Are you holding down the Ctrl key as you drop the clip?

I tend to follow Steve's recommendations of no video being over 40 - 45 minutes. This greatly depends on what the video is about and over what time period it is filmed. I try to keep mine under 30 minutes, especially if it is an event, vacation or holiday. Anyone can sit and watch a 1/2 hour home mo...

As suggested by Jamal this is a great place to ask questions or post suggestions on how to create a video that people will enjoy watching.

The first suggestion:
Keep It Simple and Keep It Short

And it does have a PCI Express slot that you can connect a ATI card like mine that has both Standard and DVI connections I think that card costs about $30 these days, ATI Radeon X600SE 128mb, the 256mb is under $50 and has both outputs also.

Hi Cheryl, I will jump in for a moment and Jamal can correct me if I am wrong. I don't think you place the gradient images on the timeline, you add the Gradient Wipe Transition to your video (track 2 in this case) and then select the gradient image in the transition properties. Jamal if you are doin...

Also Barb, It doesn't come with a monitor even though the picture shows one. The price is for the computer only but it does have some great features like a dual core processor, firewire, DL DVD Burner with lightscribe and a whole lot more.

I wouldn't think about using onboard video with 128mb of shared memory or less but I think you would be ok with 256mb shared. If nothing else you can add a graphics card with 256mb dedicated video memory for about $50 now.

All the cool stuff is just fine for an Intro though

Take a look at the American Idol intro, talk about tons of effects and stuff going on

ksnielsen wrote:So where do I go to see your tennis intro? i've looked around some and can't find it.

Here is the Tennis Intro Video

It's in the Gallery

I tend to doubt it is the drive that is causing the slowness, probably another 256mb of RAM would make a world of difference. Windows XP is probably using a good portion of the available RAM and if the Paging file isnt set up properly it could cause all kinds of slowness issues.

I agree with Ken, don't do anything to that drive. I would doubt it could handle the NTFS file system, is that computer running Windows 98 or 95?

To use gradient wipes you need apply the gradient wipe transisitons between 2 clips. When you do it should ask you to choose your picture if not you can go to properties and click custom. You can choose any picture you want from a location on your computer (so remember where you dropped these) and ...

I had to post a link to this over at the Adobe Forum, it is too good not to share

Here is another topic about Dell and the option for XP instead of Vista, looks like they are changing. They will have a couple of Dimensions that will offer XP also http://muvipix.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?p=2690#2690 Archiving won't make any difference, the only thing that will help is to break your...