Without knowing everything about your footage, your entire system, your camera, your lighting, your dubbing environment and your experience level it's going to be nearly impossible to diagnose your problem with any accuracy.

Lines could be dirty playback heads - or not enough processor speed.
Dull color could be poor white balance - poor lighting - or the camera itself.
Movie Maker is not a very powerful program - that alone could cause dull color during transfer.

I suggest you take a couple of minutes and dub five or ten minutes of footage to video and look at it.

The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress. -Joseph Joubert, essayist (1754-1824)

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I suggest you take a couple of minutes and dub five or ten minutes of footage to video and look at it.

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Right. And how do I do this?

What you mean "How do I do that?"

Were you just planning to keep your "Film" on the computer? If you were going to burn it on a DVD, do that and try it out. Use whatever medium you are going to use to show your film on.

Future Director,
Tyler Ives

I dont have a DVD burner. How do I get it onto VHS?

For some reason you don't want to tell us anything about your system.

In that case we just have to kind of stab around in the dark, hoping to find a bit of info you can acually use.

If you don't have a video card that let's you dub to VHS - you can't dub to VHS.

If you don't have a DVD burner - you can't burn DVD's.

If you can't transfer the cut footage back to your camera - you'll have to keep the project on your computer.

Sorry I can't be more helpful. But with no information on your system, it's all just speculation on my part. When you asked:

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and will it fix itself when transfered to video?

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How were you planning on transfering it to video?

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The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress.
Joseph Joubert, essayist (1754-1824)

Unsure of what your system, and I am not familiar with Movie Maker, but more often than not DV editing software will show a low-quality render as you're editing it and playing it back on your computer. Once you export it back out to your camera or to MPEG or whichever you choose, the quality (most likely) will be significantly better.

However, since I've never worked in Movie Maker, my post may not be poignant.

As a recommendation, try out Avid Free DV at ?url? http://www.avid.com/freedv/?/url?. Afterall it's meant for newbies and enthusiasts alike, and most importantly it's FREE! 🙂

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