Also the video will be interlaced, so it will show both the odd and even
lines in a still capture. On movment this can be seen as blurring, so
hopefully your photo editor will have a de-interlace facility.


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Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.com


"John Inzer" <oobie@doobie.xyz> wrote in message
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> marni wrote:
>> I am downloading mini dv tapes into avi format so I don't lose the
>> quality of the video. I am trying to take still pictures from the
>> videos and some images are blurry. When I play these videos, Movie
>> Maker only shows them at 15 frames per second on the preview screen.
>> When I look at the properties for the files it says it is 29 frames
>> per second. Is there any way to view the videos at 29 frames per
>> second?
> ================================
> Maybe the following info previously posted
> by PapaJohn will be useful:
>
> Movie Maker 2 shows you every-other-frame
> when doing project editing. MM1 and Movie
> Maker in Vista show you each frame.
>
> It's usually not a problem when skipping over
> the in-between frames, but sometimes you
> notice a flickering frame in a clip that is a 'stray',
> and you can't see or cut it out.
>
> If you apply the Slow - Down - Half video effect
> to a clip in the timeline, you are then seeing
> each frame rather than every other one. You
> can see the problem frame and split it out.
> Then remove the effect from the clip to return
> it to normal.
>
> --
>
> John Inzer
>
>