new to WMM..having trouble with quality of video..please help!

[Guest]

Hi. I'm new to WMM and am limited in my computer knowledge..any help would be
greatly appreciated. I am planning on presenting a drama video to my church.
I have already recorded the pieces of video that I wanted, using a video
camera, and now have the clippings on a DVD-R. The quality of the video
clippings is very clear up to this point. However, I then took the video from
the DVD-R and saved it on my computer hard drive. From there, I used WMM
program and edited everything together how I want it. The picture quality of
the video in WMM was slightly grainy during the editing process. I then burnt
the final video onto a CD-R and viewed it in Windows Media Player and the
picture quality was very grainy and terrible looking. Could someone please
walk me through step-by-step or give me suggestions as to how to improve the
video quality during the process of transferring the DVD-R to my hard drive
and also during the burning process after I am finished with the video in
WMM...Thanks so much!

 

[John Inzer]

Hi. I'm new to WMM and am limited in my computer knowledge..any help
would be greatly appreciated. I am planning on presenting a drama
video to my church. I have already recorded the pieces of video that
I wanted, using a video camera, and now have the clippings on a
DVD-R. The quality of the video clippings is very clear up to this
point. However, I then took the video from the DVD-R and saved it on
my computer hard drive. From there, I used WMM program and edited
everything together how I want it. The picture quality of the video
in WMM was slightly grainy during the editing process. I then burnt
the final video onto a CD-R and viewed it in Windows Media Player and
the picture quality was very grainy and terrible looking. Could
someone please walk me through step-by-step or give me suggestions as
to how to improve the video quality during the process of
transferring the DVD-R to my hard drive and also during the burning
process after I am finished with the video in WMM...Thanks so much!

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Perhaps using a custom profile
would be your answer:

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

Creating Custom Profiles
for Windows Movie Maker 2
http://tinyurl.com/cuny7

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John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

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