Video Editing Software.

Does anyone know of a Program that will allow me to edit a movie clip, and be left with a file of the same name after the edit.

To Explain, I would like to lighten a clip called 'abc.avi', and when the edit is complete, I would like to be left with a file called 'abc.avi', not 'abc.{project file extension}, which all the high priced programs do.

Many Thanks.

 

If your running win xp have you had a look at Movie Maker if it is not already installed on your pc you can get more info and download it for free at http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/default.mspx

 

Thank you for the reply, and I have tried Windows Movie Maker.

It split a 7+ minute avi clip into 34 segments, 19 of which were less than 10 seconds duration, in fact some were only 1 second, and the only 'Save' option I could find was to save it as a 'mswmm' (Project) File.

 

to save it as a movie, go to file, then click "save movie file "

 

To save the file with windows movie maker, instead of clicking on save movie project as, click save movie file. Then it'll go through a wizard where you can select what you want to save it as. I'm not real familiar with it though and it may be that other than the DV formats it only saves files in wmv format. Have a look and see what you think.

When you're going through the save movie file wizard you'll come to a page that says "movie setting" at the top left. On that page tick the line that says other settings any you'll then be able to select from a bunch of different files types.

 

With Windows Movie Maker, it will save movies as .wmv files. To get something that will save it as other things, costs bucks.