How to Produce a Bigger WMV file?

MrGrey1

Newbie Location: British Columbia, Canada. Joined: Jan 21, 2012 01:34 Messages: 3 Offline

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Oct 30, 2015 01:41

The short WMV files are produced quick and well. Yet, my friends say, they are a bit blurry even on the small display windows. Can I export WMV say in slightly bigger size for better showing on other computers? Say 630x360/30p or similar? Is there a CUSTOM setting for WMV files in Power Dir 14? What settings would you recommend? - still keeping the small size sendable over the Internet.

Thanks MrGrey1 "Fish Now! Rest when you"die!

JL_JL

Senior Contributor Location: Arizona, USA Joined: Oct 01, 2006 20:01 Messages: 6091 Offline

Oct 30, 2015 07:16

I'd check if any of the other PD presets work for you first.

Jeff


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Anonymous

Oct 30, 2015 08:02

Hello, MrGrey1!

Quite frankly I wonder why you'd even bother with WMV(Windows Media Video). Even at the best of times, WMV is blurry and indistinct. MPEG2 at DVD SP grade is far better. If you want to go higher grade again, there's MPEG2 at DVD HQ, except what little extra image quality you gain, is at the expense of capacity on a standard 4.7 Gb single-layer(DVD5) disc. At DVD HQ, you can get a shade over one hour but at DVD SP you can fit close to 2 hours 25 minutes on a disc. Other video file types offer greater quality again but require Blu-Ray discs to carry such a degree of quality(AVCHD, for instance). Not many people have Blu-Ray, as yet(some cite the expense of the discs and the hardware to burn them as a reason why they don't have Blu-Ray). Most computers come with DVD-RW drives as the standard for their desktop or laptop models.

Cheers!

Neil.

MrGrey1

Newbie Location: British Columbia, Canada. Joined: Jan 21, 2012 01:34 Messages: 3 Offline

Oct 30, 2015 12:52

Thank you Neil, I will try the MPEG2 at DVD SP option.
I was just wondering if there was a better choice for the "WMV Net Mailers" without making the files bigger than 10mb. I like to send short clips to my friends... Will do some MPEG2 tests now...

Otherwise I like my "Big Movies on DVD's" in H.264 format.
Thanks for your help.

MrGrey1 "Fish Now! Rest when you"die!

Anonymous

Oct 30, 2015 23:33

Hi, MrGrey1

Glad to be of some help. There are varying grades of MPEG2 file you can try, it just takes a bit of experimentation to find which grade is suitable for your purpose. I'm assuming that you send your clips via E-mail or facebook, I know there's a file size limit with E-mails but I've studiously avoided using facebook, but nonetheless I'd expect a file size limit applies there also.

Cheers!

Neil.