I am just starting to get into recording home movies for my family. I have a mini DV camcorder and have got the basics down. I have been using windows movie maker to import the movies onto my computer. This seems to be killing the quality of the films. Whats do yall suggest for someone who is just starting off. I am not looking for heavy editing, just some clipping here and there. I am mainly interested in keeping the quality as high as possible without crazy file sizes. Thanks for the help

11/6/2007 12:35:48 AM

11/6/2007 12:49:33 AM

Awesome show, that was the first thing that I thought of with this post ... and yea I watched every episode back in the start-up days of Adult Swim. AS was so much better back then.

^^You need to adjust the output quality of the movies you create... when you save them, make sure you choose a setting for "Local" playback or some such. WMM isn't the best, but it'll get the job done decently with the right settings.

11/6/2007 12:58:19 AM

you are the person for whom imovie was created

11/6/2007 1:00:23 AM

11/6/2007 8:49:40 AM

^^I dont own a mac and have no plans to get one now, anything as good as imovie for windows?

^^^I believe I have all the setting right which is set to local playback at 2.1Mbytes per second I believe(off the top of my head without looking at it). Its kind of weird, the distortion that appears on the video blinks in and out. It will be fine for a second then slowly get more blurry over like 3 seconds then blink right back to crystal clear and then repeat these throughout the film. I have a athlon 3200+, Im thinking it might be due to this because it is constantly at 100% cpu usage while im encoding. Let me know if anyone has dealt with his before or has any suggestions.

11/6/2007 2:48:11 PM