I wanted to start a new thread to keep it clean instead of add to the previous thread which is a mess now.
I think there is some misunderstanding in what I am trying to do, likely due to my poor English.
I want to link "projects" together or is it "movies"? to make one "project" or "movie" where I hit "Play" and it plays all the way through the 4 or 5 movies/projects or what have you together, one right after the other. I'm so confused. I don't understand the words "project" and "movie". Let me try again.
I want to make one "project" (I think) with more than one movie in it so one flows to the next in one video that I can save as an MP4. I'm not adding pictures. I am adding projects with everything picture sound and all that.
I tried following the instructions you all gave: opening the first project I want and then open the next one and both movies appear, but they are not in the same project. I can't get them to play. Only the movie I am on plays.
I then tried creating a new project and opened the first project and did the same as above. I then saved that new project, but got the same result as before, the movies are there but not linked. The second movie doesn't start after the first movie ends it just keeps repeating the first movie in a loop.
I must be missing something. I don't want to use "MERGE" unless I have to because I fear I will mess it up and delete everything I need.
I can't follow the instructions for "MERGE" you provided John because:
1) I don't have test projects unless I spent a week creating them. I want to use what I already have (if it ends up getting sacrificed I will just move on to the next completed projects or whatever. I want to get something done with this crap! I have spent far too long just trying to get the program up and running. It takes me about 1.5 to 2 hours to make a one minute project!
2) I'm not putting photos on the timeline and I am not importing videos. I want to work with what I have. I'm trying to put completed projects on the timeline to put them together so that the whole thing plays as one video or project I can save as an MP4 video or whatever.
I have not downloaded any of the extra stuff it keeps asking about. I keep clicking "later". I wonder, is there something I need to download to make this work?
I'm wondering if Movie Studio 2025 Platinum can't handle this? (I did it in Video Easy just fine). I don't know what to think. I'm so far behind now I may give up everything. I was supposed to start filming live one take stuff in September, I don't see that happening now. I can't do anything else until I get this working. The only alternative is to give up sharing and talking about my CD library and just stick with my vinyl record library and start filming that as live one takes. (I hope it is easier than what I am attempting now). It looked simple on paper.