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Movie maker and burn to DVD
I need help. This may be very basic. I know someone out there can assist me.
I am a beginner. I have finished a video and it is ready to be burned. I go to file and choose the option of saving the movie to a recordable CD. When I do this it appears to be working. After about 20 minutes the disc gets ejected and an unknown error occurred. I have tried to burn with Nero. When nero accesses my "all files" the icon is that of windows media player. Those seem to burn ok and are playeable on a regular DVD player. However, some of the other projects have a movie reel icon. These are the ones that nero can not access. It appears an issue of formatting and I do not know how to get aroundit. Can a movie project be in movie maker and in windows media player? Can one go from one to the other?It seems to me that the project in windows movie maker are compressed files and once they are decompressed and some how placed or copied to windows media player they can be burned. I am looking for the missing steps. Someone help this poor beginner. Thank you. |
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After you've finished your project you need to save it to your computer in
DV-AVI format. Once you've saved the file, you then need to open your third party DVD burning software (Nero) import the DV-AVI file and tell Nero to burn a VIDEO DVD ... (not a DATA DVD). -- Cari (MS-MVP) Printing & Imaging http://www.coribright.com/windows "Ram" wrote in message ... I need help. This may be very basic. I know someone out there can assist me. I am a beginner. I have finished a video and it is ready to be burned. I go to file and choose the option of saving the movie to a recordable CD. When I do this it appears to be working. After about 20 minutes the disc gets ejected and an unknown error occurred. I have tried to burn with Nero. When nero accesses my "all files" the icon is that of windows media player. Those seem to burn ok and are playeable on a regular DVD player. However, some of the other projects have a movie reel icon. These are the ones that nero can not access. It appears an issue of formatting and I do not know how to get aroundit. Can a movie project be in movie maker and in windows media player? Can one go from one to the other?It seems to me that the project in windows movie maker are compressed files and once they are decompressed and some how placed or copied to windows media player they can be burned. I am looking for the missing steps. Someone help this poor beginner. Thank you. |
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Movie maker and burn to DVD
Please forgive my ignorance. How does one save the finished movie in a DV-AVI
format??How would I import the DV-AVI file? "Cari (MS-MVP)" wrote: After you've finished your project you need to save it to your computer in DV-AVI format. Once you've saved the file, you then need to open your third party DVD burning software (Nero) import the DV-AVI file and tell Nero to burn a VIDEO DVD ... (not a DATA DVD). -- Cari (MS-MVP) Printing & Imaging http://www.coribright.com/windows "Ram" wrote in message ... I need help. This may be very basic. I know someone out there can assist me. I am a beginner. I have finished a video and it is ready to be burned. I go to file and choose the option of saving the movie to a recordable CD. When I do this it appears to be working. After about 20 minutes the disc gets ejected and an unknown error occurred. I have tried to burn with Nero. When nero accesses my "all files" the icon is that of windows media player. Those seem to burn ok and are playeable on a regular DVD player. However, some of the other projects have a movie reel icon. These are the ones that nero can not access. It appears an issue of formatting and I do not know how to get aroundit. Can a movie project be in movie maker and in windows media player? Can one go from one to the other?It seems to me that the project in windows movie maker are compressed files and once they are decompressed and some how placed or copied to windows media player they can be burned. I am looking for the missing steps. Someone help this poor beginner. Thank you. |
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From the menu on the left hand side, click on Save to My Computer.... on the
following page, click on Other Options..... use the drop down to select DV-AVI. How do you import the file to your third party software.... exactly the same as you would open (import) any other file, open Nero Express, tell it you want to make a VIDEO DVD and it will ask the location of the file(s) you wish to include in the project. Point it at the DV-AVI file you just saved on your hard drive. -- Cari (MS-MVP) Printing & Imaging http://www.coribright.com/windows "Ram" wrote in message ... Please forgive my ignorance. How does one save the finished movie in a DV-AVI format??How would I import the DV-AVI file? "Cari (MS-MVP)" wrote: After you've finished your project you need to save it to your computer in DV-AVI format. Once you've saved the file, you then need to open your third party DVD burning software (Nero) import the DV-AVI file and tell Nero to burn a VIDEO DVD ... (not a DATA DVD). -- Cari (MS-MVP) Printing & Imaging http://www.coribright.com/windows "Ram" wrote in message ... I need help. This may be very basic. I know someone out there can assist me. I am a beginner. I have finished a video and it is ready to be burned. I go to file and choose the option of saving the movie to a recordable CD. When I do this it appears to be working. After about 20 minutes the disc gets ejected and an unknown error occurred. I have tried to burn with Nero. When nero accesses my "all files" the icon is that of windows media player. Those seem to burn ok and are playeable on a regular DVD player. However, some of the other projects have a movie reel icon. These are the ones that nero can not access. It appears an issue of formatting and I do not know how to get aroundit. Can a movie project be in movie maker and in windows media player? Can one go from one to the other?It seems to me that the project in windows movie maker are compressed files and once they are decompressed and some how placed or copied to windows media player they can be burned. I am looking for the missing steps. Someone help this poor beginner. Thank you. |
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I'm also a beginner and had a similar problem, though Cari's answers made my
day. I have MyDVD, and its editing is very primitive compared to that of WMM. Thanks to Cari, now I know how to use them both. I have one more question, though. WMM's default "save as" option is windows media (WMV), with a note saying it is "the best quality to play in my equipment" (free translation from spanish). But Cari's recommendation is to save the film as a DV-AVI file. Why is that? What's the difference? "Ram" wrote: I need help. This may be very basic. I know someone out there can assist me. I am a beginner. I have finished a video and it is ready to be burned. I go to file and choose the option of saving the movie to a recordable CD. When I do this it appears to be working. After about 20 minutes the disc gets ejected and an unknown error occurred. I have tried to burn with Nero. When nero accesses my "all files" the icon is that of windows media player. Those seem to burn ok and are playeable on a regular DVD player. However, some of the other projects have a movie reel icon. These are the ones that nero can not access. It appears an issue of formatting and I do not know how to get aroundit. Can a movie project be in movie maker and in windows media player? Can one go from one to the other?It seems to me that the project in windows movie maker are compressed files and once they are decompressed and some how placed or copied to windows media player they can be burned. I am looking for the missing steps. Someone help this poor beginner. Thank you. |
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DV-AVI is the least compressed, therefore if you're going to create a DVD
and you want it to look its best, it will lose the least amount of resolution when you use DV-AVI. If you use a low resolution WMV to save the file and then create a DVD from that WMV file, it's going to look pretty horrible when you proudly play your newly created DVD on your neighbor's new 65" HDTV even though it might look OK on your 17" monitor. If you cast your mind back to the days of VHS....when you copied a tape to another tape, each time it lost a bit of quality and by the time one tape had done the rounds of your friends and neighbors, the 10th generation was almost unwatchable. Each time you edit, you lose a little quality, and by the tenth edit.... well, it's that kind of thing, but using DV-AVI will keep it as best as it can possibly be. -- Cari (MS-MVP) Printing & Imaging http://www.coribright.com/windows "Enrique" wrote in message ... I'm also a beginner and had a similar problem, though Cari's answers made my day. I have MyDVD, and its editing is very primitive compared to that of WMM. Thanks to Cari, now I know how to use them both. I have one more question, though. WMM's default "save as" option is windows media (WMV), with a note saying it is "the best quality to play in my equipment" (free translation from spanish). But Cari's recommendation is to save the film as a DV-AVI file. Why is that? What's the difference? "Ram" wrote: I need help. This may be very basic. I know someone out there can assist me. I am a beginner. I have finished a video and it is ready to be burned. I go to file and choose the option of saving the movie to a recordable CD. When I do this it appears to be working. After about 20 minutes the disc gets ejected and an unknown error occurred. I have tried to burn with Nero. When nero accesses my "all files" the icon is that of windows media player. Those seem to burn ok and are playeable on a regular DVD player. However, some of the other projects have a movie reel icon. These are the ones that nero can not access. It appears an issue of formatting and I do not know how to get aroundit. Can a movie project be in movie maker and in windows media player? Can one go from one to the other?It seems to me that the project in windows movie maker are compressed files and once they are decompressed and some how placed or copied to windows media player they can be burned. I am looking for the missing steps. Someone help this poor beginner. Thank you. |
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I am not getting Other Options when I click on Save to my computer.
"Cari (MS-MVP)" wrote: From the menu on the left hand side, click on Save to My Computer.... on the following page, click on Other Options..... use the drop down to select DV-AVI. How do you import the file to your third party software.... exactly the same as you would open (import) any other file, open Nero Express, tell it you want to make a VIDEO DVD and it will ask the location of the file(s) you wish to include in the project. Point it at the DV-AVI file you just saved on your hard drive. -- Cari (MS-MVP) Printing & Imaging http://www.coribright.com/windows "Ram" wrote in message ... Please forgive my ignorance. How does one save the finished movie in a DV-AVI format??How would I import the DV-AVI file? "Cari (MS-MVP)" wrote: After you've finished your project you need to save it to your computer in DV-AVI format. Once you've saved the file, you then need to open your third party DVD burning software (Nero) import the DV-AVI file and tell Nero to burn a VIDEO DVD ... (not a DATA DVD). -- Cari (MS-MVP) Printing & Imaging http://www.coribright.com/windows "Ram" wrote in message ... I need help. This may be very basic. I know someone out there can assist me. I am a beginner. I have finished a video and it is ready to be burned. I go to file and choose the option of saving the movie to a recordable CD. When I do this it appears to be working. After about 20 minutes the disc gets ejected and an unknown error occurred. I have tried to burn with Nero. When nero accesses my "all files" the icon is that of windows media player. Those seem to burn ok and are playeable on a regular DVD player. However, some of the other projects have a movie reel icon. These are the ones that nero can not access. It appears an issue of formatting and I do not know how to get aroundit. Can a movie project be in movie maker and in windows media player? Can one go from one to the other?It seems to me that the project in windows movie maker are compressed files and once they are decompressed and some how placed or copied to windows media player they can be burned. I am looking for the missing steps. Someone help this poor beginner. Thank you. |
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KATS wrote:
I am not getting Other Options when I click on Save to my computer. =================================== First...save your project in a movie format (.wmv or .avi)...then use your DVD Authoring software to burn the DVD. To save as an .avi movie file... (and several other options) Type...Ctrl+P to open the Save Movie Wizard / Choose...My Computer / Next / Enter a Name and a Save Location / Next / Show More Choices / Other Settings / Open the drop window and choose...DV-AVI / Next / Wait while the movie is saved / Finish... To save as a .wmv movie file... Type...Ctrl+P to open the Save Movie Wizard / Choose...My Computer / Next / Enter a Name and a Save Location / Next / Tick...'Best Quality For My Computer' Next/ Wait while the movie is saved / Finish... Also, you may find it useful to use a custom profile: Movie Maker 2 - Saving Movies - Custom WMV Profiles http://tinyurl.com/s2vgu or... http://www.papajohn.org/MM2-SavingMo...mProfiles.html Creating Custom Profiles for Windows Movie Maker 2 http://tinyurl.com/cuny7 or... http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...omprofile.mspx -- John Inzer MS-MVP Digital Media Experience Notice This is not tech support I am a volunteer Solutions that work for me may not work for you Proceed at your own risk |
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