how to save in 2 formats ?

Hello again - first the good news - firewire cable arrived, camcorder
connects fine, spent a couple of hours yesterday on my first ever
project of 12 minutes which I saved as a 45 meg .wmv file and which
plays just fine for me in windows media player :)

But today I went to open the project to save it as an .avi file (as I've
read here that's an option too and - as it's for a friend and I don't
know what her pc plays easily - so I thought I'd put both saved versions
on a cd for her so that one at least should play).

But the project is gone ... no .mswmm files at all where it was ! Does
that mean you can only save a project as one type of file ? and if you
then want to do what I wanted to do and save it as another type of file
you have to start the project again ?

Thanks in advance for any advice !

Regards, Val
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Val Davies

John
Fri Dec 22 08:18:42 CST 2006

Val Davies wrote:
> Hello again - first the good news - firewire cable arrived, camcorder
> connects fine, spent a couple of hours yesterday on my first ever
> project of 12 minutes which I saved as a 45 meg .wmv file and which
> plays just fine for me in windows media player :)
>
> But today I went to open the project to save it as an .avi file (as
> I've read here that's an option too and - as it's for a friend and I
> don't know what her pc plays easily - so I thought I'd put both saved
> versions on a cd for her so that one at least should play).
>
> But the project is gone ... no .mswmm files at all where it was ! Does
> that mean you can only save a project as one type of file ? and
> if you then want to do what I wanted to do and save it as another
> type of file you have to start the project again ?
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice !
>
> Regards, Val
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If you saved your completed project...
File / Save Project As...

Your .mswmm project file should
be in your My Videos folder unless
you directed it to a different folder.

C:\Documents and Settings\>user
name<\My Documents\My Videos

Saving a file in a new format does
not overwrite the original.

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! MVP

Digital Image
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Val
Fri Dec 22 09:51:14 CST 2006

In message <uJ6iYQdJHHA.320@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl>, John Inzer
<oobie@doobie.xyz> writes
>If you saved your completed project...
>File / Save Project As...
>
>Your .mswmm project file should
>be in your My Videos folder unless
>you directed it to a different folder.
>
>C:\Documents and Settings\>user
>name<\My Documents\My Videos
>
>Saving a file in a new format does
>not overwrite the original.
>
How dozy am I ? (don't answer that !) I *always* save files under
shared documents, except of course last night it seems - there it is
just where you said it would be ... Phew.

Thanks John

Regards, Val
--
Val Davies

John
Fri Dec 22 10:28:11 CST 2006

Val Davies wrote:
> In message <uJ6iYQdJHHA.320@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl>, John Inzer
> <oobie@doobie.xyz> writes
>> If you saved your completed project...
>> File / Save Project As...
>>
>> Your .mswmm project file should
>> be in your My Videos folder unless
>> you directed it to a different folder.
>>
>> C:\Documents and Settings\>user
>> name<\My Documents\My Videos
>>
>> Saving a file in a new format does
>> not overwrite the original.
>>
> How dozy am I ? (don't answer that !) I *always* save files under
> shared documents, except of course last night it seems - there it is
> just where you said it would be ... Phew.
>
> Thanks John
>
> Regards, Val
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You're welcome.

Thanks for the update.

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk