had a look at it. When you import the Video File it will
or should make clips based on the starts and stops of your film making.
You may have stopped importing as soon as you saw the first clip so try
importing from the HDD again.

You can turn off the "create clips" feature before the end of capture. It
can create clips one of two ways, either by referencing these mark-in
and -out points separately from the AVI or by saving them as completely
separate AVIs. Not sure which method WMM uses, but if it uses the
referencing technique, you could be seeing just the first clip from the AVI
when you drag it to the timeline. If that were the case, though, you'd see
other clips on the storyboard too.

"G Hardy" wrote in message
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Long time since I had a look at it. When you import the Video File it
will or should make clips based on the starts and stops of your film
making. You may have stopped importing as soon as you saw the first clip
so try importing from the HDD again.

You can turn off the "create clips" feature before the end of capture. It
can create clips one of two ways, either by referencing these mark-in
and -out points separately from the AVI or by saving them as completely
separate AVIs. Not sure which method WMM uses, but if it uses the
referencing technique, you could be seeing just the first clip from the
AVI when you drag it to the timeline. If that were the case, though, you'd
see other clips on the storyboard too.




Just hijacking the thread with a brief question which also related to WMM.
Is it possible to add a short, say 2 second, blank onto the begining of a
movie please ?
James

the_constructor wrote:
"G Hardy" wrote in message
...
Long time since I had a look at it. When you import the Video File
it will or should make clips based on the starts and stops of your
film making. You may have stopped importing as soon as you saw the
first clip so try importing from the HDD again.

You can turn off the "create clips" feature before the end of
capture. It can create clips one of two ways, either by referencing
these mark-in and -out points separately from the AVI or by saving them
as
completely separate AVIs. Not sure which method WMM uses, but if it
uses the referencing technique, you could be seeing just the first
clip from the AVI when you drag it to the timeline. If that were the
case, though, you'd see other clips on the storyboard too.




Just hijacking the thread with a brief question which also related to
WMM. Is it possible to add a short, say 2 second, blank onto the
begining of a movie please ?
James

Depends on your Meaning of Blank. You cant add Nothing, so you must add a
Black Or other coulour set of frames to last the 2 second's Like a Black
Jpeg set to run for 2 Secs Like in a slide show


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