Import video created with Win Media Encoder degrades

[Guest]

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Hi All,
Hope you can help with this question. I created a short movie capturing
screens with media encoder, inserted markers into the video with the Window
Media File Editor so that when I import the video into the Movie Maker it is
broken into logical clips I can work with. When viewing the original wmv
file it looks good, however when imported into Movie Maker the clips look
blury and then when drag/drop the clips to the time line the screens become
unreadable.

Can anyone shed some light on this issue? Recommend a format for screen
capture that would work with Movie Maker for editing. I have read the help,
tried many different combinations but the degradation of the video continues
when imported into Movie Maker. Any advice is appreciated.

Thanks, Jim

 

[Guest]

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WMV files are very compressed. Each encoding reduces the quality once more.


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Cari
(MS-MVP Printing & Imaging)

"Jim Edison" <Jim Edison@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:73719F29-AC45-4FD4-A599-2394CDC88F7F@microsoft.com...
> Hi All,
> Hope you can help with this question. I created a short movie capturing
> screens with media encoder, inserted markers into the video with the
> Window
> Media File Editor so that when I import the video into the Movie Maker it
> is
> broken into logical clips I can work with. When viewing the original wmv
> file it looks good, however when imported into Movie Maker the clips look
> blury and then when drag/drop the clips to the time line the screens
> become
> unreadable.
>
> Can anyone shed some light on this issue? Recommend a format for screen
> capture that would work with Movie Maker for editing. I have read the
> help,
> tried many different combinations but the degradation of the video
> continues
> when imported into Movie Maker. Any advice is appreciated.
>
> Thanks, Jim
>

 

[rehan]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.video (More info?)

Jim Edison wrote:
> ... however when imported into Movie Maker the clips look
> blury and then when drag/drop the clips to the time line the screens become
> unreadable.

Movie Maker preview is deliberately a low res draft:
http://blogs.msdn.com/deanro/archive/2004/10/05/238493.aspx

You can ignore it and continue ediiting. When the final movie is saved
(File->Save Movie As) you should get good quality output.

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Rehan
MS MVP (Digital Media)
www.rehanfx.org -- get effects & transitions for MM2