Movie Maker Rendering Changes Lighting/Shading in Video

01. October 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Hotmail, Outlook.com
Hi all, I've been searching for a solution to this problem for awhile but cannot find it anywhere. Basically, the quality of my video is compromised after rendering. Here is a link to a picture showing the difference between a rendered video clip and a non-rendered/timeline/project file clip:

http://oi40.tinypic.com/71jk20.jpg 
The left side is the video before rendering (i.e. still in the timeline as a project file) and the right side is the clip after rendering the project. The difference is the lighting on the face - the face on the left has more even lighting/tone whereas the face on the right has harsher lighting i.e. darker "shading" around the edges and brighter on the cheeks and forehead.

I've tried rendering it under pretty much all the settings available, tried saving it as MP4 and also as WMV...heck, I even converted the source video to WMV (originally MP4) to see if it made a difference, which it didn't. I didn't have the latest Movie Maker at the time so I upgraded but still the same issue. I haven't had this problem on other videos...anyone know how to fix it/why it's even happening?

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