Video Editors - I really need some assistance

[Cebru]

Hello folks

For those that are unfamilar with me, my name is Clint, obviously my sig shows I'm an NBA collector, I'm also a Nth Melbourne supporter, and I am currently working towards earning a PhD in psychology (if you are in Perth, you've likely seen me in the West Australian, on TV, or heard me on any of the major 4 radio stations without knowing it ). My PhD research looks at emotion dysregulation in bipolar disorder and an element of the research involves getting different populations to watch some short film clips. I now have most of the movie clips I need and am trying to merge them together into one file with blank fillers inbetween. I am using a combination of Windows Live Movie Maker and Freemake Video Converter to try and do this, but am running into trouble with WLMM not letting me merge the files. Some work okay and some don't. I could really use some advice/help from somone that knows what they are doing, as I am kinda clueless. If it would be difficult to assist via communication, I would be willing to compensate someone for their time if it would be quicker and easier for me to mail the clips to them to do the merging themselves. I'm actually willing to listen to any possible solution at this stage. I have a qualified Sound Engineer who will help with equalising sound levels/quality once the films have been merged. I figured that seeing I have seen so many highlight clips and things made by members here, surely someone would be willing and able to help me out

Thanks for reading and any help provided would be sincerely appreciated.

Cheers - Clint

 

[A_Iverson_I]

Get yourself Vegas Pro brother. Awesome editing program. Very expensive, however you can download a fully functioning 30-day trial. Bit of a learning curve to it, but YouTube has a lot of great tuts for it.

 

[Cebru]

Thank you sir, man you know a lot of shit! I'll give that a burl, but if anyone else has any further advice or wouldn't mind helpin' me out with this please let me know. I'm desperate... like a fox!

 

[A_Iverson_I]

LOL I didn't know a thing about video editing until I decided to make a few NBA mixes. A lot of fun and a lot of learning. YouTube should be more than enough help, but if you need any help LMK. I may be a bit rusty though as I haven't used it for a number of months now since I made my last video as been too busy haha

 

[Cobretti]

well since I am struggling to sleep I will type this out sowly on my phone.

it all depends what type of files you are trying to join.

Ideally they all the parts need to be the same codec, frame rate, resolution.

Assuming all the files have been made and all you need to do is join.

you could try format factory. It is freeware. Just be careful not to install the ask.com toolbar crap. In advanced tab there is video joiner.

Alternatively you could downlaod virtualdub mod and append each part to each other. Little harder to use as it is more for people who encode odd school without the simple open here add there gui.

 

[Cebru]

Awesome, thank you Cobretti. I have all the files in *.wmv for WLMM, with equal resolution, frame rates, *bit rates, and *Audio formats (*requirement for my Sound Engineer)- across each clip. When I go to save the clips as one file, WLMM comes up with an error: "Sorry, your movie can't be saved. Find any missing files or remove the unstable items from your project, and then try again. Error: 0xC945002D"..

The odd thing is that the clips that won't work for WLMM are clips I cut from full-length films using WLMM.

 

[Cobretti]

wmv is a windows container. you may struggle to find other software to join it correctly.

I am pretty sure format factor support WMV, virtualdub will not. Perhaps one of the earlier versions before micrososft asked them to remove it.

 

[Cebru]

The full movies are generally *.avi , then when I use WLMM to edit and cut out what I want, it will only let me save those files as *.wmv, but won't let me merge them. All done with the same program, only using it coz I read a lot of good reports, but really, it's basically telling me that WLMM is incompatible with itself..

 

[Billyhoyle]

also check out videohelp.com for lots of tutorials

 

[Cebru]

Vegas Pro is working a treat! No issues whatsoever using the same files I have been trying to use. Brett, you're a lord
Now I just need to convince my supervisors that investing in a permanent copy of the software is in our best interests...

Thanks to all for the help, much appreciated.
Clint