Re: Clip shortening

I've used the Cinepak codec a good bit and haven't run into issues with
Movie Maker... maybe it's something else.
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"Lsnewton" <Lsnewton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> So you think it might be a codec problem? All the clips being made are
> being
> built frame-by-frame by myself. I checked what codec I had set to make the
> avi and it turned out to be "(cvid) Cinepak Codec by Radius"
> I chose that one because it gave me the best image quality with my
> animations, but it also results in the files being somewhat large.
>
> "PapaJohn (MVP)" wrote:
>
>> get the GSpot utility and check the codec used to make the AVI file....
>> there's a link to it on the Setup > Other Software page of my site.
>>
>> If it's some flavor of Divx, Xvid, then such issues are normal... and
>> warrant file conversion before using in Movie Maker.
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>>
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>> http://www.simplydv.co.uk/simplyBB/viewtopic.php?t=4693
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