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| Pornoisseur Member  East Coast 31 Posts 6/06 |  Posted - Apr 22 2008 : 10:03PMHere's my dilemma. Any help would be appreciated. I have some WMV files that I want to edit down (fade, wipe, cut transition etc.). I have used Windows Movie Maker, which is incredibly easy to use, but I find when I view the finished product, the visual quality is poor (fuzzy around the edges). My question is, is there a way to truly copy and edit a digital file and keep the resolution/quality the same? Thanks!  [Link] |
| Dither Persona non grata I love America 650 Posts 8/05 | Posted - Apr 24 2008 : 12:57PM FFmpeg can convert from almost anything to almost anything. but I don't know what formats Movie Maker lets you edit. Nor do I know of many free or cheap alternatives for Windows, so if Movie Maker can't do the trick it's probably either forking out for real editing software or venturing down the dark alleys of Warez City. Or maybe there is some GNU movie editor I don't know of.  [Link] |
| RandomPrecision Senior Member Enjoy! 8175 Posts 3/06 | Posted - Apr 28 2008 : 6:36AM I have succeeded in making decent looking movies with Movie Maker using clips from my digital camcorder for family members but it's been so long I don't remember the specifics. Like Dither said. Just use the highest bitrates you can. You want to at least go as high as the original bitrate or you're going to lose quality. Again. Higher bitrates than the original don't necessarily help but they won't hurt either. Like Dither said. I don't think there are many free options to Movie Maker for Windows. And video editing software tends to be expensive. Expensive enough that it was too expensive to justify the cost for me, anyway. Unless you're using it to make money, I don't see how you could justify spending much on editing and authoring software unless it was just a hobby you enjoy. [Link] |
| Robert Member My past is a foreign country. Most things are different there, including word usage. 503 Posts 12/06 | Posted - Apr 28 2008 : 10:49AM I tried to up-grade to Version 3.0 and found it was not as easy for me to use. That may be because I was more familar with version 2.0. I also have a copy of Pinnacle's Studio SE Version 10.7. It has an easier to use clip editing facility but for me this program is a bit buggy. It produces video clips that sometimes are out of synch (sound/image). I also have used Movie Maker but it is the most difficult to use (editing), it's slow (encoding) and more limited by the types of video files it can open and process. It's been a while since I've used it but as I recall it couldn't handle MPEG2 nor VOB files, which for me is two out of three, the other being WMV. I have a Dazzle 150 for converting VHS player or DVD player video output to MPEG2 files. WinDVD and Movie Maker do not accept Dazzle 150 as a capture device. Only CamCorder. Movie Maker is free. It comes with Windows XP. I found licensed/registered copies of both WinDVD and Studio 10 on the Internet for about $10. Normally they sell for around $50. I probably wouldn't use Studio 10 if I didn't need the VHS/DVD player capture function. And there are other products that provide this function. On any given day, depending on the wind and temperature you can find bargains on the Internet for all these products. A quick search of eBay (this morning) yielded the following - Dazzle Digital Video Creator 150 Hi-Speed USB 2.0 Edit I'd check with the seller about what version of Studio you would be getting. Studio 9 is very buggy. Studio 10 is tolerable. I've never had a noticeable degradation in visual quality, but as with any image enlargement, sharpness of image can suffer. A WMV file is intended for PC viewing and burning it into a DVD and displaying it on a TV screen is enlarging it. Feel free to contact me via email if you have questions or want to discuss the "Hobby of Video Image Editing." Also there are a number of Internet forums devoted to this topic. [Link] |
| Edard Balladur Deactivated User 140 Posts 9/07 | Posted - Jun 4 2008 : 3:53AM If you feel limited with the microsoft program a good free software is Virtualdub which handles again WMV files less or more successfully or VD-MPEG2, Boilsoft Joiner and Splitter does the job the simpliest way but there are frame rendering errors with my players at the cutting points (don't know why), it doesn't bother me much when watching the video. [Link] |
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