>> On the other hand, Virtual Dub has no manual yet I find it quite easy to 
>> work, and yet I couldn't get WMM to do anything except glue video clips 
>> together. (Maybe that's all it does? Oh, and the transitions that you 
>> can't control or adjust in any way.) Maybe I'm just trying to make WMM do 
>> things it's not designed for?
> 
> On the version I got with Vista controlling the transitions is just done by 
> pulling them with the mouse and zooming in the timeline for more precise 
> control. I'll grant that it's never very precise, but then it's a 
> no-brainer, made for people who don't read manuals and don't like to type 
> numbers in little boxes with funny names.
> 
> Perhaps you just don't get purely visual interfaces? GUIs tend to have their 
> own paradigms and figuring them out can take time. Sometimes we put the 
> blame on the interface (and rightly so, but I won't tell names...) but it 
> may be that people differ in the way they can grasp certain visual paradigms 
> and not others (no excuse for Word styles though).

IIRC I spent about 15 minutes trying to figure out how to make the 
sequence fade to black. I got it to fade, but it was a 2 second fade and 
I wanted 10 seconds. I couldn't find any way of altering this.

I also utterly failed to figure out how to insert a pause.

In the end I just got so thoroughly frustrated with the thing that I 
gave up. To my horror, next time I opened it, it had somehow magically 
"remembered" where all my video files are, and nothing I could do to it 
would make it "forget" that information. At that point I decided to give 
up for good.

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