As a newbie I have printed the first sticky re settings but wonder how much of it refers to V9. I ask because I can't find a Capture Property Setting menu. Is the Project Properties a replacement?
Not having a particularly poweful PC I will capture in AVI. The Project Properties-Project Template Properties presets the edit file format to MPEG. The Create Video File Phase in the sticky refers to transcoding to MPEG2 before burning to a DVD, so why is the edit set to MPEG? Changing this to AVI brings a warning "clicking OK may clear the cache for video/audio preview and undo/redo functions". What should I do?
I have put the project in a separate video-only drive but have also found duplicate copies of the clips in the C drive My Documents folder. Are these neccessary? If so, they will soon fill this drive.
Initial settings and location of files.
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It makes good sense for you to capture to AVI, and only encode to MPEG-2 prior to burning to DVD as per the recommended procedure.
I think the default format might be MPEG-2 - but you should change it to match the properties of your first clip, which will be AVI.
After you've captured some footage, and you want to start editing it, open a new project file, and insert your AVI clip or clips. At that point, VS should prompt you about changing the project properties to match the clip, to which you should click yes. If it doesn't give you the prompt, you can set it to do so from "file>>preferences" menu.
As you'll discover, VS is not very tidy about all the project settings. These can be found in several places. To begin with, when capturing, you can point to folders for temporary files and captured clips - which in your case you wish to put to somewhere other than the default C: drive.
Then in "file >> preferences" you should be able to point to the desired folders for other settings.
Not sure why you ended up with duplicate clips - unless you have an HP pc with "Image Zone" software. On my own HP pc, I discovered duplicates of ALL my media files building up to a fair old size in an "Image Vault" folder.
When you do come to the point where you need to create a single MPEG-2 file of your project prior to burning a DVD ( in accordance with the recommended procedure) it may be helpful for you to optimise your pc to maximise its limited resources, and render the file in the minimum time. You can read a protracted series of posts on the topic which explain how you can reduce the number of Windows processes running on your pc, as well as stopping screensavers, anti-virus programs and others.
Good luck!
I think the default format might be MPEG-2 - but you should change it to match the properties of your first clip, which will be AVI.
After you've captured some footage, and you want to start editing it, open a new project file, and insert your AVI clip or clips. At that point, VS should prompt you about changing the project properties to match the clip, to which you should click yes. If it doesn't give you the prompt, you can set it to do so from "file>>preferences" menu.
As you'll discover, VS is not very tidy about all the project settings. These can be found in several places. To begin with, when capturing, you can point to folders for temporary files and captured clips - which in your case you wish to put to somewhere other than the default C: drive.
Then in "file >> preferences" you should be able to point to the desired folders for other settings.
Not sure why you ended up with duplicate clips - unless you have an HP pc with "Image Zone" software. On my own HP pc, I discovered duplicates of ALL my media files building up to a fair old size in an "Image Vault" folder.
When you do come to the point where you need to create a single MPEG-2 file of your project prior to burning a DVD ( in accordance with the recommended procedure) it may be helpful for you to optimise your pc to maximise its limited resources, and render the file in the minimum time. You can read a protracted series of posts on the topic which explain how you can reduce the number of Windows processes running on your pc, as well as stopping screensavers, anti-virus programs and others.
Good luck!
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