Heres the basic story, my computer was lacking, so i recently upgraded my entire system, and had to re-install Ulead video studio, now i have a slight problem when exporting videos for internet use.
I used to be able to simply click 'share video online > best quality' and the video would save in '640x480 pixels' and had the optimal file size Vs quality for internet use.
But now since i re-installed, i cant figure out how to get that same pixel size back. I have tried going to 'create video file > custom' and changing all sorts of things, but nothing appears to get '640x480 pixels' again.
Any ideas? i also wouldn't mind getting a larger/better quality type of .wmv if that is possible. If not, i would simply be happy with what i used to get for all my exported .wmv files. Below is the details of the videos i used to get (1 example).
(4.04mb)
IMAGE
width - 640 pixels
height - 480 pixels
audio
Duration - 0:00:46
Bit rate - 769 kbps
audio sample size - 16 bit
channels - 2 (stereo)
audio sample rate - 44 kHz
video
Data rate - 662 kbps
Video sample size - 24bit
Stream name - video 2
How to get optimal .wmv export quality? (Share video online)
Moderator: Ken Berry
This is best answered by you doing a search on the FAQs, look for project properties.. (basically what goes in, has to come out the same size, for quality).. (i'd reccomend a moment, well, maybe a couple of months, of study... search, re-search, read, and re-read, explore, and expirement)
I'm still at the "moment" part myself..
I'm still at the "moment" part myself..
If you just upgraded your system you may need to install the latest Windows Media 9 Encoder package. It contains windows movie maker and the latest encoders including HighDefintion WMV files. VideoStudio uses those windows encoder files.
After installing the WMV 9 Encoder when you goto Share, select Customize, then Windows wmv, click on options(advanced) and you can select a custom template. You can also finetune the settings.
After installing the WMV 9 Encoder when you goto Share, select Customize, then Windows wmv, click on options(advanced) and you can select a custom template. You can also finetune the settings.
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oldspammer
Saved custom .wmv profile settings
I have VS 9 SE DVD that came with my ADS Tech DVD Xpress DX2 hardware capture device.
I wanted to save higher bandwidth, higher resolution video clip files as well.
I went through all of the steps in the above post, and saved my custom .wmv video settings profile under a nice name. (Share, Create Video File, Custom / bottom menu item, select .wmv file type, Options button, Profile tab, Customize button, New button). No where is it said or implied that the New button functionality should not work as expected.
However, my nicely named profile is never available in the drop-down scroll-box list in order to use it to save / render my video file to disk.
The drop-down list is never updated to use this new custom entry, and when I completely quit out, then run the program again, it still is not an available listed option. No error message is produced to say that the profile in any way is badly set, and if I go into customize profile again, my named custom profile settings are in this list and are still set the way that I had made them.
Saving / rendering the file using a standard profile works fine, but ...
What use is all of this when the nicely named custom settings cannot be used afterwards to render my video to an output disk file?
This begs the question: From where does the programmer fetch the profiles list entries, and does the drop-down list get reloaded after returning from the customize button dialogs in case a new or renamed entry is newly made available?
I recorded a NTSC Cable TV show (Night Stalker) to a 6 MHz MPEG-2 29.97 fps 720x480 w/48 kHz @ 384 kbits/second data rate via my Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250. I used nanoPEG Editor 2.3 (a cutter) to make only a small sized AV MPEG-2 clip of approximately 3 minutes length (5656 frames). I took that into VirtualDub-MPEG2 v1.5.10 and rendered an AVI file using Huffyuv v2.1.1 lossless compression so that I could use the lossless version of the file as a benchmark for other video compression renderings for comparison between as many software encoders and the types of files I was getting out of the hardware encoder of the ADS Tech DVD Xpress DX2. I tried DivX, XVid, DV, and so on. I tried to maintain the file's original 720x480 size and used high-bandwidth settings for Lame MP3 for audio compression where applicable. I was going to see what bandwidth / disk space I could save while still having pleasing video coming out. This for software codecs and the other hardware encoders I've got.
The Huffyuv v2.1.1 lossless compressed file was 2,123,589,632 bytes.
DivX-5.05-1-pass-2000-k-per-second file was 47,104,000 bytes.
DivX 5.05 2-pass-2000-k-per-second was 55,062,528 bytes.
Xvid 1-pass-2000-k-per-second was 53,487,616 bytes.
Xvid-2-pass-2000-k-per-second was 54,679,552 bytes.
dv-type-2 was 715,201,196 bytes.
and the .wmv test could not be completed because of the errors.
I also took note of the length of times taken to re-encode from Huffyuv v2.1.1 to the other formats so that I'd know what kind of waiting around I'd have to do for my old 1.2 GHz Athlon to complete a recompress.
Another consideration is that of playback / decoding performance of both my different older PCs and a DVD set top player that has memory card slots and DivX / MP4 playback. This is because I have eyes that are getting old and I like to watch video on a big TV rather than a small computer monitor.
The characteristics of my .wmv profile were as follows:
Audio encoding mode: Bit rate VBR
Video encoding mode: Bit rate VBR
Audience: 2000 Kbps
Audio codec: Windows Media Audio 9.1 Professional
Audio format: 440 kbps, 44 kHz, 2 channel 24 bit VBR
Video codec: Windows Media Video 9
Video bit rate: 1550.98 Kbps
Video size: Same as video input
Frame rate: 29.97 fps
Key frame: 3 s
I wanted to save higher bandwidth, higher resolution video clip files as well.
I went through all of the steps in the above post, and saved my custom .wmv video settings profile under a nice name. (Share, Create Video File, Custom / bottom menu item, select .wmv file type, Options button, Profile tab, Customize button, New button). No where is it said or implied that the New button functionality should not work as expected.
However, my nicely named profile is never available in the drop-down scroll-box list in order to use it to save / render my video file to disk.
The drop-down list is never updated to use this new custom entry, and when I completely quit out, then run the program again, it still is not an available listed option. No error message is produced to say that the profile in any way is badly set, and if I go into customize profile again, my named custom profile settings are in this list and are still set the way that I had made them.
Saving / rendering the file using a standard profile works fine, but ...
What use is all of this when the nicely named custom settings cannot be used afterwards to render my video to an output disk file?
This begs the question: From where does the programmer fetch the profiles list entries, and does the drop-down list get reloaded after returning from the customize button dialogs in case a new or renamed entry is newly made available?
I recorded a NTSC Cable TV show (Night Stalker) to a 6 MHz MPEG-2 29.97 fps 720x480 w/48 kHz @ 384 kbits/second data rate via my Hauppauge WinTV PVR-250. I used nanoPEG Editor 2.3 (a cutter) to make only a small sized AV MPEG-2 clip of approximately 3 minutes length (5656 frames). I took that into VirtualDub-MPEG2 v1.5.10 and rendered an AVI file using Huffyuv v2.1.1 lossless compression so that I could use the lossless version of the file as a benchmark for other video compression renderings for comparison between as many software encoders and the types of files I was getting out of the hardware encoder of the ADS Tech DVD Xpress DX2. I tried DivX, XVid, DV, and so on. I tried to maintain the file's original 720x480 size and used high-bandwidth settings for Lame MP3 for audio compression where applicable. I was going to see what bandwidth / disk space I could save while still having pleasing video coming out. This for software codecs and the other hardware encoders I've got.
The Huffyuv v2.1.1 lossless compressed file was 2,123,589,632 bytes.
DivX-5.05-1-pass-2000-k-per-second file was 47,104,000 bytes.
DivX 5.05 2-pass-2000-k-per-second was 55,062,528 bytes.
Xvid 1-pass-2000-k-per-second was 53,487,616 bytes.
Xvid-2-pass-2000-k-per-second was 54,679,552 bytes.
dv-type-2 was 715,201,196 bytes.
and the .wmv test could not be completed because of the errors.
I also took note of the length of times taken to re-encode from Huffyuv v2.1.1 to the other formats so that I'd know what kind of waiting around I'd have to do for my old 1.2 GHz Athlon to complete a recompress.
Another consideration is that of playback / decoding performance of both my different older PCs and a DVD set top player that has memory card slots and DivX / MP4 playback. This is because I have eyes that are getting old and I like to watch video on a big TV rather than a small computer monitor.
The characteristics of my .wmv profile were as follows:
Audio encoding mode: Bit rate VBR
Video encoding mode: Bit rate VBR
Audience: 2000 Kbps
Audio codec: Windows Media Audio 9.1 Professional
Audio format: 440 kbps, 44 kHz, 2 channel 24 bit VBR
Video codec: Windows Media Video 9
Video bit rate: 1550.98 Kbps
Video size: Same as video input
Frame rate: 29.97 fps
Key frame: 3 s