RE: MM2 confuses the hell out of me!

Did you ever find a way to use the collections in an easier way than this?
Like you I want several video clips visible in the collections frame at one
time - this really limits my use of movie maker - I work mainly with short
video files from the family digital camera and creating 20 collections is
tedious!

"Craigee" wrote:

> Now, please someone correct me if I'm wrong, but while working in MM2 with
> both the Collections Pane and the Contents pane in view, the contents pane
> area can only display one clip at a time..
>
> All I know is MM2 "task panes" are nothing close to what I am used to in the
> Windows Explorer. I mean, I highlight the "collections" folder, then
> FILE>Import INTO COLLECTIONS and from there I select about 10 or 12 media
> clips, ranging anywhere from 8min to 18min each clip and the result: each
> clip I choose to import is treated as its own "collection" within the
> Collections folder, right? okay, heres what I don't get:
>
> Let's say that of these 12 imported clips, the first 4 are just splits
> that I want to combine into the full movie (getting porn from the net they
> usually take one 15 min sceen and chop it up into severl small units). When
> I highlight the main Collections folder, in the collections pane, the
> contents area shows NOTHING. But, in the folder tree I see that these clips
> are all "within" that collections folder.. My issue is, I am not able to
> display, drag drop or trick more than one video clip icon in the contents
> pane... WHY?
>
> I figured out that I can drag a clip on the collections pane and drop it
> into a different clip folder, at which it then shows a folder within a folder
> all within the Collections folder..
>
> So, lets say the first four of my imported clips are clip1.wmv, clip2.wmv,
> clip3.wmv, etc... I figured out to drag the clip2, clip3 and clip4 icons
> and drop them all into the clip1 icon and it shows an appropiate subfolder
> tree.. BUT WHEN I THEN HIGHLIGHT THE CLIP1 icon having the other clips
> within that clip1, the FREAKIN' Contents PANE WILL STILL ONLY SHOW ME THE
> ICON FOR CLIP1 and nothing else.. EVEN WORSE, IF I DRAG that CLIP1 folder
> COLLECTION TO THE STORYLINE, it will add the clip to the beginning of the
> storyline, but only that CLIP1 footage, and nothing from the other that are
> supposed to be in that collection..
>
> I'm not getting it.. !
>
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