Chapter 3

Video Capture in WM9

This chapter and the next form a key part of the book. Other important parts are the sections concerning playback of WM9 assets on commercial DVD/CD players and editing WM9 movies on the desktop with tools like Adobe Premiere and the new version (2.0) of Microsoft Movie Maker. While desktop video in general has matured greatly over the last five years, certain breakthrough features of WM9 finally make it genuinely flexible and able to provide a television-like experience for users of cheap, modern computers.

Once you understand how to acquire and encode WM9 assets without relying on huge, uncompressed ...

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