newbie question 1: avi and movie studio quality?

allyn wrote on 1/3/2004, 1:49 PM

(this is my first post: still using the movie studio 3.0a trial)

when i upload my digital camcorder footage, it looks fine within move studio. if i view the .avi clip files (or .avi saved movies) with windows media player, i see a ton of compression artifacts. am i doing something wrong?

my plan is to burn dvds but if i need to convert to mpeg2 from the resulting artifact-filled avi files, how good can my mpegs be?

thanks.

allyn fratkin
escondido, ca

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allyn wrote on 1/3/2004, 2:53 PM

i found a setting in windows media player to fix this.

under tools/options/performance/advanced, there is a slider for "digital video" that was not all the way to the right. sliding it all the way to the right makes the video look much better. i think windows media player was scaling for some reason and that was creating the artifacts.

false alarm!

JohnnyRoy wrote on 1/3/2004, 5:43 PM

Just make sure when you render to MPEG to use the DVD template and you should be fine.

~jr