Re: pixels by Wojo
Wojo
Fri Mar 25 22:53:40 CST 2005
Well your right about the video card of course, I don't know what I was
thinking except that my mind was more on the memory.
As far as saving in DV-AVI I would venture to say that with 768MB of RAM the
op may (and likely will) still have pixelization simply because the
rendering is so intensive not only to the CPU but memory as well.
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"Rehan" <someone@somewhere.com> wrote in message
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>A video card has no significance on the quality of final rendered movie. It
>would help only during working with the project and for playing a movie on
>the computer. As far as the saving the movie is concerened, Movie Maker
>does not use the graphics card resources to do any work. The results would
>be the same if you remove the graphics card altogether (theoretically, as
>your pc wont work without one).
>
> The blockiness/artifacts as described by the orginal poster seem to be
> caused by either or both of the following:
>
> 1. Encoding bitrate too low during saving the movie by Movie Maker
> 2. Encoding bitrate too low during conversion to MPEG2 by MyDVD
>
> The things to see are:
>
> 1. Save in DV AVI format from Movie maker
> 2. Try another high quality encoder such as TMPGenc and encode with
> multipass VBR mode. VBR bitrate as the name suggests increases the bitrate
> for fast motion scenes while lowering it for the slow motion scenes.
> Multiple passes allow the program to calculate exactly what bitrates are
> needed.
>
>
> --
> Rehan
> www.rehanfx.org - get transitions and effects for Windows Movie Maker
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> "Wojo" <wojo@mypc.net> wrote in message
> news:pYX0e.52224$hA3.52062@trnddc09...
>> Your computer is more than the minimum requirements for the program to
>> run yes but if you want to work with high quality, which by the sounds of
>> it you obviously do, then more system memory and more video memory (as
>> you already suggested yourself) will make a big difference.
>> Rendering video, especially high quality output, is a CPU intensive job.
>> I run 1024 memory and a 128 Video memory and still I make it a point to
>> disable background programs and my screensaver before rendering a
>> project. I am not saying that the problem your experiencing is due to
>> these things but it's a strong possibility. Frist though I would check
>> the manufacturers website for your video card to see if there are newer
>> updated drivers. DO NOT download drivers from Microsoft, they are only
>> basic drivers, download from the manufacturer of the card.
>>
>> --
>> I am not an MVP or VIP and I don't work for the DOT or DMV
>> I am only ME. IE: Info provided asis
>> If it helps, great if not, sorry don't kill the messenger
>> www.remember-christopher.dostweb.com
>>
>> "Todd R." <Todd R.@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:F3FC6AEA-C685-4FD4-A34A-8AB533540E79@microsoft.com...
>>>I have a question concerning the quality of the video I burned to dvd. I
>>>use
>>> a Panasonic mini DV camcorder to capture video on short play on the
>>> tape, a
>>> firewire to transfer video to hard drive using the DV-AVI setting. I
>>> edited
>>> some of the movie on Windows movie maker 2.1. I burned the movie using
>>> sonic
>>> my dvd version 4.5 onto a dvd+r with the highest quality/ most disk
>>> space
>>> used on the dvd. I view the dvd on my Playstation 2 which is hooked up
>>> to my
>>> television with component video cables. When I play the movie back on
>>> my 52"
>>> Toshiba DLP television the picture looks a little blurry, but when the
>>> camera
>>> pans or moves fast from when the video was caught, the screen gets real
>>> pixelated. Little square blocks appear in the video. They are
>>> transparent,
>>> but still irritating. I was told a video card in my computer would
>>> help. Oh
>>> yeah, my computer is a Dell, it is a 2.2 mhz. with 768 megabites of RAM.
>>> it
>>> is more than minimum requirements for the software. If anybody has a
>>> clue
>>> what I can do to get rid of this I would love to hear some input.
>>
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