Saving project and reloading on another PC

I am working on a project on two different computers. I imported the video
clips, edited as necessary till I was partially done. I then saved my project.
Later, on the second computer, I reloaded my project and my timeline shows
the clips, but with red Xs.I am accessing the same resource on both PCs,
that is, all the imported clips and files are available to both projects. One
difference is that the reource maps to drive E: on one PC and to drive F: on
the other.

What is the best way to solve this? I have searched the Help file, Googled
and seen some tutorials, but so far none have addressed this issue. Thanks!

Saga

Saga wrote:
> I am working on a project on two different computers. I imported the
> video clips, edited as necessary till I was partially done. I then
> saved my project. Later, on the second computer, I reloaded my
> project and my timeline shows the clips, but with red Xs.I am
> accessing the same resource on both PCs, that is, all the imported clips
> and files are available to both
> projects. One difference is that the reource maps to drive E: on one
> PC and to drive F: on the other.
>
> What is the best way to solve this? I have searched the Help file,
> Googled and seen some tutorials, but so far none have addressed this
> issue. Thanks!
> Saga
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I think you know this...but just to clarify...
the source files must be accessed
by Movie Maker...the project file is
incomplete without them.

Try right clicking the Red Xs and
browse to the source files...maybe
this will re-establish the links.

--

John Inzer
Digital Media MVP

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

Thanks for the help, much appreciated!

Yeah, I had suspected that the source files should be accessible by
MM, so I made it a point to make sure that both PCs had access to all
the source files. I -suspected- that perhaps because of the different drive
letter assignment MM was getting "confused" and not locating the
source files. I had hoped that MM would use relative paths. I even opened
the MSWMM in Notepad to see if I could tweak the path designation,
but found out that this is not a text file :-S.

I will follow your recommendation to try and establish the link to the source.

Saga
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"John Inzer" <oobie@doobie.xyz> wrote in message news:eW8rObNlIHA.484@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Saga wrote:
>> I am working on a project on two different computers. I imported the
>> video clips, edited as necessary till I was partially done. I then
>> saved my project. Later, on the second computer, I reloaded my
>> project and my timeline shows the clips, but with red Xs.I am
>> accessing the same resource on both PCs, that is, all the imported clips and files are available
>> to both
>> projects. One difference is that the reource maps to drive E: on one
>> PC and to drive F: on the other.
>>
>> What is the best way to solve this? I have searched the Help file,
>> Googled and seen some tutorials, but so far none have addressed this
>> issue. Thanks!
>> Saga
> ===========================
> I think you know this...but just to clarify...
> the source files must be accessed
> by Movie Maker...the project file is
> incomplete without them.
>
> Try right clicking the Red Xs and
> browse to the source files...maybe
> this will re-establish the links.
>
> --
>
> John Inzer
> Digital Media MVP
>
> Notice
> This is not tech support
> I am a volunteer
>
> Solutions that work for
> me may not work for you
>
> Proceed at your own risk
>
>

Try changing the drive to drive E on the second machine. This may entail
changing the drive letter of something else first, if drive e is already
taken.

--

Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.com


"Saga" <antiSpam@somewhere.com> wrote in message
news:uwTzx6NlIHA.4536@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>
> Thanks for the help, much appreciated!
>
> Yeah, I had suspected that the source files should be accessible by
> MM, so I made it a point to make sure that both PCs had access to all
> the source files. I -suspected- that perhaps because of the different
> drive
> letter assignment MM was getting "confused" and not locating the
> source files. I had hoped that MM would use relative paths. I even opened
> the MSWMM in Notepad to see if I could tweak the path designation,
> but found out that this is not a text file :-S.
>
> I will follow your recommendation to try and establish the link to the
> source.
>
> Saga
> --
>
>
>
> "John Inzer" <oobie@doobie.xyz> wrote in message
> news:eW8rObNlIHA.484@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> Saga wrote:
>>> I am working on a project on two different computers. I imported the
>>> video clips, edited as necessary till I was partially done. I then
>>> saved my project. Later, on the second computer, I reloaded my
>>> project and my timeline shows the clips, but with red Xs.I am
>>> accessing the same resource on both PCs, that is, all the imported clips
>>> and files are available to both
>>> projects. One difference is that the reource maps to drive E: on one
>>> PC and to drive F: on the other.
>>>
>>> What is the best way to solve this? I have searched the Help file,
>>> Googled and seen some tutorials, but so far none have addressed this
>>> issue. Thanks!
>>> Saga
>> ===========================
>> I think you know this...but just to clarify...
>> the source files must be accessed
>> by Movie Maker...the project file is
>> incomplete without them.
>>
>> Try right clicking the Red Xs and
>> browse to the source files...maybe
>> this will re-establish the links.
>>
>> --
>>
>> John Inzer
>> Digital Media MVP
>>
>> Notice
>> This is not tech support
>> I am a volunteer
>>
>> Solutions that work for
>> me may not work for you
>>
>> Proceed at your own risk
>>
>>
>
>

To conclude. Thanks to both for your assistance. All is resolved.

I used the SUBST command on both computers to map the local resource
to the X: drive. Now I load the same project from the same resource on
both computers and all is well! :-D

Saga
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"Graham Hughes" <graham.hughesNON@SPAMMEdvds2treasure.co.uk> wrote in message
news:ufAPyyPlIHA.1768@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
> Try changing the drive to drive E on the second machine. This may entail changing the drive letter
> of something else first, if drive e is already taken.
>
> --
>
> Graham Hughes
> MVP Digital Media
> www.myvideoproblems.com
>
>
> "Saga" <antiSpam@somewhere.com> wrote in message news:uwTzx6NlIHA.4536@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>
>> Thanks for the help, much appreciated!
>>
>> Yeah, I had suspected that the source files should be accessible by
>> MM, so I made it a point to make sure that both PCs had access to all
>> the source files. I -suspected- that perhaps because of the different drive
>> letter assignment MM was getting "confused" and not locating the
>> source files. I had hoped that MM would use relative paths. I even opened
>> the MSWMM in Notepad to see if I could tweak the path designation,
>> but found out that this is not a text file :-S.
>>
>> I will follow your recommendation to try and establish the link to the source.
>>
>> Saga
>> --
>>
>>
>>
>> "John Inzer" <oobie@doobie.xyz> wrote in message news:eW8rObNlIHA.484@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>> Saga wrote:
>>>> I am working on a project on two different computers. I imported the
>>>> video clips, edited as necessary till I was partially done. I then
>>>> saved my project. Later, on the second computer, I reloaded my
>>>> project and my timeline shows the clips, but with red Xs.I am
>>>> accessing the same resource on both PCs, that is, all the imported clips and files are
>>>> available to both
>>>> projects. One difference is that the reource maps to drive E: on one
>>>> PC and to drive F: on the other.
>>>>
>>>> What is the best way to solve this? I have searched the Help file,
>>>> Googled and seen some tutorials, but so far none have addressed this
>>>> issue. Thanks!
>>>> Saga
>>> ===========================
>>> I think you know this...but just to clarify...
>>> the source files must be accessed
>>> by Movie Maker...the project file is
>>> incomplete without them.
>>>
>>> Try right clicking the Red Xs and
>>> browse to the source files...maybe
>>> this will re-establish the links.
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> John Inzer
>>> Digital Media MVP
>>>
>>> Notice
>>> This is not tech support
>>> I am a volunteer
>>>
>>> Solutions that work for
>>> me may not work for you
>>>
>>> Proceed at your own risk
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

Saga wrote:
> To conclude. Thanks to both for your assistance. All is resolved.
>
> I used the SUBST command on both computers to map the local resource
> to the X: drive. Now I load the same project from the same resource on
> both computers and all is well! :-D
>
> Saga
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Good solution.

Thanks for the update.

--

John Inzer
Digital Media MVP

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk