Rendering clip for ditial picture frame mov, avi or mpeg1

maxfrost01 · Post by **maxfrost01** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 7:45 pm

I took some movie clips on my Lumix 'stills' camera and transferred them to my hard drive. They appear as .mov files and the quality is good when I play them back on my computer. I've copied some of these files onto the memory card that fits into the back of my Kodak digital picture frame and they play well there too.

I've edited some of the clips in VS and now want to get this edited footage onto the Kodak digital frame. The box proudly tells me that the frame will play mov, avi, mpeg1 and mpeg4. And I know that's at least partly true as I can play the unedited mov files without any problem.

But here is a problem. How do I get the edited mov files into one of the formats accepted by the digital frame and retain decent quality? I've managed to convert to mpeg1 and to mpeg4 and they both play but there is a lot of quality loss and the clip just doesn't look as good as when it started out as individual mov files.

Any answers?

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 8:17 pm

And did you try rendering to mov or avi?

maxfrost01 · Post by **maxfrost01** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 8:33 pm

No. For the simple reason that I don't know how to do that in VS

So if you can just point me to the right settings from the part where I go to Share/Create Video File/ .................... then what?

Black Lab · Post by **Black Lab** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 8:39 pm

Go to Share>Create Video File and go to Custom (bottom of the list). There you will find many customizable file formats, including mov and avi.

If the mov files from your camera work I would try to match those properties.

maxfrost01 · Post by **maxfrost01** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 9:04 pm

Jeff,

That's where I've been looking (Custom/Options) but I can't see any tabs or drop-downs that give me AVI or MOV options.

Can you give me a steer?

maxfrost01 · Post by **maxfrost01** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 9:13 pm

Hold on - just found it!
The options are before 'Options' (if you see what I mean). Let me give it a go now...............
Will get back to you.

maxfrost01 · Post by **maxfrost01** » Wed Feb 11, 2009 11:02 pm

Jeff,

I can now burn the AVI and MOV files which answers my problem.

Now I just have to figure out why one of the MOV files won't play on the digital frame but will on the computer!!

Thanks for your help.