[Carol Steinel]

I’m actually using HDV footage — I’ve tried the chroma-blur trick, but haven’t seen much difference in the jaggies. This is HD footage from a Canon HV20 — I’d assumed that I didn’t see much difference in the jaggies with chroma-blur because of the different color space?

Because of a prominent vertical element in the film (the back of a chair), I’ve had to up the blur on the key to around .1, which I think is a no-no, but I haven’t rendered anything out to look at on a TV yet — I’ll see if it’s bothersome. The project is a class presentation — mostly a single person talking, and the background is a still, so I’m hoping the blur won’t be that focal.

Thanks for your help.

[Carol Steinel]

Believe me, John, TrueImage is my best friend forever. 😉 Learned that the hard way a long time ago.

[Carol Steinel]

OK — here’s the update. I ran checkdisk and it did find one allocation error (which it fixed). Then I uninstalled and reinstalled Morgan Multimedia again — but got this error in the install log:

“Could not load: C:\WINDOWS\System32\M3JPEGdec.ax
Could not load: C:\WINDOWS\System32\M3JPEGenc.ax”

Searched and searched on this error and found nothing.

The final, last-ditch (why didn’t I try this earlier!?!?!?) solution was a restart to “last known good configuration” (my searches for M3JPEGdec.ax on the C drive had turned up a copy in the last good config folder) — a hope and a prayer kind of attempt, but it worked.

I’m current-imaging the C drive as I type, and will set a restore point here.

Slightly frustrated that I didn’t really get to the bottom of it all — I never found the precise file corruption or missing codec (I like to know wotthehell went wrong when this stuff happens, just in case I don’t get “lucky” in the future — I know, I know, it’s a sickness), but since I’m in the middle of a big project, I’m just glad that it worked. Movie Maker is still crashing, but that’s a problem that I will solve another day (I never use it and only opened it to see if the avi problem was system-wide, and suspect that it’s Windows’ problem, since I saw a lot of similar issues in my google adventures since yesterday).

AVIs now showing in Vegas, and playing in Windows Media Player and Real Player.

Phew!

Thanks a million for your help. I don’t post here much because I’ve generally found my answer in an archived post.

[Carol Steinel]

Thanks again to you both. I’ll run the check disk and see what it turns up — also, John — I’ll do some sleuthing on extra files in system32 folder for Morgan Multimedia — since I don’t have a complete index of what files it installs (and where), I’ll need to do another reinstall to see the log or find this info on the web.

It’ll be a bit before I can do these things today — a girl’s gotta work, ya know! 😉

But thanks for your help. I’ll post back with results.

[Carol Steinel]

I did another uninstall and checked to see that all the Morgan files in Program Files were eliminated after restart. They were.

Reinstalled and restarted. No luck.

Any other suggestions?

These files will play in Quicktime but no in any windows program (I have since checked in Ulead and Intervideo, and when trying to check them in Windows Movie Maker, I discovered that it’s crashing on start-up, so maybe there’s a Windows file that’s corrupt). Any leads would be appreciated if anyone knows which codec might be the culprit (or if anyone knows of a simple way to reinstall basic XP codecs without going one by one).

I’ll post a solution if I find it, as I’ve read a lot of questions about avi files becoming broken suddenly.

[Carol Steinel]

Thanks for the responses.

Yes, I restarted after uninstalling, then installed, and restarted again.

I tried a system restore, but an attempt to the most recent restore point failed (I’ll try again this morning with a different restore point).

John — in terms of “remaining codec files” — do you mean stray files for the Multimedia codec? If that’s the case, do I need to look for them anywhere else but the Morgan file in Program Files? I’ll give that a try, in any case.