On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:10:28 -0400, "PapaJohn"
<papajohn@chartermi.net> wrote:
>I use the DV-AVI format to maintain whatever quality is there... not improve
>it. But yes, you need to hard drive space for them.
>
>You're only other choice with Movie Maker is the WMV file type, which is
>compressed. The highest quality choice in Vista is the 3 Mbps one when
>heading to DVD. That's better than the maximum of 2.1 of MM2.1 in XP, but
>still only about 1/2 of the bitrate of a high quality DVD MPEG2 file.
>
>When I don't use the DV-AVI choice, I use a custom profile to keep the WMV
>files up at the 6 to 8 Mbps bitrate level. See my website's Save Movies >
>Custom WMV Profiles page.
Wow, that's interesting! You can't output to MPEG-2 in DVD Maker when
that's the default source file type for making DVD's? Why is Microsoft
so anal to force you to use WMV? I agree that 3 Mbps in WMV will give
reasonably good quality, but why not support the standard?
Damn Microsoft looks dumber every day through these eyes.
Let me guess, DVD Maker probably doesn't support two pass encoding
either. Well, I guess Microsoft doesn't take video editing or DVD
creation seriously which is why they just include toy applications.