Windows Movie Maker woes

[Anodos]

As simple as Windows Movie Maker 2 is, I've found it quite adequate for throwing together videos of my daughter to send to her grandparents. That is, except for two problems: 1) Video from my Digital 8 Sony TRV720 is interlaced. Whenever WMM reencodes my video it deinterlaces it (I think). Since I do DV to DV editing, that means that wherever a transition or other effect occurs where WMM has to reencode the video, it suddenly switches to progressive scan - but once the transition/effect is over, the video goes back to interlace again. This causes a noticeable change in the video. 2) WMM makes my audio sound "tinny". Yes, my camera is set to 16-bit - but audio coming off the camera is at 32 kHz (or something like that). Every other video editing program does fine with it, but WMM messes it up. It's even worse if I drop a music track into the video. For some reason WMM messes that up too, especially if it's an MP3 - then, it not only sounds tinny, but it has tiny tiny stutters in the audio at a regular basis (several a second).
If WMM would keep my video interlaced and produce good sound, I'd use it all the time. As it is now, I'm probably going to plop down $99 and buy one of those cheap consumer editing programs (though I haven't found any with some of the cool titles that WMM has).

[andkiich]

I'd say make the titles in WMM and find something else to compile the project with.

[jetfan]

I use Pinnacle Studio 9 - I find that it does everything that I want it to do. I have tried WMM but found that it was too limited for me. I know that I didn't answer your question, but just giving a suggestion on a program, it does go on sale occasionally and I have seen the SE version on ebay for $16 or less, I never tried this version but I'm sure that it's limited in what it can do.