Encoding being an 'art', with all those parameters recent codecs offer, I tend to go further than the standard settings offered. The output results are much better.
With Sony Movie Studio, the Make Movie wizard allows only factory presets, with one exception: if you go in Advanced Render... and if you choose the Uncompressed AVI format, you get access to a 'Custom...' button.
Once there, you can choose from the list of codecs that you have installed on your computer, and create a self-made template (for example using the WMV9 codec in a certain configuration).
Once that is done. You can encode with your personal settings.
The compressed file will have an AVI suffix, that you need to change manually into WMV (if you have used it in your custom setting).
Such a file is playable as such, BUT there is a last problem. The internal header of the file says it is an AVI file, while its content is all WMV.
Windows Media Player will play the file, but you first get a warning saying that there is something wrong in the file.
I have read somewhere that it is the CCC code that is wrong, and that needs to be changed.
Could someone tell me with which program you can easily change that header code (or 'repair' the media file) ? Thanks