How do I trim video clips, please?

[Lavina Molnar Profile Private message]

No, I don't have a video camera! Recently I've been playing about with the movie clips in my Minolta. Problem is, when I try to trim clips - and I'm pretty sure I've been doing the right things - whenever I attempt to trim a clip the darned thing just reverts to leaving me with the first frame of the clip. Any ideas please?
Thanks

Lavina

[Brenda Profile Private message]

Hi Lavina,

Assuming you have trimmed the clip correctly, the only thing I can think of is did you click OK.? I just dropped a
clip onto the timeline and trimmed it without any problems.

You can use Windows Movie Maker to trim a clip.

Brenda

[Lavina Molnar Profile Private message]

Hi Brenda

Thanks for the tip to use Windows Movie Maker. Looks like I've got it sussed out . Think my problem was that all my clips were saved as .mov files which W.M.M. wouldn't look at, so I made copies and saved as .avi and it does look as if I'm on the right road now! It was W. picture & fax viewer that persisted in coming up when I opened the mov. files, and it was that that was causing me to lose all the clip except the first frame.

Thank you so much - I owe you one.

Cheers
Lavina