Messages posted by Warren

Quote: Hi Warren,

I always use:

File format:

.WMV

Profile type:

Windows Media Video 9 HD High Quality

and get excellent and high quality results every time on YouTube.

The only issue I get is whether the HD or the HQ option is available. I notice that it depends on how I shot it. For example, if I shot it at night or in low lighting, the HD option is not available.

David

Hi David,

Well, I tried your suggestion and, lo and behold the image looks A LOT better!!! Many thanks!

But . . .

The file took a very long time to encode and to upload, and worse, it takes a long time to load onto a user's computer--long enough to discourage people from watching, I fear.

Worse . . .

The SOUND has taken a hit. The piece is just spoken word, nothing complicated, but the Youtube file has a definite warbling or garbling in the audio. Not altogether unintelligible, but distinctly inferior. And that did NOT happen under the other file formats I've tried.

Any further suggestions???

THANKS AGAIN!

--Warren

Hi,
I have successfully uploaded two video files to youtube. Here's the problem: post-upload the first one looks OK, the second looks TERRIBLE. Both of them looked decent pre-upload.\

The first clip was posted in MP4. Fine.

I've uploaded the second clip four times--in MP4, in MP4 after reprocessing to increase sharpness, in MPEG2, and in MPEG2 after reprocessing for increased sharpness. The MPEG2 clips came out slightly better looking, but both of the original, non-sharpness-boosted clips were so blurry that they were painful to watch, while both of the increased sharpness clips were FAR more distorted, almost indecipherable.

Of course, youtube's video compression causes loss of image quality, but the second clip was damaged MUCH more than the first. Questions are why, and what, if anything, can I do about it?

Perhaps the difference in quality is because the second video was shot outdoors in front of a screen of trees and leaves getting blown in the breeze, so there's much more motion than in the first clip, which consisted of one individual indoors, standing on a stage.

Any thoughts???

Thanks!

Thanks!

Hi,
Is there a way to copy and paste repeated copies of very short portions of a clip? I'm editing a video of a lecture, and there's one point, that lasts about 20 seconds, where the video image and the audio are confusingly different (don't ask). I'd like to replace the confusing visual by copying and pasting in something from elsewhere in the project. Is that possible? And if it is, how would I do this WITHOUT changing the audio?
Thanks!

Hi,

Well, the clip that's supposed to receive the transition in the last few seconds is about 2:41. The next clip is also just over 2 1/2 minutes.

Ok. Makes sense.

I'm having the opposite problem, though. This particular transition is WAY longer than I want it to be, yet the preferences selection is still at 2 seconds (jus checked).

??????????

Hi,

Almost done with my latest project, but now I'm finding that the length of a transition at the end of one scene is stuck. I can't lengthen or shorten it, and the length is WAY off from what I want. The transition icon is NOT locked. What gives???

Thanks!

Hi,

Thanks. No, I do not have the original file. The cameraperson sent me the DVD, and posted the file as a streaming video. I can't get any of the several copies I now have to load into PD7. The files I now have are avi (pretty sure), wmv, and whatever Real Player uses.

I should add that all the files (the DVD, the DVD I copied to my harddrive via Fair Use, the RealPlayer capture of streaming feed, and Zamzar's conversion of that capture to WMV format) play fine on RealPlayer, Windows Media Player, and VLC, so it doesn't seem to be corrupted.

Hi,

Newbie here.

I've been trying to load into PowerDirector 7 a file of a spoken-word performance of mine. I have it on DVD and it's on the web in a streaming form. I've been unable to load the DVD into PowerDirector; I've been unable to import the streaming file after I saved it with RealPlayer. I sent that downloaded file to Zamzar and converted it to wmv, but that won't import either.

All I get is an "error" message from Power Director, which tells me nothing useful.

There is no copy protection, as far as I know. In fact, the website that the file streams from lets you embed it anywhere.

But I want to edit out an excerpt and post that to my website (the whole thing is over an hour long--I just want to load a snippet).

Any thoughts????? It's driving me nuts not to be able to access MY OWN WORK!!!