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    - I get really poor quality results grainy and no audio Greetings to all, I have a great little JVC DVL-100 MiniDV camera and have downloaded my tapes to Windows movie maker 2 successfully. The edited version of the movie outputs to the camera (After 6 hours of rendering) but the camera records no audio and the quality is horrible. I have cleaned the heads on the camera ...made sure that the volume was working from recording other things....and the correct cable is tight and right. I had Pinnicle studio 8 installed and it was lousy too. I have a 1.25 ghz processor...an evga 5600xt video card and the new sonic blaster audio card. I even installed a new 80gig hard drive just for video. I have updated all of the drivers and they work great on everything else......PLEASE HELP this frustrated producer....Thanks !!! Steelworks@Comcast.net Tag: picture quality gets worse Tag: 12813
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    - Linking Sony PC100E to my PC Total novice taking first steps with Windows Movie Maker ..... and with PC100E Sony Sony make whatosever no mention of linking Camera to a PC in the instructions, only to a TV, things have obviously moved on since we bought the camera in 2001 .... Am I right in thinking that I need an S-Video cable, same both ends is it were ? There's an S-Video (4 round-pins, plus one oblong, yes ?) socket on the camera, and a similar one on what I take to be the Video Card, since the exit for the screen comes off just next door. There's also a 3x8 and 2x2 socket on the PC, so 24-pin and 4-pin on the same plug apparently Which is the best way to transfer, and is a Video card such as a GeForce FX5200 adequate/compatible with what I'm trying to do Many thanks Rory (Montpellier, France) Tag: picture quality gets worse Tag: 12809
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    - Movie Maker 2 I have a problem with saving under the Windows Movie Maker 2. It will absolutely will not allowing me to save the new movies file (clip) that I do, in any option e.g. hard disk, cd, e-mail etcâ?¦. But I can save the project no problem. The message that I get reads : â??Windows Movie Maker cannot save the movie to the specified location. Verify that the original source files used in your movie are still available, that the saving location is still available, and that there is enough free disk space available, and then try againâ?? The answers are all yes, files still available, location available and enough space HELP! THANK YO Tag: picture quality gets worse Tag: 12802
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    - Follow up on Metallic Audio Its taken ALOT of time, but I think I have figured out what the problem is. It seems that my DV codec is outputting the audio at 48khz instead of 44.1. I don't think windows Movie Maker supports 48khz audio, and thus I get this bad quality. I ripped a track from a cd at 48khz, and it would play fine in Winamp, but in MovieMaker, the file gets that metallic quality about it, even before the movie is produced. It remains the same when outputting the movie file. I believe that this occurs when a file is converted between sample rates, wether it be 44.1 to 48 or 48 to 44.1. There is no setting under System>Device Man>Sound Video Controllers>Video Codecs>DV soft that lets me change the audio quality. How can I fix the problem knowing this new information? ~~~~~~The original post is below. Well I tried to change the audio to an mp3 with a bitrate of 320 encoded from a wav with 1141. Then I tried to use the wav-file as the audio source. Both times, the audio came out the same buzzy metallic sound. Is there something elso I can do? "The Disney Source" <webmaster@disneylandsource.com> wrote in message news:pXhXb.176258$U%5.837726@attbi_s03... > Typically this "metallic" sound comes from a low-bitrate on the audio > encoding and the compression of WMV makes it sound tinny. People rarely pay > attention to the audio bit rates, and usually the program default is quite > low to leave more bandwidth to the video. In most programs you can specify a > specific bitrate for audio encoding. Depending on what you're doing, you may > be able to do the audio in mono, but choose a higher bitrate. This happens > to me a lot, I encode a huge file, but once I get to editing it, I figure > out I don't like the audio quality and have to start from scratch. > > - Chris > > > "HaTcH" <urmom@hotmail.com> wrote in message > news:#zk5cup8DHA.2832@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl... > > I have been making movies and saving them as DV-AVI files. Now, the > problem > > i'm having is rather difficult to explain, but when playing back the avi > > file, where the audio bass peaks, it seems to have been cut off and left a > > wierd metallic sound, kindof like a buzzing. It matters not what format > the > > original audio is. WMV files are played back flawlessley. I uploaded a > clip > > of an arbitrary file i made as an example, from john lennon's imagine: > > http://zoids3d.bearcreekfire.com/downloads/soundexample2.mp3 (>500kb) > Listen > > closely to the lower frequency and you'll hear what im talking about. > Thanks > > for anyhelp if I don't manage to reply. > > > > (Microsoft: Include an option to select your own codec/bitrate/file type, > > and I'll back yah some more!) Tag: picture quality gets worse Tag: 12795
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    - Now MM1 doesn't work either!!! New XP Pro install. I know that MM1 was working at some point as I used it to test video capture from my Radeon VIVO after updating it's drivers as part of the install. I then went on to install/update other drivers etc. for additional hardware, including both my Creative Webcam and my Fuji digital camera (that can be either a drive or webcam). After all the dust settled, got all the "critical ..." etc., I then upgraded to MM2. MM2 hangs at trying to capture a video, never displaying the video source dialog box. Thankfully hitting the "Close" (big red X button) allows me to terminate it. Given the above, I followed prior instructions in another thread and expanded back out MM1. MM1 also now hangs! Even worse, refuses to terminate. It's at least a log off and appears a system reboot may even be required to completely purge whatever muck-around it's caused. (when are we going to get that OS they keep talking about that's supposed to NOT, I repeat NOT, allow this to happen ... argh!!!) It appears to be some problem simply getting the attached video input devices selection dialog box to appear. Enumeration problem? I do know, no other software appears to be having this problem. I can select from any of the input sources in MSMessenger and a number of 3rd party apps includng even a little program I wrote myself a few years ago. Who knows, who cares? All I know is that I've got something similar to useless garbage laying around on my system that's absolutely worthless and there seems to be little I can do about it. It wears thin real fast when beta software gets included and advertised as one of the big plus's in a product. We've all seen MM "demonstrated" within some XP ad touting it's features etc. They seem to fail to mention 'If it works for you' as a disclaimer. Tag: picture quality gets worse Tag: 12789
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    - Why does it just quit? Whenever i try and add a image transition or affect onto a clip Windows Movie Maker 2 always shuts down on me. Does anyone know why and how to stop this from happening so i can create something without it crashing on me? Thanks. Tag: picture quality gets worse Tag: 12785
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    - Runtime Error when I try to bring in a AVI video into my collection, I receive "Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library Runtime Error" Program C:\Program\MovieMaker\moviemk.exe The application has requested the Runtime to terminate in an unusual way. Please contact the application's support team for more information. I have 256 MB DDR SDRAM, and up to 32 MB shared video memory. I don't know what Vram ism, but it suggests 64 is this the problem? Tag: picture quality gets worse Tag: 12784
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    - Multiple_Language How to make a Multiple_Language with Windows movie maker? Tag: picture quality gets worse Tag: 12783
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    - Movie Maker DVD Recording I need a program that will work with movie maker to I can burn DVD's. Are there any good programs that won't cause major problems with the computer (XP) and won't break the bank. Personally, I enjoy using Windows Movie Maker for its use and I don't want to buy a entirely new program. Thanks for any thoughts. Tag: picture quality gets worse Tag: 12782
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    - proble with mm2 after my computer downloaded the new updates from windows website, and after updating MM2 with the updates every time i try to open it, it opens and everything but when i try to view or choose a video trasition or do anything with video editing it shuts down. I know many ppl are having this problem. after they did the update. so if you have any idea how to fix this problem please let me know. I have tried redownloading mm2 plus have a friend send me their files thinking mine my have a problem but nothing works. Tag: picture quality gets worse Tag: 12778
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    - Changing Titles text positition is that possible in MM2 I'm editing an birth video, and there is a little problem. I want to add a text with the telgraph text roller at the bottom of the video, the original template in mm2 it's a bit uppwards and when i use it, it will show my wifes "holy grail" to all that watches the video. Is it possible to change possition to censor that? if i zoom the video the whole scene will be useless. Any ideas? Have a nice day! Marcus Tag: picture quality gets worse Tag: 12777
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    - avi on movie maker 2 When I had mm1 my files came out with big AVI extensions and I could convert to mpeg2 and burn them on SVCD. Now I have mm2 and my files come out with little avi extensions, and I cant convert them to mpeg1 or mpeg 2. My camcorder is a mini DV device and captures video through IEEE controller. Is there anyway I can capture or save my projects as a big AVI extension. Thank you. Tag: picture quality gets worse Tag: 12772
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    - Possible...??? is it possible to save your collections just in case someone delets them...? Tag: picture quality gets worse Tag: 12765
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    - Movie Record Time All I want to do is transfer my 8MM tapes to DVD's. I am converting my Analog Tapes through a digital coverter box and the picture shows up on the screen. However, the record stops after a couple minutes, and I would like to record the whole 60 minutes to the harddrive and then copy that to the DVD recorder. Any ideas? Michael Tag: picture quality gets worse Tag: 12763
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    - Recording audio form analog(reel to reel) Does anyone know how I can use MM2 to record audio? I have some r-r tapes Iwould like to transfer to cd but have had no success. I am using a Dazzle dvc80 (fancy cord) and I can record to Moviestar 5 but i stores the files as MCS and I get as far as media player playing the capture but it won't send it to a disc. It says it(media plater 9) can't read the file but it will play. Any help. I am considering PAYING for a recording program. Any help there? Help. Please and Thank you Tag: picture quality gets worse Tag: 12757
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    - MM2 quits at end of loading mswmm Hopefully someone can help with this: When I want to re-open the project I am working on, MM2 loads much or the whole of the file, but before opening it, I get a pop-up saying: "Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library Runtime Error! Program: C:\Program Files\Movie Maker\moviemk.exe abnormal program termination OK" After pressing OK, MM2 quits. I tried to open an older project I still have, one which refers to pics and vids no longer there, and that file opens faultlessly. I also went on PapaJohn's excellent site, and following suggestions there, I increased the page file size, I cut down hardware acceleration to level 3, and I renamed all .ax files I found listed on the site. Unfortunately, nothing of that helped. Admittedly, this time my project is much larger than previous projects have been. It includes some 275 jpeg's and about 150 avi's. My computer has 2000Mhz, 512Mb and MSI NVIDIA Gforce 4, DirectX 9 and Mediaplayer 9. Does anyone have any suggestions? Many thanks in advance! Ewout Tag: picture quality gets worse Tag: 12754
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    - Analog Analog Analog Ok, let me rephrase my question? I have an ANALOG VCR. I have a computer. I have WindowsXP Home. I have Windows MovieMaker 2.0. Is there anyone out there who captures video from an Analog VCR, edits the captured content using MovieMaker 2.0, and makes a VHS tape of the edited content? How are you accomplishing this? Analog VCR tape --> Computer --> edit with MM2 --> Analog VCR tape I do not have a DVD burner on my computer. I do not have a DVD player that is compatible with VCD. I do not have a DV camcorder. I do not want to spend any more money on this than I must! Tag: picture quality gets worse Tag: 12753
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    - Poor performance Last week I did something to make my original movie maker player disappear. now it is replaced with the movie maker 2 which does not deliver half the quality. How can i retrieve the original movie maker for windows XP 2001 please donal.quilton@btopenworld.com Tag: picture quality gets worse Tag: 12751
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    - VCR to DV Camera to WMM problems I'm trying to capture video from a VCR. When I play the VCR tape through my Sony TRV 22 I can see it in WMM, but when I click "Capture" the DV tape in the Sony starts to play and all I do is capture off the DV tape. Not what is on the VCR tape. Is it possible to capture straight from the VCR to WMM without first having to record onto a DV tape? I am using firewire. Thanks, Chuck Tag: picture quality gets worse Tag: 12749
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    - poor quality Hi guys. I just tried to edit my home video I made on my DV JVC. When I put back my editing version to DV and play it on TV I noticed the significant downgrade of the picture quality. Is it what usually happen after transfering movie from DV to PC and back to DV or am I doing something wrong? Tag: picture quality gets worse Tag: 12745
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    - movie maker for 98SE is there a version of movie maker for windows 98SE Tag: picture quality gets worse Tag: 12741
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    - video captureing i have a samsung mini dv camara and i only have audio settings. I use a usb wire. I have no idea what the problem is its really makin me mad. Its a scd23/d24 samsung. I really need help.. Tag: picture quality gets worse Tag: 12738
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    - my movie is 191 minutes long Unable to burn the entire movie to DVD. It seems only to burn about 30 minutes. I am using HP DVD+rw with 4.7 GB/ Do I need to compress it somehow for DVD viewing on my TV?? Tag: picture quality gets worse Tag: 12736
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    - Sending to VHS I've created my movie, now how do i transfer it to VHS tape? Tag: picture quality gets worse Tag: 12735
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    - Word-wrap in these posts I love this newsgroup except for scrolling across to read some of these posts that just go sideways and sideways for ever. (I don't have a 48" monitor). Why don't some of them word-wrap? Does it result from the way in which they were input? Can I do anything about it when reading them? T H A N K S Tag: picture quality gets worse Tag: 12734
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    - Sound When I make a project the sound is like "Donald Duck". The sound in the clipp is correct. I have two older project without problem. I have done an update. Tag: picture quality gets worse Tag: 12721
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    - Splitting audio off a clip for use elsewhere I have an audio from a video clip that I want to use as a voice over on a different clip. Anyone know how I can srtip the audio off as a seperate file in MM2? TIA Michael Tag: picture quality gets worse Tag: 12720
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    - Saving movie to computer II I have the same problem as DigitalDirectToU, 2/28/04, 7:51 AM. The file saved to my hard drive has all the audio of my Movie Maker project, but the video hangs up at some point through its video stream P4, 1.5 GIG Memory, 120 Gig HARD DRIVE, Windows X DRuss Tag: picture quality gets worse Tag: 12718
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    - Full quality short movie on CD-R ? I'm using Movie Magic 2 & I have a recordable CD-Drive (not DVD drive) I have a 5 minute movie which i want to output at best possible quality onto the CD so that it is playable on a DVD player Surely full quality will fit onto a CD as the movie is only 5 minutes? Canit be done What software can be used any help appreciated, thanks Tag: picture quality gets worse Tag: 12716
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    - computer to vhs tape OK, I've done some reading. I understand what I need to do to get tv or vcr into my computer and how to copy a movie to a cd, but I still don't understand how to get a movie from my computer to a vhs tape. How do I get a movie from my computer to a vhs tape? And, do some capture cards have capture only capability and others can capture and send (is that what's missing in my understanding of how to get the movie back to tape)? Tag: picture quality gets worse Tag: 12713
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    - saving to DV camera My MM2 project is 60mins long, comprising several clips and extensive effects, transitions, audio (music) and narration. I have saved OK to Computer and to CD but not back to Mini DV. Is there a limit to the size of project, which can be saved and are there any ways round this problem? Cheers Tag: picture quality gets worse Tag: 12711
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    - Saving movie to computer Hi After I build my movie using still pictures, music, and avi clips which the avi clips play and load into movie maker 2 just fine. I try to save my movie to my computer so I can burn it to DVD. but it wont save I get the message of (NOT ENOUGH DISK SPACE ON HARD DRIVE OR SOURCE FILE NOT AVAILABLE) I have double checked all of this and everything seems to be fine. I have tried all different things, built movie three different ways, put all the files that I used in my movie in one file on my desk top. Still the movie will not save P4,1GIG MEMORY, 120 GIG HARD DRIVE ,WINDOWS XP Hope you can Help me ou Adam Tag: picture quality gets worse Tag: 12710
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    - Analogue Capture I have been unsuccessful in transferring analogue 8mm tapes to DV tape before downloding to MM2. I have a Canovision E60 8mm camcorder and a Panasonic NV-DS38 Digital camcorder. Can someone please advise me on cable connections and the necessary sequence of action. Thanks Tag: picture quality gets worse Tag: 12708
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    - importing mpeg files Dear All I tried to import files that has been downloaded from the internet in (mpeg) format, but every time I got the following message:The file *.mps is not a supported file type, and it cannot be imported into Windows Movie Maker Is there any way to go around this problem Thank you Tag: picture quality gets worse Tag: 12706
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    - Re: .avi Storyboard/Audio Problems - PapaJohn - Thanks......but......... As you indicated, changing the name of .ivaudio does indeed stop the audio problem from occurring in Storyboard. However, at a price. The video, while playing right through, jerks or shudders a bit while doing so, and the sound plays through too but is of only average quality. In short, a clip played in Storyboard isn't a patch on a clip play in Collections. Something in MM2 is still trying to mess with the .avi file. So, I give up! ;-) Can I revert back to MM1? If so, how do I do this? If I have to use the XP Pro roll back feature, will any software that I have installed since MM2 - quite a bit - be removed also? I would be very grateful if you could advise me on this. I have to say that this whole experience has been, far and away, my worst with any Microsoft product. Not good at all. DM Tag: picture quality gets worse Tag: 12699
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    - New XP Pro install, MM2 update, MM2 now toast!!! XP Pro,. Radeon 64 DDR VIVO, Creative Webcam and sometimes Fuji S602 Z all connected. Latest Radeon Cat 4.2 installed. Movie Maker was working. Didn't test it fully but I'm pretty sure I started it up and the composite input off Radeon came up. Been doing the thing at Windows update (new install) and noticed the MM2 update so did it also. Now when I choose to start recording MM2 hangs. Supplied help seems to indicate a video device selection dialog box should come up but it never does. Any ideas? I havem't updated WMP from 8 and would prefer not to. Hopefully that's not a requirement is else the update site would have indicated same. Also I can't find any "Remove" for MM or MM2 in Add/Remove under any of the choices. I can seem to use all the video devices in MSMessenger, the VFW's devices (cams) in NetMeeting and ATI's TV-In app is working finest kind. tia for any help. If nothing else, how do I remove it? Surely it's not delete the folder and manually purge the registry? Tag: picture quality gets worse Tag: 12698
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    - Titles question Is there a way to permanently associate a title that is "on the selected clip" with a specific clip so that when you move the picture (or when it changes position because another pic was added/deleted), the title will move with it? Thanks. Tag: picture quality gets worse Tag: 12694
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    - Help making clips please I made a nice avi file from DVIO. I am going from vcr to camcorder to pc through firewire. Worked great and looks very clean. It is 6 gigs. My problem is creating clips to edit. When I click import video into WMM2 with make clips checked, well it just does not make the clips. I have tried right clicking to make clips also, no luck this way either. Its just one big file. Am I missing something or does it not work on .avi files? I also split the avi file and that did not help. I thank you in advance for any help. Tag: picture quality gets worse Tag: 12688
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    - sound I am trying to copy my home movies from my camcorder to a cd using Windows Movie Maker and there is no sound on the end result. Please HELP!!! Tag: picture quality gets worse Tag: 12686
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    - Found the problem... I did a Windows Update where I update the Media Player and DirectX and all is well now Rich Tag: picture quality gets worse Tag: 12681
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    - Recording CD Via Nero Express Atempting to record a Movie from Movie Maker 2..using Nero Express.. Nero was unable to fined the Movie that I was looking for. Saved in My Documents Under " My Videos" If I open Project in Movie Maker it's there but nero cant see it. Help Please! Terry D Tag: picture quality gets worse Tag: 12680
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    - WMM1 Saving Files Getting to the point of throwing pc out of th ewindow. I have made a very small sample movie by taking clips from an MPEG file on a CD. WMM1 split the whole file down into clips and I have made up a small sequence using the clips, but what ever I do the damn thing won't save to my hard drive! The source file is there, the file I am trying to save is only 11mb so really small, the folder I am saving to is there but the little ****** still won't save the file for me! HELP! (or am I going crazy? Bob Tag: picture quality gets worse Tag: 12678
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    - Computer to VHS How do I get my captured and edited movie back to a VHS tape. WindowsXP Home Windows MovieMaker 2.0 Dazzle DVC 80 or 150 Analog Video Capture Card via USB Tag: picture quality gets worse Tag: 12677
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    - i want to know if it is free je parle francais cela peut Ãªtre en fvrancais mais je peux lire anglais ,mais j'aimerais l'avoir francais merci beaucoup de fvotre attention Tag: picture quality gets worse Tag: 12676
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    - 16:9 Aspect Export Problem Hi there! I'd appreciate any input someone might have on my problem Here's the scenario - Capturing video as DV-AVI via firewire from a Sony MiniDV shot in 16:9 - It shows up just fine in the preview window and I can edit it with no problem - When I go to Save As, no matter what settings I try, the final saved AVI file plays distorted (people come out thin) I've tried playing with the advanced settings in every combination of 4:3 and 16:9 for both capture and saving but the result is always the same Anyone have any ideas? Tag: picture quality gets worse Tag: 12672
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    - Poor Audio Quality Hi NG, I'm using Windows Movie Maker 2 to edit and merge Videos recorded with my camera (Mustek MDC 5500Z, produces AVI videos with Audio IMA ADPCM). When I import one of these Avis with Movie Maker (it creates a clip) then the sound quality is so heavily reduced, that it is nearly impossible to understand what anybodys says on that video. I did not found any setting to configure audio quality. Can anybold help? Regards, Mark -- Irgendware Software Solutions GbR http://www.irgendware.com Tag: picture quality gets worse Tag: 12667
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    - I updated it to the second and my movies don't work? I updated my Movie Maker to the Second movie maker (2) and now the movies i made on my first one, don't work. I need help because they were awesome movies. Tag: picture quality gets worse Tag: 12661
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    - Fonts and Colors OK, this will seem a bit stupid, I'm sure. but here it is anyway; I cannot find the ability to change fonts, colors, or alignments for an overlay. I've read the help file that states, "Selecting the title font and color This page lets you choose the font and colors for your title or credits. By changing the font and colors, you can change the appearance of the title to enhance your movie. The following options appear on this page."... however, I'm not seeing this option anywhere. When right clicking on the text, most MS programs give the option "FONT". This one does not. Did I miss an instalation file? Am I completely in the dark about something simple and stupid? I can see my title, the overlay works fine, I've tried in both without starting a new project, and in a new project - what I would like to do is to have an overlay in a semi transparent font in the lower right hand side of the screen. Help Tag: picture quality gets worse Tag: 12654
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    - Problems with sending Movies by email Hello, I am sending movies by email and when they go they are recieved the audio is cutting in and out and the video is a little choppy.PLEASE HELP 1st time user. magoman@aol.com Tag: picture quality gets worse Tag: 12651

the picture quality of my videos get really bad after being on my computer. i upload the video as an avi-dv file but after a while the picture gets aload of squaresin it and can be difficult to see

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RE: picture quality gets worse by anonymous

anonymous
Sun Feb 29 19:21:07 CST 2004

I am having problems with videos. They will not play at times and other times they are blurry.

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