Hi all.

Some general advice please...

As a newbie to MEP MX Plus I'm just wondering if I want about my current (and first) project the right way, as I'll be doing more very similar projects in the future, and I'm not 100% happy with the way I had to go about it this first time.

The task is to edit raw footage of seminars into presentable presentations. These seminars are for an Aikido club, and usually take the following format:

A senior instructor demonstrates a technique and then calls on the attendees to pair up and practice what he just demonstrated. Most of these seminars are run over two days of morning-afternoon-morning sessions of anything from 2 to 4 hours per session, but more usually 2 to 2.5 hours. Obviously there's quite a bit of raw footage, but all we're interested in for the final video are the demonstrations by the instructor. For the most part all the practising by the attendees gets cut out.

I received three discs from the video operator (another member, not a professional), one disk for each session.

Here's how I went about it:

I made each disk/session a separate project and edited each as required, also enhancing presentation with transitions and so on. By now the file sizes are down to where a couple of sessions will fit on the one DVD.

But I can't find any way to merge two projects, so I exported each project as an MPEG video, then started a new project and pulled the first and second session MPEG videos into it. Put some title stuff up front and separated the two videos with another title notice, then burnt the whole thing as a final video.

Well, it works, and the end result is pretty good, thanks to all the clever stuff that the Magix software makes so easy.

But I just can't help thinking that there must be an easier and more professional way to go about this sort of thing.