AVI Quality suffers when placed into the Storyboard

[Guest]

I have 4 AVI files. If the are individually played using Media player the
quality is perfect. As soon as I import the AVI file and drag & drop it into
the story board the quality becomes appalling. Also once I 'splice' the AVI
files into one coherent movie - no matter what the best quality option I use
when I save - the resulting AVI file is no where near as good as the original
AVI files. What am I doing wrong?

 

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

Check the codecs used to make the avi files... see the Importing Source
Files > Video > AVI page of my website, which includes a link to the GSpot
utility to help.

You might need to convert the avi files to others before importing.
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[Guest]

PapaJohn

Thanks for that. The GSpot utility identified the CODEC as

4CC: CRAM/msvc
Name: Microsoft Video 1
CODEC NOT installed

So where do I go from here - how do I convert the AVI file or get the right
CODEC? It does seem strange that the original AVI file plays fine it only
goes perculiar when added to a Windows Movie Maker storyboard.

Thanks for all your help so far.

 

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

Try installing the Microsoft Media 9 Codecs Installation Package.... there's
a link on the Setup > Other Software page of my site.... That in itself
might do it.

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