Nasty WMV - unburnable?

[Indigo Girl]

Hello,
I have been trying to make a "music video" by capturing video clips from my VCR, and putting them together with a song in Windows MovieMaker. Everything went very well, using the ATI card to capture, and compress etc, and then edit in Movie Maker. I even saved the movie as .avi instead of the default .WMV because Nero won't accept WMV.
But when I tried to burn it, Nero said that there was an error- "no fixation"
What does this mean? Please help me! I have searched the forums for an answer, and I would love to save my video on a CD, but I am all out of ideas. Can anyone help a confused newbie please?

[Greg12]

Microsoft does not allow decoding of WMV. Basically, you have two choices

There r some guides for converting WMV, they may work

You can start over.

WMV is a properitary format and they don't want u decoding it, because it's suposed to be Secure Digital media.

[kitty]

http://www.vcdhelp.com/toasf/index.htm

[Indigo Girl]

Thanks for the help folks. I know that WMV is "uneditable" as per Microsofts wish, but Windows Movie Maker is the only editing software that I have. I tried the link on this site for MovieXone and one other free editor, but without success. Any ideas for other free editing software?
Thanks again from a Spielberg wannabe.

[KingJohn]

Use "Vdub ASF"

http://www.digital-digest.com/dvd/downloads/virtualdub.html

Or the old Vdub 1.3C, TMPGEnc will also open WMV/ASF files

Make sure you have the hacked codec, install the Nimo codec pack

http://nimo.everwicked.com/ http://perso.wanadoo.fr/nimo/

[Indigo Girl]

Thanks for the replies everyone.
I decided to just give up on Windows Movie Maker altogether and not even bother with WMV files... they are waaaay too much hassle. Thanks again. Cheers

[Spicuzza]

Indigo Girl:
You can save yourself many hours of frustration by just buying "real" video editing software. Personally, I'm quite fond of Ulead's VideoStudio 6.0. I read these forums in total amazement at the absolute backflips some people do to accomplish the simplist of tasks. Also, you can just about read any forum page and the same two software products come up time and time again with the same problems over and over again.

If you would like to capture, edit, encode and burn without ever leaving the program try VideoStudio @ www.ulead.com

[Indigo Girl]

You are right about that. But I guess doing digital backflips is the price we have to pay using 5 or 6 different freeware programs, instead of buying one commercial "all-in-one" program. I have researched the Video Studio package you mentioned, and I was quite impressed by it. However , being financially limited right now, I will have to continue the virtual gymnastics for my video-editing hobby.
Cheers.

[KingJohn]

Indigo Girl:
You can save yourself many hours of frustration by just buying "real" video editing software. Personally, I'm quite fond of Ulead's VideoStudio 6.0. I read these forums in total amazement at the absolute backflips some people do to accomplish the simplist of tasks. Also, you can just about read any forum page and the same two software products come up time and time again with the same problems over and over again.

If you would like to capture, edit, encode and burn without ever leaving the program try VideoStudio @ www.ulead.com

I wonder why that is, do you think that perhaps the program is of no use at all on lower powered machines ?

Great so you like Video Studio, but many don't !, many prefer to use "Simple" tools to do a simple job, most of the time there are NO problems converting, editing, or making VCD's DVD's with just one program "TMPGEnc" its only when things go wrong that people want "Simple" programs to cure the problem.

Recommending Video Studio to fix a simple problem is absurd

[KingJohn]

You are right about that. But I guess doing digital backflips is the price we have to pay using 5 or 6 different freeware programs, instead of buying one commercial "all-in-one" program. I have researched the Video Studio package you mentioned, and I was quite impressed by it. However , being financially limited right now, I will have to continue the virtual gymnastics for my video-editing hobby.
Cheers.

I guess your right in some ways, when people first start into this hobby, they don’t want to go buying lots of programs that may or may not be suitable. When there are plenty of free programs to try out and get good results, it makes the hobby even more existing.. As you have not spent a penny/cent

Also half the fun of this hobby is fixing problems, how boring would it be if you downloaded a movie and put it straight on a disk to play on a DVD player... No fun it that at all.

Stick with what everyone uses until you know exactly what you want. Most of those "Other" programs are available as trial-wear, "Try before you buy" but don’t fill up your computer with them all, try them one at a time.

I think in the end for simplicity of use, you wont beat the fun we have with Virtual Dub and TMPGEnc

[Spicuzza]

KingJohn,
You're correct.
Recommending professionally written software that works is absurd.

I'm sure all of these recent posters are just having a blast with their hobby spending hours fixing simple problems.

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"half the fun of this hobby is fixing problems"

Well, KingJohn, what can I say.....have fun!

[devinemi83]

Just encode the WMV to MPEG. TMPGEnc always did it for me.

[Indigo Girl]

Well, different strokes for different folks, as they say. As long as everybody can find a method or program that they are happy with, that's all that matters in this VCD world.

And as for my original problem, it is all fixed- finally! I ended up doing exactly that devinemi83! Thank you to everyone. Cheers

[KingJohn]

I'm sure all of these recent posters are just having a blast with their hobby spending hours fixing simple problems.

VirtualDub Error - improper VBR audio?
This is not a problem with Vdub at all, who said it was. It is an enhancement that warns the user that a variable bit rate was used, without this warning, any modification to the AVI would cause lip sync.


Audio out of sync using ATI and TMpgenc
Never hear of this at all, there are many people using ATI capture cards with no problems at all. If they produce bad mpeg's what do you expect..

WinXP problem with VDub...?
No WinXp is the problem, you trying to tell me that all the other software works just fine ?

Please help, asap - No sound w/Virtual Dub
Again you seam to think this is a problem with Vdub, in fact all programs would have the same problem if the codec is missing.

TMPGEnc "cannot open, or unsupported" my MPEG2 fil
If using the Free 30 day trial, and no Mpeg 2 codec's are installed, then you may have this problem, but you can hardly blame TMPGEnc for luck of supporting files.

Vdub won't open my avi (maybe divx) file
Again you blame Vdub, when it is obvious from that comment that the AVI is faulty, NO program will handle corrupt files or files without codec support/

TMPGEnc. is pissing me off
This remark is usually followed up with "OK I fixed it now I forgot to...."

I wont continue because the rest of your post is just plain rubbish..

It is obvious from your comments you don’t have a clue what you are talking about, pasting other people problems with Vdub and TMPGEnc, how about posting the thousands of people who use these programs everyday with "NO" problems at all ?

Looks like Indigo Girl used TMPGEnc in the end and had no problems..