Vive La France Posted November 12, 2008 Share Posted November 12, 2008 Hey folks... I have a quick Q and A for ya'll. So, here it is. I'm making a video on Windows Movie Maker, and it always works for me, except this time, every time I export it, the colors are inversed and it looks like crap. Anyone know what I can do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slamman Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 Check the settings for capture, all I can think of to start with. I am using Movie Maker the other evening to capture MiniDV video on a Pentium II Dell, running a Slotkit Celeron at 500Mhz. 128MB of RAM and an ATI All in Wonder card with Rage Pro GPU. It's dated 1998 so I don't have all the drivers, but Windows ME has some of the needed drivers already. My first tape was encoded to digital (high quality setting, but it failed to capture audio via the ATI card, however, stereo audio input on my soundcard didn't fail me. I changed tapes and ran a recording for 45 minutes, at which time I hit STOP and tried to save it. Said the format didn't match, or one of two errors. Nothing was saved. This seemed to repeat itself with this one tape. VERY ODD! Then I decided to try capture with a newer ATI All in Wonder dated 2000, which does have the right drivers downloaded. I wanted to get the TV tuner in use to test them as well, but basic drivers don't cover it's use. Anyway, the MiniDV's actual Digital Video Firewire output is non functional so these captures are in analog with a three output cable. Composite video being used. The one thing I have found is that the analog video looks rather good, of course, set for the quality video setting. What OS are you using? That would point to what Movie Maker you have, it's integrated into each Windows and changed with each release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otter Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 ...doesn't sound like a capture issue to me. It plays back fine when you watch it in the project?My first hunch would be whether you have any weird video codecs installed that are either screwing with the export, or simply with plackback. What export settings are you using? The second hunch is that you're working with copyrighted material - if you haven't removed the copy protection, it'll render out inverse colors, pixelation, and other gobbeldy gook.So - what is the footage you're working with (format, frame rate, compressor) and what are your export settings? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slamman Posted November 13, 2008 Share Posted November 13, 2008 Macrovision is used in digital and analog copies, but digital video can have more protection in place, that's a good idea to verify. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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