Problem where edited clips keep running

[Chris]

Hi, I've made quite a few movies with MM2, but this is my first for 6
months or more. I've loaded three tapes worth into collections in a
project. I noticed something strange while editing them down. When a
clip was playing it would get to the end, but keep going into the next
clip and on for ever. So say a clip is 15 seconds, the clip playback
reaches 15s and the time counter stops, but the clip keeps playing into
the next scene.
So this didn't hamper me editing the clips down, i just carried on.
However now I'm compiling the movie and I had hoped everything would be
ok. But I drag my edited clips into the timeline, save a movie, and the
movie has the same sort of problem. It doesn't put edited clips, they
keep on running.

Can anyone help? I've spent three nights editing these tapes and hope
this problem can be solved, or else I'm going to have to try another
application.

Could this be codec related?

Cheers,
Chris.

 

[Mac]

What format are the original clips in?

 

[Chris]

They're AVI, captured through MM2.

What format are the original clips in?

 

[Wojo]

Sounds like another indexing problem.
Download Windows Media Encoder from Microsoft.
Open the AVI in Media Encoder and then simply close it again.
This will reindex the file and just might solve your problem.
No guarantees on this one, just a thought.
-Wojo

 

[Chris]

Thanks for the tip. I don't see any option to just open it and close
it, seems all I can do is convert it from avi to wmv? Can you tell me
the steps to do what you mean, I've downloaded and installed media
encoder 9.

Thanks,
Chris.

 

[Wojo]

Ok time for a retraction. In fact a couple of them as I used this advice 2
or 3 times recently.
It appears with Media Encoder 9 series that you can't open and close an AVI
file to reindex it although I am "almost" certain that this is something I
had done in the past with apparently an older version of Media Encoder. What
you can do however is convert it to a WMV file and the clip will then be
reindexed. Beware though that this occasionally causes audio "sync"
problems.
-Wojo

 

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

To do the open/close bit, use the File Manager that is included in the
Encoder package, not the Encoder itself...

wmeditor.exe is the file
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[Wojo]

That's what I thought as well but series 9 doesn't seem to like AVI files.
-Wojo