Published movie is low quality

[adh.waters]

I have tried various ways to "publish" my most recent movie, but it keeps
publishing it with such a low quality. I have done movies in the past, and
they turned out fine, but this one has lower quality photos-- almost blurred
and discolored. I am using windows vista. Any suggestions? I have tried
publishing to CD, the "best quality for playback on my computer," and other
high quality settings. What else can I do?

 

[John Inzer]

I have tried various ways to "publish" my most recent movie, but it
keeps publishing it with such a low quality. I have done movies in
the past, and they turned out fine, but this one has lower quality
photos-- almost blurred and discolored. I am using windows vista.
Any suggestions? I have tried publishing to CD, the "best quality
for playback on my computer," and other high quality settings. What
else can I do?

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Are the source files high resolution?

Have you tried using a custom profile?

Have a look at the following articles:

Movie Maker in Vista -
Publishing / Quality Profiles
http://www.papajohn.org/Vista-Publishing.html

Windows Vista
Create custom movie settings
for Windows Movie Maker
http://tinyurl.com/2fo9b9
or...
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/9d91bd30-e4c3-43f2-b8c1-b2f4e05225b51033.mspx

Windows Vista -
Publish a movie in
Windows Movie Maker
http://tinyurl.com/2lo4gp
or...
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/4ea4b6cd-0cfe-4d02-8122-16c28828cdf21033.mspx

Also the following article may be worth
a look if your pictures look discolored when
viewed in Windows Photo Gallery:

(939395) When you view an image in Windows
Photo Gallery on a Windows Vista-based computer,
the image is yellow
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/939395/en-us

--

John Inzer MS-MVP
Digital Media Experience

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