Re: Poor Quality when saving in DV PAL format

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From: Rehan (someone_at_somewhere.com)
Date: 11/30/04 

Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 22:14:24 -0000

A few notes:

1. DV is also compressed format. it uses lossy JPEG type compression.
However the compression ratio is relatively low to retain quality.

2. MM 1.0 can be used in parallel with MM 2.0 or 2.1. Just bring back the
moviemk.exe from SP1 cd or a C:\Windows\ServicepackFiles folder. Copy it as
Moviemk1.exe. Thats the only file needed. Others are already there with MM
2.0/2.1 install.

3. Make sure your QDV.DLL is properly registered. Execute the following line
on Start->Run dialog:
regsvr32 %windir%\system32\qdv.dll

4. Also install Windows media Encoder. it fixes a few issues with windows
DLLs. 

-- 
Rehan
www.rehanfx.org - get transitions and effects for Windows MovieMaker
"Phil" <Phil@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:C35B3D4D-1FD4-43B2-BFDD-90B3C9D01237@microsoft.com...
> Yes, I simply cropped the image to an interesting, relevant part of the
> image. The full-size image for PAL is of course 720x576.
>
> "Rehan" wrote:
>> How come the size is 400x390? Have you cropped it?
>>
>> -- 
>> Rehan
>> www.rehanfx.org - get more effects and transitions for Windows Movie 
>> Maker
>>
>> "Rosh" <Rosh@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:2D816CC5-70BF-473B-BA9D-FEB2676B0FB9@microsoft.com...
>> > Hi, I captured a large amount of video off my camera as plain DV
>> > (uncompressed, 25Mbps) with a little tool called DVIO. One hour of tape 
>> > is
>> > 14.1GB. :-/
>> >
>> > Anyway, it plays smoothly and looks good. I've trimmed it down to 5
>> > minutes,
>> > put in transitions, etc. I then saved the video as DV-AVI PAL (25Mbps).
>> > But
>> > when I view it, the quality around the edge of moving objects is bad. 
>> > It
>> > looks like an interlacing problem; the edges of moving objects are 
>> > blurred
>> > with fine lines.
>> > Hard to explain but there is a captured screenshot at
>> > http://www.image-dump.com/view.php?m=1&x=23466
>> >
>> > Has anyone seen this problem or know how to fix it?
>> > Thanks
>> > PS. using MM 2.0, XP-SP1, 2.6GHz P4, 512M.
>

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