from movie maker to media player..

tinfoilphoenix · Post by **tinfoilphoenix** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 4:28 pm

Ok, I'm pretty much finished the first AMV i'v ever made. Took me about 2 days total to get it how i wanted it. I finished it, and its now saved as an .WMV file. On movie maker, it looks good, musics good and everything. But when I play it on windows media player, theres a very large and noticble difference in sound and video when I play it on media player. Any suggestions on how I can make the quality better..... or if its even possible?

HoshiNoKaze · Post by **HoshiNoKaze** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 4:37 pm

Probably the best way of doing so is to use virtual dub to compress your final video. This will require exporting it from WMM at an uncompressed or as close to uncompressed format as possible (I dunno, never used WMM myself) and then using virtual dub to compress an xvid (or other codec of your choosing) file. (x264 is also a good codec, but can be interesting to compress with)

For simplicity I'd say go with xvid, and look in the guides for xvid 2-pass render. (or you can google this)

virtual dub and virtualdubmod are available on sourceforge methinks. See what you can do with that, then let us know how it goes :)

Kariudo · Post by **Kariudo** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 4:41 pm

do you mean that your audio and video aren't synced when you play it in WMP? or that the quality is really bad?

if you answer yes to question 1:
you didn't edit with interlaced footage and then de-interlace did you?
(check here if you don't know what interlacing is)

if you answer yes to question 2:
you probably tried to get a small file as output...which almost always means poor quality (codec dependant, but small .wmv files aren't really good looking) the audio quality might take a dive if you edited with mp3 audio (as opposed to .wav audio)

I think you should Read <a href=http://www.a-m-v.org/guides/avtech31/>ErMaC & AbsoluteDestiny's Friendly AMV Guides</a> at any rate. It'l help you out, but you need to read the whole thing

you may also find Scintilla's WMM2 guide and DownWithPants's Getting to know WMM2 to be helpful

tinfoilphoenix · Post by **tinfoilphoenix** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 4:46 pm

ohh thanks for that lengthy and helpful instruction

ill let you know if it works (btw is virtual dub free?)

Moonie · Post by **Moonie** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 4:50 pm

tinfoilphoenix wrote: (btw is virtual dub free?)

yep ^_^
http://www.virtualdub.org/

tinfoilphoenix · Post by **tinfoilphoenix** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 4:56 pm

hmmm. says win 32 is not a valid application? (scratches head)

Moonie · Post by **Moonie** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 4:58 pm

Are you downloading this version?

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/virt ... p?download

tinfoilphoenix · Post by **tinfoilphoenix** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 5:01 pm

I think so, ill use this link and try again

tinfoilphoenix · Post by **tinfoilphoenix** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 5:02 pm

ohh thanks, this one worked lol

guy07 · Post by **guy07** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 6:32 pm

Dolts, if he doesn't have Vdub then he doesn't have AMVAPP, google AMVAPP, DL the first link that comes up. Read guides, and ur home free, it's alot of work, but in the end it will be for the better.