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Postby 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?

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Postby 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.
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Postby 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
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Postby 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. ^-^;
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Postby Willen » Tue Jul 04, 2006 7:58 pm

Or, don't use Xvid/Divx in any editing program, make clips with Huffyuv instead. :wink:
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Postby 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.
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Postby 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 ^___^
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Postby 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.
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Postby BasharOfTheAges » Tue Jul 04, 2006 9:15 pm

That should be "eventually"
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Postby 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. ^-^
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Postby wolferetic » Wed Jul 05, 2006 4:59 pm

Hello to all, they are new of the forum, I call myself wolferetic it appeal to to know to you! ^ ^

I ask you excuse for my English bad (are Italian)! :oops:

I have a large problem with Windows Movie Maker, I can ask aid you (is this the topic of Movie Maker, just)? I have ended in these days a AMV, when I have it I wanted to save in Medium the Windows format Video, me is blocked saying that not there is sufficient virtual memory (I find it strange inasmuch as my hung AMV 67,5 MB and I have to disposition 28,00 GB). The only format in which me the DV saves that is enormous (904 MB ^ ^ ')! Someone can say to me like never fà therefore? Is before the time that Movie Maker gives this kind to me of problem! :?

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Postby wolferetic » Mon Jul 10, 2006 7:28 am

Hello, they are of new I! ^ ^

Someone can help me for the problem with my AMV? I have put a lot in order to make this AMV us that me sand bank not to be able it not to save on cd (seen the elevated one formed of 904 MB! ^ ^ ')

Thanks many, by wolfertic! :D
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Postby Melanchthon » Mon Jul 10, 2006 7:38 am

@wolferetic

Saving in DV is fine, as you can compress that to any codec you like. XviD is a good place to start (a guide to encoding in XviD is here).

.wmv has a bad reputation around here because of the quality of the average .wmv encode (this is the editor's fault and not the program's), and there are people who can't or won't play .wmv files.
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Postby Jayn_Newell » Mon Jul 10, 2006 9:12 am

Wolferetic--

Sounds likes part of your problem is just that you don't have enough RAM. I noticed you mentioned running low on virtual memory, which is when you run out of actual RAM and your computer starts using part of your harddrive as RAM storage (BTW, this has NOTHING to do with how much disk space is open). One way to fix the problem would be to just increase the size of your virtual memory, but you don't really want to be using virtual memory anyways since it's slower than actual RAM.

In short, you should probably be looking into adding another stick of RAM to your computer, in addition to Mel's advice. It'll help your computer run a bit faster.

(I'm kinda curious what kind of a machine you're using. My old laptop never had memory issues saving to .wmv, it just took forever)
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Postby shiro_clanclan » Mon Jul 10, 2006 7:27 pm

Okay, my turn to ask a question...

Everybody suggests saving as DV, since it always works. But I've noticed that on my computers, saving as DV doesn't work properly. The sound and video are both messed up, usually where effects (like speed mods) are concerned. I tested this theory by encoding a DV, then replacing its glitchy audio with the exact same audio file used in WMM... and voila, it desynched. Thus, both the audio and video are messed up.

So does anyone have an effective way of encoding as DV? I'd love to be able to work on a whole video at once and save it as a huge file (no worries about HD space here), but I'd need that file to be... well, what I created.

Side Note:

I was working on re-making a prototype AMV a few days ago. Originally I had a few clips for the intro, then a huge clip with the rest of the scenes for the end. It encoded fine. This time around I made clips for every scene change, put in all the clips exactly where they were before, then synched up the intro as I had done before. But this time, I got the "timeline too complex" encoder error.

I ran into this error first on Elfen Lied... I thought it was just because I used so many effects. After all, my videos that were DDR-length (Ippo, BISHF) never had encoding problems. But now, I think that simply having a full-length song causes WMM to fail encoding.

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HP Pavillion s7320n Slimline
Windows XP Media Center Edition, SP2
1GB RAM
200 GB HD (Virtual Memory on auto)
1.6 GHz Celeron
Intel Integrated 82915G/GV/910GL 128 MB Graphics

So I'm kinda surprised that I'm hitting a complexity barrier so quickly...
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