Concerning MM

[Guest]

Hello
I have a bunch of video tapes that i am trying to put on VCD, once i burn
them onto a VCD, would i be able to edit them in Movie Maker? IN other words,
would i be able to open the file's format in movie maker?

Please Help,

 

[Graham Hughes]

No. vcd is mpeg1, mm uses avi files.

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Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
Laird of Glencairn
www.dvds2treasure.com
www.simplydv.com

 

[Bob [MVP]]

.... and the quality of the VCD is most likely
going to be significantly lower than your original
source material. So it's not a good strategy,
even if the file format was supported in MM.

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-Bob
_______________________________
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP Media Center Edition
http://www.microsoft.com/ehome

 

[Guest]

Instead of VCD, If i burned the videos on a DVD, will i still be able to edit
them in MM?
and also, i don't have a DVD burner, can i still edit w/o a DVD burner?

 

[Rehan]

VCD or DVD are both formats designed for the viewing. They discard a lot of
information from the source format of video and compress the rest. If you
ever need to edit a video its best to edit in the exact/closest format these
are captured so as to maintain quality during editing. For video captured
with digital camcorders, the best format for capture is DV AVI. Movie Maker
supports this format for editing.

1. capture in dv avi
2. edit in movie maker
3. save in dv avi
4. use your dvd software to burn dvd movie from the edited dv avi.

 

[Graham Hughes]

If you don't have a dvd burner, how are you going to burn them to dvd?
You could, once you've bought a burner, save the dv-avi files to dvd as a
data disc and use these in MM, but this disc would not play in a dvd player.

--
Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
Laird of Glencairn
www.dvds2treasure.com
www.simplydv.com