creating smooth videos

stopwow673

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Jan 20, 2015 19:39

I'm new to PowerDirector. I'm trying out the trial version and am considering buying. I have a Dell desktop computer I got new in Sept 2013. I have a Nikon digital camera that only takes videos in MOV format, 1080 resolution. It takes nice video clips that appear very smooth when played on the computer.

I've produced movies using these clips into various formats including MP4, AVI, MP2, MOV, and WMV all with the same 1080 resolution. The WMV and MOV files look great and play very smoothly on the computer. The other files (MP4,AVI,MPEG2) aren't very smooth on the computer screen, perhaps acceptable, but enough to be annoying. Why do only the WMV and MOV files play very smoothly on the computer screen?

I can play the MP4 files on the Roku 3 to the HDTV using a flash drive and they appear very smooth. I haven't tried to make a DVD yet to see how that plays on the DVD player hooked up to the HDTV. Any suggestions?

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Jan 20, 2015 20:41

What are you using on your PC when the "jittery" video is observed ? Win 10, i7

stopwow673

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Jan 20, 2015 20:50

The application is Windows Media Player. The operating system is Windows 8.1.

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Jan 20, 2015 20:59

Can you explain what you mean by "smooth" ? PD renders very good videos in all the formats you mention. I edit with nearly all of them and especially using MOV files. What are the "properties" of the MOV clips when using PD13 ? Win 10, i7

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Jan 21, 2015 06:33

Quote: I'm new to PowerDirector. I'm trying out the trial version and am considering buying. I have a Dell desktop computer I got new in Sept 2013. I have a Nikon digital camera that only takes videos in MOV format, 1080 resolution. It takes nice video clips that appear very smooth when played on the computer.

I've produced movies using these clips into various formats including MP4, AVI, MP2, MOV, and WMV all with the same 1080 resolution. The WMV and MOV files look great and play very smoothly on the computer. The other files (MP4,AVI,MPEG2) aren't very smooth on the computer screen, perhaps acceptable, but enough to be annoying. Why do only the WMV and MOV files play very smoothly on the computer screen?

I can play the MP4 files on the Roku 3 to the HDTV using a flash drive and they appear very smooth. I haven't tried to make a DVD yet to see how that plays on the DVD player hooked up to the HDTV. Any suggestions?

I think it may be that your video MOV is progressively (P) and you are rendering mode for Interlaced (i) it can take a tremulão the image mainly on the PC because the LCD monitor and progressive mode, the TV is but common mode Interlaced many TV's recent works in two modes (p) and (i) as my Sony.
If you create a DVD-Video will be a great loss of quality mainly by reducing the image resolution 1080 is reduced to 480 (NTSC) or 576 (PAL)
Note: PD only makes DVD interlaced mode. AMD-FX 8350 / 8GB DDR3
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AMD Radeon R9 270 / AOC M2470SWD
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stopwow673

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Jan 21, 2015 11:44

Thanks for the replies all. I'll investigate.

Interestingly, when I upload the videos to Youtube and play them back they appear very smooth.