Re: Problems with music and narration

I guess I would recommend using DV-AVI for any intermediate steps, no matter your end format
ie I interpret that you are cutting the move in two steps:
1st with narration whch is output as an interim step and that interim is then taken as input to the final stage.
Each stage will lose a little bit of quality.
DV-AVI will maintain the best quality, wmv not quite as good.
Therefore I would always use DV-AVI for my interim steps with, as Wojo said, the final format dependent upon your task.
With only one interim step this is probably not a big issue, but if a number of passes are needed then the drop in quality is quite noticable.

Since you are cutting a DVD we would recommend saving the final stage as dv-avi

Now how to save as dv-avi:

once you have selected a name for your movie and clicked next you should be presented with a screen 'save movie wizard'. With three check boxes

Check 'other settings' - the drop down box should now be active - click the \/ and a series of options should be open - one of which is DV-AVI(PAL) if you have marked your settings as PAL or DV-AVI(NTSC) if you use NTSC.

Hope this helps



Rob


DEB wrote: 
I am going to be creating a DVD, thanks for your help.

"Wojo" wrote:


If you are planning on eventually creating a DVD out of your movie then I would recommend, as Rob said, saving to DV-AVI but if you are only creating it to view on your computer then I recommend saving as High quality NTSC video which would be a WMV file.
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"DEB" <DEB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:4425E3B8-5D08-4D95-A891-BEEE19AEAD4F@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Thanks guys..........
Looks great, now do I save the file as something other than WMV, I didn't
understand that discussion.
"DEB" wrote:


I am following the septs in the previously posted "narration over a music
rack".
I saved my movie, it is a wmv file on my hard drive. When I import it
should it come into movie maker as clips or should it all show up together on
the timeline? My is not on the timeline and is clips again, I know I am doing
something wrong can you help me? thanks 



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