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    - Chroma Key and Movie Maker? Has anyone here used Chroma Key with Movie Maker and How did you do it and what was your opinion on ease of use and limits. What kind of screendid you use anyone ever used painted back ground? I'm going to try some videos for my sons hockey team with interviews hopefully using a Green Screen with Stats and stuff in the back of the kids maybe some graphics of the team and league logos. Thanks JD Tag: Capture Video Tag: 43665
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    - Compatible Audio file types I am trying to import music files into my videos but it seems with WMM that it doesn't support many file types. My audio files seem to have a .cda extension but need to be .wav or .mp3 for example. Does anyone have any advice or suggestions to get round this. -- MikeB Tag: Capture Video Tag: 43651
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    - saving edited movie to dv-avi - output is faster than input I have a movie edited with about 50 clips. There is also a music track. For some transitions, the music clips or distorts. I've run into this before with titles and transitions, so the previous solution was to save without music, creating one continuous avi file, then create a 2nd project with this one avi file and add the music in. when I try this solution for my current project, the avi with no sound ends up 2 seconds shorter than it should be (3:55 instead of 3:57). Since the video was synched to the audio, I need it to be the same length. Or I need to be able to speed up the music by this same 2 seconds. Or, if someone has a solution as to why the music distorts at the transition points, that would solve my issue as well. My pc is p4 2G with 512M ram, but I've tried on another machine with better specs and get the same results. it seems as if movie maker just cannot process too many things at once. Thanks in Advance to whoever can help. Tag: Capture Video Tag: 43650
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    - cut and paste info I can't figure out how to cut and paste the "question/answer" box. I'd like to save some of this in one file for future reference. Thanks. -- jv Tag: Capture Video Tag: 43644
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    - Poor capture quality on Sony Digital8 I have a Sony Digital8 DCR-TRV280, that has poor capture quality. I have conneted to my laptop with the "I-DV/USB" cable. I tried the adjust the Video settings/output size, but the best resolution I can chose is 320x240. It also will not let me chose the DV-AVI to save the movie. The output is of 320x240 is so low that playback is bad. Is this the best to expect or should I start to look at other software packages? Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks. Tag: Capture Video Tag: 43641
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    - Make effects temporary Good day, i recently started to work with Windows Movie Maker. A nice tool and I'm getting along very well, but there is one thing I didn't yet understand : If i have a, lets say 10 second clip, how can I apply an effect, for example the slow down effect for the period from second 3-7 ?. So the clip would have normal speed until the 3rd second, then from 3-7 slowmotion, and from 7-10 normal speed again. Would be nice if somebody could help me with that. Tag: Capture Video Tag: 43637
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    - Tips for making professional photo movie If you are windiws xp user, Do you want to create a professional photo movie??? Enhance you creativity power using the two Microsoft Software, *Photo Story 3 *Windows Movie Maker 2 Combine the two software to create your own very best photo movie. Step 1: Import your pictures into photo story 3 then customize the effects that you want (ex. transition, zooming effect, etc.) Manually adjust the transition and photo lenght in seconds depends on the lenght of your music that you want. (Don't import or add your music into photo story 3) Save your movie file into higher as possible resolution* *Select the profile for computer playback 1024x768 Pixels Step 2: Import you video into Windows Movie Maker 2 Add professional looking titles and credits (ex. the title of your photo movie, music & artist information, director etc.) Then add the video you have imported in MM2 storyboard or timeline mode. Save your movie into your computer select the option "Best Fit File Size" into maximum as possible. The Click next... Step: 3 Play your done photo movie into Windows Media Player 9 or 10 for better quality result... Is this tip useful to you??? I'm Live here in Philippines, I'm Windows Movie Maker 2 & Photo Story 3 user, not actually expert just only a moderate user or high level of beginner. Tag: Capture Video Tag: 43632
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    - Audio and Video in Playback stop Hi, my problem is that when I create a movie on the timeline, I can start the preview, but after a few seconds of playback the video freezes and all the sound stops. I've run a virus scan and nothing showed up, and I'm pretty sure I haven't had any codec problems. This happened before, and I don't want to reinstall MM again, so any help would be appreciated. I'm running an Intel P4 3.2 ghz with 512 ram and a radeon 9200 256mb graphics card. Tag: Capture Video Tag: 43627
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    - Audio/Music problem Hi everyone I'm having problems with imported audio tracks (mp3). Once I dragged it on the timeline it won't play - BUT: If I click on the second clip (while the mp3 is running) it actually works. Dito for the following clips. I read here that MM doesn't like mp3. Well, why am I able to play it from the second clip that's affected then? Any ideas? Thanx a lot! Manuel Tag: Capture Video Tag: 43621
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    - Changing Default Aspect Ratio to 640 x 480: Error Message Hello. I'm using Windows XP Home, SP-2, on a Dell Dimension 8400 computer. This question involves capturing video to a WMV file. The aspect ratio of the WMV I've been making is too small. I noticed the default setting is 320 x 240, which for me is too small. I reset the aspect ratio to 640 x 480, and this is the error message I got: "The video device is currently in use. Close any other application that is using the device and try again." I get this message all the time, no matter what. In fact, I've formatted my hard drive, reinstalled Windows XP and just a few other things (including the Hauppauge Win TV 2000 drivers), and tried making a WMV capture again. I can't get the aspect ratio changed. Can anyone please tell me what is causing this error, and if there is a workaround for it? If you need further details from me about my setup, configuration, etc., please let me know. Thank you very much. Marc Barlin Tag: Capture Video Tag: 43615
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    - Movie Maker Hangs I have a new system with 2gb of memory, Windows MCE 2005 with SP2. Also, what I believe to be the latest version of MovieMaker. My project consists of about 50 photos. Too many times when I try to drag the timeline cursor, Movie Maker will just hang, typically with an East/West cursor. My only recourse is to kill the task. I think it seems to happen mostly if I try to drag the time-line too quickly, but I'm not sure. Has anyone else experienced this? Is there a later version of Movie Maker? My 'About' dialog says I have version 2.1.4026.0 Thanks -- James Kirk Tag: Capture Video Tag: 43612
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    - Can't fast forward my finished movie. I successfully saved my movie to a CD, but when I play it back, I can't fast forward or jump ahead. When I move the slider ahead, as soon as I let go, it goes right back to where it was. What did I do wrong? Tag: Capture Video Tag: 43611
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    - frame to jpg Hi, how can I capture a certain frame from movie to jpg? thanx alek_mil Tag: Capture Video Tag: 43605
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    - PS3 stories in MM: wich profile for best result? Good morning, I am working on a MM project (PAL, 4:3) including both DV-AVI clips from a camcorder and PS stories made from 4:3 high quality pictures. After editing, I want to save as dv-avi, compress with TMPGenc and author with IfoEdit. My question: in order to have the best possible result from this, which profile should I choose when generating my PS stories to be inserted in MM? Thank you in advance. Michel Tag: Capture Video Tag: 43604
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    - Movie Maker stops capturing 15 min into a 1hr miniDV tape While trying to capture all of a 1hour mini DV tape Movie Maker will only record the first 15 minutes and while it still syas that it is capturing, the time & the file size do not continue to increase. A task manager check of applications shows that the System Idle process is using 98% of the cycles. And, the cameras time counter is at over 30 minutes while the capture counter has only reached 15 minutes. This is the first time I have ever tried using Movie Maker, and I do have an nVidia 6600GT graphics card in my box, with driver version 7.7.7.7 from July 2005. Also uning a Sony mini DV DCR-HC32 camcorder for playback via firewire. Anyone else have a similar prob? I have searched this group, papajohns, google and am not able to find any similar problems/solutions. ~ Thx ~ Tag: Capture Video Tag: 43594
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    - not able to save hey i'v used mm alot but know it wont save the move for playback. it says est. saving time and the #'s go up for ever. can u help thanks Tag: Capture Video Tag: 43593
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    - Importing recorded video saved via Media Center? I'm very new to MM so please be gentle. I have recorded some programs on my PC using Media Center and want to import them into MM. Under capture video I can capture from device or import video. I have captured video from my Sony Digital8 camera just fine and it looks like I can capture "live" TV with the video card in the pc but how do I access a show (video) that I recorded? I tried the "Import Video" but I don't know where Media Center stores recorded programs or even the file ext used. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. -- BEF Tag: Capture Video Tag: 43590
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    - importing DVD to Windows Movie Maker I have a panasonic DVD camcorder and I used a DVD-R and finalized the disc. I can play the video on my computer. However, I can't import into the movie maker. How do I convert it over to a supported file type such as: .asf, .avi, .m1v, .mp2, .mp2v, .mpe, .mpeg, .mpg, .mpv2, .wm, and .wmv ? Thank you...Wendy Tag: Capture Video Tag: 43589
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    - Playback Missing Pic but not sound later in saved version I Have what I want, can save it in it's entirety in low format when saving as movie file, the High Quality (Small) but it's crappy quality, if I try to save to High Quality (Large) Or High Quality NTSC or most Best Fit for my computer, at some point, 7-9 mins into the 15 min slide show, the audio keeps going & the picture hangs up or goes to black, never coming back, just audio from that point on. I need to find a way to make this work so this doesn't happen-HELP. --Bret Tag: Capture Video Tag: 43588
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    - burning to Nero Start Smart When I attempt to "add" any of my completed movie files to my list of items to burn to DVD, I get the message "no compatible file found". I have tried mpg2, wswmm, wmv, avi. Is it this program, do I need to upgrade to Nero6 Ultra Edition, or can anyone recommend another program that is free and tried and true? Thanks. -- jv Tag: Capture Video Tag: 43587
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    - "Anchoring" Audio Clips to Adjacent Video in Timeline Can it be done? I'm working on a promo video for a singer friend, which will be a collage of clips from various performances. The video (and poor-quality audio) were captured from DV tape shot at the events. I also have good-quality audio clips dubbed straight from the mixer board. BAsically I'm adding the good audio clips to the timeline, shifting until they synchronize with the poor audio on the video clips, and then muting the bad audio. The problem is that I have 4 or 5 video and a corresponding 4 or 5 audio clips to combine into one 3-minute feature. If I decide to fine-tune anything on the video line (such as slightly stretching a fade), I lose audio synch for that clip as well as all following clips. I can re-synch, but it's annoying. I've tried saving each individual clip with it's synched audio, and then combining the 4 or 5 clips, but that turns out to be far too restrictive of any tweaking I might want to do. Basically I want each sub-clip to start with a title and fade to video, with the synched audio fading in before the video transition (somewhere in the middle of the title). And I want to be able to make length and transition adjustments to the title without de-synching the sound from the main video. BTW, thanks to all who emailed me and recommended reading the "Zero to Hero" book, I bought it and it's helpful. But it's just reinforcing what I'm beginning to suspect, ie MM2 is a great tool for a beginner to get his feet wet, but perhaps it falls short in flexibility once you want to get a little more creative. thanks, Martin Tag: Capture Video Tag: 43575
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    - Saving MovieMaker or Photostory output to DVD's I have made completed several projects with Moviemaker and Photostory. When using the .wmv files and Roxio Easy Media creator 7.5 I am having numerous problems. When writing to dvd-r's I have some success but a lot of pauses and skips. When writing to dvd +rw's I appear to have total success. All of the dvd+rws play on my home dvd player. When writing to dvd+r's, I have had no success. All of the DVD's I have created work fine on my computer. My dvd burner is at least 3 years old and my home dvd player is 4 years old. Does anyone have any suggestions. My desire is to burn dvd's that will play on my home DVD player. -- Fred Saunders Tag: Capture Video Tag: 43574
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    - Movie Maestro I'm using SmartSound to make a track. It claims that the entire track is "inserted into Movie Maker" with just a click of the button. My struggles say "not so". Has anyone been able to get this feature to work? Am I missing something. Tag: Capture Video Tag: 43567
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    - Firewire Connection I have a Dell Dim 4500 with no port to accept a firewire connection. How does one go about having one installed? Is it a do it yourself project? Where do I look for help, at Dell, or Microsoft. or Sony, where I purchasted the camera... Camera is a DCR=TRV?480 Handycam. It came with a USB cable but WMM 2 suggests using IEEE 1394 cable Tag: Capture Video Tag: 43566
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    - cineplayer decoders so I just need to use the roxio to play the movies ect. and not the windows movie maker? When I down load this clips in the future if I want to use windows movie maker do I need to put my clips and pictures into that program for it to work or won't it work at all. Will only my roxio work with the clips and pict? Tag: Capture Video Tag: 43565
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    - Movie Maker has stopped reconizing my Panasonic PV-DC252 mini DV I have used my palmcorder with firewire (IEEE) connection and Movie Maker in the past but in the last month it will not reconize my palmcorder. My USB picture connection works fine. Does anyone have any suggestions on troubleshooting this issue? I have tried a new cable, updating IEEE driver, looked for drivers for the PV-DC252 but could not find any on the Panasonic site. Tag: Capture Video Tag: 43549
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    - cineplayer decoders when I try to work with video on my movie maker a message comes up that says the cineplayer decoder has not been activated. you must activate the product before use. please run the player that included this decoder in order to activate the product. Please let me know how do I do this. Tag: Capture Video Tag: 43548
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    - Problems with fire wire or movie maker I used Movie Maker to edit video from my sony mini dv and 8mm digital. I also use Sonic to direct burn my tapes. I burned about 20 tapes, and I came back to extract video to mm to edit from my 8mm digital. Now my camera screen says I have dv in but movie maker won't recognize my camera. If I restart my computer it will recognize it but it freezes up. Don't understand its a brand new computer it owrked fine for awhile and now it won't. Tag: Capture Video Tag: 43547
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    - First time Movie Maker user Created my first movie (mixture of photos, clips from digi cam) with MovieMaker. I saved movie to pc first. After viewing it I then saved to a DVD +R. Attempted to view it off the disc on a pc and a dvd player but with no success. Where did I go wrong? Anyone have any tips please. I will try later today to save movie directly onto a DVD +R, rather than onto pc initially. Tag: Capture Video Tag: 43543
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    - Movie maker just gone from system. I went in to use movie maker and I culdn't find it in my program files. When i went to Search files and found it wouldn't let me open it up. It keeps saying Error and nothing else. Any suggestions? Tag: Capture Video Tag: 43542
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    - MOVIE MAKER PLEASE CAN ANY ONE HELP URGENT HAVE USED MOVIE MAKER WITH GREAT SUCCESS BUT TWO WEEKS AGO WHEN I WENT TO LOAD ON HOLIDAY PICS AND MUSIC I FOUND IT WOULDNT ALLOW ME TO TRANSFER STRAIGHT TO C/D A LONG CALL TO MICROSOFT THEY SAY THERE IS POSS PROBLEM WITH NEW MOVIE MAKER CAN ANY ONE SHED LIGHT/HELP ON THIS MATTER A PATCH WAS ALSO SAID TO BE A POSSIBLE HELP LINE Tag: Capture Video Tag: 43532
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    - Capture of Date/Time Stamp Mini-DV tape stores a running date/time stamp, which can be selectively displayed (or not) during playback. Does MM capture this information along with the audio and video, and if so, how do you display it? Tag: Capture Video Tag: 43530
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    - Movie Maker Dies... I have some video that I have extracted using Intervideo DVD Copy product. Basically I have extracted a small chapter from a disc. I need to edit the file to shorten it.. so I thought I would use the Movie Maker for that. When I import the video I get a critical error and basically I am told that memory could not be read at some hex location... and then when I click ok the program dies. If I import MPEG or AVI/Divx that is exported from this Intervideo product this happens. If I import WMV it does not happen but there is some loss.. I would really like to use the AVI... any thoughts? I went to Intervideo and they wanted me to restore my OS install... dumb of course. The machine is a new install of XP SP2... it is plenty of horsepower too. I am really at a loss... The videos all play fine in Media Player so why would I not be able to import them? Perhaps a missing filter or something? Tag: Capture Video Tag: 43529
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    - MCE2005 - DVD Option I've been checking my new HP notebook computer to learn more about the DVD burning option within Movie Maker... on a MCE2005 version of Windows XP. One thing I learned is that you can substitute another file such as a Photo Story 3 story, or a DV-AVI file... and end up with that on the DVD instead of the movie project on the timeline. I added it as tip #24 at http://www.simplydv.co.uk/simplyBB/viewtopic.php?t=4693 -- PapaJohn Movie Maker 2 and Photo Story 3 website - http://www.papajohn.org MM2 Tips and Tricks: http://www.simplydv.co.uk/simplyBB/viewtopic.php?t=4693 Online Newsletters: http://www.windowsmoviemakers.net/PapaJohn/Index.aspx Tag: Capture Video Tag: 43528
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    - capturing video I have a Nikon digital camera with video capability. I connect the camera directly to my USB port, but when I click on "Capture Video" in moviemaker, I get a message saying there is not capture device found. Any ideas? Thanks (again) -- jv Tag: Capture Video Tag: 43525
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    - crashes / lock ups I find that this program "freezes" quite often, then I have to shut it down and redo any unsaved work. Any solutions? -- jv Tag: Capture Video Tag: 43524
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    - Saved moviemake project on CD blurry When I watch my moviemake project via my DVD player on TV, the image is crisp and clear. When I watch it on my computer (using Power DVD) it looks blurry. I am burning Super Video CD (SVCD) after converting project to MPEG2 using TMPGenc. Any thoughts? -- jv Tag: Capture Video Tag: 43523
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    - Audio on storyboard too fast We can play a MPG file in MS Media Player just fine. We can preview the same clip in MM just fine. When we move the clip to storyboard, the sound is compressed to half the time and it sounds like a chipmunk. We have updated the codecs, we have removed the acceleration of the audio card, we have updated DirectX, and we have tried it on two different computers. Any other ideas? Tag: Capture Video Tag: 43521
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    - extracting audio from WMA file i have a WMA video/audio file of 2 minutes length.i want to extract the audio track from the file and save it as a separate file on HD.using Movie Maker-if i put file on timeline/each video frame i delete also deletes audio. how can i do this? any comments welcomed. Tag: Capture Video Tag: 43513
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    - I can not import film with nokia multimedia player extension. I can not import film with nokia multimedia player extension.Can i to change the extension to b eable to import that kind of extension? Thank you! Tag: Capture Video Tag: 43511
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    - i can not import video with nokia multimedia player extension I tryed to import video with nokia multimedia player extension (nmp)and the program didn't allow that. What happened ?Can to chage the extension for clips? Teach me! Best regards, Dorin from Romania Tag: Capture Video Tag: 43510
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    - Can't hear audio track (& fading) Hi I can't hear one of the audio tracks when playing the full movie. I can hear it if I play it on it's own. It is an MP3 track and I have other MP3 audio files in the movie and they work fine. Any ideas? I think it worked at one point but not now. Have tried deleting file and re-importing. Have also tried moving it. Also can someone tell me how to fade music in and out please? Thank you Tag: Capture Video Tag: 43506
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    - Select a Video Hosting Provider? Why should I pay? I can not believe I have to send my movie to some company and HAVE to PAY for their services when I have 3 FTP servers running at home. What gives Microsoft? I really can't believe there is no way to input an address when at the send movie to a hosting provider. Isn't MS making enough $ since ACTIVATION went into effect 3 years ago? Just keep sucking the blood out of us Billy. I'll just posted the movie I made to one of my FTP sites after saving it to My Computer and then uploading it to my FTP server. -- MS Technical Beta Tester 282044 Tag: Capture Video Tag: 43502
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    - =?Utf-8?Q?Timeline_doesn=C2=B4t_play_in_preview?= Everything plays except the time line. I have captured the files as wma/wmv. Audio plays but sounds low, might be a codec problem. But are there codecs for wma/wmv files? Should i capture in .avi format and then convert to wma later? //Thanx Tag: Capture Video Tag: 43501
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    - Saving a Video file as original 304 x 224, is there a easier way? I have created a Divx 6 video. I want to edit this file using Windows Movie Maker. Once I've edited this video, and saved it as a High Small Video File it changes divx to wmv and also the video to 320 x 240 different from original. In order for me to change it back as the original I have to install a Profile Editor which is included with Windows Media Encoder package. Would I save the file as a MPEG-4 Video V1? Is this the only way? Thank you. Chris I understand that I have to download: Step 1 - Install the Profile Editor The Profile Editor is a utility that is bundled with Microsoft's Windows Media Encoder package. If you don't already have the Encoder package to edit my videos. Tag: Capture Video Tag: 43499
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    - Title/text combined with video? Is there a way to have a bar of left-right scrolling text along the top or bottom of a video clip, running simultaneously while the video plays? The effect I'm looking for would be similar to the line of stock prices that scrolls along the upper margin of the evening news on TV, but in this case I want to scroll contact information (company name, web address, phone numbers) repeatedly while a 5-minute promotional video runs. thanks, Martin Tag: Capture Video Tag: 43491
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    - Keep the same resolution or perspective 304 x 224, workaround? I would like to keep the same resolution or perspective 304 X 224 as the original. Windows Movie Maker doesn't give me that option. Is there a workaround to this? Thank you. Chris Tag: Capture Video Tag: 43490
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    - Undesired "Funhouse Mirror" Effect when Rotating Clip Input file is MPEG-4 in .avi format, 640x480 pixels, from my Canon S1-IS digital camera. When I captured the video, the camera was rotated 90 degrees. After import into moviemaker, I rotated the clip 90 degrees to set things right, but moviemaker apparently "stretched" the result in the horizontal direction (instead of inserting bars or something), so now the aspect ratio of objects and and people is messed up. How can I rotate my clip without messing up the aspect ratio? Re-capturing the scene is not an option, it was a once-only opportunity. Am I going to have to turn my monitor sideways to watch it? thanks, Martin Tag: Capture Video Tag: 43487
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    - merging projects I have created several projects using WMM(v5.1). I would like to combine these different projects into one video to record back to my camcorder or to save to my hard drive in order to then record it onto a dvd using Sonic. I have tried to import one project into another, but it either doesn't allow me to do this, or I am doing something incorrectly. Does WMM even have this option? Thanks for the help! Tag: Capture Video Tag: 43484
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    - HELP EXPORTING PROBLEMS WHEN I TRY TO EXPORT MY VIDEO FROM MICROSOFT WINDOWS MOVIE MAKER I ONLY GET 14 MINUTES OF THE ONE HOUR VIDEO. HOW DO I EXPORT THE WHOLE MOVIE??? I DO HAVE A 1 G FLASH DRIVE THAT I COULD USE BUT IT IS NOT TAKING THAT EITHER. Tag: Capture Video Tag: 43483

Is the MM2 can capture video via USB port using DV Camera??? Any suggestions???

Re: Capture Video by Graham

Graham
Sat Nov 05 09:00:40 CST 2005

No, use firewire it is far superior in everyway.

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

"Gethelson Nicdao" <GethelsonNicdao@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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> Is the MM2 can capture video via USB port using DV Camera??? Any
> suggestions???

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