Clip durations and music don't match

[Guest]

I'm using MM for a slide show, and have spent hours putting the movie
together. I'm only using pictues as clips, and have set the duration for all
the clips at 5 seconds. I've also faded out each individual music file to
match the sequeces. The program compiles the movie into a good wmv file, and
everthing matches up, but when I burn it to disc with Roxio, and go play it
on my DVD player all the timing is off. Some clips last 1 sec, others last
4, and all the music is off. What am I doing wrong. Thanks for any help!

 

[Graham Hughes]

This can happen if you use incompatible file types with MM, so stills should
be bitmap and music wav/wma, not jpeg and mp3.
Also, if you do lots of slideshows you may want to look at photostory, which
is free from MS and is designed for this job rather than MM which is for
video.
link here
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/WebPages/UsefulProgrammes.htm

--
Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.co.uk
www.dvds2treasure.com
www.simplydv.com

 

[KDE]

agreed, 99% of all my "saving movie" troubles and even the final "make a
DVD" problems have gone away since I started converting all music to wav
before adding it to moviemaker. I still use jpeg pictures with no problems,
but I do usually use the microsoft powertoy picture resizer to reduce them
(copies) to a minimum of 1024 x 768 before adding them.


| This can happen if you use incompatible file types with MM, so stills
should
| be bitmap and music wav/wma, not jpeg and mp3.
| Also, if you do lots of slideshows you may want to look at photostory,
which
| is free from MS and is designed for this job rather than MM which is for
| video.
| link here
| http://www.myvideoproblems.com/WebPages/UsefulProgrammes.htm
|
| --
| Graham Hughes
| MVP Digital Media
| www.myvideoproblems.co.uk
| www.dvds2treasure.com
| www.simplydv.com
|
|
| | > I'm using MM for a slide show, and have spent hours putting the movie
| > together. I'm only using pictues as clips, and have set the duration
for
| > all
| > the clips at 5 seconds. I've also faded out each individual music file
to
| > match the sequeces. The program compiles the movie into a good wmv
file,
| > and
| > everthing matches up, but when I burn it to disc with Roxio, and go play
| > it
| > on my DVD player all the timing is off. Some clips last 1 sec, others
| > last
| > 4, and all the music is off. What am I doing wrong. Thanks for any
help!
|
|

 

[azza]

how do you adjust the timing of clips? there has to be an easier way than
draaging in timeline view?