Windows Live Movie Maker Output Video Quality Low I'm using Windows Live Movie Maker on Windows 7.

I made a screen capture video with a third party app which produces .avi files. Its quality is perfect. Its properties: 


Resolution: 1280 * 720 (720p)
Frame Rate: 15
Kbps: ~10.000
Video Size: ~23 MB


I imported it to Movie Maker. And without any modification I just exported it with these settings:



The resulting video was 1.5 MB and of course in .wmv format.

The quality drastically lower.

Than I tried increasing frame rate (till 30), bit rate (til 60.000), resolution (till 1080p). No change!

I don't care about the size (in MB), I want a big high quality video.

I'll add lots of videos and do lots of editing and Windows Movie Maker is a very practical tool for an amateur like me.

So is there a way to get a very high quality video from Movie Maker?
You can't do much about it. Movie Maker can only export in WMV format - and WMV is created for small video sizes (at the cost of quality).

You will need another software package to export in other formats than WMV. Check out Pinnacle products for alternative - they target amateur producers.