Windows Movie Maker 2 help

Griffon_labor · Post by **Griffon_labor** » Mon Dec 29, 2003 12:40 am

I just downloaded windows movie maker 2. It's nice and everything but it has problems previewing clips for me so it's hard to do anything without know where to cut and such. Can anyone help me out. Thanks.

bum · Post by **bum** » Mon Dec 29, 2003 12:54 am

ok here's what i usualy dont do but if i did it would make making am amv alot less of a headache for me, and anyone els who makes amv's. plan it, plan your amv first so you dont end up randomly searching for clips, and end up with a crap amv (note that i actualy do plan, but i do it in my head, usualy while instening to the song over and over. but generaly you should write down the lyrics and just plan it on paper, its alot easier.)\

the second, lazy way to go about doing it it to just allways have the file your using open in media player

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Mon Dec 29, 2003 2:08 am

bum wrote:plan it, plan your amv first so you dont end up randomly searching for clips, and end up with a crap amv

That doesn't help the previewing issue that Griffon's talking about. The problem isn't that s/he doesn't know what clips s/he wants to use; the problem is that s/he can't tell whether they're lining up with the music the way s/he wants them to. At least that's what I gathered from the post.

About the only thing I can suggest is that it usually helps the timing on previewing any given section if you play it more than once. Also, you can export low-quality versions of your incomplete video, see where things aren't timed the way you wanted, and go back and tweak them.

I noticed when I was using WMM1 that writing down certain specific frame numbers (like the ones where you want the cuts to be) helps a lot when making small tweaks.

Arigatomina · Post by **Arigatomina** » Mon Dec 29, 2003 3:07 am

A main problem with previewing in wmm2.0 is the timeline and the source footage. If you're using huffyuv for your source footage (deinterlaced) you should be able to line up your cuts just by matching them with the music spikes - enough to get a short section you can then send out (as Scintilla said) in a 'trial' vid - a preview vid. The only way I've been able to accurately preview a vid inside wmm2.0 is if the section I was looking at had very few cuts, few effects/fades/etc - anything complicated and it catches and lags. And if you're using another format aside from huffyuv, like divx or (God forbid) wmv, you definitely won't have much luck previewing.

As for solutions - how complicated is the timeline you're trying to preview, what are the source clips encoded as, and how much free space (and processing speed) does your computer have? Defragging your drive can help a bit, but if the footage is in a bad format or the timeline is too complicated, the best bet is to just edit according to the music and preview the vid with produced trial versions.

Griffon_labor · Post by **Griffon_labor** » Mon Dec 29, 2003 11:53 am

Well,my problem is that the little screen on the side that plays the selected clip is all green and garbled only playing the audio correctly.

Arigatomina · Post by **Arigatomina** » Mon Dec 29, 2003 1:23 pm

Griffon_labor wrote:Well,my problem is that the little screen on the side that plays the selected clip is all green and garbled only playing the audio correctly.

That sounds like a codec issue or a problem with the source clips themselves. What format are they in? Can you view them normally on your media players? Does it only turn green after you import it into wmm, or are there problems trying to watch the clips in other programs?