Windows XP Movie Maker?

[poshanchang]

Dear All,

Anybody uses Windows XP Movie Maker to make good video captured from DV?

I have been trying it with various formats, but still can not get any acceptable video.

Any pointers or suggestions?

Thanks so much.

Po-Shan.

[rsuave5]

i use it to capture all the time using the dv-avi template 720 x 480 and they are perfect . have you updated to moviemaker 2.0 check it out at microsoft.com

[poshanchang]

Thanks a lot for your prompt reponse.

Do you capture the video to AVI?

Do you create VCD? If yes, how can I get the correct size of AVI from MovieMaker?

Thanks again.

Po-Shan.

[Smd]

Ya, I do DV-AVI also and they come out good.

[mpb]

i use it to capture all the time using the dv-avi template 720 x 480 and they are perfect . have you updated to moviemaker 2.0 check it out at microsoft.com

Definitely. For simple jobs and taking DV-AVI from firewire, it's very good. For anything else, especially (@&#$ WMV crap, I don't like it. But you have to get MM2 - the original MM isn't nearly as good.

poshanchang: Save as a DV-AVI out of Movie Maker 2, and then use TMPGenc to encode to mpeg. MM2 doesn't do any MPEG1/2 encoding.

[energy80s]

Does MovieMaker 2 work under Windows 2000? I know it won't work under Win98 but since 2000 and XP share similar kernals, I would have thought that a lot of software would be interchangable between the two operating systems.

[LSchafroth]

I tried to use it with my Pinnacle PCTV and it errors out saying something else must be using the card.

I just use IuVCR to capture now.

Lannie

[gcutler]

Does MovieMaker 2 work under Windows 2000? I know it won't work under Win98 but since 2000 and XP share similar kernals, I would have thought that a lot of software would be interchangable between the two operating systems.

I've tried, can't get it installed on 2000. It would probably work if the software could get installed.