George
I came onto the discussion group to find a solution to the same problem. I
have just updated my laptop. My previous laptop was also running Vista and
MovieMaker worked fine. That laptop used an ATI Radeon card. I have had to
upgrade simply becvause my old laptop "died" on me.
My new laptop - a Dell Inspiron 1520 running Vista Home Premium with 2Gb RAM
and all drivers up-to-date - has got a nVidia GeForce 8600M GT card. The
screen is running at 1440x900. The clips run "choppy" - though not always -
and they seem to run better when you preview a single clip than when you run
a sequence via the storyboard/timeline. Like you, however, the transitions
are the main problem and as you move through a transition you get it cutting
back and forth between the two clips and the transition with the sound doing
the same.
I too wondered if it was the codec. Or is it the driver - though not sure
why that would affect the sound too unless it is a combination of the codec
with the driver.
I thought if I shared it might help.
Anyone out there got similar problems or ideas for a solution?
"kermit965" wrote:
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> Adam,
>
> Thank you very much for looking into this.
>
> The transitions don't work no matter what duration I select - default,
> longer or shorter.
>
> To further compound the problem I discovered the transitions work well when
> using the sample videos from Vista, or between the Vista samples and my clips
> but never between my clips. BTW, my clips are DV-AVI captured from Canon
> Optura XI. As I mentioned before, if I transfer the very same clips to
> another machine which runs XP the transitions work fine.
>
> One thing that I noticed is that the XP Media Player reports correctly the
> clip properties : video size 720x480, aspect ratio 4:3. Vista Media Player
> however, reports video size 640x480, aspect ratio unknown. It makes me think
> the DV Video Decoder in Vista is not quite OK.
>
> Any further ideas are more than welcome.
>
> Thanks,
> George
>
> BTW: I have the most recent drivers for everything and the most recent
> updates on both machines.
>