making 1 movie out of many?

Before I set out on this discovery, Question: Can I take multiple (saved to .avi for transfer back to camera) movies and string them all in to one movie project and save it to .avi (so I can transfer the whole thing back to my camera) without loss, skips or some other hiccup?
Thanks

If your lucky! Yes, if you makeone movie and save it to your hard drive as
an avi. then make your next movie and also save as an avi, it's easy to then
make another project and just import the two avi's, save as an avi and you
have one movie.

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Graham Hughes
MVP
www.simplydv.co.uk
www.dvds2treasure.com
"mike4advtr" <mike4advtr@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Before I set out on this discovery, Question: Can I take multiple (saved
to .avi for transfer back to camera) movies and string them all in to one
movie project and save it to .avi (so I can transfer the whole thing back to
my camera) without loss, skips or some other hiccup?
> Thanks

Sure.... but test your setup and process with a short clip first. A 5 minute
segment should do.
--
PapaJohn

Movie Maker 2 - www.papajohn.org
Photo Story 2 - www.photostory.papajohn.org

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"mike4advtr" <mike4advtr@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:92E38AA2-4169-45E0-8E7E-5D2F15C034E6@microsoft.com...
> Before I set out on this discovery, Question: Can I take multiple (saved
to .avi for transfer back to camera) movies and string them all in to one
movie project and save it to .avi (so I can transfer the whole thing back to
my camera) without loss, skips or some other hiccup?
> Thanks

Technically, it won't be a lossless process, since you'll
be subjecting your video to another encoding/compression
operation. But the loss of quality will probably (hopefully)
not even be noticable.

--
-Bob
____________________________
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Media Center Edition
www.microsoft.com/ehome


"mike4advtr" <mike4advtr@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:92E38AA2-4169-45E0-8E7E-5D2F15C034E6@microsoft.com...
> Before I set out on this discovery, Question: Can I take multiple (saved to .avi for transfer back to camera) movies and string
them all in to one movie project and save it to .avi (so I can transfer the whole thing back to my camera) without loss, skips or
some other hiccup?
> Thanks

Thanks Bob & Papa,
So For best result just transfer all my movies with a start and stop action on my video camera instead of using mm2 as a "movie train" so to speak, that way there is no loss. Is this the understanding?

"Bob [MVP]" wrote:

> Technically, it won't be a lossless process, since you'll
> be subjecting your video to another encoding/compression
> operation. But the loss of quality will probably (hopefully)
> not even be noticable.
>
> --
> -Bob
> ____________________________
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows XP Media Center Edition
> www.microsoft.com/ehome
>
>
> "mike4advtr" <mike4advtr@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:92E38AA2-4169-45E0-8E7E-5D2F15C034E6@microsoft.com...
> > Before I set out on this discovery, Question: Can I take multiple (saved to .avi for transfer back to camera) movies and string
> them all in to one movie project and save it to .avi (so I can transfer the whole thing back to my camera) without loss, skips or
> some other hiccup?
> > Thanks
>
>

You can control the starts and stops of the camcorder using MM2.... assuming
you're using a firewire connection and capturing the files as DV-AVI.
--
PapaJohn

Movie Maker 2 - www.papajohn.org
Photo Story 2 - www.photostory.papajohn.org

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"mike4advtr" <mike4advtr@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks Bob & Papa,
> So For best result just transfer all my movies with a start and stop
action on my video camera instead of using mm2 as a "movie train" so to
speak, that way there is no loss. Is this the understanding?
>
> "Bob [MVP]" wrote:
>
> > Technically, it won't be a lossless process, since you'll
> > be subjecting your video to another encoding/compression
> > operation. But the loss of quality will probably (hopefully)
> > not even be noticable.
> >
> > --
> > -Bob
> > ____________________________
> > Microsoft MVP
> > Windows XP Media Center Edition
> > www.microsoft.com/ehome
> >
> >
> > "mike4advtr" <mike4advtr@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:92E38AA2-4169-45E0-8E7E-5D2F15C034E6@microsoft.com...
> > > Before I set out on this discovery, Question: Can I take multiple
(saved to .avi for transfer back to camera) movies and string
> > them all in to one movie project and save it to .avi (so I can transfer
the whole thing back to my camera) without loss, skips or
> > some other hiccup?
> > > Thanks
> >
> >

I might do that if there were only a few clips on
the tape that I wanted to capture. But in general
I wouldn't use the "start and stop action" to
edit my movies. Why sacrifice all the editing
features that MM2 has to offer, for a difference
in quality that's probably not even perceptable?

PapaJohn's original suggestion was the best.
Experiment using a few short clips, and see how
it turns out. There's no substitute for experience,
and in the end, no one's opinion really matters
except your own. :-)

--
-Bob
____________________________
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Media Center Edition
www.microsoft.com/ehome


"mike4advtr" <mike4advtr@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:2DB94171-BF25-4D14-8D5E-63650D9AEC6F@microsoft.com...
> Thanks Bob & Papa,
> So For best result just transfer all my movies with a start and stop action on my video camera instead of using mm2 as a "movie
train" so to speak, that way there is no loss. Is this the understanding?
>
> "Bob [MVP]" wrote:
>
> > Technically, it won't be a lossless process, since you'll
> > be subjecting your video to another encoding/compression
> > operation. But the loss of quality will probably (hopefully)
> > not even be noticable.
> >
> > --
> > -Bob
> > ____________________________
> > Microsoft MVP
> > Windows XP Media Center Edition
> > www.microsoft.com/ehome
> >
> >
> > "mike4advtr" <mike4advtr@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:92E38AA2-4169-45E0-8E7E-5D2F15C034E6@microsoft.com...
> > > Before I set out on this discovery, Question: Can I take multiple (saved to .avi for transfer back to camera) movies and
string
> > them all in to one movie project and save it to .avi (so I can transfer the whole thing back to my camera) without loss, skips
or
> > some other hiccup?
> > > Thanks
> >
> >