how to save in 2 formats ?

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Val Davies

Hello again - first the good news - firewire cable arrived, camcorder
connects fine, spent a couple of hours yesterday on my first ever
project of 12 minutes which I saved as a 45 meg .wmv file and which
plays just fine for me in windows media player :)

But today I went to open the project to save it as an .avi file (as I've
read here that's an option too and - as it's for a friend and I don't
know what her pc plays easily - so I thought I'd put both saved versions
on a cd for her so that one at least should play).

But the project is gone ... no .mswmm files at all where it was ! Does
that mean you can only save a project as one type of file ? and if you
then want to do what I wanted to do and save it as another type of file
you have to start the project again ?

Thanks in advance for any advice !

Regards, Val
 
Val said:
Hello again - first the good news - firewire cable arrived, camcorder
connects fine, spent a couple of hours yesterday on my first ever
project of 12 minutes which I saved as a 45 meg .wmv file and which
plays just fine for me in windows media player :)

But today I went to open the project to save it as an .avi file (as
I've read here that's an option too and - as it's for a friend and I
don't know what her pc plays easily - so I thought I'd put both saved
versions on a cd for her so that one at least should play).

But the project is gone ... no .mswmm files at all where it was ! Does
that mean you can only save a project as one type of file ? and
if you then want to do what I wanted to do and save it as another
type of file you have to start the project again ?

Thanks in advance for any advice !

Regards, Val
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If you saved your completed project...
File / Save Project As...

Your .mswmm project file should
be in your My Videos folder unless
you directed it to a different folder.

C:\Documents and Settings\>user
name<\My Documents\My Videos

Saving a file in a new format does
not overwrite the original.

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! MVP

Digital Image
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http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

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This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk
 
John Inzer said:
If you saved your completed project...
File / Save Project As...

Your .mswmm project file should
be in your My Videos folder unless
you directed it to a different folder.

C:\Documents and Settings\>user
name<\My Documents\My Videos

Saving a file in a new format does
not overwrite the original.
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How dozy am I ? (don't answer that !) I *always* save files under
shared documents, except of course last night it seems - there it is
just where you said it would be ... Phew.

Thanks John

Regards, Val
 
Val said:
How dozy am I ? (don't answer that !) I *always* save files under
shared documents, except of course last night it seems - there it is
just where you said it would be ... Phew.

Thanks John

Regards, Val
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You're welcome.

Thanks for the update.

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk
 
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