Lost Video Island

[Kay]

I have a friend who is trying to make vidoes, but she is having one problem. Every clip she captures or downloads plays at super speed, even when she uses slow down by half. What should she do to fix it?

[mistojen]

Have you first tried having her send YOU the clips and having you see if it's the clips or her computer?

That sounds weird... hmm... well, pretty much the one thing I can count on always helping ME in a question post like this is Aislynn popping up and shouting for Warren.

...maybe it will work if I do it?

*sings out* HEY WAAAAAAAAAARREN?
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[Aislynn]

Heya Kay! A few questions about your friend's clips:

1. I'm presuming she's using Windows Movie Maker to try and make her vids?

2. What format are her clips in? .WMV or .AVI are the most common types.

Jen's idea about having her send a few of them to you is a great idea! That way if you can import them into your WMM and they work fine, you'll know it's something wrong with your friend's computer. If they don't work, then there's something wrong with the clips. Most of the time, you have to just do a process of elimination to try and figure out what's going wrong with these things!

And, when all else fails, you close your eyes, tip your head back to the sky and yell:

"WARREN!!!!!!"

[Hobbes]

LMAO

I'm afraid I have no magical advice besides the wise words of these two Strictly speaking, unless she's doing something wrong, or the clips are in a weird format, I just can't understand why they're doing that

[mistojen]

Hobbes wrote:

I'm afraid I have no magical advice besides the wise words of these two

this is a problem Warren can't figure out?! ...is the world ending, also? Because, dammit, I didn't get the memo!
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[Fan4Lost]

It sounds like a codec issue. But unless you know what codec you need, it's hard for me to point you in the right direction.

[Hobbes]

You could try downloading the Kazaa Lite Codec Pack: http://www.filehippo.com/download_klite_codec_pack/ when in doubt, throw in a cocktail of codecs

[Kay]

She actually has sent me a couple and they speed up on my computer too.

I will tell her all of this. Thanks guys! I knew you could help!

[Aislynn]

Then I'd say it's definitely something wrong with the clips then, unfortunately. I'm not sure that anything can be done to "save" clips like that once there's something inherently "wrong" with them. Pretty much, I think you just have to try and get new clips from someplace else, then...