movie maker file quality options

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In Vista, compared to XP, the options for saving movies have changed in Movie
Maker for the different quality settings.

On XP I preferred "Video for broadband (340Kbps)" for a good trade off on
small file size and good quality image.

On Vista, the setting "Windows Media VHS Quality (1.0 Mbps)" makes a good
quality video at 640 x 480 and 30 frames per second, but it's almost 4 times
the size of a video that I could store on Movie Maker on XP at "Video for
broadband (340Kbps)".

I tried to use the "Compress to:" option to force it into a smaller file
size, but it kept the high frame width and height and just made the image
quality poorer and lower frames per second.

How can I force it to use the settings that were available in XP? 320 x 240
at 30 fps?

Thanks!

Peter J. Macay
 
J

John Inzer

Peter said:
In Vista, compared to XP, the options for saving movies have changed
in Movie Maker for the different quality settings.

On XP I preferred "Video for broadband (340Kbps)" for a good trade
off on small file size and good quality image.

On Vista, the setting "Windows Media VHS Quality (1.0 Mbps)" makes a
good quality video at 640 x 480 and 30 frames per second, but it's
almost 4 times the size of a video that I could store on Movie Maker
on XP at "Video for broadband (340Kbps)".

I tried to use the "Compress to:" option to force it into a smaller
file size, but it kept the high frame width and height and just made
the image quality poorer and lower frames per second.

How can I force it to use the settings that were available in XP?
320 x 240 at 30 fps?

Thanks!

Peter J. Macay
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Maybe a custom profile would be
your answer. The following articles
should give you a start:

Movie Maker 2 - Saving
Movies - Custom WMV Profiles
http://tinyurl.com/s2vgu

Movie Maker in Vista -
Publishing / Quality Profiles
http://tinyurl.com/325yvz


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MS Picture It! -
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Digital Image
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