Exporting WMM2 file to DV Cam

[Rowdie Roddie]

I'm just learning touse WMM2 on my Dell and a new
Panasonic DV camera.

I made a very short video(one shot - 45 secs. total) on
WMM2, and it worked out pretty well. I addded opening and
closing credits, jsut as an excuse to learn how to do them.

Then I decided to export the movie file back to my DV
camera. The transfer worked well, expect in one respect:
the opening credits didi not dub over to the camera's
tape. (Although the footage and the end credits seemed to
transfer just fine.)


I was transferring the video to the beginning of a new
mini DV tape. Is it possible that I need to fast forward
the tape a bit more before I start recording on it, so the
beginning of the movie coming from the computer doesn't
get lost on the "leader" of the dv cassette?

Or am I doing something else wrong? Anyone had a similar
experience?

Thanks,

Rod J.
Whitehorse, Yukon Territory.
Canada

 

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

Some people need to add a leader... 5 to 10 seconds of blackness or
something else, to get a running start.

You might try saving the file to your hard drive, and then using the WinDV
utility to copy it to the camcorder to see if it works differently with it.
There's a link on my Digital Camcorders > Intro page.
--
PapaJohn

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

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[Rowdie Roddie]

Thanks, PapaJohn.

I first tried taping a segment off my camera withthe iris
closed to black. But that didn't work, because when i
tried to import the "black' section into tMovie
maker...the program wouldn't reconginze the "black" clip
as a clip.

Then I looked a little bit deeper into the trouble
shooting section of Movie Maker Help...under the link re:
exprting movies to DV cam..and lo and behold this speicfic
problem is addressed.

The help document mentions that some cameras don't start
recording quickly enough, and therefore miss the first few
seconds of the movie you're trying to export.

What Help suggests doing is opening Windows "Paint"
program, opening a file, using the palette to fill it with
black. Then save the Paint file under a title you';;
rememeber, and import it using the WMM2 "import"
function. Then drag and drop to the beginning of your
movie timeline/storyboard.

I tried this, and it worked.

Thanks again for the advice...
Rowdie Roddie.