Editing Clips Problem

[Guest]

I have a movie project that I am working on, and I have transferred the
appropriate files to my hard drive. I allowed WMM to "create clips" of the
video I transferred from my digital camcorder.
I noticed that when WMM does this, it often leaves the last few milliseconds
of the preceding clip on the next clip.
Well, that was no problem, and I split the clip and delete the leftover
footage off of the desired clip in the timeline and placed the desired
footage up against the next clip on the timeline. There are no transisitons
between some of these clip since it is just a scene change, not a passage of
time. Watching the movie in the preview pane, I notice no problems regarding
transition and save it to my harddrive in DV-AVI format.
But, when I play the movie back through Windows Media Player 10, I notice
that there are millisecond flashes of clips placed between every clip that
does not have a transisiton or a fade. This is frustrating because it even
places these millisecond clips between split clips that were originally
together. So I go back into the project file and trim the beginning and end
off of every clip and save it again. The subliminal clips are still there.
So in another attempt, I delete all of the video but save the credits and try
placing the video back on the timeline and save it as a different project
file. I export it to my digital camcorder this time, and it is still doing
this. I have no idea what to do now, except possiblt trimming each clip
instead of splitting and deleting the undesirable footage.
Any help would be gratly appreciated. Thank you.

 

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

Movie Maker 2 is a 15 fps (12-1/2 PAL) project editing environment, so each
frame is really 2 of them, and you sometimes run into a file with an unseen
frame being the one you want to delete.

Do it in MM1, which is a 30 fps (15 PAL) environment.. you can see and clip
out the frames.
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PapaJohn

Movie Maker 2 and Photo Story 3 - www.papajohn.org
Photo Story 2 - www.photostory.papajohn.org
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[Guest]

Okay, thanks. But I have WMM 2.1....how do I get WMM 1? Do I download it?

 

[Guest]

I read your article on WMM 1 vs. WMM 2, but all of my computers have 2.1 on
them. This presents a problem since there are currently no downloads for WMM
1 (that I can find). What can I do now?

 

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

see the Problem Solving > Go Back to MM1 page of my site... MM1 and 2 can
run in parallel and all you need is a copy of the single main executable
file from an MM1 installation, less than a MB and easy to email. Find a
friend who still has it.
--
PapaJohn

Movie Maker 2 and Photo Story 3 - www.papajohn.org
Photo Story 2 - www.photostory.papajohn.org
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[Guest]

I don't know if this will help or not. But I was doing some editing
of wedding video I took this weekend, and had some clips that had
left over split seconds of scene flashed like that too. What I did was
to expand the timeline so that I could see a length of a second or two
in a wide range....then I clicked on the scene and instead of 'splitting'
it anywhere, I just grabbed the arrow and dragged it to the left ever so
slightly. That got rid of the offending split second of unwanted video,
and then I took the re-arranged clip I put to the right of that clip, and
again ever so slightly dragged it into the clip on the left....at the minimal
amount (which looks like 1/10 second or so)....the transition between
the two was very quick as a quick fade; this looked ok and I didn't see
any of those left over flashes of unknown poltergeists! he he he

 

[Wojo]

I would recommend 2 different things.
1) The clips that you don't want to transition should be "combined" before
dragging them to the timeline. If you don't know how to do this it's
simple - Simply select one of the clips and then select the other while
holding the CTRL key then right click and select "Combine" from the menu.
This should remove the flash effect your getting because of the split.
2) Import the movie with "Create clips for video files" option unselected
(remove the check from the option in the import dialog box) and then
manually split the video in the spots you want. This option will work if you
aren't planning on splitting in a lot of places but can be time consuming if
you are making a lot of splits for transitioning.
I hope that helps.