I have always loved video right from the time I used a rented camera and two VCR's to edit the miles of boring tape into something a little better.
This was the original reason a computer came along, so editing could be done with no picture loss. Unfortunately the first editing software was not good (one guess), after a long time only half a movie was done.
For Christmas I was given a gift of VideoFactory 2 which, once I had sort of learned how to use it, I completed the second half of the movie with a whoop of joy, joined the two together and 'saved' it.
Now the movies had to be 'rendered.'
This takes a lot of hard-drive space, and my 8 minute movie needed 5 gigabytes. Problem was I only had 4 gigabytes left. Ah-ha I thought, I'll have to get rid of all the junk that has been building up on my computer since I got it.
Carefully I deleted useless files and folders but a gigabyte is a lot of files and folders. Like a bolt from the blue it struck me. Video files take up a lot of hard-drive, my movie had been 'saved' in VF 2, I'll simply delete all the files in the old editor, after all the original files were safe in My Documents or so I thought!
I knew something was wrong when I went back to render my movie in VF 2. What was that thing there that said portions of the video could not be found - would I like to continue anyway?
I am now a sadder and wiser man who now realizes that because a copy of a video file exists in one home, deleting it from it's original snuggy abode kills it stone dead and not having Windows XP or any back up....................please cover your ears...
Joby
This was the original reason a computer came along, so editing could be done with no picture loss. Unfortunately the first editing software was not good (one guess), after a long time only half a movie was done.
For Christmas I was given a gift of VideoFactory 2 which, once I had sort of learned how to use it, I completed the second half of the movie with a whoop of joy, joined the two together and 'saved' it.
Now the movies had to be 'rendered.'
This takes a lot of hard-drive space, and my 8 minute movie needed 5 gigabytes. Problem was I only had 4 gigabytes left. Ah-ha I thought, I'll have to get rid of all the junk that has been building up on my computer since I got it.
Carefully I deleted useless files and folders but a gigabyte is a lot of files and folders. Like a bolt from the blue it struck me. Video files take up a lot of hard-drive, my movie had been 'saved' in VF 2, I'll simply delete all the files in the old editor, after all the original files were safe in My Documents or so I thought!
I knew something was wrong when I went back to render my movie in VF 2. What was that thing there that said portions of the video could not be found - would I like to continue anyway?
I am now a sadder and wiser man who now realizes that because a copy of a video file exists in one home, deleting it from it's original snuggy abode kills it stone dead and not having Windows XP or any back up....................please cover your ears...
Joby