Strange behaviour on dv-avi files

[Michel]

I report here something strange I have noticed with MM2.

My input file is a 5 min long standard dv-avi file created with another
editing program (MovieXOne).

The file is inserted in the MM2 time line.

When rendered as is to dv-avi, it takes about 3 minutes to render and the
quality of the output file seems perfectly unchanged as compared with the
original.

But if a simple fade out to black effect is applied (it should only affect
the last seconds of the video), the rendering takes about 20 minutes and the
quality of the output file is clearly affected during the entire movie (a
sort of "grid" of pixellisation appears slighlty but clearly on the entire
movie).

The workaround I had to apply is to cut the movie into two pieces: a big one
of 5min-3 sec. and a small one of 3 seconds on wich the fade out is applied.

Some ideas about that strange problem?

Michel

 

[Graham Hughes, MVP Digital Media]

A couple of things.
Have a look at www.papajohn.org problem solving>saving movies
Have you tried using MM2 to capture the avi and see if the same thing
happens? If not it'll be to do with MovieXOne.
Graham