Problems with music and narration

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I am following the septs in the previously posted "narration over a music
rack".
I saved my movie, it is a wmv file on my hard drive. When I import it
should it come into movie maker as clips or should it all show up together on
the timeline? My is not on the timeline and is clips again, I know I am doing
something wrong can you help me? thanks
 
when you go to import, after you have selected the file at the bottom of the file viewer there is a small box, uncheck it :thumb:
 
It will come in as clip(s)
You want to bring it in as a single clip that you can then drage to the
timeline
When you do
file->import into collections
uncheck the box down the bottom 'create clips for video' - this will
bring the footage in as a single clip.


Rob
 
Also I (and I think others) would recommend saving as DV-AVI, if you
have the disk space, to minimise video degradation.

Rob
 
Hello,

The description "Clips" is very misleading as in reality there are no
"clips" at all. Your hard drive contains just the one file...nothing else.

Within MM the term clips actually means a series of database entries
describing the start and beginning of various sections within that one
file. When you drag one of these "clips" to the timeline all that you are
really doing is dragging the information to the project so that when it
comes time to compile that project MM will know what sections of the single
file on your hard drive to use.

You will notice on the Capture or Import Video screens an option to "Create
Clips". Turing that option off will result in one single entry which will
refer to the entire file as opposed to several entries referring to
sections of the file all of which amount to the whole file.

So if you don't want clips, turn them off !!!

As far as the time line goes, Movie Maker can not know in advance what you
are going to do after the import and for that reason it cannot put anything
on to the timeline automatically

For a complete description of these features, press F1 and read the help
file
 
Assuming the final destination is going to be a DVD otherwise all those
DV-AVI's will eat hard drive space fast.
I have recently done some testing after a discussion with I believe it was
dickmr where I saved a project as DV-AVI and saved it again as high quality
NTSC and the result as far as quality was about the same but the result
after burning to DVD was definitely NOT the same. The high quality WMV file
sucked on the DVD.
-Wojo
 
Thanks guys..........
Looks great, now do I save the file as something other than WMV, I didn't
understand that discussion.
 
If you are planning on eventually creating a DVD out of your movie then I
would recommend, as Rob said, saving to DV-AVI but if you are only creating
it to view on your computer then I recommend saving as High quality NTSC
video which would be a WMV file.
 
I guess I would recommend using DV-AVI for any intermediate steps, no
matter your end format
ie I interpret that you are cutting the move in two steps:
1st with narration whch is output as an interim step and that interim is
then taken as input to the final stage.
Each stage will lose a little bit of quality.
DV-AVI will maintain the best quality, wmv not quite as good.
Therefore I would always use DV-AVI for my interim steps with, as Wojo
said, the final format dependent upon your task.
With only one interim step this is probably not a big issue, but if a
number of passes are needed then the drop in quality is quite noticable.

Since you are cutting a DVD we would recommend saving the final stage as
dv-avi

Now how to save as dv-avi:

once you have selected a name for your movie and clicked next you should
be presented with a screen 'save movie wizard'. With three check boxes

Check 'other settings' - the drop down box should now be active - click
the \/ and a series of options should be open - one of which is
DV-AVI(PAL) if you have marked your settings as PAL or DV-AVI(NTSC) if
you use NTSC.

Hope this helps



Rob
 
I agree somewhat except:
The reason I say use DV-AVI if creating a DVD is that it takes up so much
space on the HDD.
Try the experiment I did:
1) Create a project with good quality clips, stills, audio.
2) Save it as DV-AVI
3) Save it as High Quality Video NTSC or PAL (WMV)
4) Compare the two in your Media Player program.
You should find little difference in quality between the two but a huge
difference in size.
But if you burn them both to a DVD you will find the WMV file is nowhere
near as good as the DV-AVI.
-Wojo
 
Hi Wojo;
I am not recommending DV-AVI as a permanent storage format on the PC,
just as the interim steps. This means that the space taken up is temporary.
The format of the last movie is as you say dependent on the use that
movie will be put to. Thus I use the following formats from MM2
- wmv for use on PC, posting around etc
- DV-AVI if it is to be placed on DVD, or if the movie is an interim
step and will be subject to a second stage processing


Rob
 
Yes I see in rereading your post that you do say "interim" steps.
What I read the first time was "no matter what your end format"
So now I can agree with you 100% :)
-Wojo
 
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