I'm trying to edit together a series of MP4 clips recorded on my Samsung S5 phone but having serious trouble.
I've managed to import and edit about 15 of the clips in Windows Movie Maker and got about half way through then the thing crashed. I've tried restoring the partially complete movie but Movie Maker seems to have lost everything despite me saving every 5 minutes while I was working on it.
I was reading that mp4 is not a good file to edit and only has genuine keyframes ever 20 frames or so (or something like that) and I read you need to convert them for editing.
I downloaded handbrake as many people said you need to convert MP4 to WMV for easy editing. I've looked in handbrake but there was no WMV output format so I converted them to M4V files and grabbed a demo of Sony Platinum 15.
The files all went into Sony ok and I've edited about 30 clips into a 3 minute movie but now I cant compile it!?! Every time I try to render the movie it gets to 3% and crashes. I've tried various output settings and if I try and export it at something like 320 x 480 then its gets to about 80% before crashing. Each time I get a completely different error message (sometime Windows library file crashes, sometime Sony code problems)
I've been watching the task manager as it renders and nothing is peaking - processor never gets above 80% and RAM always has about half a gig spare but yet it always falls over.
I went up to a PC shop a couple of hours ago and bought an nVidia 750 Ti 2GB card and have selected that in Sony but it makes no difference whatsoever.
I'm so confused now that I would really appreciate any help someone can offer me. I can see from looking online that there are hundreds of little programs offering to convert mp4s to something editable so what format would you recommend? I've installed Quicktime and the latest Klite packages but they didn't change anything.
I'm the one who usually helps family and friends out when they have PC problems but now I'm completely stumped. This video malarkey is all new to me and I'll admit I'm completely clueless.
I've managed to import and edit about 15 of the clips in Windows Movie Maker and got about half way through then the thing crashed. I've tried restoring the partially complete movie but Movie Maker seems to have lost everything despite me saving every 5 minutes while I was working on it.
I was reading that mp4 is not a good file to edit and only has genuine keyframes ever 20 frames or so (or something like that) and I read you need to convert them for editing.
I downloaded handbrake as many people said you need to convert MP4 to WMV for easy editing. I've looked in handbrake but there was no WMV output format so I converted them to M4V files and grabbed a demo of Sony Platinum 15.
The files all went into Sony ok and I've edited about 30 clips into a 3 minute movie but now I cant compile it!?! Every time I try to render the movie it gets to 3% and crashes. I've tried various output settings and if I try and export it at something like 320 x 480 then its gets to about 80% before crashing. Each time I get a completely different error message (sometime Windows library file crashes, sometime Sony code problems)
I've been watching the task manager as it renders and nothing is peaking - processor never gets above 80% and RAM always has about half a gig spare but yet it always falls over.
I went up to a PC shop a couple of hours ago and bought an nVidia 750 Ti 2GB card and have selected that in Sony but it makes no difference whatsoever.
I'm so confused now that I would really appreciate any help someone can offer me. I can see from looking online that there are hundreds of little programs offering to convert mp4s to something editable so what format would you recommend? I've installed Quicktime and the latest Klite packages but they didn't change anything.
I'm the one who usually helps family and friends out when they have PC problems but now I'm completely stumped. This video malarkey is all new to me and I'll admit I'm completely clueless.