Thank you, John. Appreciate your input.
I downloaded the Media Editor, opened my file in the File Editor
utility. Before resaving it (which it says will index the file),
decided to play, maybe add markers. It only played abt. 6 min. and
stopped. Can't get it to skip forward. If it's not indexed,
probably also doesn't fast forward, etc. capability either.
Windows Explorer reads the file is 1:29:08 in "duration". I tried
playing it in WMP; stopped at the same place. The disk does not
appear to be half burned as one would expect for a file of that
"duration". Tried to resave what I have. Message was "failed to
save"; doesn't indicate why.
The Sony camcorder is abt. 2001, the software that came with it should
create a satisfactory .wmv file I would think. The gal that created
it doesn't remember being asked to select a "Index, yes/no" choice.
I would think indexing would be a default - now that I've read about
it, understand it a bit better. Albeit I feel more than a little
over my tech head here.
As this point, it would seem advisable to create a new file off the
orig. mini-dvd tape which will be in a Video_TS folder, which
presents another converting challenge if I want to use WMM as an
editor. I edited the Christmas concert last Dec. I use Roxio, but
quite by accident I suddenly had a .wmv file. Not quite certain how
I did that. Perhaps better to use Windows Media Encoder? From what
I've read about Video_TS files, they're a bit tricky to get a format
video editor's will accept.
If you have other thoughts, would appreciate hearing from you. As a
retired folk, am trying to learn the Windows film editing for our
church music dept. admin, as that's the software the church provides.
The camcorder is her family's personal one. Does a decent job,
especially off the church's sound system which is a challenge in
itself.
