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DM
Thanks to the help of PapaJohn and others this problem has been solved.
Problem: The AVI video files created by this camera have a PCM codec sound
component. PCM is a codec which is included as standard in XP Professional.
Therefore, the file plays perfectly, sound and vision, in Windows Media
Player, Real Player and when imported into Collections in Movie Maker2.
The problem starts when the file is dragged to Storyboard in MM2. The video
plays fine, but the sound becomes totally distorted.
Apparently, for reasons best known to Microsoft, MM2 converts(?) the audio
element to MPEG in the Storyboard.
Solution: This requires the downloading and installation of an MPEG Encoder.
I have downloaded and tried two. The locations are here>
http://www.flydragonsoft.com/products.htm
Scroll down to.......AVI to MPEG Converter
and.............. http://www.mainconcept.com/products.shtml
The first one cost $29.95. The second one costs $149.
The more expensive one has a far more sophisticated interface. Quite simply,
you can do a lot more to the file.
But, to my VERY inexperienced eye, the resulting converted files look
equally disimproved! Unless I am doing something wrong in the conversion,
the file just isn't as good when I finally get it to play in Storyboard as
when it plays back in Collections (i.e. unconverted).
I would be interested in more expert opinion on either of these converters
and on the tweaking (if any) that one should perform during conversion.
However, as I said in another thread just above this one, I can't see why we
should have to go through this in the first place!!
DM
Problem: The AVI video files created by this camera have a PCM codec sound
component. PCM is a codec which is included as standard in XP Professional.
Therefore, the file plays perfectly, sound and vision, in Windows Media
Player, Real Player and when imported into Collections in Movie Maker2.
The problem starts when the file is dragged to Storyboard in MM2. The video
plays fine, but the sound becomes totally distorted.
Apparently, for reasons best known to Microsoft, MM2 converts(?) the audio
element to MPEG in the Storyboard.
Solution: This requires the downloading and installation of an MPEG Encoder.
I have downloaded and tried two. The locations are here>
http://www.flydragonsoft.com/products.htm
Scroll down to.......AVI to MPEG Converter
and.............. http://www.mainconcept.com/products.shtml
The first one cost $29.95. The second one costs $149.
The more expensive one has a far more sophisticated interface. Quite simply,
you can do a lot more to the file.
But, to my VERY inexperienced eye, the resulting converted files look
equally disimproved! Unless I am doing something wrong in the conversion,
the file just isn't as good when I finally get it to play in Storyboard as
when it plays back in Collections (i.e. unconverted).
I would be interested in more expert opinion on either of these converters
and on the tweaking (if any) that one should perform during conversion.
However, as I said in another thread just above this one, I can't see why we
should have to go through this in the first place!!
DM