Nightmare, a Jumpcut "Movie"

Well, still no editing program, per se (XP is in the mail), but I did find Jumpcut. For those of you unfamiliar, it is Yahoo's video hosting site. The interesting thing is that one can upload clips, then clip their length, rearrange their order, add audio, etc. But as far as I can tell, this isn't really editing, as the final "movie" cannot be resaved as an AVI file (or what have you). I suppose Yahoo wants people to visit the Jumpcut site, instead of using it and uploading the video to YouTube.

Be as that may, here is a very simply "edited" movie I made using Jumpcut. Again, I'll be getting XP so I'll be able to use better editing programs, but for those who want to play about with making movies without actually buying anything, it seems a semi-viable option.

http://www.jumpcut.com/view?id=A6C2A618DB6911DC954F000423CF4092

What you describe is a 'sequencing' programme, QuickTime Pro can do much the same thing, what it does, is take the sequence of the individual files and create a reference file, basicaly a list play file (playlist), that's why it cannot save them into a flattened whole file. Adding audio, is simply the first file it plays, then runs the other movie files at the same time. You can do this using QuickTime as it can handle playing up to 6 media streams at the same time.

If you do much the same with QuickTime Pro, then when you save it, save as a flattened file to create a single file and not a reference file, as if you do this on your home PC, when you upload the files for streaming, the references will be to your hard disc file structure and you will get an error.

BTW , your movie shows a great start into the world and creativity of Machinima, keep it up.