Re: Movie Maker DV-AVI Quality

"Andy" <Andy42ca@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> I am attempting to create a DV-AVI movie from MM2. It
> works fine (a 10gig file) but the quality on playback is
> significantly less the most higher levels of WMV files.
> This restricts my ability to create high quality DVDs.
> Any thoughts on how to improve the AVI quality.
> ps, particular issues are with PNG (picture) files
> created by PowerPoint XP and used for titling.

Greetings, I do not use PowerPoint so have no idea what the output quality
is like. But, you should consider exporting to a straight bitmap...not PNG
or JPG, however if you have no choice you should set the compression of the
exported image to zero...this will make the file larger of course...but
that's no problem.

If you take a little look at www.the-kellys.org and view "Old Snaps" you
will see a bit of video that was made from still images. The size of each
image was in the 2 to 3 MB range. I did that because I have found that the
resizing algorithm in MM2 is rather good and will compress down where needed
very well indeed. The full DVD versions of all of the videos on that site
look absolutely excelent.(I am of course biased)

However, if you start off with a fairly small/low res image the algorithm in
MM2 will not do a very good job and you will end up with something ranging
between slightly grainy to very blocky!! There are expensive techniques for
increasing the physical size and resolution of an image, but as far as MM2
goes, you get what you paid for ... Not True, you get a hell of a lot more
than what you paid...but I guess you know what I mean.

So, MM2 is very good at bringing the size of an image down, but not very
good at increasing it.

Regards.....