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[FRAGAL]

I've just finished a movie, but i'm trying to sharpen the picture a bit will a divx codec help? if so how can i apply the codec? it's just come out of WMM so still in .wmv also need to transfer to mpeg any suggestions?
cheers guys
Fragal

[Gnavpot_]

Hi Fragal
The weak point in wmm2 is you can only export the movie in .wmv and that format is not possible to load in virtualdub whitch you normally use to compress, sharpen, more or less color etc etc so the .wmv file is the endproduct. But you can proces all your footage/captures in virtualdub before using them in wmm2 and do some experiments there, how it will influence your endproduct.
BTW I have heard or read somewhere about a program that makes it possible to convert .wmv to .avi but I don't know the name - sorry.
Regards Gnavpot

[FRAGAL]

ok thx i've heard about the converter as well but can't remember the name, that might be my best bet get converted to an AVI then chuck it through vitualdub, just got to find a converter
cheers

[FRAGAL]

hellp pls some1 put me out of my misery, trying to encode my film in virtualdub, but the output looks terrible, trying to encode with divx 5.2, but no matter wat i do i either get a totally black screen or a really bad looking grainy horrible pic

[MaxMhz]

Nero will convert from wmv (what is vmv?) to avi

Codecs for Nero:
http://neroplugins.cd-rw.org/
You could load it into (allmost) any other video editor and convert to MPG, then load that into Virtual Dub
here are some links to other programs that can do it also:
http://www.winavi.com/video-converter.htm
http://www.mpgdvd.com/avone_gold/
http://www.boilsoft.com/asfconverter/
http://www.eo-video.com/
http://www.aimonesoft.com/

[deepo_HP]

hi all,

it's not so much the question how to get an avi from a wmv-file...
avi and wmv are containers for the a/v-streams, so (in order to keep the video-stream untouched), a desired concersion would just change the data-layout in the container (like headers, etc)! this is possible for example for converting avi to matroska (a new container with low overhead and capable of multiple streams, in development)

any editor, which acquired a license from microsoft for wmv, can decompress and recompress the video to pack it in another container. but that way the quality of already compressed video suffers a lot!
one should always have in mind, that all (!) mpeg4-like compressions are aiming for final outputs (best size/quality-ratio, resulting in huge loss in information thru motion-vectoring).
that's one reason, why most professional editors won't handle these codecs (they do in most cases, but no official support).
anyway, video-compression should always be the last step before publishing and only done once.

imo, there is no converter and will not be for changing wmv to avi.
for recompressing from wmv to avi, the free version of 'tmpgenc' (should be 2.5 or so) is excellent (even if it can't keep the picture quality from decreasing)