Urgent! Please help. Problem after splitting or trimming clips.

[Guest]

Hi. My name is Thomas and I really need some help. I helped my friend make a
movie for a class (the movie is her "final exam") and I need to get it done
tonight. I tried using my other software but I was familiar with MM2, so i
decided to use it. Basically, I downloaded the video to my computer in mpeg2
format and imported into MM2.
Then, I noticed that after i put clip "Breathe1" on the timeline and trimmed
or split it, the next clip "Breathe2" was messed up. It dropped several
frames, but the sound remained the same.
I've tried many things like: telling MM2 NOT to divide it into clips and it
still happened, i read something on here about deleting the first frame of
the second clip but that didn't work (I saw that on a thread about slow/speed
motion effect), searching on google, and upgrading from 2.0 to 2.1 (which
wasted a lot of time). So i'm in desperate need of help right now and I can't
find any info on this problem. I would greatly appreciate if someone could
help.
Thank You

 

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

MM2 doesn't handle MPEG-2 files... you should convert them the AVI before
importing.

Use something like TMPGEnc - link on the Setup > Other Software page of my
site.... it has a 30 day free trial period when it comes to MPEG-2 files.
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PapaJohn

Movie Maker 2 - www.papajohn.org
Photo Story 2 - www.photostory.papajohn.org
Photo Story 3 - use the menu branch at www.papajohn.org

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