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[kitykity]

Okay guys, the new forum is pretty and all... but you can't search for things under four characters.  Well, all Windows file extensions are three characters!  This means I can't search for things like "mp4"  (I was going to try to figure out WHY Roxio dropped mp4 support in Roxio 8!!!)

Susan

Edited by kity1kity, 05 January 2006 - 11:33 AM.

[sknis]

kity1kity, on Jan 5 2006, 01:33 PM, said:

Okay guys, the new forum is pretty and all... but you can't search for things under four characters.  Well, all Windows file extensions are three characters!  This means I can't search for things like "mp4"  (I was going to try to figure out WHY Roxio dropped mp4 support in Roxio 8!!!)

Susan

Try searching by adding a "dot" in front of the three letters as in .mp4. I searched a board for .pm3 and got a hit.

[Beerman]

sknis, on Jan 5 2006, 03:16 PM, said:

Try searching by adding a "dot" in front of the three letters as in .mp4. I searched a board for .pm3 and got a hit.

I had already tried the .mp4 after I read the post and got an error message.  However, now that we've posted a few messages about it, I can find it.  Must be the fact that it didn't exist before since the only find is these posts.

[ml]

sknis, on Jan 5 2006, 03:16 PM, said:

Try searching by adding a "dot" in front of the three letters as in .mp4. I searched a board for .pm3 and got a hit.

Hmmmm......

That only works if the person has put a dot before the mp4.    When I did a search for .mp4, I got your quote, but not the original posters "mp4"

This new forum is going to take some getting used to........

[patatrox]

I've made a change, you can now use three letter search terms (but not 1 or 2 characters)

kity1kity, on Jan 5 2006, 02:33 PM, said:

Okay guys, the new forum is pretty and all... but you can't search for things under four characters.  Well, all Windows file extensions are three characters!  This means I can't search for things like "mp4"  (I was going to try to figure out WHY Roxio dropped mp4 support in Roxio 8!!!)

Susan

Creator 7 only supported MPEG-4 content inside WMV/DivX files, and not .MP4 files either as far as I know.....

[kitykity]

Creator 7 supported mp4 files just fine.

My camera takes movies in .mp4 format (a Sony M1).  With 3ivx installed, I could not only view my camera's mp4 movies and import them into projects (they were an unknown file format type without 3ivx), but I could also encode movies into .mp4 format as well.

This functionality is priceless when talking about the new video iPod.  With Creator 7's mp4 abilities, I could use Roxio to create mp4 movies for the iPod in one step.

Now, in Creator 8, I can view the mp4 files, and I can put them into a project, but I cannot encode output files into that format.

I have spoken with Jan Devos, one of the 3ivx developers ( jan.devos at 3ivx.com ) and he said they have been trying to contact Roxio to find out what the issue is, but have received no reply.  Please take a few minutes and drop him an email.

Seriously--if Roxio doesn't fix the mp4 support issue, Roxio will be useless to an exploding group of windows-using video-bloggers who create video content exclusively for the video iPod.  Please, for a user who has been with your product for many many years, get a hold of Jan and try to work out this issue.

Thanks,
Susan

PS - you can read more about video blogging at: http://www.freevlog.org

patatrox, on Jan 5 2006, 05:03 PM, said:

I've made a change, you can now use three letter search terms (but not 1 or 2 characters)
Creator 7 only supported MPEG-4 content inside WMV/DivX files, and not .MP4 files either as far as I know.....

Edited by kity1kity, 10 January 2006 - 07:36 AM.