segmenting

A few questions regarding your email newsletter regarding
segmenting MM2 into smaller files dated July 3 # 8

1) You said you segment them into AVI files--that are
smaller--"Each segment was rendered to a DV-AVI file and
then added together as clips in these final project
files .... the one with the first 7 segments was 16:37 in
duration and the one with all 8 was 20:27."-->but the
sections on the post after this comment are listed as
MSWMM files--shouldn't they be AVI files?---> I find
when I render them to AVI files they are muccccch larger
than MSWMM files, not smaller.

2)If you do save it as smaller AVI clips how do you
change things such as transitions, adding pictures,
changing the audio length , etc. when it is no longer
individual clips--it's one long clip----I tried to change
the length of a song--which I had shortened in the
original clip- and it won't change now--it seems to be a
permanent change. I also wanted to add a few more
pictures and now the audio is out because of the gaps
from the new pictures.

Thanks in advance

Hi Diane,

Yes, the rendered AVI files are huge.... but to your first note,

I'm comparing project files to each other, not to the rendered DV-AVI files.
The size of the MSWMM project files for each of the 8 project segments are
is more than 2 MB in size, but the size of the final project file that
combines all the segments (using the huge AVI files as source files) are
less than 200 KB in size, less than 10% of any of the segment project files.

On your second note, my AVI clips are not smaller..... DV-AVI is about 13 GB
per hour of footage. We have to live with and manage the large space needs
for them.

Yes, your editing needs to be finished in each of the segments before
rendering to the AVI file.... once you see what happened, you need to go
back into the projects to make any changes and re-render the AVI files. You
might need to drop the song from the segment and add it back into the final
overall project file... how to mix and match the clips in the sub-projects
and final project is different for each case.

For info, the newsletter #5 that we're talking about is available at:
http://www.windowsmoviemakers.net/PapaJohn/Index.aspx
--
PapaJohn

Movie Maker 2: www.papajohn.org
PhotoStory 2: www.photostory.papajohn.org
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"Diane" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>A few questions regarding your email newsletter regarding
> segmenting MM2 into smaller files dated July 3 # 8
>
> 1) You said you segment them into AVI files--that are
> smaller--"Each segment was rendered to a DV-AVI file and
> then added together as clips in these final project
> files .... the one with the first 7 segments was 16:37 in
> duration and the one with all 8 was 20:27."-->but the
> sections on the post after this comment are listed as
> MSWMM files--shouldn't they be AVI files?---> I find
> when I render them to AVI files they are muccccch larger
> than MSWMM files, not smaller.
>
> 2)If you do save it as smaller AVI clips how do you
> change things such as transitions, adding pictures,
> changing the audio length , etc. when it is no longer
> individual clips--it's one long clip----I tried to change
> the length of a song--which I had shortened in the
> original clip- and it won't change now--it seems to be a
> permanent change. I also wanted to add a few more
> pictures and now the audio is out because of the gaps
> from the new pictures.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>