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Movie Maker - saving collections
When adding pics or clips to your "collection" is it
recommended to save copies of the chosen clips in a new folder? I've recently used pictures from a folder that were later moved to another folder. When I went back to watch the movie the pictures added to the collection were gone as the program didn't recognize the new path to find them..... What is the best way to properly backup your work? |
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Movie Maker - saving collections
There are 3 aspects to backing up your Movie Maker work.
1 - Source files (music, images, video clips) need to be someplace on your hard drive(s) when you open a MM collection or project. If you move or rename them, you can right-mouse click the icon in MM and re-establish the links. They are not really imported into Movie Maker, so you have to consider backing them up separately from the Movie Maker collection database and project files. 2 - Movie Maker automatically saves the currently open collections file at a fixed time interval. The default is 10 minutes, which you can change to between 1 and 60 minutes via the menu Tools Options Auto Recover time interval. The collections file is a database of information about collections, the clips in them, and the associated source files. The collection file, Mediatab.dat, should be backed up regularly. If you accidentally remove a clip or collection, or the collection file becomes corrupt, use the backup copy to restore it. The collections file is typically located in the hidden folder C: \Documents and Settings\UserAccountName\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Movie Maker. A different collections file is created for each user (file names would then be Mediatab0.dat, Mediatab1.dat, etc). To see the Local Settings folder and its contents, you must have the Show hidden files and folders setting option selected. 3 - The project files are individual MSWMM files and should be backed up as you do your other important computer files. Once created, you can change the name of the project file; they don't need to have a MSWMM extension. I named one www.microsoft.com once and it still worked. Like the collection file, there is an automatic backup process that Movie Maker uses, but it is only to help in the event of a power failure or something like that (maybe a MM2 freeze like I experienced tonight when conducting a workshop - we picked up OK with minimal loss because of the automatic saving, but don't rely on it for a backup process). Note - if you totally lost your collection database, you could still open and work with your project files. Once the clips are copied from the collection contents pane and go into the project file, the information in them is maintained separately. PapaJohn "LRW" wrote in message ... When adding pics or clips to your "collection" is it recommended to save copies of the chosen clips in a new folder? I've recently used pictures from a folder that were later moved to another folder. When I went back to watch the movie the pictures added to the collection were gone as the program didn't recognize the new path to find them..... What is the best way to properly backup your work? |
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