Re: dvd burn: wmv is clearer than avi. Why?

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I think that if you right click a clip on the WMM Timeline, the Properties box will show the Location of the Source File; put your mouse on the line that says Location, and it should show you the complete path of the source file; and the file extension will be right at the end of that location information. You can get better advice from this web site: http://www.windowsmoviemakers.net/forums/ These guys are experts.

"Magic" <Magic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:A1CB3238-D3CE-44A6-B6FC-1B3FCDCB1EDB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Ive been reviewing your advice and suggestions, and had a look at
myvideoproblems.com tutorial, and Im starting to believe that maybe i did not
capture the video as avi! I cannot remember if I chose avi or not. Is there
any way of me finding out this information? can I check this out from my
project file?

If this is the case and I have not captured in avi format is there any way
of me changing it now?

God help me! Now, Im really starting to worry that if this IS the problem,
and there is no other way but to go back and do re-capture the whole video
again, well then WMM is not user friendly in this section. It would be more
logical for the program to select avi as the default, since it recognises
that the video being captured is avi format. That makes more sense.

Im very worried because its a very very long file and it's almost 3 hours of
video and I HAVE SPENT MONTHS editing and now Im ready to burn to dvd.

I can't do this ALL OVER AGAIN. If this is the mistake made, well its a very
BIG MISTAKE, and I can't possibly scrap the whole project and just start
again from scratch. What a horrible thing! It's abit ambigious when the
options to capture come up the first one says 'recommended' and it's selected
by default, and then you have to do the whole thing and you get to the very
end and you find out that it was th wrong selection at the beginning. If this
is the case then I can't trust or rely on WMM. No way!

...Just the thought of the worst case scenario which I have probably copped
is killing me! Where is the nearest cliff?

arrrrrrrrrrr


"Graham Hughes" wrote:

For best results you are better trying to use an original dv.avi file rather
than wmv. Once in wmv there is no benefit really going to dv.avi, apart
from if you are using an app which doesn't accept wmv.

Where does the file come from? If captured from a cam using MM then opt for
the dv.avi option on capturing
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/Tutorials/MovieMaker/HowToCaptureDV-AVI.htm


--

Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.com


"Magic" <Magic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:407B9E62-EF17-4D4E-A502-C10271CA7392@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi, I've been reading so much about burning a video file to dvd and
> everything says to save the wmv file to avi and then burn the avi to > dvd.
> But
> when I do that it's not clear on any of my televisions and its also > more
> pixelated and also the image seems abit jumpy. However if I leave it as > a
> wmv
> and burn to dvd the output is much better on TV, text is not as > pixelated
> images are better and no jumpiness. Still, Im not that happy with the
> quality. Should I try to save the Windows Movie Maker file in a > different
> format other than avi? I am using MyDVD vers.8 to burn.
>
> Overall I just can't seem to understand why i have to change the wmv
> format
> to avi and then burn to dvd, when if i just burn straight from wmv to > dvd
> its
> better?




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