Windows Movie Maker

kakashii1987 · Post by **kakashii1987** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 3:56 pm

Umm... When I put the clips into the storyboard/timeline, the clips don't play as well as they should. On the transition between one scene to another, the video becomes "pixelized" (maybe it's not the right word, but it's the best way I can describe it). It's weird because when I play the clips from the "Collections", they all work fine. Anyone know how I can fix this?

Thank you in advance!

And example of the "pixelized" frame:
http://phoenix-ashes.net/amv/pixelized.jpg

Cornwiggle · Post by **Cornwiggle** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 4:23 pm

It happened to me once. It was because of the DivX codec. When I played clips they were fine, but once I played them in the timeline they got all fuzzy and stuff. But once I deleted it, it worked.

Try looking if something appears on the active icons part on the info bar at the bottom when you move clips. If something does, delete that. That's what happened with me though.

shiro_clanclan · Post by **shiro_clanclan** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 6:52 pm

Try this:

Delete any DivX and XviD you may have. Then install the latest XviD binary. When it gives you the option to "Decode all supported FourCCs," select that.

I've found XviD's decoder to be a lot better than DivX's in Windows Movie Maker.

XviD Binary: http://koepi.org/XviD-1.1.0-30122005.exe

shiro_clanclan · Post by **shiro_clanclan** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 6:53 pm

Note: By "Delete" I mean "uninstall," like with the Add/Remove Programs in your Control Panel. Deleting manually leaves icky registry entries. ^-^;

Willen · Post by **Willen** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 7:58 pm

Or, don't use Xvid/Divx in any editing program, make clips with Huffyuv instead.

shiro_clanclan · Post by **shiro_clanclan** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 8:33 pm

That too, but you know, there are people out there who'd rather output clips from VDub with Direct Stream Copy using originally XviD/DivX source and don't feel like encoding them to Huff because... like... they're already XviD anyway...

Shh... don't say it. You all know what sort of source I mean. ^_~

But then you've got grumpy programs which don't like XviD... but WMM seems to handle it pretty well as long as you don't have conflicting decoders.

kakashii1987 · Post by **kakashii1987** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 8:38 pm

Removing DivX codec and installing XviD did the job. Thank you all for your help! I really appreciate it ^___^

BasharOfTheAges · Post by **BasharOfTheAges** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 9:14 pm

shiro_clanclan wrote: But then you've got grumpy programs which don't like XviD... but WMM seems to handle it pretty well as long as you don't have conflicting decoders.

It sometimes works in Premiere too... that doesn't mean you should do it though. Evebtually it'll corrupt your project file due to some conflict or another.

BasharOfTheAges · Post by **BasharOfTheAges** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 9:15 pm

That should be "eventually"

shiro_clanclan · Post by **shiro_clanclan** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 10:29 pm

kakashii1987 wrote:Removing DivX codec and installing XviD did the job. Thank you all for your help! I really appreciate it ^___^

No problem. Glad to help a fellow WMM user. ^-^