Problem creating a video

[Liesje]

I have a few videos taken with a Panasonic digital camera, so they were .mov format. I used the SUPER program recommended by GG to convert them to avi. After the conversion, they played fine in Windows Media Player. I imported them into Windows Movie Maker so I could add a title frame. Whenever I publish the movie, the result is that my avi video is stretched over the top half of the screen, then there is a line and the bottom is bright green. I didn't select widescreen when I published the video, I chose 4:3 "Best for my computer". The title frames still display fine (4:3, no green part).

Any ideas?

I supposed I can just upload the avi's to YouTube without adding the title frames...

 

[gvox]

I can't stand Windows Movie Maker.

Even Panasonic's Image Maker (I think you get it free with the cameras, well I did with my SDR-h200 anyways) is easier to use

Wish I could offer advice, I do a fair amount of home video editing but gave up on Movie Maker long ago..

 

[Liesje]

Thanks, I'll try the Panasonic thing. I haven't loaded any software that came with the camera yet. I also hate WMM, but the video I'm making is so simple (just taking a .mov clip from the camera, converting it so I can load it on YouTube, and adding a title frame), I use it for that kind of thing b/c I'm too lazy or cheap to learn something else.

 

[gvox]

Well not sure if you plan on doing any video stuff in the future, but I'm totally hooked on the Vegas line, it's so intuitive and very stable. I love it even if I'm doing really simple stuff, it renders faster and cleaner than any other software I've tried.