Can you help me understand My Movie Maker?

Asked by Dutchess_III (46807

) September 30th, 2015

I got some VHS tapes downloaded to DVD’s. I want to make a compilation of the best ones, but I’m having a hard time figuring out what Movie Maker is doing.

I have a single CD in the drive. When I click on “Add Videos,” there are 5 different “files” or something to choose from. I don’t understand that.

Also, when I start to play one, it goes all the way through from where it started, maybe 12 seconds. Then when I move the line on the video back ward, it pulls out completely different video images than what just played.

Can you help me? Or recommend a good, free movie maker?

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DVD movies are generally in a totally different format than regular video files, and a bit harder to work with than your normal video files. Most video editors deal with “computer” video like .AVI, .MOV, .WMV or .MP4 instead, so you may need to use something like Handbrake just to get it into a file format you can deal with. And like any other multimedia editing, it’s a lot faster to do on a fairly up-to-date computer than on older ones due to the sheer amount of computing required to transcode something.

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Well…this computer is 3 years old. Is that fairly up to date? Thanks for the link.

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It’s probably close enough, unless you bought real cheap and low-end. My five-year-old i3–530 could manage and newer desktops are 2–10 times as powerful as it, but I wouldn’t try it on my laptop. Any Core i3/5/7 should suffice.

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