Totally Confused

I am totally confused now and frustrated. I can not
figure out which format to use. To start what I have
done is use still photos in the movie maker and set them
to music as a movie. When I saved it as a wmv. file on
my pc all was fine. That burnt to a cd fine. But I can
not burn to a dvd at all. I tried saving it again as a
dv-avi file and it will not recognize it. So next I
converted it to a type II dv-avi to see if that works.
It now recognizes it but when I try to burn it it only
goes half way and then gives me an unknown error
message. I have just been told that is because I need to
save it as an mpeg not dv-avi. Can someone let me know
which one is it supposed to be? And if it is supposed to
be an mpeg how do you do that? And the software I am
using is Pinnacle Instant Cd/Dvd. Thanks for any help I
receive.

Steve,

DVDs and TV in general use MPEG2 files, so making a DVD requires converting
your movie to MPEG2 format.

Because MM2 doesn't have an MPEG2 option, you're needing to use other
software such as Pinnacle.

Some DVD software can start with WMV files and others can't, needing
DV-AVI....

And there are lots of methods to get from your saved movie to a DVD.... you
just have to figure out one that works well for you.
--
PapaJohn

Movie Maker 2 - www.papajohn.org
Photo Story 2 - www.photostory.papajohn.org

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"Steve" <RRWJD2003@aol.com> wrote in message
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> I am totally confused now and frustrated. I can not
> figure out which format to use. To start what I have
> done is use still photos in the movie maker and set them
> to music as a movie. When I saved it as a wmv. file on
> my pc all was fine. That burnt to a cd fine. But I can
> not burn to a dvd at all. I tried saving it again as a
> dv-avi file and it will not recognize it. So next I
> converted it to a type II dv-avi to see if that works.
> It now recognizes it but when I try to burn it it only
> goes half way and then gives me an unknown error
> message. I have just been told that is because I need to
> save it as an mpeg not dv-avi. Can someone let me know
> which one is it supposed to be? And if it is supposed to
> be an mpeg how do you do that? And the software I am
> using is Pinnacle Instant Cd/Dvd. Thanks for any help I
> receive.