Customized Movie Settings for Windows Movie Maker

Windows Movie Maker has many settings that you can choose to use when publishing your movie. However, you can also create your own custom settings to use when publishing your movie. The settings you choose when publishing a movie determine the quality and size of the final published movie file.

To create a custom setting, you must first install Windows Media Profile Editor, which is installed with Windows Media Encoder 9 Series. You can download and install Windows Media Encoder 9 Series from the Microsoft website.

The following list contains tips for creating valid custom settings by using Windows Media Profile Editor. By following these tips, you can ensure that the custom setting that you create is valid and usable in Windows Movie Maker.

Only choose CBR or Quality VBR encoding modes in Windows Media Profile Editor. Windows Movie Maker supports constant bit rate (CBR) or quality-based variable bit rate (Quality VBR) encoding modes only. Therefore, when creating custom settings for Windows Movie Maker, you must choose one of these two encoding modes. Two-pass encoding cannot be used in Windows Movie Maker. For detail information about encoding modes, see Windows Media Profile Editor Help.

Make sure that the custom setting contains one audio stream or one audio stream and one video stream. In Windows Movie Maker, a custom setting must contain either one audio stream or one audio stream and one video stream. Custom settings that contain only a video stream with no audio stream cannot be used in Windows Movie Maker.

Clear the Script check box in Windows Media Profile Editor. Windows Movie Maker supports audio and video streams only. Other types of streams, such as scripts, are not supported in Windows Movie Maker. To ensure that you can use your custom setting in Windows Movie Maker, make sure that the Script check box is cleared when you save your custom setting in Windows Media Profile Editor.

Clear the Same as video input check box in Windows Media Profile Editor. To ensure that you can use your custom setting in Windows Movie Maker, clear the Same as video input check box on the bit rate tab in Windows Media Profile Editor.

The audio stream cannot contain more than two audio channels. Custom settings that contain audio streams with more than two channels cannot be used in Windows Movie Maker.
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