MM and Media Center

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I have been using MovieMaker for a while now, as well as this newsgroup.
First let me thank everyone here for good advise given. This place is a
treasure.

I've been saving for EVER for a Media Center pc to do video editing with.
I've been working with a 1.2g with a 60 gig hd and that's a true pain! LOL
Never enough room.

Well, yesterday, I walked into Office Depot to buy something else and they
had the very pc marked half price, so you can bet I picked up that puppy!
LOL It's sitting on the breakfast room floor, waiting to be set up today.

The crux of this overly long post is, any tips? Anything I should know about
MM and Media Center? What problems should I expect? The only real problems I
have had up to now have been hard drive space and speed related. I'm looking
forward to doing some real video work now.

What kind of defrag schedule do you recommend? Are there any programs or
codecs that I should or shouldn't install? I know that MM in Media Center
has the option to save to dvd, but is there anything else I should know? How
does the finished product look compared to say Nero or Roxio?

I have already decided not to use the machine for email or other things. I
have the laptop for that. Are there any other common programs that might
cause problems?

I really should get the thing set up. It came with 8 manuals but there is no
way I'm going to be able to read them ALL before I hook it up! LOL

Rach - who thanks you!
 
I can answer some of these for you (in line below)

Rach said:
I have been using MovieMaker for a while now, as well as this newsgroup.
First let me thank everyone here for good advise given. This place is a
treasure.

I've been saving for EVER for a Media Center pc to do video editing with.
I've been working with a 1.2g with a 60 gig hd and that's a true pain! LOL
Never enough room.

Well, yesterday, I walked into Office Depot to buy something else and they
had the very pc marked half price, so you can bet I picked up that puppy!
LOL It's sitting on the breakfast room floor, waiting to be set up today.

The crux of this overly long post is, any tips? Anything I should know
about MM and Media Center? What problems should I expect? The only real
problems I have had up to now have been hard drive space and speed
related. I'm looking forward to doing some real video work now.
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Everything should work the same for you as it does now.
What kind of defrag schedule do you recommend? Are there any programs or
codecs that I should or shouldn't install? I know that MM in Media Center
has the option to save to dvd, but is there anything else I should know?
How does the finished product look compared to say Nero or Roxio?
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I have defrag scheduled to run automatically once a week but I do a lot of
transfering of files from one area to another etc... if you don't do a lot
of this once a month should be sufficient.
With the Media Center "Save to DVD" option a simple DVD is created with the
one single video you create. The computer should have also come with a DVD
authoring program of one type or another but usually it isn't the same as
the marketed versions and/or it is a low-end program.
I would still recommend purchasing a good DVD authoring program such as Nero
or one of the Ulead products and importing your finished movie to that
program simply because you can put more than one on a DVD if they aren't
huge projects and because there are more options for creating your menus
etc...
I have already decided not to use the machine for email or other things. I
have the laptop for that. Are there any other common programs that might
cause problems?
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Not really. All I can say here is if a program causes problems uninstall it
and/or use system restore to revert back to before you installed the
program.
I really should get the thing set up. It came with 8 manuals but there is
no way I'm going to be able to read them ALL before I hook it up! LOL

Rach - who thanks you!
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Your welcome and nobody reads the manuals until they run into problems ;-)
 
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