Hello again,
I think I am having short circuit in my head, can you make that a little
clearer for me? Open what file and then close it. I have a VHS machine
that is connected to a ATI video card in my PC. The MM2 input menu shows
that device and when I go to the next step, capture quality this is
where the AVI choice is grayed out.
Yes, I understand. and the answer is Movie Maker will only capture DV-AVI
from a device that carries the right ID (Its called DEVCAPS), so you are
limited to capturing in the WMV format (Movie Maker) If you have any other
capture software it would be worth taking a look at the quality it
produces. Remember though, Movie Maker is not too good using formats other
than WMV or AVI.
With respect to the Encoder........... I was referring to a program called
the Windows Media Encoder. Its purpose is obviously encoding video and you
can do some quite clever things with it. With regards to what I am about to
explain, its my view that it does a much better job on converting video
that Movie Maker does. So if your aim is to get to DV-AVI, this is how you
would go about doing it....
First capture the best quality video that you can using any program that
will give you the best result.....within limits it does not matter what the
format is...your aim though is to get the best picture size and quality
from that program (which might be Movie Maker capturing to the Large
format) Take note that the encoder itself can capture audio and video and
therefore might be a better route to take than the Movie Maker option.
Lets assume your original capture was to the WMV format, and lets assume
again that you want to convert it to AVI (forget the DV bit) You use the
wizard in the media encoder to import your captured file (WMV) and tell the
wizard that you want it rendered as AVI. The Encoder will then chug away
until your new video file has been created. The speed of your machine at
this point is not relevant to the quality of the created file...its not
time dependent.
What you now have is an AVI file that has been indexed (Its part of the
process) and THAT file can be imported into Movie Maker and used as a
DV-AVI file, OR, imported into DVD authoring software of almost any make
and used to create a DVD.
Converting from one format to another always incurs a reduction in the
quality of the video/audio. So, to feed a WMV file into Movie Maker and
edit it, then saving it back to WMV format will cause a loss of quality.
Converting it to AVI format would also produce a small loss of quality, but
if everything else you do is either add still images of a good size or add
more AVI of the same screen size/frame rate etc you will not increase the
loss of quality...I could have worded that better...I think you might grasp
what I am trying to put over.
This link will take you to the appropriate microsoft page :-
http://tinyurl.com/bbal where you can download the encoder.
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Best Wishes.....John Kelly
www.the-kellys.org
www.the-kellys.co.uk
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