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General Forums => Films and Screenshots => Topic started by: Jappa52 on December 12, 2008, 03:37:33 PM
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Let me start off with a !@#$!@#% :furious :furious
I've been trying to put some film together for a while now. Read everyones previous posts here and have a pretty good idea of how to capture, setup shots and etc. What I've been having trouble with is the darn WMM. When I view the clip in the preview screen (yellow circle) the quality is great and the clip runs with no problems. The problem comes when I decided to use the clip I just viewed by selecting it out of the collection then dragging it into the movie storyboard. Once its on the storyboard the clip is ruined and almost not viewable immediately. I think this has to be a simple fix but I don't know were to start. anyone else have this problem?
(http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff44/jappa52/movie_maker1.jpg)
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The preview pane in WMM is a low-quality version for playback speed to test your movie. You can drag your panes to make the preview pane larger, which gives a little better quality, but it's still a preview of the film. Once you actually create the final movie file, it will be fine.
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I'm not terrible familiar with WMM and I've only used it a couple times and that was years ago. What are the project settings you are using? I.e, resolution, bitrate etc
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PAL 16:9 (only settings i could find...)
I've made a video using stills before and it turned out very distorted and my attempt at an AH2 video is showing the characteristics while in progress. I don't want to put a lot of time into it if its going to be such low quality.
Thanks for your replies!
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hmm, that's odd. Are you in Europe? Maybe something's wrong with your install of WMM or you need to find some other video codecs to install. I can't be of much help here, as I've have good luck with just using it without any hassles *knocks on wood*.
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PAL is really only used in Europe and abroad. So if you are a Euro, PAL is fine. But everyone in the states uses NTSC. When you're selecting output settings, try selecting qualities such as "Computer Playback" or "LAN" as these will offer video bitrates of high quality. If you are from North America and are trying the PAL setting, you are probably running into problems based off of that your camcorder records in NTSC. PAL uses a different frame rate (higher) than NTSC (along with some other settings). So you may be encountering problems with this improper conversion.
It doesn't hurt to google come WMM tutorials. I know microsoft has a site dedicated on how to use it, rather than getting half answers from people on here.
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I will select NTSC and see what happens. I did pull up some WMM help sites that went into A LOT of detail regarding the filters used and some of the strange things that happen to the video once it is placed in the storyline. Seems that I wasn't the only one with problems and I do not see a fix for it... Hopefully changing from PAL to NTSC will help and I can post it. Thanks again for the help and Merry Christmas.
jappa
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Ok here is a rough draft of the movie… quality is still really bad I am going to change a few shots but for a first timer I’m pleased. Any ideas to improving the quality of recording and video shots are welcome…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UowZlJPbRo