AVI that looks terrible in Autoplay

[David Delaney]

I had a project I was working on a while ago had an AVI DV NTSC in it - the video looked great, but when I brought it into AMS 5 and previewed it, it look like there is some compression or something on it (almost like WMV). The video looked great before, but through AMS5 is unuseable in its present state. Also, the video looks great full screen - but I cannot get this to work either. Any help is appreciated.

[Ted Sullivan]

I'd be willing to bet with about 99% assurity, that the video has been resized. Try adding the video to your project again as a new object and it should grab the correct dimensions. Failing that, if for some reason it is not parsing the size correctly, then just set the object dimensions manually so it matches your video height and width.

[David Delaney]

I wish it were that simple. I have resized it in all directions, big and small and it still look like crap. Even the small preview screen makes it look bad. It looks really like some compression is being used for some reasion - when you resize a video, it gets fuzzy, this is not fuzzy it is like WMV compression and some of the text is unreadable as such. And you are right, it does not pick the right size for it - is it 720 X 480 and it brings it in quite small to start with. But resizing it does not do the trick.

[Adam]

David Delaney,

Did you try both the Video object and the Media Player plugin? Also check to make sure that the video is not being stretched or skewed in any way. It could just be resizing the video to an awkward state.

Adam Kapilik

[David Delaney]

I tried to. I brought in the video object (AVI), then I went to the insert plugin object, media player, went to advanced and said 'getfile', typed in the name of the file - but when I previewed, nothing showed up in the media player screen - I couldn't press play, stop, pause or anything (I am probably doing something wrong with the plugin).

[David Delaney]

I cannot figure out the mediaplayer plugin, so I am just going with the .mov quicktime way of Open.file on this one. Not great and not the way I want too, but what are you going to do...