Help making clips please

I made a nice avi file from DVIO. I am going from vcr to
camcorder to pc through firewire. Worked great and looks
very clean. It is 6 gigs.

My problem is creating clips to edit.
When I click import video into WMM2 with make clips
checked, well it just does not make the clips. I have
tried right clicking to make clips also, no luck this way
either. Its just one big file.
Am I missing something or does it not work on .avi files?

I also split the avi file and that did not help.

I thank you in advance for any help.

PapaJohn
Fri Feb 27 23:48:50 CST 2004

I have a section about auto clip detection on the Importing Source Files >
Video > Intro page of www.papajohn.org

Capture via firewire from a digital camcorder makes MM2 think it's a video
with timecode data.... and the analog source feeding the camcorder doesn't
use timecode, so there isn't any pauses in the time code to use for creating
clips.

When MM2 sees an analog source, it'll use optical methods of scene
detection, but not when it sees a digital source.

PapaJohn


"dtarnowski@houston.rr.com" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:0c4301c3fdbd$95bf89f0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> I made a nice avi file from DVIO. I am going from vcr to
> camcorder to pc through firewire. Worked great and looks
> very clean. It is 6 gigs.
>
> My problem is creating clips to edit.
> When I click import video into WMM2 with make clips
> checked, well it just does not make the clips. I have
> tried right clicking to make clips also, no luck this way
> either. Its just one big file.
> Am I missing something or does it not work on .avi files?
>
> I also split the avi file and that did not help.
>
> I thank you in advance for any help.

dtarnowski
Sat Feb 28 00:21:07 CST 2004

Ok, thanks. I read your website. So there is no way to
do what I want to do in mm2. Is that correct? Any
advice on how to edit the video then?

>-----Original Message-----
>I have a section about auto clip detection on the
Importing Source Files >
>Video > Intro page of www.papajohn.org
>
>Capture via firewire from a digital camcorder makes MM2
think it's a video
>with timecode data.... and the analog source feeding the
camcorder doesn't
>use timecode, so there isn't any pauses in the time code
to use for creating
>clips.
>
>When MM2 sees an analog source, it'll use optical
methods of scene
>detection, but not when it sees a digital source.
>
>PapaJohn
>
>
>"dtarnowski@houston.rr.com"
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>message news:0c4301c3fdbd$95bf89f0$a601280a@phx.gbl...
>> I made a nice avi file from DVIO. I am going from vcr
to
>> camcorder to pc through firewire. Worked great and
looks
>> very clean. It is 6 gigs.
>>
>> My problem is creating clips to edit.
>> When I click import video into WMM2 with make clips
>> checked, well it just does not make the clips. I have
>> tried right clicking to make clips also, no luck this
way
>> either. Its just one big file.
>> Am I missing something or does it not work on .avi
files?
>>
>> I also split the avi file and that did not help.
>>
>> I thank you in advance for any help.
>
>
>.
>

PapaJohn
Sat Feb 28 01:02:42 CST 2004

Here's the options that I see:

If you were to capture with an analog device such as a Dazzle 80, then MM2
would do the auto clip detection based on optical changes of scenes.

Another option might be to use MM1... it might do the optical splitting even
if MM2 doesn't (I'm not sure but it might pay to try it). If so, have it
make a new collection database, and then import the MM1 collection into your
MM2 collection database.

You can manually split the clip(s) in the collection.... this is my
preferred approach for my own work. It's often quicker, easier and better to
do it than it is to think about doing it. It helps you spend some time to
get to know your clips better, which pays off during the editing.

And you don't need to split a big clip into smaller ones in order to use
them in a project and edit a movie.... you can use the same clip as many
times as you want and set the starting and stopping trim points to define
the clips, instead of splitting them in the collection.


PapaJohn



"dtarnowski@houston.rr.com" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:36ee01c3fdc3$0d2eb240$a501280a@phx.gbl...
> Ok, thanks. I read your website. So there is no way to
> do what I want to do in mm2. Is that correct? Any
> advice on how to edit the video then?
>