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Paul B
As you all know, I like to dabble in video making. Well, if you have seen a Bauer-Power episode or two you would. Or perhaps you have dropped by my random video site. Anyhoo, long story short, I like videos!
For Christmas (Actually, a little after Christmas) my wife let me buy an el cheapo HD video camera. It was pretty cool, and would shoot videos in 1280x720 resolution in .mov format. The problem I had though, was that I like to edit all my movies in Windows Movie Maker. I just feel that for a free video editor, it can do quite a bit. So what’s the problem? Well, my computer at home was running Windows XP, and the Movie Maker that is installed on Windows XP doesn’t handle HD format. Windows Vista Ultimate does, but not Windows XP Professional.
Well I happened upon a couple of plugin’s that will allow you to output your Movie Maker files in HD WMV format!
I have packaged them all up in a convenient ZIP Package here:
(WMM HD DOWNLOAD)The resolutions available in the package are:
- 1280x720
- 1440x1080
- 1920x1080
- 960x720
C:\program files\Movie Maker\shared\profilesNow don’t get too excited. There are some requirements to use these resolutions.
- Windows Movie Maker 2 for Windows XP
- High End GPU
- Windows Media 9 or Later
- 1GB of RAM or more
Please note that if your camera doesn’t shoot in HD, you can still output in the higher resolutions, however it will not magically make your video “High Definition.” Crappy quality video in will produce crappy video out.
Now that you found out about this, I am sure all of you will start editing your HD movies in Movie Maker now right? Of course you will!
I’m curious to know what software you normally use to edit your HD videos if it isn’t Movie Maker. Let me hear your favorites in the comments!
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