Auto-Movie Difficulty- mulitiple files

Ok, my problem is one which seems simple, but the solution has left me
puzzled, even after an hour at Papa Johns.

I have a ton of 15 second clips from my favorite Video game.
Importing them gave me a long list in Collections, perhaps maybe even 25
different clips. Now, when I select any one of them, I see only that
Individual clip to the right.
Attempting to make an Auto-Movie at this point gives me an Error Message.
That is to be expected ... the message says it's not 30 seconds, and I know
that, it's only 15 seconds. :)

The trouble is, how do I select MULTIPLE clips at once? I've even edited the
Collections area, to put them all into a folder within Collections called
GAME CLIPS, but highlighting the GAME CLIPS bar doesnt bring up all the
contents on the screen to the right. Nor can I hold down CTL to select
multiple items.

Should I be dragging all the desired clips to the Timeline first? Please, I
can make a normal movie just fine ... but I am really interested to play with
the Auto-Movie feature. What am I doing wrong?

Toby
Tue Oct 26 15:11:58 CDT 2004

You should be able to select the folder which will display all your clips
select one clip then CTRL-A to select all then choose tools automovie and
have it work. If not what encoded format and length are the indifidual
clips

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"The BEM" <The BEM@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Ok, my problem is one which seems simple, but the solution has left me
> puzzled, even after an hour at Papa Johns.
>
> I have a ton of 15 second clips from my favorite Video game.
> Importing them gave me a long list in Collections, perhaps maybe even 25
> different clips. Now, when I select any one of them, I see only that
> Individual clip to the right.
> Attempting to make an Auto-Movie at this point gives me an Error Message.
> That is to be expected ... the message says it's not 30 seconds, and I
> know
> that, it's only 15 seconds. :)
>
> The trouble is, how do I select MULTIPLE clips at once? I've even edited
> the
> Collections area, to put them all into a folder within Collections called
> GAME CLIPS, but highlighting the GAME CLIPS bar doesnt bring up all the
> contents on the screen to the right. Nor can I hold down CTL to select
> multiple items.
>
> Should I be dragging all the desired clips to the Timeline first? Please,
> I
> can make a normal movie just fine ... but I am really interested to play
> with
> the Auto-Movie feature. What am I doing wrong?