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Problem making stop-motion DVD

  • 09-05-2008 7:55am
    #1
    fluppet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 232 ✭✭


    I used an SLR camera to take the stills for a stop motion animation. I then used Windows Movie Maker for Windows Vista Home Basic to make it into an animation, saving it in wmv (DVD-Quality) format. 3154kbps, 720x576. I then used Ulead DVD Movie Factory 5 to burn it to DVD (Windows Movie Maker for Vista Home Basic does not have DVD burning capabilities) at maximum bitrate. One problem is that Movie Factory doesn't open the file correctly - although in Movie Maker it is 4:3, when I open it in Movie Factory it has black strips down the sides, so the video is distorted. The next problem is that the resulting DVD isn't great quality - compression is quite obvious.

    My question: Is there any other software (preferably free) that I could use, as the combination I am currently using doesn't seem to work very well.

    Thanks.


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  • #2
    portomar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 507 ✭✭✭portomar


    fluppet wrote: »
    I used an SLR camera to take the stills for a stop motion animation. I then used Windows Movie Maker for Windows Vista Home Basic to make it into an animation, saving it in wmv (DVD-Quality) format. 3154kbps, 720x576. I then used Ulead DVD Movie Factory 5 to burn it to DVD (Windows Movie Maker for Vista Home Basic does not have DVD burning capabilities) at maximum bitrate. One problem is that Movie Factory doesn't open the file correctly - although in Movie Maker it is 4:3, when I open it in Movie Factory it has black strips down the sides, so the video is distorted. The next problem is that the resulting DVD isn't great quality - compression is quite obvious.

    My question: Is there any other software (preferably free) that I could use, as the combination I am currently using doesn't seem to work very well.

    Thanks.

    afraid i dont have experience in the software you mentioned but in my experience, adobe encore and adobe premiere work very well in combination. neither are free so you would have to pay for them or "download a trial version" so to speak. encore gives you many ways of compressing or not compressing video meaning that while not idiot proof, you will eventually get a good result with a fair degree of trial and error. could i ask the length of the media and its size in megabytes?? this might give me an idea of how much the editing programme has compressed it? if you can, try output an uncompressed AVI and let your DVD programmed do any compression. feel free to pm me about this.


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