WMM removes my scratches

[zoobie]

[edit] I see now that WMM has an old, older, and oldest setting[/edit]

Too weird...

After I went through all the effort to make my movie look old, dusty, and scratched, WMM seems to have cleaned it up for the internet and now it just looks like a nice movie shot in black and white.

I saved my scratched video in 720 x 480 avi...Perhaps when WMM resized it to 320 x 240, the scratches were shrunk down, too?

Any good way to preserve the old film look in the .wmv format?

Thanks

[daamon]

I saved my scratched video in 720 x 480 avi...Perhaps when WMM resized it to 320 x 240, the scratches were shrunk down, too?

I'd imagine that the "scratches" are either still there but too small to see, or, during resizing, they became too narrow to be represented in the end product.

Based on this, to preserve them try making the original scratches wider in the 720 x 480 AVI. Just a guess, but it sounds logical to me...

[zoobie]

I think you're right. I see them faintly. I'll make them wider.

Thanks

[celtic_druid]

Default post processing for WMV9 also tends to blur a bit too much. Problem is that the only way to alter it is via the registry so anyone else who downloads will most likely have the default setting.

[zoobie]

I was able to use a combo of MSP's old film shaking and flashing with WMM's dusty old film setting and sepia for a result that's pretty clear considering I just destroyed the video...heh heh.

Thanks