Q&A: Picture quality drops in Windows Movie Maker?
Question by Lars Jonsson: Picture quality drops in Windows Movie Maker?
I have been looking through a few guide lines, tips and tricks to get but I’m unable to get anything to work.
Basically what I’m trying to do is to make a short movie in WMM, and having a picture as a “static background” or whatever I should call it.
No matter the picture quality, the resolution, the size. Pictures totally unrelated and different from each other, however the exact same results.
Whenever I’m addind a picture to the timeframe the quality just completely, tremendously, drops. The picture quality in ‘Collections’ are totally fine though.
I have tried exporting in all kinds of various formats such as High quality video large/small, Video for local playback (2,1 Mbps NTSC), NTSC, Video for LAN/Broadband/ISDN/Pocket PC among others.
So, I’m hearing alot of people talking about “Maybe the picture isn’t suited for video”. Then which picture is? Becouse I’ve tried so many different pictures just to get a new end result, without any different at all.
So don’t tell me to choose another picture, because thats been done already.
I have been using pictures with completely different image resolutions, without any difference.
All from extremely high-res to very low-res.
Next, please. ^^
I just recently tried with a high-res picture taken with my Canon 400D EOS, looks amazing untill you add it in the timeline. Then the quality just drops again.
So, again. Choosing another picture doesn’t work – I have tried that too many times now.
I have tried different of file formats, without any difference what so ever.
I’ve tried JPG, BMP, TGA, PXR, PNG, PSB. All with the EXACT same results. It doesn’t even change one little pixel.
Best answer:
Answer by Nam XP
The problem is maybe in the size of your image. If the image size is small (e.g. 200×200), its quality will become poor when being resized to fit the screen by program.
Just try to use the image with better resolution ( for example, 768×1024)
Or use a graphic program to change the file type of the image (to .jpg or .gif) before adding it to the collection.
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