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Title: Problem Making Movie With WMM
Post by: DoNKeY on December 06, 2007, 01:43:01 AM
Ok guys, so I'm working on my first film, and have it already to go.  I have all the music and clips on the story board worked out, and when I play it in WMM and it plays on the little screen, its perfect and everything.  So I go to the last step in the left hand column, and select save movie to computer.  It asks me for the name, and then the quality or whatever.  First time i did the recommended one.  When it finished and I played it, it was pretty bad picture quality, and it was jumpy and froze/stuttered.  Then I went back and did it again, this time choosing a different option for quality.  Ended up saving it as like 60MB instead of the original 30MB.  This jumped up the bit rate, which I assumed to be good haha.  Same end product.  It looks so good in the actual windows movie maker thing, how do I make it look the same as that, and other movies I have seen, when its the end product, and opened in Windows Media Player?????

Thanks,
donkey
Title: Problem Making Movie With WMM
Post by: Kermit de frog on December 06, 2007, 02:17:12 AM
How long is the film?

For quality, choose "other settings"
Then try Video for local playback (2.1Mbps NTSC)
Title: Problem Making Movie With WMM
Post by: rogerdee on December 06, 2007, 07:50:54 AM
why you are rendering the film dont do anything esle on the computer just let it run its course.doing anything else on the computer will afftect the movie maker.
Title: Problem Making Movie With WMM
Post by: DoNKeY on December 06, 2007, 10:45:56 AM
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Originally posted by rogerdee
why you are rendering the film dont do anything esle on the computer just let it run its course.doing anything else on the computer will afftect the movie maker.


Sorry but I don't know what you're saying.  

Oh, and its 4 minutes and 55 seconds.
Title: Problem Making Movie With WMM
Post by: rogerdee on December 06, 2007, 01:01:28 PM
when you render the video dont have anything else running on your pc,not I E explorer music or anything.just have he moie maker running anything else will take away resorces from the movie program.
Title: Problem Making Movie With WMM
Post by: Kermit de frog on December 06, 2007, 01:28:00 PM
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Originally posted by Kermit de frog
How long is the film?

For quality, choose "other settings"
Then try Video for local playback (2.1Mbps NTSC)



Did this help you Donkey?
Title: Problem Making Movie With WMM
Post by: DoNKeY on December 06, 2007, 05:51:04 PM
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Originally posted by Kermit de frog
Did this help you Donkey?


Let me go to the other computer and try that.
Title: Problem Making Movie With WMM
Post by: DoNKeY on December 06, 2007, 06:29:18 PM
Tried it, but still the same freezes in the video playback, with lots of freezes/shudders whenever the view changes from inside the cockpit, but its not limited to that.  Music plays good tho.
Title: Problem Making Movie With WMM
Post by: BMathis on December 06, 2007, 08:03:28 PM
If your using fraps, it's not unusual to have shudders, and freezes. Try and retake the shots you need for the film again, and see if that helps. Not sure if that's the issue for sure though. Good luck
Title: Problem Making Movie With WMM
Post by: Kermit de frog on December 06, 2007, 08:04:50 PM
Are these freezes and stutters showing up during playback in WMM?  Please check it again.

Also, post it on utube, at least part of it, so we can see what you are seeing.
Title: Problem Making Movie With WMM
Post by: DoNKeY on December 07, 2007, 12:45:53 AM
Alright will post on youtube when I get a chance.  And no, it works perfectly when I run it in WMM.

donkey
Title: Problem Making Movie With WMM
Post by: Kermit de frog on December 07, 2007, 11:45:43 AM
Make sure fraps and your AHFilm Viewer are not open while you are rendering your film with WMM.
Title: Problem Making Movie With WMM
Post by: Fulmar on December 10, 2007, 06:07:31 PM
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Originally posted by bnasty
If your using fraps, it's not unusual to have shudders, and freezes. Try and retake the shots you need for the film again, and see if that helps. Not sure if that's the issue for sure though. Good luck


If you have freezes and shudders with the captured video used from fraps, its either because your settings are too high that your comptuer can't keep up or you have another program open that is eating up CPU and memory when your trying to capture film.  If the latter is not true, lower the capture quality to half-size.
Title: Problem Making Movie With WMM
Post by: DoNKeY on December 10, 2007, 08:29:54 PM
I already did lower it to half.  When I capture it, and either play that 30 second frap clip in like real player, it plays fine.  When I string all the clips together with music and play it in WMM, its fine.  But when I click "save movie to computer, name it, pick the place to save it, and then wait the five minutes for it to make it or whatever, and then open in to play in Media player, its all shuddery etc.
Title: Problem Making Movie With WMM
Post by: Kermit de frog on December 10, 2007, 10:10:37 PM
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Originally posted by Kermit de frog
...Also, post it on utube, at least part of it, so we can see what you are seeing.
Title: Problem Making Movie With WMM
Post by: DoNKeY on December 14, 2007, 12:04:29 AM
Actually now its working, so I'm guessing I didn't have enough recourses for some reason when it was first playing?

Anyway I'll put it up soon so you can all see it.

Thanks for the help.

donkey
Title: Problem Making Movie With WMM
Post by: Jappa52 on February 04, 2008, 03:08:55 PM
Donkey – I am having a similar problem with my wmm.  Looks fine when I play it back in wmm but when I save it, resize the preview screen in wmm, or add the clips to the storyline the quality goes down the drain.  It’s blurry to the point where you can’t tell what is happening.  Bit frustrating…

Do you remember what you did to fix this?

Thx- Jappa