Frame rate issue with output
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elderon
Frame rate issue with output
Hello all. Im trying out the demo of DVD movie factory. WOW what a great program! I just made my first dvd and was 90% happy with it. There is just one problem. The output video I'm watching looks like about 15-20 fps instead of 30 fps like the source video files. THese are WMV files also if that makes any difference. Any idea what would cause this? The source files play fine @ 30 fps like they are supposed to on the computer.
It could be an FPS problem...
Film is 24 FPS
NTSC (North America, etc.) is 29.97 FPS
PAL (Europe, etc.) is 25 FPS
It could also be something else related to the conversion... The resolution of the WMV file is probably not DVD compliant, and you will always get some quality loss when converting from one lossy compression fomat to a different lossy compression format.
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NOTE - All of the highly-compressed formats can sometimes be troublesome. This includes WMV, MOV, MPEG-4, DivX, Xvid, etc. These formats are really only meant to be played-back... You may run into trouble if you try to edit or convert them, or it you try to make DVDs from them. (MPEG-2 files can also sometimes cause touble if you try to edit them.)
If you have a "still" camera that also makes WMV video files, you may find that you get acceptable results with the files from your particular camera. However if you get highly compressed files from several different sources, or if you download them from the internet, you will run across "bad" files that cause all sorts of strange problems, and, some video files may even cause Movie Factory to crash!
Film is 24 FPS
NTSC (North America, etc.) is 29.97 FPS
PAL (Europe, etc.) is 25 FPS
It could also be something else related to the conversion... The resolution of the WMV file is probably not DVD compliant, and you will always get some quality loss when converting from one lossy compression fomat to a different lossy compression format.
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NOTE - All of the highly-compressed formats can sometimes be troublesome. This includes WMV, MOV, MPEG-4, DivX, Xvid, etc. These formats are really only meant to be played-back... You may run into trouble if you try to edit or convert them, or it you try to make DVDs from them. (MPEG-2 files can also sometimes cause touble if you try to edit them.)
If you have a "still" camera that also makes WMV video files, you may find that you get acceptable results with the files from your particular camera. However if you get highly compressed files from several different sources, or if you download them from the internet, you will run across "bad" files that cause all sorts of strange problems, and, some video files may even cause Movie Factory to crash!
Last edited by DVDDoug on Tue May 01, 2007 11:37 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Not knowing anything about the properties of your original WMV files I hazard a guess that probably none of their properties are DVD compliant. The frame rate difinitely is not, frame size probably not either. In order to make a DVD out of this, MF will need to convert because the DVD standard is pretty stringent in what will play on a stand alone DVD player and what not. The results you have seen and, frankly, do not surprise me.
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elderon
Well I tested the program out with several file types and here is what I got.
WMV file created from Adobe Premier 720X 480- came out fine.
WFV file created from 320x240 from Ulead video studio 7 - works but slow frame rate.
.mov file - video works but sound stuttered
.mpg file - worked perfectly.
I'll probably have to do more testing. Or I can just spend the extra time and convert everything to mpg files first. Either way Movie Factory is a very nice to use program. I am probably going to buy it when my trial expires.
WMV file created from Adobe Premier 720X 480- came out fine.
WFV file created from 320x240 from Ulead video studio 7 - works but slow frame rate.
.mov file - video works but sound stuttered
.mpg file - worked perfectly.
I'll probably have to do more testing. Or I can just spend the extra time and convert everything to mpg files first. Either way Movie Factory is a very nice to use program. I am probably going to buy it when my trial expires.
Here are my inputs.
1. First, be sure to enable the Anti-Flicker option in th Preference.
2. Do your editing to the video clips and then Export each video clip first to create a DVD Compliant files. Then create anew project, add the DVD compliant files (do not reedit) and then create a DVD. Be sure that "Do not convert compliant MPEG files" are enabled.
3. Since DVD MF is an authoring software, if the two suggestions above do not work, try reencoding the WMV files in VideoStudio (download the trial version), then render the video as DVD compliant.
If you are happy with the result, you can now buy the software for patches and support.
Thanks.
1. First, be sure to enable the Anti-Flicker option in th Preference.
2. Do your editing to the video clips and then Export each video clip first to create a DVD Compliant files. Then create anew project, add the DVD compliant files (do not reedit) and then create a DVD. Be sure that "Do not convert compliant MPEG files" are enabled.
3. Since DVD MF is an authoring software, if the two suggestions above do not work, try reencoding the WMV files in VideoStudio (download the trial version), then render the video as DVD compliant.
If you are happy with the result, you can now buy the software for patches and support.
Thanks.