Simple questions

[Dick Sartori]

I have been to Papajohns website, and have to believe that he is the
undisputed king of media explanations. However, no matter how easy the
explanation, I still get a mind overload. I would like an answer on a few
things.

I took an old 8mm family film from 1959 vintage, and projected it onto a
white board. I recorded (at 1/60th of a sec) the projected image with a
VHS-C camcorder sitting next to it. These were silent films, so sound was
not an issue. The result was pretty decent with only a slight trace of
flicker. Still very acceptable.
I captured this video to my pc as an avi file with a Pinnacle DC10+ card,
then imported the avi into MM2. I added titles, transitions, special effects
(using the slow down effect to delay by 11 seconds several clips), and just
plain text. It plays back in MM2 perfectly, and I was happy with the result.
Now, my 2 questions......

1. When I saved it as a DV-AVI file, and play that file back in any media
player, The 11 second clip plays for 3 seconds and then displays a black
screen for the remaining 9 seconds. This happens on every clip on every
player. What could be wrong here.

2. If and when I get that problem solved, what would be the best procedure
to burn the DV-AVI to a DVD-R so it keeps it's quality. I have Sonic mydvd
ver 4 which came with my computer, and a Sony DVD writer, which will burn
any format.

Thanks for any help or advice no matter how small.
Dick

 

[print_maker]

Is it only title clips that do this? or is it recorded video as well?

You can trim titles out longer on the timeline using the trim handles rather
than use effects to slow them down - perhaps this is just a bug with saving
titles as AVI when using effects on titles and that is why it works OK with
WMV?