Movie Maker Q?

[zumbruk]

I video'd a friend's wedding on Saturday, and having loaded the material into Windows MovieMaker, it's split the single 23 minute shot of the ceremony into about 5 bits, apparently randomly (I didn't stop the camera the whole time) - the bits vary from 7 minutes to 5 seconds in length. I can (painfully) stitch them back together again, but does anyone know why it might have done this, and how to stop it doing it again? Would reloading the video off the camera help?

[FourWheelDrift]

Just highlight all of them (either holding down CTRL and clicking each one or clicking a LMB box around all of them) and drag the whole lot to the storyboard. 5 second job.

No ideas why MM should do it. Always does.

[ErnestM]

As you run through the "Capture Wizard" in Movie Maker, untick the box that says Create clips when wizard finishes

It will then just capture the video as one large file...


ErnestM

[Rob P]

I'm looking at getting a digi camcorder (see other thread!).

Does this sort of movie editing require a power/memory hungry PC?

[GetCarter]

Rob P said:

I'm looking at getting a digi camcorder (see other thread!). Does this sort of movie editing require a power/memory hungry PC?

..an easy one at last...

YEP

[zumbruk]

FourWheelDrift said:

Just highlight all of them (either holding down CTRL and clicking each one or clicking a LMB box around all of them) and drag the whole lot to the storyboard. 5 second job.

Ta. It suddenly occured to me on the khazi this morning that you might be able to do an extended selection on the clips. I'll try that tonight.

Thanks again...

[zumbruk]

GetCarter said:

Rob P said: I'm looking at getting a digi camcorder (see other thread!). Does this sort of movie editing require a power/memory hungry PC? ..an easy one at last... YEP

Agreed. I have a 2.1GHz Celeron/256Mb memory/40Gb disk which is barely adequate.

[darthdicky]

It splits it up like that when it thinks a scene has come to an end, normally when it fades to black. I think there's an option somewhere that turns this feature off?