NOOB question about playback on WMP

Sammy85 wrote on 1/19/2007, 2:31 PM

Ok I just got this software for work and at first I was having trouble even having the video play on the editing timeline and in project view.

Finally I got a new computer with an updated video card, more memorey, and it's faster.

It started working wonderful then. Well I made my video and went to "make a video". I first saved it to my hard drive and it saved in an avi. format and I went to play it on Windows Media Player and the whole thing was "choppy" along with the audio.

My next step was to burn it to dvd. The video file path was C:\00000000.restored.mpg
And the audio file path was this.
C:\00000000.restored.ac3

After that was done I went to play it on Power DVD or even WMP and the video worked perfect but the audio was not playing.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Comments

Chienworks wrote on 1/19/2007, 3:15 PM

I'm going to guess that your initial AVI render was uncompressed. This would create a terribly huge file and it's no surprise that Media Player had trouble playing it smoothly. You may want to consider choosing the DV template when rendering to AVI to get a much smaller file. DV usually plays back smoothly on any computer 700MHz or faster.

When you render for DVD you get two separate files, as you've noticed already. Media Player won't play .ac3 files. You need to author a DVD from the two separate files using DVD Architect and then burn the resulting .VOB files to a disc.

If you just want to play the file in Media Player then i would suggest rendering to .wmv at maybe 3Mbps.

Sammy85 wrote on 1/22/2007, 8:41 AM

Thanks for the tip. That does make sense.

Now when I go to capture a video I have a choice between DV and HDV. I have tired to choose the DV but it does not detect my camera for some reason.