Creating Collections

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Jeff

Everytime I import a video clip into Movie Maker it
becomes a Collection. How do you get the imported clips
to become part of a collection?
Thanks
Jeff
 
Hi there,

Drag and drop the items from one collection and put them into the one you
want...then right click any empty collection or collection that is not
empty but contains unwanted material and select Delete.
 
I am trying to use AUTOMOVIE to create a movie out of
multiple clips and pictures. The documentation says it's
possible, but it says to select multiple clips from the
Content page and it won't let me do that because the
collection won't hold multiple video clips, it will hold
multiple pictures though...
 
All that does is place the imported video as a collection
under the main collection. When I click on the parent
collection it does not include those sub collection
videos as part of the movie.
 
Hi Again,

Assuming two collections A and B

1) Left Click "A"
2) Place mouse pointer over video clip and press and hold down the left
mouse button
3) Drag the mouse and clip over the collection "B" and release the mouse
button
4) Left click "B" and you should see at least two clips...the one that was
there all the time and the one you just dragged across

Dragging and dropping a clip is not actually moving the clip itself you
understand...you are only moving the record that contains info on What,
Where, Size etc etc
 
Hi again,

You said........
Everytime I import a video clip into Movie Maker it becomes a Collection.
How do you get the imported clips to become part of a collection?

You can drag clips to any collection and drop them into that
collection...you can even create a new collection by right clicking on the
collection tab and name it...you can also create a sub collection under a
main one if you really want to just by right clicking the name of the
master/main collection...you then drag and drop clips into that as it suits
you.

If this is not what you want, then maybe I have misunderstood your
question.
 
John said:
Hi Again,

Assuming two collections A and B

1) Left Click "A"
2) Place mouse pointer over video clip and press and hold down the left
mouse button
3) Drag the mouse and clip over the collection "B" and release the mouse
button
4) Left click "B" and you should see at least two clips...the one that was
there all the time and the one you just dragged across

Dragging and dropping a clip is not actually moving the clip itself you
understand...you are only moving the record that contains info on What,
Where, Size etc etc
Click to expand...

Hi John,

I have been having the exact same problem, and I had to read your post a
few times before I finally figured out what you meant. I think I kept
doing the same thing the original poster was doing:

I would select File --> Import into Collections. At this point I would
get each clip in it's own collection. I would then go to the
collections listing and try dropping one collection on another one.
This doesn't do what I (or the original poster) was expected. I kept
mixing up the terms "collection" and video clip...probably because it
was creating a new collection for each clip I was importing.

BUT, if you click on the actual _video clip_ in one collection and then
drag it back over to the collections window and drop it into another
collection (just like you said), you do get can put all of your imported
clips into one collection. I think I was just suffering from some
newbie terminology dysfunction.

Needless to say, this can be somewhat tedious. I have about 52 short
clips from a recent school football game that I exported from the DV
camera as separate files. I don't relish the thought of dragging and
dropping all 52 of these into a collection one at a time. Isn't there a
way to import multiple clips into a single collection?

I guess I'll delete the clips I've imported and go back and let MM2
import them as one file with the "create clips" selection enabled. I
really don't like this option though because if there are entire clips
of footage I don't want I can't delete the original AVI file because
it's one big file.

Am I missing something here?

Thanks,

Gary
 
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