what's the recommendation - importing video??

octavious · Post by **octavious** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 2:40 am

hi - sorry for this notoriously dumb question.

MSP8 - I have a bunch of WMV files which I am trying to drop into the timeline and I was wondering how I go about enabling MSP to allow me to do this?

Is there a way of importing WMV files that the forum recommends?

Should I convert to AVI first using some 3rd party tool - if so, what do you guys recommend?

I looked at the Ulead plugins but it seemed to be for cellphones and other appliances I think...

thanks for any guidance!

Devil · Post by **Devil** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 8:27 am

Not so dumb a question. This is a Microsoft generated problem. For some unknown reason, MS doesn't like people editing WMV. Apps that used to be able to handle WMV, such as VirtualDub, no longer can. I don't have a solution, but have you tried this?

Gorf · Post by **Gorf** » Mon Sep 24, 2007 9:37 am

I've been working* on a tutorial for "dabear" and have generated a WMV file of the screen display. This file imports perfectly into MSP just by dragging the file onto the timeline.

MSP needs to "prepare" the file before editing, a step that you can avoid if you turn on indexing when creating the WMV.

* Waiting for a quiet house so I can record the dialogue - I may just have to use subtitles, it's never quiet here...

dabear · Post by **dabear** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 2:35 am

Gorf wrote:I've been working* on a tutorial for "dabear" and have generated a WMV file of the screen display. This file imports perfectly into MSP just by dragging the file onto the timeline.

MSP needs to "prepare" the file before editing, a step that you can avoid if you turn on indexing when creating the WMV.

* Waiting for a quiet house so I can record the dialogue - I may just have to use subtitles, it's never quiet here...

*** I just pmed you lol, Now I see this. Thanks man

MrA · Post by **MrA** » Fri Sep 28, 2007 3:12 am

Devil wrote:Not so dumb a question. This is a Microsoft generated problem. For some unknown reason, MS doesn't like people editing WMV. Apps that used to be able to handle WMV, such as VirtualDub, no longer can. I don't have a solution, but have you tried this?

I take offense at this statement, I edit WMV files with a vengence... ahem (actually I don't take offense)

octavious · Post by **octavious** » Wed Oct 24, 2007 10:00 pm

MSP needs to "prepare" the file before editing, a step that you can avoid if you turn on indexing when creating the WMV.

... thanks for the info guys. OK I got Windows Encoder 9. But what exactly does it mean to "prepare" the file before editing and where would I "turn on indexing"?

Devil · Post by **Devil** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 7:52 am

MrAmigo2121 wrote:
Devil wrote:Not so dumb a question. This is a Microsoft generated problem. For some unknown reason, MS doesn't like people editing WMV. Apps that used to be able to handle WMV, such as VirtualDub, no longer can. I don't have a solution, but have you tried this?
I take offense at this statement, I edit WMV files with a vengence... ahem (actually I don't take offense)

If you use an earlier WMV encoder, no problem. It's the latest one that mucks things up. That's why I said "no longer can"

Gorf · Post by **Gorf** » Thu Oct 25, 2007 8:48 am

octavious wrote:
MSP needs to "prepare" the file before editing, a step that you can avoid if you turn on indexing when creating the WMV.
... thanks for the info guys. OK I got Windows Encoder 9. But what exactly does it mean to "prepare" the file before editing and where would I "turn on indexing"?

If you search the windows media encoder help file for "index" or "indexing" the very first result answers your question.

No idea what it is, don't care; but if you want to speed up WMV editing in MSP, the file needs to be indexed.