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    - Download MM2? I have XP Pro with SP2 installed. I have turned on automatic updates. I have installed all updates. I cannot find the download for MM2. I have gone to IE/Tools/Windows Update and have tried everything I can find. I must be blind.... Can anyone provide a link to a download for MM2? Thanks for looking. Charlie Tag: film loses color and definition when put to file Tag: 42527
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    - Newbie needs help I am running XP SP2, and using WMM 2.01. I have captured the video from my SONY DCR-HC30, and I was able to minipulate the program as far as the title and trailer go. What I want to do and know is how do I convert this MSWMM format to be able to show this video on my home TV. I have a dvd/cd player. Any guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Dan (Still going in circles) Tag: film loses color and definition when put to file Tag: 42525
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    - Trying to get sound with MM and Dazzle DVC 80 I'm trying to use a Dazzle DVC 80 with Movie Maker 2.1 and I can capture the images, but when I click on finish, the program just sits there until I finally close it out with the usual Ctrl-Alt-Del dance. The video is saved, but no sound. In Device manager, DAzzle DVC 80 (2) #3 is shown as an imaging device and in the sound area it shows Dazzle DVC 80 Audio (2). I was able to update the Audio drivers to the XP drivers, but I get error messages when attemmpting to upgrade the Video drivers. Any suggestions? I tried a post on here before, but no response, no one has a dazzle DVC 80 that has given them trouble? Gerry Tag: film loses color and definition when put to file Tag: 42523
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    - Will not open! Says required audio hardware cannot be found! I don't know what I did, but all of a sudden my Movie Maker will not open at all. I get an error saying that it cannot operate due to the required audio hardware cannot be found. Microsoft.com will not let me download it and reinstall. Can anyone ehre help me out? I was just getting to know how to use it a lil' bit and boom, out went the lights. PLEASE HELP A GUY OUT!!!!! -- Thanks for everything friends! Tag: film loses color and definition when put to file Tag: 42522
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    - DV-AVI not available for capture This is the first time I'm trying to capture video from my Sony DCR-TRV70 miniDV camera. Movie Maker recognizes it, but when walking throught he capture wizard, "Digital device format (DV-AVI)" is grayed-out and not a choice under Video Setting. Why isn't this available? What do I need to change to make it a choice? Thanks in advance. Tag: film loses color and definition when put to file Tag: 42521
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    - Video Slows And Audio Skips In DV-AVI I have to save a movie in DV-AVI format but the video slows when it gets to a transition and then the audio skips (this in when saved as DV-AVI). I've tried the uncompressed audio thing and it still happens. I have captured the video from my Panasonic Mini-DV cam in this format no problem. Is there any other format (say MPEG) that i can forge into WMM, becuase according to these other comments on this page i doubt there is anything i can do to fix this problem. Thanks Tag: film loses color and definition when put to file Tag: 42520
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    - Windows Movie Maker Problem Hi i have a problem that keeps getting worse and worse. First of all I have Windows XP for my emachine computer. Windows Movie Maker (not sure what version or anything) keeps freezing up on me. I will be editing clips and stuff and all of a sudden the program will just freeze up so i have to do ctrl alt delete and end the program from there. Any advice or help would be great. Does any one know of a update or patch for this? Tag: film loses color and definition when put to file Tag: 42519
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    - Saving to CD Hi - new to Movie Maker but I managed to muddle my way through it. I was able to edit clips and add music to the movie. I can play the movie from my computer. My problem comes when I try to copy the movie to a CD - the program runs through the process but appears to stall out with about 55 seconds left - I have left it run for quite some time - but program does not finish. What should I do? Tag: film loses color and definition when put to file Tag: 42515
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    - Video Capture Problems in MM2 I have a Dell desktop, 1.8GHz P4 with 768MB RAM, firewire and 32MB ATI Rage video card. I recently upgraded my RAM from 256MB. My capture settings are High Quality NTSC, 720 x 480 at 30 FPS with no screen preview. I'm using my Sony DCE-HC32. The problem that I am having is that the first 1:30 to 1:40 minutes of capture looks really good, then after this the capture starts to get really jerky and choppy. I haven't yet bothered to finish the video to another format yet. Any ideas what could be causing this problem? Thanks for your help, David in Vancouver, BC Tag: film loses color and definition when put to file Tag: 42514
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    - Forum connection Am I the only forum visitor having problems connecting to this forum? For the last week or more, sometimes instead of getting the forum, I get a general Microsoft page that displays dozens of links to different support sites. I say sometimes because on and off I get this forum. Anybody with the same problem? Tag: film loses color and definition when put to file Tag: 42513
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    - How to import .dat file to Window Movie Maker 2.1 Hi! I am newbie. Hope someone can help me with this problem. I want to use clips from vcd in WMM 2.1 but it won't allow .dat file. I heard that WMM 1.1 will import .dat file. How come WMM 2 will not import .dat file...I thought it's supposed to be better! Is there anyway to get .dat file into WMM 2.1? Please help? Thanks in advance. Tag: film loses color and definition when put to file Tag: 42512
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    - not indexed and cannot....media file editor dosent work either ive been trying to import a wmv file to moviemaker, and got the error message "thefile.wmv is not indexed and cannot be opened" i then tried using the index and save feature on windows media file editor and it ran thorugh the indexing process but then said "file failed to save" any ideas about what i can try next? thanks. -- karen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ karen's Profile: http://www.digitalport.co.uk/forums/member.php?userid=1058 View this thread: http://www.digitalport.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=29395 Tag: film loses color and definition when put to file Tag: 42511
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    - Problem Saving A Edited Clip Trying to learn video terminology. I edit a clip properly. The trim line is at the proper spot. I split or cut and save the new clip. I know that split and cut are 2 different actions. Tried both-No luck. What I don't understand is: When I get out of MM2 and then go back, why does the original full clip show up instead of the edited clip? Example: Play clip to remove commerical. Commerical cut or split. New clip saved. Get out of program and later restart. The commerical is still there. 1) What am I doing wrong? 2) What happens to the clip I saved? Thanks in advance Tag: film loses color and definition when put to file Tag: 42507
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    - best way to store an avi file for later use After using movie maker 2 to create an avi file for home movies, I have created a DVD using Sonic my DVD for watching on TV. The original avi file which took my raw video footage plus my edits is now on my computer taking up space. In the past I have just erased that video. I now find that I would like to use some of that video footage in creating another video and I can retrieve my original VHS tapes and, using my DV camera, digitalize them and input into my computer, essentially repeating what I did the first time. I am wondered what other solutions there are to saving my edited avi file so I do not need to go back to VHS tapes. I know I can put the file back onto DV tape and then if I need a clip or something i can get at it - but it is a bit tedious I suppose. I was wondering if I could compress the avi file in some way that I could store an hour or more of it on a dvd so that i can pull off the file, restoring it to avi, should I need it again on my computer. I suppose this gets into some sort of compressed file type but perhaps once you convert out of an avi file you cannot revert and I do not know whether the compressed file types have enough quality to be used to make a DVD for viewing on TV.. I had thought of some backup program that would compress the file and allow me to restore it, but I am not sure if that is workable. I have read a little but enough to know all file compression programs for video are "lossy" and so I wonder what is the best approach. The DV tape - will that hold up over time - as long or as short as analog VHS tape - and is that the most economical solution. An external hard drive would be cost prohibitive I think given the growing video footage. What other suggestions do you have? Although myDVD uses open video format and allows for some editing directly from DVD, it does not really let you easily get at the original files and so might be limiting thanks alan Tag: film loses color and definition when put to file Tag: 42505
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    - Window Movie maker 2.1 I have a Dell pc, and had to reformat and reinstall Windows xp sp1. I did have Windows Movie Maker 2, but after I reinstalled xp, the 1st edition apears on Windows. I can't figure out how to get the new version (the one I had). Luckly I did copy my hard drive to another hard drive, so I can attempt to run it from there. But it does work (running off other hard drive). Help...how can a update from 1 to what I had? Or make Windows delete version 1, so I can copy 2 into it... Tag: film loses color and definition when put to file Tag: 42504
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    - AVI to AVI If you save a movie as a DV-AVI in WMM2 and then reimport back into WMM is there any loss of quality. I understand going from WMM back to a camera it maintains the quality can the same be said from WMM to WMM? Here is the why I am asking the question. When I save to DV-AVI, I am getting some audio pops on scene changes when I use a Fade transition to go one from one scene to another (but not every Fade transition). I checked Papa John's site and followed his and others' suggestions about not using MP3 for the additional audio track. So I converted the MP3 to WMA, same result; I converted the MP3 to WAV, same audio pops. I then removed the secondary audio track altogether and resaved as a DV-AVI and I still get the audio pops. I checked the original footage and there are no pops in the audio, they are only there when I save to AVI from WMM and obviously remain there when I convert to MPEG and burn to DVD Could the dreaded 27th frame problem be rearing its ugly head on my audio? Also, another odd thing; I imported the AVI file, without the secondary audio track, into a copy of Premiere Elements and I heard the "spikes" in the audio track. Yet, when I reimport the AVI back into WMM I don't hear the audio pops. Any ideas or thoughts ? Thanks, PJ Tag: film loses color and definition when put to file Tag: 42499
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    - Cant Create dialogue I am using a firewire to connect my panasonic NV-GS21b camcorder to my PC. The PC recognises the device and it appears in explorer but when I press "Capture video" i get the error "Cannot create dialogue" - I had the same problem trying to connect a Sony HC18E device - any ideas would be appreciated -- DB Tag: film loses color and definition when put to file Tag: 42497
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    - HELP ME PLEASE THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT hey everyone.. you know that thing on microsoft movie maker that says Movie tasks.. and then it has all the things you can do to edit the movie and stuff? well that wont show up on my computer and its REALLY annoying cause i have tried everything to get it and it wont show up.. PLEASE .. im BEGGING someone to e-mail me at CutieCuddles24@yahoo.com and help me with this cause i've been trying to make a movie for a while now. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!! Tag: film loses color and definition when put to file Tag: 42489
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    - program shuts off i made a movie in the movie maker and when i click play to see what i have made "Windows Movie Maker has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." comes up.. it doesnt let me play the movie.. what should i do? Tag: film loses color and definition when put to file Tag: 42488
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    - Burning to DVD After completing a movie on movie maker how do i save it as a DVD file so i can burn to a DVD? I have another programme that does movies but i find movie maker better and when editing it doesn't leave a blank part, it's just continuous which i like. Yes I have a DVD Burner. -- Woodeee0 Tag: film loses color and definition when put to file Tag: 42486
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    - Everything works in WMM2 except the preview monitor??? I have tried many of the solutions listed in various places. Movies can be edited and saved and then viewed in media player but the preview monitor does not work. The preview monitor says "stopped" and flickers a little that's it. WMM2 does not crash or have a lack of transitions or effects. I am completely puzzled. Tag: film loses color and definition when put to file Tag: 42485
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    - HELP! WMM is DRIVING ME NUTS! OK, so I see that a lot of people have had the same problems as me but none of the solutions have worked for me. I have scoured PJ's site and this NG but WMM is still crapping out on me. I had the problem of it crashing as soon as I start it up and I finally narrowed it down to renaming qedit.dll. Oddly enough, if I renamed it to qedit.dll.bad it still crashed, if I named it qeditbad.dll WMM would open (although I did receive an error message from DirectX 9 saying that changing that file name may make my system unstable). I also uninstalled anything that had anything to do with transitions that I could find but intervideo. I did rename the dir for intervideo and WMM would still not load. The only thing that would let it load was to rename qedit.dll. OK, so now WMM is loaded and it lets me capture video from my camcorder (44 min video) and when it comes time to import the vid into the working space, i get "<filename>.wmv could not be imported. Class not registered". WMM will not import any file into the working space. PLEASE HELP! Tag: film loses color and definition when put to file Tag: 42480
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    - Slightly OT: recomendations on DV tapes Poll: what kind of DV tapes are you using and what kind of results are you getting ? with 2 sons playing little league football (american football ) and two daughters involved in dance, drama, and cheerleading, I recently find myself using 3-4 tapes per week, and am finding that I get bad results after re-using a tape just a few times. is this common, does anyone re-use their tapes frequently without hitting "bad spots" ?? just curious. Thanks KDE Tag: film loses color and definition when put to file Tag: 42479
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    - transitions Hi, I am a high school art teacher who is trying to help a student make a stop motion animation. Our first 50 frames are black. The next frames are part of our stop motion animation. We would like to put a video transition between the black frames and the first frames of the animation. When we drag the transition down and try to place it between the frames, we get the "ghostbuster circle with the slash" and can't drop it. What are we doing wrong? Thanks Tag: film loses color and definition when put to file Tag: 42478
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    - OT but hopeful someone can help. Recently bought a Sony Mini DV camcorder. Perfect picture quality in most respects but one. Taking video of a kids stage show it was mostly OK except for when spotlights were at a certain part of the stage the resultant video was overbright and "flared". Have gone through the camera manual hoping maybe there was some setting I could use to avoid this but couldn't find anything. Has anyone come across this and knows a solution. It would be better if it could be corrected at source but if not can it be corrected afterwards, using MM or anything else. -- Kenny Cargill Tag: film loses color and definition when put to file Tag: 42473
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    - what I need to do...? please some help Hello I am frustating to try to burn a DVD disc in movie maker originally I did this project in movie maker now I try to import this video in Pinnacle studio plus , Nero , Movie factory ...and said it is not compatible in Nero , Pinnacle said Cannot imported , movie maker also .......what I need to do to fix this also in the option in movie maker when I try to burn this project to a disc (dvd) there is not some options have a few like for a lan , and for see in NTSC ... please help thanks Tag: film loses color and definition when put to file Tag: 42472
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    - Author a dvd How do you author a dvd? I'm also having trouble getting a movie to play on my dvd player. Tag: film loses color and definition when put to file Tag: 42470
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    - Brightness question After I edit a video with Windows Movie Maker. I view the movie in Window Media Player 10.0 then I change the brightness setting because the video is too dark, I get a Green haze on the bottom half of the video. Why is that? Is there a setting or codex that I need to change in WMM or WMP to fix this problem. This also happens sometimes with vid's I've downloaded from web sites. Thanks Jeff Tag: film loses color and definition when put to file Tag: 42468
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    - Changing Speed of Text in Tittles? I would like to be able to Change the Speed of the scrolling Text in the tittles I have created. Thanks Tag: film loses color and definition when put to file Tag: 42464
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    - Lost Effects I have two systems with XP. One with MCE one XP Pro. Movie Maker is on both, and from what I see on the About panel, they are identical. On one system, in the Effects view, I see several effects that allow for zooming/panning etc. of the picture. On my other system, I do not see these effects. Just the basic ones. Any idea how I get the additional effects on my other system? Thanks. -- James Kirk Tag: film loses color and definition when put to file Tag: 42463
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    - after saving a movie when I save my movie file it shows that there isn't any protection. can someone help with this? please advise. -- see ya! Tag: film loses color and definition when put to file Tag: 42452
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    - Getting a copy of Movie Maker How can I get a copy? I've just got a new PC that has XP Pro with SP2 applied. I don't have MM on it, and the Windows Update site won't do anything. I had it on my old PC but can't remember how I got it on! Any help appreciated. Garry Tag: film loses color and definition when put to file Tag: 42445
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    - No sound I dont get any sound if I play the movie I made in a home DVD player, but it works fine in my computer. Tag: film loses color and definition when put to file Tag: 42442
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    - Audio mixing in Movie Maker I'm trying to fade down a music track in a movie to allow the video track to be heard and then fade the music track back up again. I've found the slide that switches between the two tracks but whatever changes I make as the movie progresses aren't saved. It just reverts to whatrever level the slide is left at. Any clues? Tag: film loses color and definition when put to file Tag: 42440
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    - Error when I put videos in timeline Error message: AppName: moviemk.exe AppVer: 2.1.4026.0 ModName: mpeg2parser.ax ModVer: 1.2.0.79 Offset: 000088f2 Tag: film loses color and definition when put to file Tag: 42439
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    - unable to connect - help Hi I have Sony DVD Camcorder, I have connected with my computer thro USB. When I click "Capture from Video Device" I get an error message (A Video capture device was not detected. But Its connected, I can download using Sony's software). Any help to resolve is highly appreciated. Selva Tag: film loses color and definition when put to file Tag: 42434
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    - movie maker 2 every time i drop a video into movie maker 2 i get the following message; Windows Movie Maker has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience. I send error report but never get a responce back. ERROR REPORT READS ; Error Signature EventType : BEX P1 : moviemk.exe P2 : 2.0.3312.0 P3 : 3e038613 P4 : comctl32.dll P5 : 6.0.2900.2180 P6 : 4110968c P7 : 0004e183 P8 : c0000409 P9 : 00000000 Files included with error report C:\DOCUME~1\DRRDMO~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER6930.dir00\moviemk.exe.mdmp C:\DOCUME~1\DRRDMO~1\LOCALS~1\Temp\WER6930.dir00\appcompat.txt My movie maker 2 use to work perfectly, now it does this every time Tag: film loses color and definition when put to file Tag: 42430
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    - Adjust slide duration to match music length? In PhotoStory? I want a quick way to throw a bunch of pictures and two songs together to make a video slideshow. I want the photo duration to be automatically adjusted to match the length of whatever song(s) I choose. Is this possible in MovieMaker? How about in PhotoStory? I saw a post in this forum from a few months ago suggesting that PhotoStory3 could do this, but I don't see the option. Can anyone offer advice? Or, if not possible, alternative software that is cheap or free? Thanks! Matt Kruse Tag: film loses color and definition when put to file Tag: 42426
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    - Blank space at end of video I had this problem and tried this newsgroup. Then I tried all the suggestions made but still had the same result. I then clicked on "show storyboard" and then clicked the + magnifying glass. As I scrolled from the end of my video to the end of the blank space, I came accross a small audio file that some how got stuck near the end of the blank space. I deleted that file and my video snapped back to the place I expected it to be. Just when you think you know it all, some other thing pops up. Finally I am done. -- coop Tag: film loses color and definition when put to file Tag: 42425
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    - downloadable tutorial book IS there a tutorial book you can download ? I have to train 6 teachers on moviemaker 2 and was wondering if there were any good points of reference ? David Tag: film loses color and definition when put to file Tag: 42423
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    - Invalid Pointer when opening a Saved File Hi, does anyone have ANY idea how to resolve this? When I try to open a previous file, I get an error saying "Invalid Pointer" and the file doesn't open! Pls tell me my hours and hours of time on the project has not been deleted :-( Anyone with any ideas, pls pls post! Thanks Tag: film loses color and definition when put to file Tag: 42421
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    - Saving to DVD I appear to have successfully burnt my .avi MM2 movie to a DVD-R using the trial version of Ulead Movie Factory. It plays back fine on my computer, but not on my DVD player,which as far as i can tell accepts DVD-R. I have also tried to burn on DVD+RW but Ulead does not recognise this. Any ideas please. Tag: film loses color and definition when put to file Tag: 42420
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    - Want to use Dazzle DVC 80 with Movie Maker but sound is not found I want to use my Dazzle DVC 80 but although as a video input device it doesn't work as an audio input. It is shown, but now that I've selected it, I get an error message telling me it's not supported and when I click ok in the hopes of changing the setting, it closes out the settings window! Help!! What to do? I just had to reformat and I did have it working before. I seem to recall that the DVC 80 needed to be shoing up in the sound and USB areas and right now it doesn't. The setup disk for it simply installs Video Wave 4 and I'm not interested it it. Any help is appreciated! Gerry Tag: film loses color and definition when put to file Tag: 42419
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    - Re: six hours of .wmv on a DVD? Jerry, All I am trying to do, as I explained, is put six hours of low- quality video on a DVD and play it in a DVD player, with a menu to allow selection of up to 14 different segments. I'm sure I've seen references to doing this, but I have not been successful in finding the references again. You said I should review the help files. MyDVD speaks to the fact that up to 440 minutes of MPEG-1 can be recorded to a DVD if Dolby Audio is used and not transcoded. However there doesn't seem to be a way to do that if the source file is .wmv format. Cari said to burn as a data DVD to test the player. How do I get a menu to work with the DVD player if all I do is burn an MPEG-1 file as data? What is the required DVD file structure? The convert query at videohelp.com doesn't find any answers for the WMV to MPG conversion selection. Jay -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: six hours of .wmv on a DVD? Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 21:29:08 -0700 From: Jerry <NoSpamChiefZeke@MSN.com> Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.moviemaker If you don't understand what Cari said then you had better re-read the help files for your DVD burner software - or forget trying to do whatever it is you're tring to do as what was said is understandable. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: six hours of .wmv on a DVD? Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 19:52:34 -0700 From: Jay O'Brien <jayobrien@att.net> Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.moviemaker Cari, I appreciate your response. Now, would someone please explain what Cari said? I don't have a clue what to do based on Cari's reply. Also, www.videohelp.com is a great resource, I refer to it a lot. But just that generic reference doesn't give me any help toward my goal. I don't know where to go at that site to find the answer I seek, so I asked here for guidance. Jay -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: six hours of .wmv on a DVD? Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 17:52:00 -0700 From: Cari (MS-MVP) <Newsgroups1@coribright.com> Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.moviemaker If you have a DVD player that plays MPEG files, re-encode them as MPEG1 files and you can fit 4 or 5 hours on one DVD.... you do not burn them as a Video DVD, but as a Data DVD. But make sure your DVD standalone can cope first. Check at www.videohelp.com - - Cari (MS-MVP) Printing & Imaging -------- Original Message -------- Subject: six hours of .wmv on a DVD? Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 12:07:13 -0700 From: Jay O'Brien <jayobrien@att.net> Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.moviemaker I have an old VHS tape, recorded in 6-hr mode in 1983, with 14 episodes of 20-25 minutes each. Using a Canopus ADVC-100 to convert the VCR output to firewire input to the computer, I've made .wmv files of each of the 14 episodes, and edited in a title to each one using moviemaker. I've saved them in the "Video for LAN" 768Kbps .wmv format which is 640x480; the .wmv files range in size from 105 to 153MB, totalling less than 2GB. The .wmv files play fine using Windows media player; the quality is just as "good" as what is recorded on the old VHS tape. Using MyDVD, I've burned DVDs, each with a maximum of three episodes on the DVD, with a menu for selecting the episode to view. They play fine in a DVD player. The problem is that it takes five DVDs. How can I put the 6 hours of video, the 14 .wmv files, on one DVD (or two DVDs), with menu selections, that can be played in the DVD player? Video quality isn't an issue, given the available source. I'm not locked in to MyDVD; I just happen to have it, and it works as described. Jay O'Brien Rio Linda, CA Tag: film loses color and definition when put to file Tag: 42418
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    - using Ulead Movie Factory to burn DVD I have used Movie Maker to create my movie, saved it to my computer and have downloaded Ulead Movie Factory to save to a DVD. My problem is that the playback on my TV is terrible - very jumpy and the picture is not clear. What am I doing wrong??? Tag: film loses color and definition when put to file Tag: 42417
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    - video capture I am trying to capture video using Movie Maker Capture Wizard and when I get to 'Video Settings', the option to use DV-AVI is not given (it is greyed out and not in bold as the other 2 options are). I want to save to a DVD to playback on a DVD player and I have been told that this is the best setting to use. Would you know the reason this option is not available, otherwise what would be the next best setting to use? Tag: film loses color and definition when put to file Tag: 42415
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    - Re: six hours of .wmv on a DVD? Cari, I appreciate your response. Now, would someone please explain what Cari said? I don't have a clue what to do based on Cari's reply. Also, www.videohelp.com is a great resource, I refer to it a lot. But just that generic reference doesn't give me any help toward my goal. I don't know where to go at that site to find the answer I seek, so I asked here for guidance. Jay -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: six hours of .wmv on a DVD? Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 17:52:00 -0700 From: Cari (MS-MVP) <Newsgroups1@coribright.com> Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.moviemaker If you have a DVD player that plays MPEG files, re-encode them as MPEG1 files and you can fit 4 or 5 hours on one DVD.... you do not burn them as a Video DVD, but as a Data DVD. But make sure your DVD standalone can cope first. Check at www.videohelp.com -- Cari (MS-MVP) Printing & Imaging -------- Original Message -------- Subject: six hours of .wmv on a DVD? Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 12:07:13 -0700 From: Jay O'Brien <jayobrien@att.net> Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.moviemaker I have an old VHS tape, recorded in 6-hr mode in 1983, with 14 episodes of 20-25 minutes each. Using a Canopus ADVC-100 to convert the VCR output to firewire input to the computer, I've made .wmv files of each of the 14 episodes, and edited in a title to each one using moviemaker. I've saved them in the "Video for LAN" 768Kbps .wmv format which is 640x480; the .wmv files range in size from 105 to 153MB, totalling less than 2GB. The .wmv files play fine using Windows media player; the quality is just as "good" as what is recorded on the old VHS tape. Using MyDVD, I've burned DVDs, each with a maximum of three episodes on the DVD, with a menu for selecting the episode to view. They play fine in a DVD player. The problem is that it takes five DVDs. How can I put the 6 hours of video, the 14 .wmv files, on one DVD (or two DVDs), with menu selections, that can be played in the DVD player? Video quality isn't an issue, given the available source. I'm not locked in to MyDVD; I just happen to have it, and it works as described. Jay O'Brien Rio Linda, CA Tag: film loses color and definition when put to file Tag: 42413
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    - six hours of .wmv on a DVD? I have an old VHS tape, recorded in 6-hr mode in 1983, with 14 episodes of 20-25 minutes each. Using a Canopus ADVC-100 to convert the VCR output to firewire input to the computer, I've made .wmv files of each of the 14 episodes, and edited in a title to each one using moviemaker. I've saved them in the "Video for LAN" 768Kbps .wmv format which is 640x480; the .wmv files range in size from 105 to 153MB, totalling less than 2GB. The .wmv files play fine using Windows media player; the quality is just as "good" as what is recorded on the old VHS tape. Using MyDVD, I've burned DVDs, each with a maximum of three episodes on the DVD, with a menu for selecting the episode to view. They play fine in a DVD player. The problem is that it takes five DVDs. How can I put the 6 hours of video, the 14 .wmv files, on one DVD (or two DVDs), with menu selections, that can be played in the DVD player? Video quality isn't an issue, given the available source. I'm not locked in to MyDVD; I just happen to have it, and it works as described. Jay O'Brien Rio Linda, CA Tag: film loses color and definition when put to file Tag: 42409
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MM. 2.1 When I transfer movies to file and then go to play they come out in
funny lurid colours and lacking definition, though they were perfect when
they went into file?
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justin brown

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Re: film loses color and definition when put to file by NoNoBadDog!

NoNoBadDog!
Sat Oct 01 19:06:31 CDT 2005

"justin brown" <justinbrown@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0F268D6C-1C37-4255-8AB6-7FAC804A8BA2@microsoft.com...
> MM. 2.1 When I transfer movies to file and then go to play they come out
> in
> funny lurid colours and lacking definition, though they were perfect when
> they went into file?
> --
> justin brown

You have probably downloaded a codec or a codec pack that has replaced the
codec used to render the files. Re-installing SP2 may help.

Bobby

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