Re: The 5 Building Blocks of MM2
From: ed sharpe (esharpe_at_uswest.net)
Date: 01/27/05
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Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 09:20:35 -0700
John and other helpful people, It seems that when I import a new movie it
takes the other move out of the collections area... there are times it
would be nice to have the contents of the two movies to grab stuff from and
also the still I have placed in the collections area. Is this they way it
is supposed to behave or am I doing something wrong?
many thanks ed sharpe
"PapaJohn (MVP)" <PapaJohn@CharterMI.net> wrote in message
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>A good understanding of the 5 basic building blocks you use when working
>with Movie Maker is needed. Here's my personal summary of what they are:
>
> 1 - Source files - the video clips, still pictures and music/audio files
> that you 'import' into Movie Maker to use in your movie projects. The word
> 'import' confuses some, as copies of the source files are not actually
> brought into Movie Maker; the source files are 'linked to' and need to
> stay on your computer or you'll get a big red X in the collection
> indicating a missing source file.
>
> If you have 10,000 music files on your hard drive, they are all 'potential
> source files'; those you've actually imported (linked to) are your source
> files.
>
> 2 - Collections - folders (or the older name of subdirectories) of clips.
> There are two basic special collections, for Video Effects and Video
> Transitions. You get to create, rename, delete, or move all the rest of
> them.
>
> When you import a video source file, Movie Maker automatically creates a
> new collection for the clip(s).... other source files (music and still
> pix) go into the collection that is currently selected when you do the
> importing.
>
> The info about all the Collections in Movie Maker, and their contents, is
> stored in a single file, a database of collection info.... it's a file
> that ends with .DAT.
>
> 3 - Clips - the contents of the collections are the clips (before they go
> into the project timeline/storyboard)... for still pix there is one clip
> for each imported source file, at least in the beginning. The same with an
> imported audio/music file. A video file can be imported as a single clip,
> or automatically subdivided by Movie Maker into smaller clips of
> individual scenes.
>
> Once the clips are in a collection, they can be copied or moved from one
> collection to another. The audio/music and video clips can be subdivided
> manually into smaller clips or sub-clips.
>
> All the info about the clips in the collections is stored in the
> collection database...
>
> Are the clips related to the source files that were imported? Yes, delete
> or move a source file after it's imported (linked), and you'll have a big
> red-X the next time you start Movie Maker.
>
> 4 - Projects - the movie you are working on, represented by the
> timeline/storyboard and whatever you have in it, is your project. You save
> the project as an .MSWMM file and reopen it when you want to have another
> editing session with it.
>
> Unlike the collection database, which is a single file with all the
> collection info in it, and stored in a particular place on your hard
> drive, you are free to have as many project files as you want, and store
> them in any folders. Put it on a thumb drive if you want to and work with
> it from there.
>
> Are the clips in the collections related to the clips in the projects??
> No.... although a clip in a collection and a project might be linked to
> the same source file, there is no relationship between the clip in the
> collection and the one in a project. Once you have a project with all the
> clips it needs, you could erase your collection database without effecting
> the project... and also discard all your project files without effecting
> your collections.
>
> Are the clips in a project related to the source files? Yes, delete or
> move one of the source files and you'll have a big red X to deal with the
> next time you open the project.
>
> 5 - Saved Movies - whenever you want to, you can render a draft or final
> movie from any of your projects.... Movie Makers supports only two file
> types, WMV and DV-AVI.... Once you have rendered a movie, you can start
> the cycle over again, using the movie as a new source file...
>
> ... or like many, you can take your saved movie to your DVD software and
> burn a disc to watch on TV.
>
> --
> PapaJohn
>
> Movie Maker 2 and Photo Story 3 - www.papajohn.org
> Photo Story 2 - www.photostory.papajohn.org
> .
>
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