Kayley. wrote:Do you know a way to make an editing program like WMM? I think that what I like about WMM is the design. It automatically arranges the videos into clips, and it's easy to drag everything onto the timeline.
I've heard that there is a way to do this with Vegas. Is that true?
Nope. Vegas can only do that with video imported from a camcorder (it looks at the timecode info stored in the DV stream for start-stop points).
Magix Movie Edit Pro is able to do a similar thing to WMM's auto clip generation with its Scene Recognition feature. I don't use Magix's SR feature myself since I prefer to have total control over scene selection and clip making using VirtualDubMod.
As for Vegas being harder to drag stuff onto the timeline, aside from the windows being flipped (preview monitor and media sources on the bottom, timeline on top), I didn't find it any harder than WMM when I tried it. Of course, since it does have additional tracks and more options for transitions, you could be overwhelmed by the additional functionality of Vegas.
You may want to stick with Vegas and learn to make your own clips. Most people here will probably agree. You'll probably get a little better quality doing this too since you aren't adding an extra layer of processing like you are doing now with WMM > Vegas.
As for your original question, what kind of video or audio files are you trying to play back in WMM? I suspect some sort of codec issues that WMM is having with the files you are trying to edit with. XviD? MP3?