Real newbie questions: My business associate records video footage on a
DV camera for later assembly into an educational course. The scenes are
shot totally at random. He would like to pay my teenage daughter to
transfer the video from DV to the hard drive (AVI format) and then clean
up each individual clip. The edited clips will be returned to him on a
removable hard drive.

1) How do you permanently edit a clip? (As I understand it, the crops
and fades in the time line are non-destructive.)

2) Will there be any degradation of the DV quality by virtue of having
edited the file in WMM?

3) Is there any reason the edited files will not be compatible with
Adobe Premiere, which is the program presently being used to assembly
the final video?

and unrelated...

4) How do you create a clip that, for example, displays a title for
three seconds and then fades to black for three seconds (the total clip
is six seconds)?

you should be fine with what you outline..

for your 6 second clip, make the 6 second title clip and add a 3 second
simple black image.... overlap the two by the 3 seconds and the title will
fade to black over the 3 seconds.
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"mcp6453" <mcp6453@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> Real newbie questions: My business associate records video footage on a DV
> camera for later assembly into an educational course. The scenes are shot
> totally at random. He would like to pay my teenage daughter to transfer
> the video from DV to the hard drive (AVI format) and then clean up each
> individual clip. The edited clips will be returned to him on a removable
> hard drive.
>
> 1) How do you permanently edit a clip? (As I understand it, the crops and
> fades in the time line are non-destructive.)
>
> 2) Will there be any degradation of the DV quality by virtue of having
> edited the file in WMM?
>
> 3) Is there any reason the edited files will not be compatible with Adobe
> Premiere, which is the program presently being used to assembly the final
> video?
>
> and unrelated...
>
> 4) How do you create a clip that, for example, displays a title for three
> seconds and then fades to black for three seconds (the total clip is six
> seconds)?

PapaJohn (MVP) wrote:
> you should be fine with what you outline..
>
> for your 6 second clip, make the 6 second title clip and add a 3 second
> simple black image.... overlap the two by the 3 seconds and the title will
> fade to black over the 3 seconds.

Thanks.

1) How do you permanently (destructively) edit a clip in WMM2? Edit in
the timeline and then export to a movie?

Yes.... it's called Saving a Movie, not exporting.
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"mcp6453" <mcp6453@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> PapaJohn (MVP) wrote:
>> you should be fine with what you outline..
>>
>> for your 6 second clip, make the 6 second title clip and add a 3 second
>> simple black image.... overlap the two by the 3 seconds and the title
>> will fade to black over the 3 seconds.
>
> Thanks.
>
> 1) How do you permanently (destructively) edit a clip in WMM2? Edit in the
> timeline and then export to a movie?

PapaJohn (MVP) wrote:
> Yes.... it's called Saving a Movie, not exporting.

Thanks. One more question for now. To insert a clip, how do you
precisely relocate the titles and audio clips that go along with the
video (the audio track, not the audio integral with the video?)

Thanks so much for your help. My daughter is finishing her school
project due tomorrow. If she had not discovered WMM, her project would
have been turned in as incomplete because she could not get editing time
on the system at the (public) school. She loves WMM, even though it just
crashed for no reason. Thankfully her file was autorecovered. She is now
saving it frequently, like I told her to do several hours ago.

note the exact time of the ending of the movie... let's say it's 14 min
35.63 seconds

add the clips you want to the video track... then note again the final
ending position... let's say it's no 14 min 56.92 seconds...

calculate the difference in movie length, which in this case is 21.29
seconds... so you need to move some or all of the titles and audio to the
right by that much...

Note the current positions of the audio and text track clips... add the
21.29 seconds and note the new positions.

Select the first clip in the track you want to move... hold the shift key
down and select the last clip in the track... that'll result in the group
you need to move being selected. Grab the group and do the gross adjustment
with the mouse. Then use the nudge feature to get the group into the exact
position.

For the crashing, see the Problem Solving > Crashes and Hangs page of my
website.

Wish her good luck on her project for me...
--
PapaJohn

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"mcp6453" <mcp6453@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> PapaJohn (MVP) wrote:
>> Yes.... it's called Saving a Movie, not exporting.
>
> Thanks. One more question for now. To insert a clip, how do you precisely
> relocate the titles and audio clips that go along with the video (the
> audio track, not the audio integral with the video?)
>
> Thanks so much for your help. My daughter is finishing her school project
> due tomorrow. If she had not discovered WMM, her project would have been
> turned in as incomplete because she could not get editing time on the
> system at the (public) school. She loves WMM, even though it just crashed
> for no reason. Thankfully her file was autorecovered. She is now saving it
> frequently, like I told her to do several hours ago.