Windows Movie Maker and Digital Video

29 Apr 2006 3:59 PM

cover

I've got a pretty decent Canon digital camcorder that for some reason,
seems to lose a lot of the quality as home movies are imported into
Windows Movie Maker on my XP machine. RAM and HDD space aren't an
issue and I thought I'd come here to get some opinions. I import into
Windows Movie Maker and burn with Sonic My DVD/Create DVD for lack of
a better means of doing it. I haven't seen where I can actually burn
the DVD through WMM and Sonic came on my Dell machine.

So any thoughts? What do y'all use that you've had good results with?
As a possible point of interest, I've connected my digital camcorder
to my VCR and gotten better results on a VHS tape that I've been able
to get burning DVDs of digital video - just don't seem right... ;-)
TIA

29 Apr 2006 4:12 PM

marks542004

only a suggestion but after you import into Movie Maker you should
check that image size is 720 x 480 (ntsc) and frame rate is 30 frames
per second.

29 Apr 2006 8:08 PM

Bernie

If it goes in as DV via firewire, it'll stay that way until you change
it. Try exporting back to the camera from WMM down the firewire and
comparing in and out on a tv. They will look exactly the same unless
you've done something weird. So that part should be ok.

Next download the demo of Nero and try making the DVD with that. It's
the industry standard and very good.

Somewhere in there will be a clue to your problem.

Bernie

30 Apr 2006 4:39 AM

cover

On 29 Apr 2006 13:08:07 -0700, "Bernie" <bernard.newn***@ntlworld.com>
wrote:

>Next download the demo of Nero and try making the DVD with that. It's
>the industry standard and very good.

Thinking of "Nero 7 Ultra Edition?"

1 May 2006 7:07 AM

Martijn van Duijn

cover wrote:

> I've got a pretty decent Canon digital camcorder that for some reason,
> seems to lose a lot of the quality as home movies are imported into
> Windows Movie Maker on my XP machine. RAM and HDD space aren't an
> issue and I thought I'd come here to get some opinions. I import into
> Windows Movie Maker and burn with Sonic My DVD/Create DVD for lack of
> a better means of doing it. I haven't seen where I can actually burn
> the DVD through WMM and Sonic came on my Dell machine.
>
> So any thoughts? What do y'all use that you've had good results with?
> As a possible point of interest, I've connected my digital camcorder
> to my VCR and gotten better results on a VHS tape that I've been able
> to get burning DVDs of digital video - just don't seem right... ;-)
> TIA

Are you sure WMM is not compressing the video to a .WMV file? That may
be its default setting, and only saving as a DV AVI file will cause no
loss in quality (but use up quite a bit of HD space...)

Martijn

1 May 2006 8:39 AM

dwq3232

I have this same problem!
I have a sony trv 350 D8(digital 8 videocam).When i play the video from
my camera to my tv the quality is great.But when i download it to my pc
via firewire and play it back it the resolution sucks-it is grainy and
choppy at times.I managed to burn some of this bad video capture to a
disc and when i played the disc through a dvd player on my tv it looked
bad as well.

4 May 2006 1:35 PM

eug k

dwq3***@yahoo.com wrote:

> I have this same problem!
> I have a sony trv 350 D8(digital 8 videocam).When i play the video from
> my camera to my tv the quality is great.But when i download it to my pc
> via firewire and play it back it the resolution sucks-it is grainy and
> choppy at times.I managed to burn some of this bad video capture to a
> disc and when i played the disc through a dvd player on my tv it looked
> bad as well.
>

Could it be an interlacing problem?
Maybe WMM doesn't deinterlace it...