Windows Movie Maker: How to save in DivX format?

[Steiner]

I just finished to edit a home video in Windows Movie Maker 2 and want to save it in DivX format and then store it in a CD (intended PC playback, not TV). Is it possible?
The best setting I can choose from the movie settings is "High quality video (large)" which produces a 400MB WMV file, but I want to take advantage of the entire CD space by improving the video bitrate. In addition to this, the source video was recorded from a camcorder, so I need a "Basic Video Deinterlace" toggle like the one found in the DivX codec.
Got any idea?

Thanks.

[setarip]

Go to:

http://www.vcdhelp.com/forum/userguides/98704.php

[Steiner]

That article explains how to convert WMV to DivX but what I need to do is to save my Windows Movie Maker project in DivX format right away without the WMV intermediary. If I save it first in WMV format I get a 400MB file, so quality is lost, I want to save it in DivX instead and be able to choose the exact bitrate that will fit the entire CD (700MB).

Thanks anyway.

[techno]

no way at all to do this!

since DIVX was hacked from MS, MS don't do DIVX, hence WMV formats

check out my website...

and remember - as said in my new capture guide

"NEVER EVER CAPTURE USING COMPRESSION!"

cause u lose ALOT ALOT ALOT ALOT and ALOT of quality..read more on my site..

Techno

[setarip]

"what I need to do is to save my Windows Movie Maker project in DivX format right away without the WMV intermediary"

Then don't use Windows Movie Maker, because it will not permit you to avail yourself to any codecs other than WMV. Instead, use VirtualDub's free, built-in capture software. Capture video using a lossless codec (e.g. HuffyUV) and audio as Uncompressed PCM (.WAV). The result will be a very large file containing excellent quality (though interlaced) video and perfectly synchronized audio.

You can then load this file into Virtual Dub and apply:

A) The DivX video codec
B) An .MP3 audio codec (I assume you have one installed)
C) A deinterlace filter
D) Save with a new filename

If all goes well, you can then have the pleasure of deleting the very large original file!

Let us know of your success ;>}

[Steiner]

"Then don't use Windows Movie Maker, because it will not permit you to avail yourself to any codecs other than WMV."

Yeah, that's what I imagined, and as Techno pointed out there is no way MS will allow this.

"Instead, use VirtualDub's free, built-in capture software. Capture video using a lossless codec (e.g. HuffyUV) and audio as Uncompressed PCM (.WAV). The result will be a very large file containing excellent quality (though interlaced) video and perfectly synchronized audio."

Actually that's exactly what I did!
I used a cheap bt848 capture card connected to a analog VHS-C camcorder. I was able to capture at 640*480 resolution with full audio and no dropped frames by using the HuffyUV codec and PCM sound. That resolution might seem overkill but it actually looks better than 320*200. Very important also, was the fact that I set the video format to YUY2 instead of RGB, it looked better that way and reduced the CPU usage.

"Let us know of your success ;>}"

Well, I finally decided to leave it as a WMV file, didn't like the idea of having to start all over again. Anyway, the quality is quite good, I can see some interlace lines but not as much as in the original files, seems like the compression reduces them a bit.

[setarip]

"Well, I finally decided to leave it as a WMV file, didn't like the idea of having to start all over again."

Whatever floats your boat ;>}

(Hopefully the information provided to you will prove useful to you in the future...)

[techno]

check out my new capturing guide on my website, everyone has their own methods, this one is mine, check it out and see what you think but of course, experimenting is the key folks!

I hope you are capturing using the NO recompression method since it will produce higher quality, and also, capturing at a "high" res will certainly lose some frames in the process of capturing, any how, see what u think

Techno