Small Skips in AVI

[John]

Apologies if this has already been asked and answered.

I've finished my movie and am exporting it with the
intention of creating a DVD. When I save as DV-AVI, I
notice small little hiccups at some of my transitions that
were not present when previewing or when exporting to any
of the WMV formats.

I've tried exporting the same movie to AVI on a couple
different computers, all with the same result. The source
movies were captured from a DV camera in DV-AVI and all
seem to play back fine .. they certainly don't exhibit any
of the behavior of the final movie.

Any thoughts?

Best,
John

 

[Michel]

Many users have made the same experience. This can be considered as a bug in
the "save to dv-avi" of MM2.

 

[John]

Thanks much for the information. Do you, or does anyone
else, know of:

1) A workaround, that keeps intact the quality of DV-AVI
(from initial tests, it looks like even the highest
quality WMV file still can't match DV_AVI - perhaps others
can confirm)

2) Any word from microsoft on this - I checkede the
knowledge base but couldn't find an article specific to
this issue. Any ideas on whether Microsoft intends to
release a fix?

Best,
John

 

[Just a nutter]

Thanks much for the information. Do you, or does anyone
else, know of:

1) A workaround, that keeps intact the quality of DV-AVI
(from initial tests, it looks like even the highest
quality WMV file still can't match DV_AVI - perhaps others
can confirm)

2) Any word from microsoft on this - I checkede the
knowledge base but couldn't find an article specific to
this issue. Any ideas on whether Microsoft intends to
release a fix?

I had this issue, I reinstalled and it made no difference. With no real
reason, it occurred to me that it might be something to do with the keys in
the file....so what I did was to cut off the smallest possible bit from the
beginning of the second file...saved it back to the hard drive...re-imported
it and I got rid of the glitch...maybe it was coincidence, maybe not, and I
certainly have no technical reason for suspecting it was the keys...it just
worked....and the web version of the file can be seen on my site. Its called
New 2 Old...but be warned its rated for broadband speeds,,the video itself
is not very long.

All the best.....

 

[stephanie]

i'm having the same problem and it's driving me insane.
but i don't understand your response. what is a key? and
the key to what file? how would i at least try to
recreate your inadvertant fix.
thanks,
stephanie

 

[Tim]

I had/have the exact same problem. My home video was
captured to the hard drive in DV-AVI format. I added
music tracks in MP3 format and output the finished movie
to DV-AVI. The music I added had skips and double up's.

I converted the audio tracks from MP3 to WAV and this
improved the result dramatically, although there were
still some minor skips.

I then re output to High Quality PAL (I'm in Australia)
and this produced a WMV format file which was "perfect".
Interesting.