Someone please help .... WIndows Movie Maker help <NEWBI

Syber · Post by **Syber** » Fri Aug 29, 2003 5:38 pm

Hey i am a total newb at making music videos but i am having trouble ... the trouble is that when i import avi files into my windows movie maker .... it only shows clip 1 which includes the whole movie .... i want it to generate clips of different frames .... and when i put it on the story line ... and play it ... it shows a black screen....... please help thanks

burntoast · Post by **burntoast** » Fri Aug 29, 2003 6:31 pm

For Windows Movie Maker to segment clips automatically, you must check the "Create clips for video files" option in the Import File menu. Go to File - Import into Collections, and you'll see this option at the bottom of the window. I'm assuming that you have the new WMM, a.k.a. WMM2. For the old WMM, I suggest gonig into the Help Topics and searching for "create clips", or a similar term (if this method doesn't work). In WMM, you can also select the imported video and go to Tools - Create Clips. This should segment the footage for you.

About the black screen popping up during play, I'm not really sure why that's happening.. It may be that you're using DivX or some other bad codec to edit with. Try converting the footage using a lossless codec such as huffyuv, or maybe a lossy one like DV. Otherwise I'm not much help with this problem.

Syber · Post by **Syber** » Fri Aug 29, 2003 6:43 pm

Thanks for ur help~ I am using the old WMM and I dunno wat codec i am editing wif ... newbie ... i'll try what u suggested .... i'll edit this post later to tell u what happened and thanks again.

Syber · Post by **Syber** » Fri Aug 29, 2003 6:50 pm

Ah ... i still dunno whats the matter ....... I don't see any tools and I did check create clips for video files T.T I am very frustrated about this .......I searched the help topic and it doesn't work ..... Anyone plz help~

Rozard · Post by **Rozard** » Fri Aug 29, 2003 11:41 pm

WMM can't comprehend DivX encoded avi files, much like Premiere. My guess is that you're using downloaded footage (you don't have to deny or confirm). Anyhow, try running your footage through TMPGenc and importing the MPEG into WMM.

Syber · Post by **Syber** » Sat Aug 30, 2003 8:52 pm

I think u r right with the DIVX alot of the video i download are encoded with it .... thannks for all ur advice ...i 'll try downloading ones without the divx format .... thanks again