Rookie problems....multitrimming

jerryemt2001 · Post by **jerryemt2001** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 3:52 pm

I bought VS9 and cannot make a go of it. The manual is really horrible. I have a 330 Intel Celeron D Processor, 787 RAM. I have my VS9 on one hard drive and the MPEGs on another hard drive.

I had my old 8mm films converted to MPEGs by a company. They are on a CD. He divided the MPEGs in four different files, ranging from 1.1 GB to 918 MB. Anyway it is about 2 hours worth of video. I wanted to create a 30 minute video from snippets from all four MPEGs, with background music, titles, narration etc. I used the multitrim feature to cut 30 second blurbs or so from multiple points on one MPEG. Fine that was easy. When I put them in all in the time line one of two things happen. When I play my project, the video moves like it is in slow motion (jerky) or it stops at one end of the segment and doesnt move on to the next. The yellow vertical bar stops it. Try as I might, I cannot seems to move that bar to encompass the entire snippets I put together to make my project. What the heck am I doing wrong? You can email at gentilemedic@earthlink.net if it's easier. Any help is grateful.

Trevor Andrew · Post by **Trevor Andrew** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 4:15 pm

The yellow bar indicate the start and end of a clip.

You can play individual clips in clip mode or the full project in project mode.

Click the word 'project' adjacent to the start button.

The project will play from the triangle at the top of time line

Trevor

DVDDoug · Post by **DVDDoug** » Fri Mar 03, 2006 8:41 pm

Oh man! You didn't try-out the free trial first?

This is probably NOT just a "rookie problem"!

All of the Ulead products seem to have difficulty editing MPEGs. (MPEG is not meant to be an editable format.) I've had the problems you describe, I've had occasional crashes, and I had "lip-sync" problems almost every time I edited an MPEG.

Here's something you can try - Open each file and save it in DV format. (Under the Share tab.) Do all of your editing in DV format. When you're all done, Video Studio will convert them back to MPEG before it makes a DVD. You will get some quality-loss due to the extra MPEG encode.

Another option is to get a special purpose MPEG editor. I have the Womble MPEG Video Wizard ($50 - $140). I've had NONE of these weird problems since I started editing my MPEGs with Womble! If you just want to cut & splice (no fancy editing) VideoReDo ($50) seems like a really good program. (I don't own it, but I've tried the free-trial.) These are special-purpose tools, and you'll probably need other software for your other video related tasks like editing other formats, and authoring & burning DVDs.

Your processor is a bit slow... but since, you are not doing real-time analog capture, a slow computer will NOT generate errors. You're just processing data-files... it's number crunching. A slow computer won't give you the wrong number in a spreadsheet, and it won't generate errors in your video files.