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Postby headphone_child » Fri Aug 11, 2006 1:43 pm

Alright, so the final video looks blocky in some places. It's fine when I'm viewing it in the timeline; it's not a problem of source footage. Also, it's always getting blocks in the same places, and it's not the typical problem with faster scenes messing up. Rather it happens in between select clips, and it looks unnatural because the blocks seem to be appearing in the latter clip from the former clip:

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I've tried saving the video under the DV-AVI profile as well as the uncompressed WMV file, both to no avail. I tried disabling some (and eventually all) codecs for Movie Maker, still without success. I've run out of ideas, and so I'm here. I'd appreciate if I could get some ideas on what the problem may be as opposed to getting a link with walls of text, as I've already consulted with the guides on this site. Thanks.
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Postby headphone_child » Fri Aug 11, 2006 3:33 pm

And a quick update (because there's no edit button!?), that the blocky stuff is now showing up in the timeline. Great. I switched up the scenes just to see what it'd do and I've narrowed it down to the former clip and not the latter that's causing trouble. So I tried trimming the end off and it appears to work (which really sucks, because the timing is thrown off). So I guess I pretty much solved my own problem, but still, it'd be nice if I got some help on fixing it without the need to trim and re-time everything; I'll be keeping a back up project in case I get any suggestions here.
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Postby Willen » Fri Aug 11, 2006 4:12 pm

It might be a codec issue that you have. To fix it may be complicated and may break other clips.

What codec is the footage encoded with?
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Postby headphone_child » Fri Aug 11, 2006 4:45 pm

Well before it was an *.mp4 file but I converted it to *.avi MP4Cam2AVI_v2.27. Looking at the file's properties, it seems to be DivX. Would it be worth a try to convert that?

This problem is quite annoying in that the blocks are displayed in the final that aren't in the timeline, and even vice versa, just to add to my confusion. Thanks for the help.
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Postby headphone_child » Fri Aug 11, 2006 4:46 pm

headphone_child wrote: an *.mp4 file but I converted it to *.avi with MP4Cam2AVI_v2.27. Looking at
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Postby shiro_clanclan » Fri Aug 11, 2006 5:29 pm

It sounds like your decoder's feeding bad data to Movie Maker. Namely DivX.

Just for my amusement (AKA I'm not sure if it'll work...), uninstall DivX (and XviD if you have it). Then install the newest XviD binary...

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

...and when it asks, check the box marked "Decode all Known FourCCs."

Now try to export from Movie Maker.
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Postby BasharOfTheAges » Fri Aug 11, 2006 5:30 pm

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Postby shiro_clanclan » Fri Aug 11, 2006 5:42 pm

Movie Maker tends to handle DivX/XviD editing a lot better than most other programs... as long as the decoder is working properly.

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Postby headphone_child » Fri Aug 11, 2006 7:11 pm

BasharOfTheAges wrote:http://www.amvwiki.org/index.php/Divx_Editing

It still applies.


Intriguing info. I tried converting that file to an uncompressed avi (that turned out to be a staggering 30 GB file...) but it seems that it still didn't do the trick.

What strikes me as odd is that I had two episodes that I planned on using (both were mp4 as previously stated) that I converted to avi. Now in Movie Maker, I've only worked with one of the episodes so far, and that's the one that seems to be having problems; the other played just fine.

shiro_clanclan wrote:It sounds like your decoder's feeding bad data to Movie Maker. Namely DivX.

Just for my amusement (AKA I'm not sure if it'll work...), uninstall DivX (and XviD if you have it). Then install the newest XviD binary...

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

...and when it asks, check the box marked "Decode all Known FourCCs."

Now try to export from Movie Maker.


...I'm speechless (why didn't I try this first?). Thank you!
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