How I produce my videos with Windows Vista

re: How I produce my videos with Windows Vista

Sid Gardner — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 01:20:58 GMT

I used to download video from my Canon DV ZR60 using a Firewire IEEE 1394 to Dell PC running Windows XP. I upgraded to Compac Presario SR 5410F running Vista Home Premium and cannot install Firewire PCI card. I have 3PCI Express slot available(2 X1 & 1X16). Is there an Express card that has a Firewire connection?

re: How I produce my videos with Windows Vista

Pj zamora — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:30:18 GMT

I am new to Vista and the Window Movie Maker. I also have XP on another laptop. I started a movie using Vista and saved it on a thumb drive to use on the laptop with XP. XP was unable to open the file started on Vista. Is there a compatibility problem and shouldn't the two systems be backwards compatible. What can I do to make them work on both systems?

re: How I produce my videos with Windows Vista

Rach — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 01:37:30 GMT

I have a jvc gr-dx67 camcorder that came with image mixer 1.7 software that i used with xp but now have vista. the software is not compatible. if i get a firewire cable can i connect the camcorder to the pc and work direct with windows vista movie maker because so far via usb 2.0 movie maker is not finding camcorder.

vista is finding camera when connected and downloading an updated driver but it appears that the lack of a compatible image mixer software is the problem.

many thanks if anyone has advice. rach

re: How I produce my videos with Windows Vista

daffy — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 19:02:30 GMT

Hi,

Does anyone know about how to import or convert a video to retain it's original format?

I found that Windows Movie Maker automatically expand the video from 320x200 to a larger format like 800x600 which makes the video look very blocky. I want the video to remain small but surrounded by black space. At least the quality of the video will still look good.

What's your recommendation?

The same problem applies to importing photos. I found that if my image size is 200x100 Windows Movie Maker will expand to some size like 800x600 and then the image quality is blocky and horrible. I had to use Photoshop or similar graphics tool to open a 800x600 frame and then paste in the 200x100 image and then save the file. This way Windows Movie Maker thinks that the small image is a large image.

David

re: How I produce my videos with Windows Vista

adrian — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 17:03:28 GMT

I don't have any problems with recording screen with Windows Media Encoder. One obvious tip is to just have enough extra RAM to pull it off.

re: How I produce my videos with Windows Vista

Brandon LeBlanc — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 09:11:00 GMT

plaudati, can you hook your Sony DVD camcorder to the PC using USB and import video that way into Windows Movie Maker?

adir1, when you say you're not getting any picture - is there a colored screen? Let me know. You may need to update your graphics card driver to enable the picture in Windows Movie Maker. Try seeing if an update is available on Windows Update and if not, go to your graphics card manufacturer and see if there are updated drivers.

- Brandon

re: How I produce my videos with Windows Vista

adir1 — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 05:30:58 GMT

I recently purchased Canon HV10 high definition camcorder. Using Windows Vista Premium, I am able to import the video from Camcorder to Vista's Movie Maker, but there is no picture (only sound). Any ideas? Is the codec that Canon uses not supported?

re: How I produce my videos with Windows Vista

plaudati — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:51:24 GMT

I recently attempted to make some videos mixing Camtasia with video from my Sony DVD camcorder. I was dissapointed to learn that WMM does not allow you to import DVD video. So, out of the box, I can't edit video from my camcorder. I ended up downloading some 3rd party shareware to convert my DVD video to one of the WMM supported formats, but this shrunk my 16:9 video into a 4:3 format. Ugh. Not a great experience.

Any tips on how to edit DVD video in Vista?

-Peter

re: How I produce my videos with Windows Vista

carusen — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:56:19 GMT

Another similar tutorial + PingBack:

http://www.vista4beginners.com/connect-video-camera-and-import-movie

re: How I produce my videos with Windows Vista

Spencer — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 17:21:19 GMT

I am also a big user of Camtasia Studio, it's how I record videos for DeskScapes.

I was never a big user of Windows Movie Maker until Vista. I found other solutions simply overkill for what I was trying to do.

re: How I produce my videos with Windows Vista

stephensaw — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 09:35:33 GMT

When I try to save my edited movie in Movie Maker, it stop responding. it will never save (not saving project, but the movie file).

re: How I produce my videos with Windows Vista

Albert — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 08:52:29 GMT

Brandon, I'll see. Windows Update and HP have two different graphics drivers that "compete" against each other. If I download one, the other source will say they have the latest. In the end, I don't know which one I left. Which should I go with?

re: How I produce my videos with Windows Vista

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re: How I produce my videos with Windows Vista

Brandon LeBlanc — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 05:25:45 GMT

Alber1690, you might to make sure you have the latest graphics drivers from either the hardware manufacturer or Windows Update. This might help clear up some of the issues you're having with Windows Movie Maker.

- Brandon

re: How I produce my videos with Windows Vista

Albert — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 01:17:23 GMT

Well, personally I've had various problems with Vista's Windows Movie Maker. So many that I had to download XP's version for Windows Vista. The same with Windows DVD Maker, as soon as I enter the menu selection, the application crashes and I'm never able to go past that. I hope SP1 fixes these issues because I was really excited about both programs and so far I've only been dissapointed.