Took me forever to get here, about a half an hour just to find a forum I could post in, very frustrating.
I was loving this software until the rendering stage. I shoot with a HD Canon, have to switch the MOV into AVI format and edit it in the software.
Then when rendering, I choose the WMV format for youtube uploads. Chose one of the HD options (avoiding the "FULL" one, because I was concerned it would change the aspect ratio) and no matter what I do, about four different renderings now, the aspect ratio gets messed up every time...squashes the screen, making everything taller and skinnier than it should be.
Please help. I need resolution to this else I'll have to return the software.
All I want is SO easy: to record with my camera, and convert it into the highest quality I can manage, considering all the format changing that is going on. The Windows Movie Maker does this for me just fine, it just lacks all the bells and whistles of this software.
Anyone can answer by just telling me the proper settings in the rendering stage. I always save it to my desktop.
Tried the mpeg-4 by the way (I believe that's what it's called) and I then couldn't even open it, and on top of that, the file was gargantuan. I want to avoid that. WMV is fine for my final format.
Thanks so much. Be interesting to see if I can ever find my way back here once answers are posted, but I do have email prompts that will hopefully help me. I found another forum, but found no way to post to it...frustrating!!!