I upgraded my winavi to 7.5 and its doing a great job so far. I've downsampled two HD wmv movies and that new 1080p HD trailer of Superman Returns. The quality is great as I compress it to xvid. Btw, Superman Returns HD sucks balls. It has color banding and the brightness levels are out of balance. Don't they learn?
That new Alone in the Dark trailer just rocks. The music during the last 30 seconds are just amazing. I ripped the track with Virtualdub and edited with Audacity. Bam! I have the awesome track.
As for Superman Returns, this movie will suck. The problem with this movie is that they saw Batman Begins and said, "We'll do the movie just like that". All they did was include emotional scenes mixed with re-hashes of the original movies (which Batman Begins did not have). Saving an airplane? Old news folks. The movie will suck major ass my friends. If they made a movie with Superman battling Doomsday......fuck yeah, but no, they had to remake original movie. Bullshit. At least Batman Begins ran with the origins of Batman without the gayness of Joel Schumacher. The Batman series before Batman Begins never developed on the origins on Batman. They just had a scene with his parents being shot. So that is why Batman Beings was developed. But why Superman? His origin story has already been done on the screen. DO SOMETHING ELSE HOLLYWOOD!!!