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Chrissy you just choose and appropiate topic and "start new thread" with a new title...

Absolutely marvellous! Well done!

I haven't read the book - and now I don't have to!

Loved it! Better than the book

Thank you for the advice. In fact this afternoon I downloaded a progrtamme called AVS Video Editor and it accepts MPEG-4 (so I don't have to mess about using my conversion software) and it also has an option to save to DVD and Blu-Ray which means I can very easily make DVDs for all the family. I have my fingers tightly crossed that this will be the solution that makes life as easy as poss.

Thanks to all of you. We are all quite new to all this but haviing a lot of fun. The other film we made took a lot more work so we thought short films might be the way to go. Bikergran, I am fairly new to all this forum stuff so if you do start a new thread where would I find it?

Well Mishap, I mostly leave the technical stuff to a friend. I'll ask him. But, I also have a free converter so for my own storyboard stuff (can't draw) and the rough cuts, I do convert to WMV files but I don't seem to have a problem using them in MovieMaker afterwards.

For the 20 min film we did we used FinalCut Pro and I had a lot of help but my computer isn't Apple so I can't use that one although I did a short course on it. I am planning to get the Windows equivalent but am researching at the moment and will need to upgrade the speed of my processor and get a separate hard drive.

But I don't think you need anything like as complicated to get good results and I like MovieMaker except for the lack of audio manipulation (You couldn't add the sighs as we did for example).

Sorry can't be more helpful but try putting in a search for converting files from MPEG 4. I use Any Video Converter which is a free download.

I'll ask my friend and also let you know when I find a programme just a bit better than MovieMaker but not so complicated as FinalCutPro and maybe you could do the same.

It's all a learning curve isn't it?

I would be interested to know which movie maker software you are using. My new camcorder produces MPEG-4 files and windows movie maker cannot cope with those. I have to go into a convertor programme and turn them into WMV files. But there is still a problem when I load them into the storyboard of moviemaker - for some totally obscure reason the sound does not synch with the visuals and I get the sound from one lapping over into another.

Any ideas? - either how to stop that happening or a better freeware that I can download.

Thanks for your help.

ChrissyE brill idea...2 min film silent or voiced..will put my thinking cap on now...maybe start another thread off but with different title to encourage others!

Oh that was good! I love a nice cup of tea......

love the chain bit at the begining...must admit wasn't going to bother clicking on the thread... as the title didnt grab me! . but glad I did..

Liked it

Nice one, ChrissyE.

lol ohhh brilliant!! well done ChrissyE lol........

Sorry forgot square brackets

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