Poor DV-AVI Saved Movie Quality

[Guest]

I've read many of the posts about poor video quality and still haven't found
quite what I'm looking for. Here's my situation:

I have a high quality AVI file captured from a DV camcorder. I have tested
the quality by opening up the AVI file in windows media player (and others
too)--nice and crisp. When I add it to a collection and the timeline, there
is a noticeable drop in quality (I've heard this is normal 15fps for quick
editing).
However, when I save the movie file to my computer as DV-AVI (NTSC) the
quality is poor--the same as the preview. It appears grainy and blury in
areas.

Any suggestions and help would be much appreciated.

 

[John Inzer]

I've read many of the posts about poor video quality and
still haven't found quite what I'm looking for. Here's
my situation:

I have a high quality AVI file captured from a DV
camcorder. I have tested the quality by opening up the
AVI file in windows media player (and others too)--nice
and crisp. When I add it to a collection and the
timeline, there is a noticeable drop in quality (I've
heard this is normal 15fps for quick editing).
However, when I save the movie file to my computer as
DV-AVI (NTSC) the quality is poor--the same as the
preview. It appears grainy and blury in areas.

Any suggestions and help would be much appreciated.

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Maybe the following article will offer some ideas:

Movie Maker 2 - Saving Movies - Custom WMV Profiles
http://www.papajohn.org/MM2-SavingMovies-CustomProfiles.html

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[Guest]

GN,
I read your prob with moviemaker and I too am experiencing the same. I have
a sony camcorder...the video looks good on the camcorder screen but on the mm
screen it is quite pixelated. It never used to be like this and the only
change I can think of is the fact I now run two LCD monitors....but this
shouldn't really effect anything. When I save this movie it too is pixelated
and not good to watch.

 

[Guest]

Speed, I figured out my dilemma.

When I imported my video into the collection, I had checked the box that
asks if you want to split the video into clips. This was my problem--as
splitting the high-quality AVI file creates smaller, lesser-quality, ones.
Unchecking the box when importing them was the key. Now my video exports
perfectly. Hope this helps you!