Custom profile in Vista Movie Maker

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Hi,

Does anyone know how to use custom profiles in the New Vista version (6) of
Moviemaker.

I have created a new folder called profiles in the shared folder and
populated it with my profiles.

They don't show up in the publish list.

Any help appreciated.

Jim
 
Jim said:
Hi,

Does anyone know how to use custom profiles in the New Vista version
(6) of Moviemaker.

I have created a new folder called profiles in the shared folder and
populated it with my profiles.

They don't show up in the publish list.

Any help appreciated.

Jim
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If your .prx profiles worked in
Win XP Movie Maker 2.1...they
should work in Vista Movie Maker 6.
The path that works on my Vista
system is exactly the same as WinXP:

C:\Program Files\Movie Maker\Shared\Profiles

Maybe these articles will offer
some ideas:

Movie Maker in Vista -
Publishing / Quality Profiles
http://tinyurl.com/325yvz

Windows Vista
Create custom movie settings
for Windows Movie Maker
http://tinyurl.com/yt3z7q

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk
 
John Inzer said:
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If your .prx profiles worked in
Win XP Movie Maker 2.1...they
should work in Vista Movie Maker 6.
The path that works on my Vista
system is exactly the same as WinXP:

C:\Program Files\Movie Maker\Shared\Profiles

Maybe these articles will offer
some ideas:

Movie Maker in Vista -
Publishing / Quality Profiles
http://tinyurl.com/325yvz

Windows Vista
Create custom movie settings
for Windows Movie Maker
http://tinyurl.com/yt3z7q

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk



John, Thanks for responding. the profiles do work with 2.x in XP and I have used the path structure excatly as you have suggested. The 6 version has a different dialogue box for publishing files.
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Any more ideas?

Jim
 
Jim said:
Any more ideas?

Jim
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Hmmm, doesn't seem different to me...
I just go to...File / Publish Movie /
This Computer / Next / Next / More Settings /
open the drop window for choices.

Are you positive that you have the path
correct for the Profiles folder?

Just to verify...right click your Vista Start button
and choose...Explore.

Click...Local Disk (C:) and in the right pane...
navigate to:

Program Files \ Movie Maker \ Shared \ Profiles.

If that doesn't work, I don't know what else
could be causing the problem.

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk
 
Any more ideas?

Jim
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I found that not all profile settings are supported :( For my
installation (and I didn't play much around) Audio CBR 44kHz works
with Video Quality VBR and CBR.

48kHz Audio doesn't work, and Quality or Peakrate Bitrate doesn't
work. I also had to define the output size, "same as input" doesn't
seem to work.

The path is correct - in order to make editing more easy, I assigned
FULL RIGHTS to the profiles folder, so I can double click the .prx
files and "Save and Close" without the DLL error...

Cheers,
Thorsten Claus
 
Jim,

I am having the exact same issue. Were you ever able to get a resolution
for this? I'm still stumped at this point.

Thanks.

Thomas
 
Wow, I found a work-around.

I've got Vista, WMM Version 6.0 (comes base with Vista).

Fix:

1) Navigate to C:\Program Files\Movie Maker\Shared\
2) You have to CREATE the "Profile" diretory. Even as an admin in Vista, it
will ask you for elevated privileges to create a new directory, and to rename
it to "Profile".
3) Drop the PRX file in that directory. (I used Windows Media Encoder, the
Profile Editor, to create this file. It's a FREE download from Microsoft.)

Woohoo! I'm a happy camper.

-DJ
 
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