Matching Camtasia WMV file

IdleChatter29

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May 05, 2011 10:50

I have a demo recorded by a media group using TechSmith's Camtasia. I edited this video to remove some bloopers, and need to recreate the shorter clip in the same WMV format. There doesn't seem to be a default profile in PowerDirector 8 that matches the properties of my original video file. When I tried to use the WMV 9 HD HQ profile, the file was significantly larger, but the video quality had degraded. When I tried to create my own profile, the video quality was even worse. btw... I am not using shadow files, as I thought that might be the problem. Removing them made no difference in the final output quality.

Does someone have a WMV profile that matches the properties listed below (1024x768 ), that I could try using to get the same smaller file size, yet better video quality that I see in the original Camtasia produced WMV file?

Below is the output that MediaInfo produced after analyzing the original Camtasia WMV file.

General
Complete name : C:\MyDemoVideos\MyDay2Demo.wmv
Format : Windows Media
File size : 49.3 MiB
Duration : 54mn 57s
Overall bit rate mode : Variable
Overall bit rate : 125 Kbps
Maximum Overall bit rate : 577 Kbps
Movie name : MyDay2Demo
Encoded date : UTC 2011-04-08 17:59:04.781

Video
ID : 2
Format : VC-1
Format profile : MP@HL
Codec ID : WMV3
Codec ID/Info : Windows Media Video 9
Codec ID/Hint : WMV3
Description of the codec : Windows Media Video 9
Duration : 54mn 57s
Bit rate mode : Variable
Bit rate : 64.7 Kbps
Width : 1 024 pixels
Height : 768 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 4:3
Frame rate : 15.000 fps
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.005
Stream size : 25.4 MiB (52%)
Language : English (US)

Audio
ID : 1
Format : WMA
Format version : Version 2
Codec ID : 161
Codec ID/Info : Windows Media Audio
Description of the codec : Windows Media Audio 9.2 - 48 kbps, 44 kHz, mono (A/V) 1-pass CBR
Duration : 54mn 57s
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 48.0 Kbps
Channel(s) : 1 channel
Sampling rate : 44.1 KHz
Bit depth : 16 bits
Stream size : 18.9 MiB (38%)
Language : English (US)

This message was edited 1 time. Last update was at May 05. 2011 10:51

Carl312

Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline

May 05, 2011 11:27

You can create custom wmv profiles.
Microsoft has a wmv profile editor.

Watch the tutorial on creating wmv profiles.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw2RlzIt9EM Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.

IdleChatter29

Newbie Joined: Aug 16, 2009 18:59 Messages: 5 Offline

May 05, 2011 11:30

I created my own profile, as I noted in my original post. Apparently, it was not quite right, since I am still getting a significant degradation of the video quality while still ending up with a larger much WMV file. That's why I was hoping someone with more experience in creating profiles might have already created one that would fit the bill.

Carl312

Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline

May 05, 2011 14:56

That's why I was hoping someone with more experience in creating profiles might have already created one that would fit the bill.

Perhaps they did.

I downloaded these from the forum some time ago, I don't remember who created them, may have been Dafydd.

Extract them and put them in this folder.
C:\Program Files\CyberLink\PowerDirector\Language\Enu\Profiles

Filename	FullHD_Profiles.zip	Download
Description	HD wmv profiles for PD8 and maybe PD9
Filesize	16 Kbytes
Downloaded:	361 time(s)

This message was edited 3 times. Last update was at May 05. 2011 15:05

Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.

Carl312

Senior Contributor Location: Texas, USA Joined: Mar 16, 2010 20:11 Messages: 9090 Offline

May 05, 2011 15:09

Check out this subject.

http://forum.cyberlink.com/forum/posts/list/16033.page#78625 Carl312: Windows 10 64-bit 8 GB RAM,AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz,ATI Radeon HD 5770 1GB,240GB SSD,two 1TB HDs.