Making movie clips for E-Prime?

[Lisa Levinson]

On this topic I have some experience and am fairly familiar with the
limitations of EPrime.

I have successfully imported .avi files into EPrime. As you will notice in
either the slide/movie image or movie feature you can indicate a start and
stop time. The issue there seems to be duration, too short - as in ms - and
you have problems. Since I did need ms clips I edited my video files into
frame sequence video clips and saved as .avi files and successfully imported
them to run in sequence. Because EPrime runs on a PC you have to run
universal movie files compatible with PCs - I have had the most success with
.avi files. Based on my experience you can generate a movie and/or use an
existing movie so long as it is saved as an .avi. A great deal of trial and
error was involved in determining what kind of files would open in EPrime,
might be different with your system. Essentially, I saved my footage in a
number of formats and then tested what would open. The issue I have had
using video is the timing. I am looking to present 100ms clips and that
becomes more complicated as EPrime seems to have issues loading the files
quickly enough. Working on that issue as we speak.

Hope this is helpful though very after the fact.
Lisa Levinson

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 3:36 PM, David McFarlane <mcfarla9 at msu.edu> wrote:

> Well fellow E-Prime mavens, now I could use your experience & advice.  I
> first checked in the New Features Guide, and did a cursory search through
> the PST Knowledge Base, the PST Forum, and the E-Prime Google Group, and did
> not find this addressed anywhere, so I hope I have done my homework at least
> as well as I expect others to :).
>
> Two related questions:
>
> 1) Suppose we want to make some short clips from a larger, existing movie
> file for use in E-Prime.  What software would you recommend for this?
>
> 2) Suppose we want to record our own movie clips from scratch for use in
> E-Prime.  What systems would you recommend for that?
>
> I might also reframe those questions as, "What did *you* use?" or, "What
> worked for *you*?"
>
> Note that the KB and online discussions have addressed at length how to get
> *existing* clips to work with E-Prime (installing codec libraries, etc.).  I
> instead want to avoid those problems by preparing our clips in the first
> place in a way that plays well with E-Prime "out-of-the-box".  Any advice?
>
> Thanks,
> -- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder
>
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