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When I render my movies in .wmv format the quality og the final picture does not match that which was originally shot even though I have a fast PC and a 2 mega pixel camcorder. I have tried avi as well and the final reuslt is still poor.

Any suggestions? I want good quality images that I can cut to DVD to kepp and treasure:-)
 
Hello there,

The quality when rendering is not a function of the speed of your computer.
Instead its a function of the data rate, frame size and frame rate.

If when viwed at 100% in Media Player you find that the quality is less
than desired you will have to re-render it choosing options that will
exceed thos in the current file. This might mean using an option for a
higher modem speed (if you took that option previously) or a higher bit
rate.

If none of the present WMV options satisfy your needs, you might want to
consider rendering it as DV-AVI instead. This is the highest standard
quality that movie maker can produce.

If DV-AVI is not good enough you can use the free utilities from Microsoft
called Windows Media Encoder and create a profile that will match your
requirements. The help file within the program will help you out if you
need it.

If none of the above helps do please ask for more guidance.
 
Paul,

What is your camcorder brand and model? Are you capturing using firewire
into a DV-AVI file? How does that one play on your computer before editing
in Movie Maker?
--
PapaJohn

Movie Maker 2 - www.papajohn.org
Photo Story 2 - www.photostory.papajohn.org

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paul said:
When I render my movies in .wmv format the quality og the final picture
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does not match that which was originally shot even though I have a fast PC
and a 2 mega pixel camcorder. I have tried avi as well and the final reuslt
is still poor.
Any suggestions? I want good quality images that I can cut to DVD to kepp
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and treasure:-)
 
Along with the above suggestions, the 2mp of the camcorder will not make a
difference as only a certain amount of the pixels are for video, the rest
for stills.
The best way to get quality is to import as a dv-avi, as said above, and
then to save as a dv-avi.
This may not look great on the pc because of th way the programmes deal with
it.. which app are you viewing it with, MM for instance only shows a
preview, not full quality.
To test this, send a portion of the finished avi out to the cam and plug
this in to the tv and it should be as good as the product that went in!!
Graham
 
And just to expand on what Graham said...

Even when viewed at full resolution on your PC,
the quality may not look that good due to the
fact that the video is interlaced, but it is
being displayed on a non-interlaced monitor.

These artifacts would appear as horizontal
lines around the edges of objects that are
moving from one frame to the next.

But as Graham said, even though this may look
bad on the PC, it should look much better when
played from your camcorder on an interlaced
TV display.

Actually it may still not look quite "as good
as the product that went in", because it will
have been recompressed an additional time.

Each time you recompress a video or still
image, some amount of quality is sacrificed -
unless it's lossless compression, which
DV is not.

--
-Bob
____________________________
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Media Center Edition
www.microsoft.com/ehome
 
Hi PapaJohn,

Its a Sony PC 330 and here are some specs:

1/3" Advanced HADâ„¢ CCD imager with 3310K gross pixels
10X optical zoom lens with 120X digital zoom
Professional Quality Carl Zeiss® Vario-Sonnar® T* Lens
3.0 Megapixel still image capture with pictures up to 2016 x 1512 resolution
USB streaming capable

After reading several other posts I tried a few things last night.

I changed from USB to FireWire
I tranferred the raw footage to my PC in DV-AVI
I rendered the video in DV-AVI

Result : Crytsal clear images (with big footprints :-) )

Thanks everyone, all your comments have been extremely helpful.
 
One last thing then:

If saving to DVD rather than back to DV and playing on the TV will I get the same quality? My ultimate aim is to start band create decent home movie of the kid playing footie and the like
 
If you use a good dvd authoring app then the quality drop will be negligable
and hopefully you shouldn't be able to notice that there is a slight quality
drop. It will help to shoot well, miss out very fast pans, very low light
areas and things like that, as this is were you'll notice the drop in
quality most.

--
Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.simplydv.co.uk
www.dvds2treasure.com

Paul said:
One last thing then:

If saving to DVD rather than back to DV and playing on the TV will I get
Click to expand...
the same quality? My ultimate aim is to start band create decent home movie
of the kid playing footie and the like
 
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