ASF files and VV 3.0

sidprice wrote on 5/28/2002, 8:28 PM

I want to use VV3 to convert some old ASF (windows media) files and I can not get them to play in VV 3.0. It loads the file but when I play it I get a freeze-frame looking display. The audio seems to play just fine.

So does anyone have some ideas how to get this to work or point me to a converter from ASF files to AVI or similar?

Thanks
Sid

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swarrine wrote on 5/29/2002, 7:12 AM

Not sure if this is your problem, but you need a separate password to open the part of the system that allows these imports.

Cheesehole wrote on 5/29/2002, 4:00 PM

if you have Microsoft Movie Maker (comes with winXP), you might be able to use that to convert the ASF/WMV file into an uncompressed AVI. check out Media Cleaner Pro and see if that can open ASF files.

sidprice wrote on 5/29/2002, 6:32 PM

Thanks for the pointers. In fact I found VirtualDub and an older version (1.3d) converts ASF to AVI which I can then load into VV 3.

Now it's there it looks so bad I am not sure that it is going to be usable.

Again, thanks for the pointers
Sid

SonyDennis wrote on 5/29/2002, 8:17 PM

Yes, if it has lots of compression it can look pretty bad. I've had some luck turning on the "resample" switch before I render to another format, it makes it slightly less choppy.
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