Import video created with Win Media Encoder degrades

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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

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/archi [...] 38493.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