Below is my long over due reply to Dan, a Realtor in Florida who is having some trouble with using his new video camera’s MPEG-4 files with Windows Movie Maker and encoding a quality .FLV file for post. Plus I recommend a completely free online flash video player that is easy to setup and has the ability to add your logo, pre-roll ads and more. It may be perfect for your web videos too!
Hi Wayne!
Here’s my problem: I’m using Windows XP and Windows Movie Maker. The camera produces MPEG-4 files and WMM won’t accept them. So I have to convert them (with anyvideoconverter) first to XVID files which WMM will accept. I do all my editing and add music then WMM produces a WMV output file.
I’ve tried converting the WMV to FLV with limited success….the output isn’t the quality I desire and that might be my fault because I don’t even know what to set the output parameters (fps, etc) to so I just leave them at the defaults. The output isn’t clean and smooth like the input.
So my problem is all the file conversions and the resulting file looking like crap! You mentioned something about Sony Vegas? Is that my answer? And if so, does it come with a Player or what player would you recommend I use? I would need to paste the code for the player on each individual web page and then just point at the new video file each time.
Regards,
Dan, REALTOR
My reply is after the jump…
