I created a big project: my daughter's class play. I had 40 minutes of play video, video of the kids in the lobby getting congratulated, some photos I turned into a slideshow to use credits, lots of clips of the kids being interviewed about their play, and clips of bloopers.
For the lobby video and some of the bloopers, I pulled things off material another parent made for me using his video camera and computer. He gave me 2 formats; data file on a CD and a DVD. The CD data file was .wmv format. I didn't want to save those huge .wmv files on my hard drive, so I did multitrim and saved the resulting clips. There were no options to select when doing this (that I could find). I did not notice anything relevent in the Preferences section either.
My captured clips play clearly and were rendered very crisply (the stuff from my Sony D8 camera). I made .AVIs, type 1.
The saved clips from his material, which were made as .wmf as well, is incredibly pixelly, looks like 80X60 or something like that; it goes back and forth between detailed and blocky; backgrounds with little detail are the worst. The original files don't look that way on the computer when I play them, or on the TV (DVD) but the rendered and saved clips were pixelly as heck when played on the computer (in the timeline). And the final DVD I made last night also had those scenes very pixelly.
I have to redo the DVD now, as some parents asked me to not include their kids in the bloopers. So I want to address the pixelly clips. Do I pull off the DVD and multitrim instead? (I pulled off the CD .wmf data file because it was easier) Are there settings I need for this, and if so, where are they? My project settings don't seem to address how to render a saved clip (or if they do, I can't find them).
I'm using VS9, with a P4 system, 256M, Windows 2000. I used the default setting for NTSC, 4:3 aspect ratio, lower field first, most everything else was default. I did set playback to best when producing the final copy.
Despite the advice for new users, I did successfully render and burn in one step even though it was more than 4.0 GB of material (but it took about 8 hours).
Many thanks for any advice on this topic.
Saving trimmed clips in VS9 - looks blocky/large pixels
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AnimeChick
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madhaus
Resolution
Project properties:
NTSC drop frame (29.97 fps)
Microsoft AVI files
24 Bits, 720 x 480, 4:3, 29.97 fps
Lower Field First
DV Video Encoder -- type 1
DV Audio -- NTSC, 48.000 kHz, 16 Bit, Stereo
Resolution shouldn't matter; the source video looks like my captured video, the saved trimmed clips look like crap both in preview mode and once rendered. Everything else looks great.
I clicked on one of the trimmed clips and called up properties:
data rate 2030 kbps
video: Windows Media Video 9
24 bits, 720 x 480, 29.970 frames per second
audio: Windows Media Audio 9
44100 Hz, 16 bit, stereo,
aspect ratio: 1.5 : 1.0
The audio sounds fine after rendering.
Properties on the source wmv files are identical to the trimmed clips' properties.
NTSC drop frame (29.97 fps)
Microsoft AVI files
24 Bits, 720 x 480, 4:3, 29.97 fps
Lower Field First
DV Video Encoder -- type 1
DV Audio -- NTSC, 48.000 kHz, 16 Bit, Stereo
Resolution shouldn't matter; the source video looks like my captured video, the saved trimmed clips look like crap both in preview mode and once rendered. Everything else looks great.
I clicked on one of the trimmed clips and called up properties:
data rate 2030 kbps
video: Windows Media Video 9
24 bits, 720 x 480, 29.970 frames per second
audio: Windows Media Audio 9
44100 Hz, 16 bit, stereo,
aspect ratio: 1.5 : 1.0
The audio sounds fine after rendering.
Properties on the source wmv files are identical to the trimmed clips' properties.