Re: Edit TV files with MovieMaker?
From: jquiet (tester,testingplace,net)
Date: 06/09/04
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Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 09:37:40 -0700
Microsoft also has to leave some things for others to do. It makes sense for
efficiency reasons and for anti-trust reasons.
In a perfect world there might not be any applications, only media/content
to buy, and the one simple interface would handle everything in a perfectly
well integrated fashion. But there is a slim chance of the competition ever
allowing that to happen, whether it is good for the customer or not. In my
world only professionals would have to install professional level products.
Your off-the-shelf PC would perform every mainstream function a consumer
would want, without the user really being aware that they are launching
separate applications. It would be more task oriented, and update itself as
new functions became mainstream.
Something close to it has to happen if 100% of the citizenry is ever
expected to use computers. In a way, a web browser is fulfilling this role
now. People are able to do quite a few functions over the web, but the
experience at each web-site is very different. Some are good and some are a
mess of pop-up windows and non-intuitive forms.
"Dana Cline - MVP" <dcline@scriptpro.com> wrote in message
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> Bob,
>
> > I was hoping that Movie Maker 2.1 (included in SP2 RC1) would support
> > DVR-MS files, but sadly it does not. You would think that Microsoft's
> > own video editing product\ would support their own video format...
>
> Well, I've seen other instances where Microsoft's left hand doesn't know
> what the right hand is doing, so I've come to expect it <g>.
>
> > DVR-Edit does not convert to MPEG-2. My information may be
> > outdated, but last I heard, the developer had decided that he
> > would not add that capability.
>
> Yeah, I found that out. Apparently the web site says it does, and it even
> has menu items for it, but just brings up a messagebox saying it hasn't
been
> implemented. In the meantime, I was trying to figure out how to use the
darn
> thing. I marked a section (of commercials), but the X button (which I
assume
> is Delete) isn't active until I've marked 2 sections. I clicked X on both
> sections, then tried to save the file. Got one of those errors where it
> wants to report it to Microsoft, so I let it do that.
>
> > There is another free utility that you can get at the greenbutton
> > called DVR-Ripper, which does extract the MPEG streams from
> > the DVR-MS file. It seems to work well for some - not at all
> > for others.
>
> I'll try that one...
>
> > There is also a DVR2WMV converter that is available as
> > release candidate. I used an earlier beta version of that
> > program, and it rocked! You can find a download link for
> > that program at the greenbutton too.
>
> I'll download that one too. Thanks!
>
> Dana
>
>
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