Windows Movie Maker Video Encoding
http://live.pirillo.com/ – More and more people are uploading their videos to the Internet, but some of them just are not happy with how Windows handles video editing by default. Sandman has been using Windows Movie maker and he’s not happy with it: horrible output and it only outputs in the windows video format.
Windows Movie Maker may not actually be the problem here; it may be the level of compression you’re outputting the video as. WMM has a wizard that you click though and asks if you want to optimize for file size – you need to click no and set the video output in a format that is similar to the output of your video recording device. In other words, you want to optimize for quality.
Outside of Windows Movie Maker we don’t really have many recommendations for free movie editing software: we’ve yet to find any free video editing software on Windows worth recommendation (and no, Zwei-Stein is not a good recommendation for end users).
Do you have any recommendations?
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Formats available: MPEG4 Video (.mp4), Flash Video (.flv), MP3 Audio (.mp3), Microsoft Video (.avi)
6 Comments
Tony
July 24th, 2007
at 3:17pm
I bought Roxio easy media creator deluxe 9.1. Lots of features, but for about the same price you can get Adobe elements, which will do much the same, but is a lot more stable. Sure wish I’d found that out in time.
Tom
July 24th, 2007
at 10:42pm
Check the spelling on Windows Movie Maker.
HarryH
July 26th, 2007
at 1:15pm
WMV is the absolute worst file format for stand-alone video. It is based on MP4 and ‘optimized’ for streaming content by apparently removing key frames. The lack of key frames makes searching nearly impossible. Saves on file size, certainly, but a poor user experience. WMM uses only WMV formats, not AVI or MPG. A pox on Microsoft for forcing a poor choice on home users. I suppose you get what you paid for.
ruben espinosa
November 25th, 2007
at 4:49pm
hi, i have a question i recorded this funny video on my mobile phone and well i upload it on my comptuer and i want to edit it but window movie maker wont allow me to it says the file is a incorrect file type and i wanted to kno how can i change this cause when i upload it on youtube it tells me that the video is to long and that it cant be broadcasted
JM
April 8th, 2008
at 5:01am
I’d recommend ABC VideoRoll. It’s a freeware video editor that does a pretty nice job in non-linear video editing. The developers vanished from the face of the earth, but Googling for it should lead you to a download site. The only con is that it doesn’t support WMV. But who needs WMV support if you can import and export to MP4 directly without much fuss?
yman
October 9th, 2008
at 12:07am
I prefer Windows Movie Maker and i like that you can also save your movie back to the video tape in your camera to play back on a TV or on the camera itself. I get it from here: rosoftdownload.com/download/Windows/Windows-Movie-Maker