A little Help Please

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redtailkarn

Hi,
I'm new to all this. I don't want to be the next Steven Spielberg, but I would like to make reasonable home made films, for myself and friends to watch, wether it's videos of family, wildlife or just out and about.

The biggest problem i have at the moment, and it's really bugging me is:
I use a Gopro hd hero, Panasonic full hd hand held video camera, and a Canon camera that also allows to to take hd video clips.

When i put them on my computer the clips are nice to watch, the quality is clear and detailed (for what I have used). I believe they're stored as MP4 and MPEG-TS.

however when i try to make a movie and edit them together using windows movie maker, I loss a lot of the quality and detail :(

I did buy Adobe premiere elements 8, but this didn't seem to help and it was storing a lot of imformation on my laptop and was goobling up space so took it off :grumpy:
 
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What exactly is your question?

The newest windows movie maker has a 1080p export option as far as I know (though its hardly an editing program IMO).

Premiere, even the elements version shouldn't be losing quality when you attempt to export. Also the reason it takes up much space is whenever you playback and preview it creates a temporary copy of the rendered file on the computer (at least Premiere Pro does that...)
 
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HI,
when i finished editing the movie I went into the drop down list and selected publish movie,
I tried the HD finish, This was awful on completion it had lost colour was running slow, not real time and was very pixley horrid,
I did then try to burn one as a dvd disc, it created an wmv film then burt the disc, it was ok but still lost (I feel) some of the quality and seemed to jump instead of flow,
I did all of this on windows movie marker.
some of the original films are in Gb (size) but once movie marker has done it's thing they're Mb.
Is it worth putting Elments back on, and if so how do i get rid of the temperary files it creates as these were taking up a massive amount of space on my laptop.
or is there a good editor i could use thats not expensive, as i said I only want to create movies for myself and friends
 
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I'm just guessing -- sounds like maybe your computer is not up to the task. Even if your hardware is up to task, it could be a problem as simple as perhaps you're overloading your hard drive. It kinda irks me that computer retailers never tell people that they should never let their hard drive reach over 50% storage capacity. If your hard drive is nearly full, you'll notice all sorts of tomfoolery.

Keep your hard drive clean. Get more RAM. Maybe that'll help? Dunno, just tossing out my gut reactions.
 
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AMD or Intel chip?
Right-click your "Computer" icon, then select "Properties."

Also, 4gb of RAM is a bit small.
Consider doubling that.

You should be able to edit anything shot at 720p rez relatively well, as long as it's not one big monster string of clips you're tryign to edit a feature out of.
1080 rez will probably choke it up pretty good no matter the length.

You shooting at 50fps, too?
 
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The preview screen in editing software is usually just a low res version of the footage for faster playback.

The problem could be due to mixed media in you project media.

The more identical the media, the better the results.

Also, what you selected as your output format and res may not be supported in what you play it back with.
 
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I would guess the camera shots at 720p, the Gopro is set a 720p 60fps, the camcorder 1080.

thanks for the help,
I think i need to get my head around what I'm doing.
It just frustrates me that when i watch the raw footage, it is of good quality (I'm Happy)
When compare it to the edited finish project, where all i see that i've done is chopped bits out and stitched it together and the result is pixelated and choppy. Even once i've finalised it
 
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redtailkarn said:
It just frustrates me that when i watch the raw footage, it is of good quality (I'm Happy)
When compare it to the edited finish project, where all i see that i've done is chopped bits out and stitched it together and the result is pixelated and choppy. Even once i've finalised it
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Dude, rendering is not so simple as it appears. It's not about choose an option and there you go. Probably what's happening is that you are exporting with a very low bitrate - which is very expectable from windows movie maker default render templates, since it's a software to amateur users.

Try to find a way to customize this exporting template. You will find anything like a bitrate control, so increase this number in order to get better files (but larger ones too).

There are a lot of complex issues related to render files. Field order, codecs, resolution, compression options, bitrate, internal performance modes, etc. But in your case I believe the point is the bitrate.
 
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