Great explanation...it was an interesting read. I liked the charts showing
size and speed. Off topic, but, I have to thank you for those high def
emulations. I'm still amazed at what happened... I wasn't happy with a
video I made of stills and some video clips when rendered in any of the
normal formats. But when I used the 960 x 720, (from something Wojo said in
a post the light came on!) the view on computer and saved as image file on
CD, for others, was great. Sonic at highest quality settings made a better
dvd this time than Movie Factory, and it blew me away when I projected it.
I'm not very technical but I know what good results look like! ha ha
I experiment all the time, but I really do admire and appreciate your rather
vast knowledge and dedication to the subject of making movies. Thanks

"PapaJohn (MVP)" wrote:

> If an AVI file doesn't work as a source file in Movie Maker, you often need
> to convert it to another AVI file that does work.... that's often a
> confusing point... what codec works?
>
> I recently did another wave of tests to check which of the compression
> codecs made AVI source files that go into the collection, to the timeline,
> and render OK to a Movie Maker movie...
>
> There are 14 compression choices that work on my laptop.... some render
> much faster than others... some result in much higher file sizes, but they
> all work.
>
> I added a couple charts to the Importing Source Files > Video > AVI page of
> my website to show you the list, and how they differ in rendering speed and
> file size...
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> PapaJohn
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