Turning off WMM Compression

[Guest]

I've had a problem with Windows Movie Maker 2. Every time I save my movie
file, it always compresses the file to death. If I set the compression
settings high, it sets the output size to 640 x 480; I need it to be 320 x
240. Is there anywhere a "Full Frames, Uncompressed" compression option?

Thanks.

 

[Jeff Rice]

Try saving as "DV-AVI". Should be as un-compressed as you can get.

JPR

 

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

Yes, you can make a custom profile that saves it as an uncompressed WMV
file... one of the downsides is there's a bug in the code of Movie Maker
that won't let you import it back into MM2 for editing... you'll get a
message that the needed codec is missing....
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[Guest]

Thanks!

How do you make a custom profile? I'm not finding anything about it in the
Help section.

 

[PapaJohn \(MVP\)]

See the Saving Movies > Custom WMV Profiles page of my website... it's not
in the Help file because it's an 'unsupported feature'....
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[Guest]

After a conversion, it worked!

At first, when I "Saved Movie File" under my profile (with video and audio
settings to "None" and "Full Frames, Uncompressed"), it still compressed the
file to half its size (with a slight quality loss), but when I then converted
the file back to .avi (the file's original format), the quality and file size
returned. Do you know how to fix this so that I might be able to also export
full quality .wmvs?

Thank you very much for your help.

 

[Guest]

That would work, but then it would be in AVI format. I also need it in WMV
format.