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The Media Cleaner Wizard is a helpful system that interviews you about your movie and needs. The Wizard then sets your compression parameters based on your answers. If you are new to compression, this helps you get started without needing to know any "arcane" details, such as codec choice, frame rates, keyframes, etc.
To get started, select "Media Cleaner Wizard" from the Windows menu. After the window opens, the Wizard will prompt you to open a movie.
Once you've opened a source movie, the Wizard will
interview you. Simply answer the various questions by clicking on the choices or
sample movies that most closely represent your
requirements or preferences and press the
"Continue" button to go to the next screen.
This will allow you to choose a preexisting
setting which will be used on your movie and move
you to the end of the interview. This feature is
useful if you have previously compressed a similar
movie and saved your settings, or want to use a
pre-configured setting, such as "2x Cinepak."
NOTE: If you have a slower machine, the movies may only play one at a time; whichever movie the cursor was over last will play. You can change this by choosing the "Preferences..." option in the Edit menu, and selecting or deselecting the "Wizard: only play movie under cursor" checkbox.
Instead, we've chosen three different movies
that represent common aspects of movies you may be compressing. The sample movies include a
low-change "talking" sample, a high-change
"action" sample, and an "animated" sample with
sections of both low- and high-change. You can
switch between the sample movies at any time with
the pop-up at the bottom of the Media Cleaner Wizard screen. We suggest that you pick
the movie that most closely matches your content. If your movie has multiple content types, you
may want to switch periodically between the three sample movies to see how the different parts
of your movie may look once they are compressed.