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I work for a non profit and we had a volunteer put together a promotional
film for us using video, stills, narration, music and titles. The finished
product is great, but there are some errors that need to be corrected before
we can use it, and the volunteer isn't available anymore. He gave me a CD
supposedly with everything I need on it to edit, but since I've never used
Movie Maker (I have XP home & MM2.1). I've read lot's of info about how to
get started. I also copied all the contents from the CD onto my computer.
Here's my problem:
I imported all the files from the CD into collections, and can open the
project, but the timeline shows big red X's instead of a thumbnail. Also
there is no audio that shows on the timeline and the only thing that plays is
the title overlays. I've tried to browse for 'missing files' but get an
error message that the file I found doesn't exactly match the original. When
I looked at the properties of each file on the timeline it said the location
was something that looked like his computer, but after I copied everything to
my hard drive and re-imported the files, it said the location was where I had
copied everything, but it still wouldn't work correctly.
The volunteer saved the completed movie as a wmv file, which I can play, and
imported into the collections. I even tried to place the wmv files on the
timeline and while that will create another copy of the movie, I can't edit
anything.
I think I have all the raw images and video, but really don't want to
re-create the whole thing from scratch, because there are only a few edits
that have to be made, but they are important.
Do I have any hope of completing my task easily? Do I need professional
help? Can someone please help?
film for us using video, stills, narration, music and titles. The finished
product is great, but there are some errors that need to be corrected before
we can use it, and the volunteer isn't available anymore. He gave me a CD
supposedly with everything I need on it to edit, but since I've never used
Movie Maker (I have XP home & MM2.1). I've read lot's of info about how to
get started. I also copied all the contents from the CD onto my computer.
Here's my problem:
I imported all the files from the CD into collections, and can open the
project, but the timeline shows big red X's instead of a thumbnail. Also
there is no audio that shows on the timeline and the only thing that plays is
the title overlays. I've tried to browse for 'missing files' but get an
error message that the file I found doesn't exactly match the original. When
I looked at the properties of each file on the timeline it said the location
was something that looked like his computer, but after I copied everything to
my hard drive and re-imported the files, it said the location was where I had
copied everything, but it still wouldn't work correctly.
The volunteer saved the completed movie as a wmv file, which I can play, and
imported into the collections. I even tried to place the wmv files on the
timeline and while that will create another copy of the movie, I can't edit
anything.
I think I have all the raw images and video, but really don't want to
re-create the whole thing from scratch, because there are only a few edits
that have to be made, but they are important.
Do I have any hope of completing my task easily? Do I need professional
help? Can someone please help?