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Postby shiro_clanclan » Fri Jul 28, 2006 7:35 pm

By the way--that information is available from the Control Panel.

If you use the classic display mode (like I do), it's Control Panel-->System

If you use the other one, it's Control Panel-->Performance-->System

The first page will tell you your CPU, the speed of the CPU, and how much RAM you have.

As for the graphics card, go to the hardware tab, click Device Manager. Press the "+" next to Display Adapters. This will tell you the name of your Graphics Card. From the name I can probably guess how much memory it has.
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Postby Cagari » Sat Jul 29, 2006 1:50 pm

I'm sorry that I've been bugging you with a bunch of questions, but my video is finished now! Please, check it out! ^.^
Thank you so much for your help.
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Postby shiro_clanclan » Sat Jul 29, 2006 8:03 pm

No problem. ^-^; Hope it's been of some use.

Congratulations!
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Postby ngsilver » Wed Aug 02, 2006 1:07 am

Willen wrote:WMM likes to do weird things sometimes. Especially when 2x slow and 2x fast are involved. You might want to try exporting the video in parts and then recombining the segments with VDub/Mod.

I've run into these weird things when trying to re-encode wmv entries for my contests (its the reason I stopped accepting them)... for some reason WMM will actually make the exported wmv file with variable frame rates, rather then one steady frame rate, which wreaks havoc when trying to sync audio/video outside of WMM. Not too sure why it does this, but it does...

One of the questions I get quite often is how to export from WMM as an AVI in DV. Having one place to look to for this answer would be nice. (I can't figure it out, I lack an OS capable of running WMM)
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Postby BasharOfTheAges » Wed Aug 02, 2006 1:13 am

ngsilver wrote:I've run into these weird things when trying to re-encode wmv entries for my contests (its the reason I stopped accepting them)... for some reason WMM will actually make the exported wmv file with variable frame rates, rather then one steady frame rate, which wreaks havoc when trying to sync audio/video outside of WMM. Not too sure why it does this, but it does...


Hold on. so you're saying the output of a piece of Microsoft software is inconvenient to work with and somewhat proprietary in nature? :shock:
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Postby shiro_clanclan » Wed Aug 02, 2006 1:17 am

-_-;; Epic fail.

In other news, WMM's DV-AVI encoder tends to be... kinda... shit.

VBR in WMVs though? I see that when people use the "High Quality Video (Large)" option. If people create their own profile, though (like the one I have, which saves in true 29.97 or 23.976, CBR 20MBPS), they can avoid the VBR issue altogether.

Or just open the WMV in VirtualDub with an AVS script.
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Postby Jnzk » Wed Aug 02, 2006 1:18 am

ngsilver wrote:One of the questions I get quite often is how to export from WMM as an AVI in DV. Having one place to look to for this answer would be nice. (I can't figure it out, I lack an OS capable of running WMM)

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/ ... xport.html
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Postby Nirvash Spec2 » Wed Aug 09, 2006 7:06 pm

Any one no how to transfer an wkv file format to avi or anything close to that so windows movie maker can read it and save the file.
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Postby Purge » Wed Aug 09, 2006 11:01 pm

Nirvash Spec2 wrote:Any one no how to transfer an wkv file format to avi or anything close to that so windows movie maker can read it and save the file.


what the hell is a wkv file - do you mean mkv?
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Postby Nirvash Spec2 » Thu Aug 10, 2006 2:55 am

oops ya thats what i meant mkv any clue what i should do with it
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Postby shiro_clanclan » Thu Aug 10, 2006 10:12 am

Open it in VirtualDubMod, disable all streams (audio, subs, etc.), then set the program to DirectStreamCopy and create AVI clips from it.

Or alternatively, open in VirtualDubMod with DirectShowSource (drop-down menu in bottom-left of the Open File dialog), disable all streams (there might not even be any listed), then save your clips as HuffYUV-encoded AVIs. Either way works, but the latter method works for more MKV files, and also will have zero chance of causing the "one-frame error" in Windows Movie Maker.
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Postby Nirvash Spec2 » Thu Aug 10, 2006 2:49 pm

ya thanks i hate to ask but could you break that down a little more when it come to doing this i am a complete noob sorry.
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Postby shiro_clanclan » Thu Aug 10, 2006 9:39 pm

I should write a guide. Or an addendum to the guide. Something.

Okay, here we go. I'll teach you the second method because it's more fool-proof once you get it down.

First, fetch yourself some important programs if you don't already have them.

CCCP: http://cccp-project.net
VirtualDubMod: http://virtualdubmod.sourceforge.net
AVIsynth: http://avisynth.org
HuffYUV: http://neuron2.net/www.math.berkeley.ed ... -2.1.1.zip

(NOTES: When AVIsynth asks, tell it to assosciate AVS files with Notepad. To install HuffYUV, extract the ZIP file, then right-click the INF file and click the "Install" option. Once it's installed you can delete the ZIP file and the stuff you extracted from it)

That's the basic stuff you'll need to do what I'm about to detail. So I'm going to assume you now have all that stuff ready to go. So let's jump in!

First, open up VirtualDubMod. Now go to File-->Open. There'll be a drop-down menu in the bottom-left which says "[None]". Change it to "DirectShowSource." Now open your MKV.

Voila! If all is well, you have an MKV file open. To get clips from it ready to send over to Movie Maker, you'll need to do a few things. First, go to Streams-->Stream List. Now double-click anything in the list so it gets dashed out. This turns off the audio and subs, which you don't want anyway. Click OK until you're back on the main window.

Now, learn some keys. The "Home" key on your keyboard will set a marker on whatever frame is displayed. The "End" key will set an end marker on whatever frame is displayed. So seek to the beginning of a scene you want and hit the "Home" key. Now find the frame after the scene you want and hit the "End" key. Congrats! You selected a clip.

Next, go to Video-->Compression. From the list, highlight HuffYUV and then hit OK. Now, go to File-->Save As. Make sure that the filetype is set to "AVI," then name the clip whatever you think fits and save.

There you go, now you have an AVI file that Movie Maker can read.

If you have any more questions, feel free to ask.
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Postby JRBond1 » Fri Aug 11, 2006 8:33 am

Every time I put the 7th clip in wmm it just closes.
And I have no idea what is wrong.
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Postby Gepetto » Fri Aug 11, 2006 8:37 am

JRBond1 wrote:Every time I put the 7th clip in wmm it just closes.
And I have no idea what is wrong.


What format and codec is the clip in?

shiro_clanclan wrote:Or just open the WMV in VirtualDub with an AVS script.


I tried that for the sake of testing and I got a message saying that VDM can't open WMV with AAC audio due to copyright issues.
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