Movie effects and saving work

[paularenson]

I have more or less figured out the titles options for movies. But one reference in the manual is about movie effects. I looked, but do not see this menu option anywhere. Like transitions, etc.


Also, is there a recommended procedure to editing movies and saving as you go along? I tried saving and a bndl and export, but this froze,. I had my original files--> the sounds BEFORE the edits and all the video cuts. But I had to reassemble them. Thanks.

paul

[Jerm]

But one reference in the manual is about movie effects. I looked, but do not see this menu option anywhere. Like transitions, etc.

Did you look in editmenu:video:effects & transitions ?

Also, is there a recommended procedure to editing movies and saving as you go along? I tried saving and a bndl and export, but this froze,. I had my original files--> the sounds BEFORE the edits and all the video cuts.

You should be able to simply save, save as bundle, or export as movie. If you can give me steps to repeat the problem I can take a look at it. What versions of OS, Metro and Quicktime are you using?

[paularenson]

Hi Jerm.

Let's see:

QT Pro version 7.4 (92)
And Metro 6.4

Trying to save as a QT Move the file (an hour, by the way, so i expected it would take time) is still saving after 8 hours.....and the counter gets longer the longer it saves....

Trying to save as a Bundle it says FLATTENING MOVIE , and then says, after 1 minute, Saving Media to Portable Bundle, followed by -41 Memory Full (open) or file won't fit (load).

I checked my hard disk and I have 152 GB of memory (62 used and the rest marked as available).


G5 PPC tower

thanx

[paularenson]

Oh, if I simply save I get -54
ATTEMPT TO OPEN LOCKED FILE FOR WRITING.


I just found a few files which MAY BE the saved versions of previous attempts, meaning I may have successfully saved. I click them, they open, but when I do SAVE AS I get the same message as above.

Will try the EXPORT again and see what happens after a while....

[Jerm]

Hello Paul,

Well you should definitely see this!

[paularenson]

Thanks Jerm. Wow, that is a bummer. So if I read it right Apple has fixed it, so now I need to get the update, or something else......hang on a bit perhaps? Or revert to previous QT, or???


BTW, this reminds me that I preferred things when they had their old IMOVIE HD. It worked much more smoothly, but I guess that is another issue.

Thanks for checking...

And by the way, I am blown away by Metro's usefulness not only as Midi and audio but also video editing.

I almost don't need anything else (not that I am about to throw out my flight simulators and Word processing programs. And I guess I will still keep my microwave open.) But almost everything I use on a daily basis is taken care of.