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    - HELP! How do I change the size of a clip? Hi, I am currently working on creatinga training video for work. I am using a camcorder and recording audio at the same time. My problem is that the clips keep cutting me off early, I'm talking about 10-20 second clips here not hours. I have used Camtasia in the past where you can adjust clip duration, but I don't see any sort of setting like this. Does anyone know why it keeps cutting my clips short (and also creates several small ones), or how I can adjust the length of these? Thanks a million! Tag: Reduced picture quality Tag: 53453
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    - Help Hi Sorry if this topic has already been covered but I am at the end of my tether and cannot find it in the archives. I am also getting stress from the missus as I have not sorted this out yet! I have a Sony DCR-DVD205 camcorder and have several DVD's already completed. I now want to transfer them onto 4.7GB DVD's and re-use the 1.4GB disks again. When I try to put them on my PC how do I only save the scenes that I want? When I look at individual files they appear to be in the format of IFO files and they open with Power DVD. Is this any good or is Windows Media player better? Secondly I have tried to transfer the files onto Windows Movie Maker for editing and the files will not copy as they are in the wrong format???? How do I change this please. I did go into a Sony centre but they were of no help at all. If anyone can help me then I would greatly apprciate it. Also if anyone knows of anywhere there is a basic guide to working with DVD camcorders/Pc's and video editing then please let me know. Many thanks Tag: Reduced picture quality Tag: 53452
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    - movie maker hardware Please tell me what to do to get hardware back. My laptop is saying that there is no hardware. My computer crashed and lost alot of things. Tag: Reduced picture quality Tag: 53447
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    - Xvid-encoded avis and "has encountered a problem" (also posted on the WMM.net forums - I'm pretty desperate here) I'm really new to this, and I was having such a great time until I found that WMM absolutely refuses to take the entre second season of the show I was taking clips from. I get "WMM has encountered a problem and needs to close" every single time I try to import one of these episodes. I have done a few hours worth of reading and searching, but the common solution to this common problem don't seem to work for me: I've un-checked every single filter in Tools > Options > Compatibility. Could it still be a problem codec with everything un-checked? papajohn.org also says "A video clip with an .avi extension might be a DV-AVI file that should work... [b]or an Xvid encoded one that doesn't[/b]." According to Gspot, these episodes are Xvid-encoded. BUT, so are all of the first season, and they import to WMM just fine! So, I've no idea what the exact problem is. Do I need to change something about WMM to get these files to import? Do I need to change something somewhere else on my computer (rename files perhaps? Only, I thought you didn't have to do that if you had WMM 2.1 - that un-checking would suffice...)? Do I need to convert/recompress these files? If the latter, what's the best way to do that? Will they lose quality? I would reeeeallly appreciate help with this. I had so wanted to make this little video, and was super excited upon figuring out the basics of WMM. Then this great big brick wall... Tag: Reduced picture quality Tag: 53446
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    - Titles I followed the Help advice and have gotten to the part where I can add a title to my movie. The problem is, I don't have a Task button to select so I can get to these features. Do I need an upgrade? Tag: Reduced picture quality Tag: 53442
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    - Clip inverted when imported in MM 2.1 The movie clip is inverted when I import it into MM 2.1 on my Dell desktop (XP Media Ediition). The same clip works Ok on my wife's IBM laptop (XP Home edition). I can convert to DV/AVI and then it works. Can I copy a codec or do something on my dell desktop so the clip would not be inverted? Please help!!! Many Thanks!!! -- Kamal K Tag: Reduced picture quality Tag: 53435
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    - IFO,VOB,PUB FILES ? Ok I've just been inspired to do a custom movie with different audio clips of my own music from different clips of another movie...the problem is it's on a DVD(Final Fantasy VII:Advent Children) now I'm a real newbie to this but I've been reading help files and such....well my question is how tha heck do I import just the scenes that I want onto Movie Maker if the file is not supported....or better yet where do I start..... *goes back to reading "Getting Started"* thanks in advance Tag: Reduced picture quality Tag: 53434
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    - How do I get Windows Moviemaker? I have used Moviemaker for a few years, but after a factory rest, it has disappeared. I have downloaded Service Pack 2 and have Windows updates on and up to date. The Microsoft website seems to suggest that if I have SP 2 then I have Moviemaker and I can't find anywhere to download it on its own. Tag: Reduced picture quality Tag: 53433
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    - No audio from my VCR tape Hello to All, I am a newbie to Movie Maker and so far I love it. However, I have on ebig problem: I have an analog VCR and recorded tapes. I can capture the video just fine, but I cannot get the audio with it. I am going straight from my VCR with cable to the computer; that is, there is no TV or amp hooked in with it. The only source of signal is the VCR. Can anyone help with this? Thanks so much, Terry Tag: Reduced picture quality Tag: 53429
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    - Video only plays with threshold effect When I capture the video and make my movie, it looks like it should in the preview screen. When I play the movie, however, it will only show with what looks like the threshold effect. Can someone help me to correct this? This only happens on one of my two computers. On the other computer, the same footage plays normally. I have redone the movie several times, but it still happens. I have checked to make sure that threshold isn't checked in effects. My OS is XP Professional; my media player is the new Beta version 11 (which I would remove, but can't find instructions to do so. Neither can I find a way to reinstall Movie Maker.) Any help will be appreciated. Thank you. Tag: Reduced picture quality Tag: 53422
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    - Movie Maker Crashes Whenever I open Movie Maker, it stays on for a couple of seconds and then just closes automatically. Tag: Reduced picture quality Tag: 53419
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    - can i use other sizes with windows movie maker I have a GIF file that is 300 pixels wide by 50 pixels high. I would like to add audio ot it and export it as a .wmv which is still 300 by 50. I can't find the settiing in Windows Movie Maker to keep this size. It currently stretches it vertically to fit it into 4:3 or 19:9 aspect ratio. All assitance gratefully received, Peter Tag: Reduced picture quality Tag: 53416
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    - Is M This is a really dumb question.. On the MS site it states MM is included by default with SP2. Does that mean if I have SP2 installed I have MM? If so, where do I find it on the start menu? http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/create/faq.mspx I recorded a TV show on to a DVD, with a DVD recorder, it is a VOB. Can MM edit the VOB so I can remove the commercials? My last question. I received instructional DVD's. The files are AVI Xvid. (I have about 50 files.) With MM can I create a VOB so I can watch the files on a DVD player so I don't have to use a computer? If MM doesn't do either of the above, can someone sugest a program that will? Thanks Tag: Reduced picture quality Tag: 53413
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    - importing videos causes movie maker to crash I have been succesfully using MM 2.0 for sometime but suddenly now everytime I try and import a video, either mpeg or wmv, the program crashes. Any help with the problem would be gratefully accepted Tag: Reduced picture quality Tag: 53409
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    - movie maker edit? Is it possible to edit pieces of a movie out with Movie Maker? I've imported a DV video camera movie into Movie Maker in the avi format. Is it only possible to shorten the beginning or end of the movie, but not to edit out pieces within the movie? Am I misunderstanding the help tutorial? If Movie Maker can't edit this way, what would you suggest I use? Thanks for helping a frustrated noob user! Tag: Reduced picture quality Tag: 53408
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    - "Tools" > "Options" Freezes WMM 2.1 HELP! After successfully running WXP, SP2 for several years now and bieng fully current with Microsoft Update, I decided to try WMM 2.1 (2.1.4026) after roxio EMC 8 gave audio sync problems. Dell dimension 8100 P4 -- 1.7 GHz. 2 HD: 40 GB & 250 GB 3.8 GB DDR RAM (1.5 GB on system partition; 2.3 GB on 2nd HD separate paging partition) When I opened WMM, everything seemed fine, UNTIL I tried to access the "Options" category under "Tools" and elsewhere in the GUI to configure temp file locations, filters, etc. Every single time, the app hangs and has to be closed via Taskmaster. I've come to the conclusion that the installation has somehow been corrupted, even though WXP is giving no other signs of instability 9never once a "Stop" or other serious error. I have run several sfc.exe passes and several chkdsk passes, but that didn't help. As WMM is wed irrevocably to SP2, is there any way to repair the WMM component? I REALLY DON'T WANT TO DO A REINSTALL OR "REPAIR" the entire WXP installation, which is performing flawlessly. I'm thinking about deleting the WMM folder and then running sfc.exe. Would that work? Alternatively, is there a solution on the Microsoft XP installation CD including SP2? What file or group of files would need to be installed to replace the faulty WMM installation? PLEASE HELP. THIS LOOKS TO BE A WORTHWHILE PROGRAM IF I COULD ONLY CONFIGURE IT! Tag: Reduced picture quality Tag: 53404
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    - errors Please help, 1st proj - I get the following error when trying to finish and save both to disk and my computer: Windows Movie Maker can not save to specified location. Verify the original source files are still available, saving location is still available, and that there is enough free disk space. Plenty of free space on computer and disk - used photos from my computer and ripped music from my files. Everything is still there. Tag: Reduced picture quality Tag: 53402
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    - Windows Movie Movie maker How do I play a DVD on the computer and down load it to movie maker? Tag: Reduced picture quality Tag: 53396
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    - Writing Movie Maker to CD hangs computer. I have recently installed a DVD/CD burner. I set up a test movie with a title page and approximately 6 pictures. To try out the recording, I clicked "Save to CD." The whole system hangs up at "Performing final steps to make CD ready for use..." The computer shows 10 seconds to go, but everything has stopped. Suggestions? -- cuz Tag: Reduced picture quality Tag: 53395
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    - Choose one default transition for ALL pictures. I am making a slide show with about 100 photos. I just want to do it very quick. So I just want the simple fade transition between each of the photos. What is the way to set a default transition (not the duration or whatever but the actual one to use). Please don't tell me I have to drag and drop the transition a 100 times! Tag: Reduced picture quality Tag: 53392
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    - Downloading Where can I ddownload the new version of Movie Maker? Tag: Reduced picture quality Tag: 53391
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    - Sound Is there a way to add dialouge to a movie in movie maker? Tag: Reduced picture quality Tag: 53389
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    - Additional Video Tracks When will we get more Video & Audio Tracks in Movie Maker? Is there a 3.0 in our future? DVD Authouring would be nice too. Tag: Reduced picture quality Tag: 53386
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    - Video ends right before audio I created "music video" of our trip to Kennedy Space Center. I captured the video to MM2, broke the video into clips, put the clips on the time-line, added titles and transitions, muted the audio, then put the song Rocket Man (a WMA file) on the music track. The video track and audio track end at the same time on the time-line. The only extra stuff I did was add a scrolling title at the beginning saying "One small step for man" - then the music begins - and at the end I added a scrolling title that says "One giant leap for mankind" with the music still playing. I snapped a picture of a frame from the video - saved as BMP and inserted that between 2 clips. That's it. When I save the movie to a WMV file it finishes ok. When I save it to an AVI file there are very slight speed-ups and slow-downs and the ending scrolling title ends before the word "mankind" displays though the music finishes find. Any help would be appreciated. Tag: Reduced picture quality Tag: 53385
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    - Creativity Packs for Windows XP64 Hi, I'm missing the Creativity Packs for Windows XP64. Can't install the 32bit ones because the installer cancels :( Anyone knows where I can find them? -- Jens Tag: Reduced picture quality Tag: 53381
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    - Movie Maker 2.1 Custom Profiles About Windows displays the following for Movie Maker: MS Windows Movie Maker version 5.1 (Build 2600.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519 : Service Pack 2) Copyright 1981-2001 Microsoft Corporation Windows Movie Maker Version 2.1.4.026.0 blah blah blah.... Now the problem I have made some custom PRX files and saved them in the Profiles folder under Movie Maker\Shared. During the save movie operation (Save Movie Wizard), the custom profiles are not listed in the combo box for possible profiles. Does anyone know what causes this behavior. I have followed the instructions explicitly for creating custom profiles on Microsoft's website. Thank You Tag: Reduced picture quality Tag: 53380
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    - I need a program that can encode to the windows media screen codec I need a program that can encode or convert to the windows media screen codec WMV screen... I have some video converters but they dont let me do this... thanks! Tag: Reduced picture quality Tag: 53374
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    - Codecs for MPG At first I couldn't import my MPG file into the "Collection" area. Now, I can, but once I add it to my timeline and play it, the video appears backwards and with green horizontal lines. I know this has something to do with the codecs I have, but I don't know which ones I need or perhaps which ones I should not have. The codecs listed under Tools/Options/Compatibility are as follows: Elecard MPEG2 Video Decoder Version 2.0.0.2525 Ogg Splitter Version 0.9.9.5 WMplug version 0.0.0.0 Sonic CM(R) DS VideoDecoder 4.0 Version 4.0.0.46 DirectVobSub (Auto-loading Version) version 1.0.0.9 Elecard MPEG2 Demultiplexer version 2.0.84.30429 ffdshow MPEG-4 Video Decoder version 1.0.0.1 Any help would be appreciated! Tag: Reduced picture quality Tag: 53370
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    - No Sound I have a couple of AVI movies from the weekend taken from my digital camera (Casio EX-Z1000). Uploaded the AVIs to the HD. Tried to add them to my storyline within Movie maker, now when I play the file within the previoew window, no probs. can hear sound. Once I add it to the story line, Nada. Nothing at all. I then saved the file (need it in Windows wmv format) so I can send it without it being too big so ppl emails box can receive it. What the heck am I dont wrong? Once the WMV file is made, plays, and no sound. Original AVI 1 I want reducing from 140 MB to the smaller 5 MB wmv. Any ideas? Tag: Reduced picture quality Tag: 53368
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    - Importing video Is there a way to import video from a dvd? I just purchased a Sony minidvd cam which has no usb port. Tag: Reduced picture quality Tag: 53363
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    - WMM version2 Crashes when adding title I think the WMM is a great program.....other than the fact I can not add titles or video effects......when trying to add a title the moment I tyoe in maybe the first two letters it will crash and go off completely.......any help would be most appreciated. Thanks, Barb Tag: Reduced picture quality Tag: 53360
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    - Will Movie Maker import .VOB files from hard drive or camer I am desperate to find software that will work well with .VOB files. I have a Sony camera that uses the mini disks and produces VOB files each time you take a video snippet with my camera. I want to put the video from the mini disks onto my hard drive and then produce home video DVD's. As of now, it looks like there is no way to use vob's with Movie Maker. Is that right? I have converted some VOB's to AVI's but this is an enormously time consuming project and uses an enormous amount of disk space. Please help! Sorry I posted this in the video group first. Tag: Reduced picture quality Tag: 53358
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    - Segmenting a Movie I have 5 Movies that I have captured from a digital movie camera that were taken at a conference. I am intending on posting the movies on a website. The problem is.....the movies are each about an hour long and contain footage of several different events. I need to break each movie into several different segments and save each segment as an individual movie seperate from the others. Is there a way the WMM can do this? TIA Tag: Reduced picture quality Tag: 53356
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    - Movie Maker/Vista won't record from VCR plugged into ATI X1800 The other day I recorded video pumped into the SVideo port on my ATI X1800XL that came from my VCR with Windows Movie Maker on XP. I just upgraded to Vista, and can't do it anymore. I have installed ATI's Vista Catalyst Drivers. The ATI T200 shows up in device manager. Why won't Movie Maker record anymore? -- -Matt Tag: Reduced picture quality Tag: 53350
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    - Movie maker 5.1 I have a problem with Movie maker. About the 3rd or 4th step where it ask for playback mode (Best playback) No matter what I click I get this error message: "movie maker has encounted a problem and must close". Then it just shuts down. I downloaded and upgraded all my windows components today. No help. I am running XP media center edition. Need help badly... Thanks Tag: Reduced picture quality Tag: 53345
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    - Movie Maker 5.1 I have Movie Maker 5.1 and have used it for a couple of years to put video tapes onto DVDs. Starting this week when I get to the third step 'video setting for best playbace' I get a error message "movie maker has encountered a problem and must close". I reinstalled it twice, no change. Any ideas? Really need help with this. Thanks. Tag: Reduced picture quality Tag: 53344
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    - Movie Maker save to DVD (MPEG)? Have been told that the Media Centre version of MM can save in MPEG format for writing to DVD, true or not. Have looked in the Help files but can't se anything about saving in this format. -- Kenny Cargill Tag: Reduced picture quality Tag: 53343
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    - Flash files embedded into web pages Folks: I am looking at the audio version of one of my favorite books - Think & Grow Rich - located at http://www.angelfire.com/biz7/programsthatpay/tgr.html I would like to download flash video files, embedded in this web page, for offline listening. * Does anyone know if NERO Software Suit (popular DVD burning, etc program) can be used to download/save Macromedia Flash video embedded into a web page ? * Is there any other software program that can save the flash files located on this web page ? Thanks, Jo. Tag: Reduced picture quality Tag: 53339
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    - Separating Vocal from Music in video.. Was just wondering if there's anyway I can do this....with any software. I'm making a music video...from avi's...and I just need to use some of the vocals...without the background music...any suggestions...? Cept..forget about it? Tag: Reduced picture quality Tag: 53334
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    - Problem with Movie Maker and HiMat I've used Movie Make for some time without problems. Recently when I try to save a movie to the hard drive (My Videos) "HiMat" is popping up and trying to put it on a CD. I tell the program to save to the hard drive but HiMat takes control anyway. Because there is no CD in the E-drive it just sets there till I cancle it. Doesn't happen every time, only about 50%. If anyone knows how to solve this problem I would be grateful for the help. Thanks, BobT -- Message posted via WindowsKB.com http://www.windowskb.com/Uwe/Forums.aspx/windows-xp-movie-maker/200608/1 Tag: Reduced picture quality Tag: 53332
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    - Movie Maker won't save movie My movie maker won't save a new movie and reports that either the source file is missing or that I have no room on my hard drive. Both are false indications. I dind't move, delete or otherwise molest the original file and my hard drive has 60gb available. I tried movie maker on another computer in my home with the same files and it worked. Does anyone know how to repair or reinstall the program? I see its imbedded in SP2 and not a stand alone program. -- v/r usmcordie Tag: Reduced picture quality Tag: 53330
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    - Making Clips/Movie Look Like Film Format?? I was wondering, is it possible to make my clips/movie look like film format? Even if it's just slightly. I'm making a music video for one of my songs and I really don't want the quality of the video to look amaturish. So if it's possible to make it look even a bit more like film format then that'd be great. Thanks very much in advance! Aaron Tag: Reduced picture quality Tag: 53325
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    - HiMat is like Hilter! Wants to take control..... I guess it got into my computer via auto updates... which I have now turned off. I've been using Movie Maker for quite a while without porblems but now when I try to save an edited movie to my hard drive HiMat pops up and says it is saving it to a CD. Of course it just sets there because there is no blank CD in the drive. This is happening about 50% of the time...sometimes it saves to hard drive and sometimes not. Has anyone else had this problem? If so, I sure would appreciate knowing how to fix it. Thanks. BobT Tag: Reduced picture quality Tag: 53320
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    - DVD audio/video sync The DVD that I made with Sonic DVD plays fine on a tv but when played on my computer video and audio are out of sync. Also jerky movements. The file is .avi captured with MovieMaker with High Quality setting in the DVD software. I have burned it using auto, 2x and 4x with the same results. Using Maxell or Verbatim DVD -+. Any help greatly appreciated. Tag: Reduced picture quality Tag: 53318
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    - moviemk 2.0.3312.0 with sp2 installed I have updated my windows with Microsoft update, both with express and custom. I have all updates. Unfortunately windows movie maker doesn't seem to update. The version I have is 2.0.3312.0 I'm having trouble with this version since wmm freezes when I import video files. All other files show version 2.1.4026.0 How can I get wmm version 2.1? Tag: Reduced picture quality Tag: 53313
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    - WMM Error Trying to Save -- Can save only to DV AVI First thanks to Papa John and WOJO sites for getting up and kind of running on WMM 2.1. I can piece together movies produced from clips from my "motion JPEG" producing FUJI S7000 camera but I can't save them to any other of the WMV formats offered in WMM. Can only save to DV AVI. Wondering if I need to "refresh" the QASF.dll version 9 file. I see it and the version 10 file in SYS32 file. Is this a valid course or are the camera files I am working with the issue? Sure would like to be able to email my 2 minute movies but the file is just toooo big for that. Any suggestions would be very welcomed. Thanks Tag: Reduced picture quality Tag: 53309
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    - HELP!! W.MovieMaker crashes when adding titles, transitions & effe Hi friends! Haven't worked with WMM for quite a while. Now I cut a couple of short videos, but whenever I tried to add transitions, titles or any effects, WMM crashed and went off. Maybe something wrong with my "collection" of transitions, effects and titles? Is there any way to restore the file from online??? What else might be the problem? Everything works fine, cutting, inserting clips, adding music and pictures, but as soon as I drag a transition on the time bar and release the mouse button, the program crashes and must be started again. Of course all last changes made after the auto store function are gone as well! I'm clueless!! Can anybody help or give advice??? Thanx a lot in advance!! Kind regards, Dieter Tag: Reduced picture quality Tag: 53305
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    - Hack to make multiple changes? I have maybe 50-60 text overlays of one type in this 20 min holiday video. (News Banner, MS Sans Serif, white on black.) After an initial viewing on TV I now want to make the font size on all of them a notch smaller. Do I have any alternative other than doing them all individually please? Any sort of clever hack that could do it globally? One long shot I've just thought of: would Win XP Home let me temporarily change the font file, I wonder? -- Terry, West Sussex, UK Tag: Reduced picture quality Tag: 53303
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    - Burning faster with Roxio My DVD 8 I have been burnin three different WMM slideshows unto one DVD with Roxio MY DVD 8. It is taking hours to burn each one-is there any way to make this process go faster? Tag: Reduced picture quality Tag: 53302
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    - Still hoping to make a widescreen DVD Checking digicam reviews, I see that the Canon PowerShot S80 offers this: "Movie clips â?¢ 1024 x 768 at 15 fps" Can anyone share how this works in MM2? Does it produce clearer native resolution on a TV running the DVD? I've been rather happy using a Sony P200 giving 640 x 480 at 15 fps, but it is not as clear as what a HD video camera produces. Experiences? Tag: Reduced picture quality Tag: 53301

When I imported movie from my digital camera, the quality droped a lot. How
do I fix it?

Re: Reduced picture quality by John

John
Wed Aug 30 23:25:19 CDT 2006

Varda wrote:
> When I imported movie from my digital camera, the quality
> droped a lot. How do I fix it?
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Just wondering...did you import with
FireWire IEEE 1394?

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