Import video created with Win Media Encoder degrades

[Guest]

Hi All,
Hope you can help with this question. I created a short movie capturing
screens with media encoder, inserted markers into the video with the Window
Media File Editor so that when I import the video into the Movie Maker it is
broken into logical clips I can work with. When viewing the original wmv
file it looks good, however when imported into Movie Maker the clips look
blury and then when drag/drop the clips to the time line the screens become
unreadable.

Can anyone shed some light on this issue? Recommend a format for screen
capture that would work with Movie Maker for editing. I have read the help,
tried many different combinations but the degradation of the video continues
when imported into Movie Maker. Any advice is appreciated.

Thanks, Jim

 

[Cari \(MS-MVP\)]

WMV files are very compressed. Each encoding reduces the quality once more.

 

[Rehan]

... however when imported into Movie Maker the clips look
blury and then when drag/drop the clips to the time line the screens become
unreadable.

Movie Maker preview is deliberately a low res draft:
http://blogs.msdn.com/deanro/archive/2004/10/05/238493.aspx

You can ignore it and continue ediiting. When the final movie is saved
(File->Save Movie As) you should get good quality output.