Imported video looses quality when copied to Timeline ?

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Please Help me ?

Hi I am creating a 10min movie in windows movie maker, it is combination of
video clips, pics music and flash. I exported some animation form flash as a
..avi file, When I import this into Movie Maker, it works fine, then I play it
and it is cristal clear etc. But as soon as I move it town to the Timeline
and play it from there it is all very blurry and hard to see. I have tried
everything and cant fix this, when I convert and burn onto dvd and play at
home everythign is perfect except this animation clip ? I would appreciate it
if anybody can help with this.

 

[Graham Hughes]

There are over 800 different avi file types, and only one works properly
with movie maker, which is dv.avi
Use avicodec to find out what yours is.
http://www.myvideoproblems.com/WebPages/UsefulProgrammes.htm
Your best bet is to convert the flash file to wmv.

 

[On Request]

Graham -- I have been successfully using avi files made with the Windows
Media Video 9 codec in Windows Movie Maker 6 under Vista. Do you think
that is unique to Vista, or would that also work in XP?

 

[Graham Hughes]

It's worth trying, but as all pc's are different and have different codecs
etc installed, then it may not work.