Previously I use WinDV and firewire to transfer footages to my comp on a winxp environment. Had no problem editing clips at all (with Windows Movie Maker). But now that I have a new laptop equipped with Vista, I am having difficulty trimming the DV-AVI files on WMM. During playback, the video plays fine on the preview monitor. The problem is with Advancing or rewinding a clip frame by frame. The preview monitor is not accurate during this time. It doesn't give me the exact sequence I expect to see (Ex. at 29.97 seconds of the clip, Hitting NEXT FRAME won't take me to the next movement or at the exact frame I saw at 30.00 seconds during playback/pause. Instead, it shows me a different clip either 2 seconds more or less, behind or in advance. ) [I'll try to describe in detail: During slowmo, in a scene where someone crosses a finish line.. hitting next frame would expect you to see the person passing or moving further away from the finish line, but mine doesn't show that instead, he is at least 5 steps behind the finish line????? This just doesn't happen with NEXT frame but same way with PREVIOUS FRAME.] Is there an adjustment I need to make? I am totally clueless. Because of this problem I cannot TRIM BEGIN or TRIM END a clip as accurately as possible. The clip seems to be fine because I tried it also on a winxp environment. But I don't want to edit all clips on the old machine because it is too slow. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

You might try posting your issue to the Movie Maker forum at: http://www.windowsmoviemakers.net/f... Some real experts there. I personally have had issues with editing DV-AVI in Movie Maker with Vista and therefore avoid DV-AVI. Others, like PapaJohn on that site report good results with Vista and DV-AVI. John Hanley Sugar Land, TX

Thank you for referring me to that site job. Will check it out.