Problems with clip management

[Guest]

I have a new Vista computer with 4 GB memory. I'm trying to use Movie Maker
(6.0) that came with it and it is driving me crazy when trying to make clips
and add effects. I've captured a two-hour home video (as MPG) and it imports
fine into Movie Maker. Here are the problems I'm seeing:

Split fidelity - I can't seem to split a clip at the frame I want. It
always misses or adds a frame.
Trim clip - If I trim a clip by dragging the end point there are several
additional frames at the end when I publish it.
Burn to DVD - After burning to DVD using Windows DVD maker, the clips with
special effects (in this case, rotate 90 degrees) don't have them anymore and
the special effect shows up several seconds after the location it is in Movie
Maker

Help! Is Movie Maker just not good enough to do what I want? It seems like
pretty basic stuff.

 

[Guest]

Again a new computer with Vista Home Premium and I have a very similar
problem. Sometimes I can insert a split in a movie clip, when I try the next
one I can't? It is so frustrating. Can anyone help? When I can't insert a
split the "split" icon is grey and I can't find anyway to make it work>

 

[John Hanley]

The experts will say that Movie Maker does not work well with .mpg files.
It will work best if you convert it to .wmv first. I use Windows Media
Encoder to do that. You can also get good help at:
http://www.windowsmoviemakers.net/forums/