Advice Please: DVD Creation Software

[Guest]

Hi,

I have some videos in wmv and avi that I want to burn to DVD to send to a
relative. He needs to just pop it in his DVD player and play it. I'm very
new to this and from reading the threads MM does not do this. So, I would
like your advice on what newbie, easy-to-use DVD creation/burning software I
should purchase.

Thanks, RickB

 

[John Inzer]

Hi,

I have some videos in wmv and avi that I want to burn to DVD to send
to a relative. He needs to just pop it in his DVD player and play
it. I'm very new to this and from reading the threads MM does not do
this. So, I would like your advice on what newbie, easy-to-use DVD
creation/burning software I should purchase.

Thanks, RickB

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I cannot tell you what to purchase
but I've had good results with WinDVD
Creator and ProShow Gold. Nero,
Roxio, and ULead may also be worth
a look.

Also it's important to use good quality
DVD blanks. I've had good luck with
Verbatim:

Verbatim DVD-R 16X
http://tinyurl.com/y59z9e

Maybe the following links will
offer some ideas:

Video Editing
Software Review
http://tinyurl.com/4z699

Turn your Movie Maker 2
video into a DVD
http://tinyurl.com/4k97d

Wojo's Web...DVD Creation
http://tinyurl.com/g64gb

Burn a Movie Maker Project to DVD
http://tinyurl.com/644me

How do I make a DVD
http://www.rehanfx.org/faq.htm

Windows Movie Maker Forums
http://www.windowsmoviemakers.net/forums/

Movie Maker 2 and DVD Burning Software
http://www.papajohn.org/MM2-DVD.html

Burning DVDs With Windows Movie Maker 2
http://tinyurl.com/jqfz

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

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

 

[Guest]

This is great, thanks!

===========================
I cannot tell you what to purchase
but I've had good results with WinDVD
Creator and ProShow Gold. Nero,
Roxio, and ULead may also be worth
a look.

Also it's important to use good quality
DVD blanks. I've had good luck with
Verbatim:

Verbatim DVD-R 16X
http://tinyurl.com/y59z9e

Maybe the following links will
offer some ideas:

Video Editing
Software Review
http://tinyurl.com/4z699

Turn your Movie Maker 2
video into a DVD
http://tinyurl.com/4k97d

Wojo's Web...DVD Creation
http://tinyurl.com/g64gb

Burn a Movie Maker Project to DVD
http://tinyurl.com/644me

How do I make a DVD
http://www.rehanfx.org/faq.htm

Windows Movie Maker Forums
http://www.windowsmoviemakers.net/forums/

Movie Maker 2 and DVD Burning Software
http://www.papajohn.org/MM2-DVD.html

Burning DVDs With Windows Movie Maker 2
http://tinyurl.com/jqfz

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

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

 

[Dan Merkel]

I have the same question but it would appear that MyDVD is no longer
available according to some of the links on Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000CBJ7E/windowsmoviem-20

dlm

 

[John Inzer]

I have the same question but it would appear that MyDVD is no longer
available according to some of the links on Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000CBJ7E/windowsmoviem-20

dlm

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FWIW...Sonic and Roxio merged
and MyDVD is still available:

MyDVD 9 Studio Premier
http://tinyurl.com/yxnpal





--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

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

 

[Dan Merkel]

========================================
FWIW...Sonic and Roxio merged
and MyDVD is still available:

MyDVD 9 Studio Premier
http://tinyurl.com/yxnpal





--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

That is a full-blown capture / editing / burning program though. I don't
know for sure but was led to believe that the earlier versions of MyDVD were
just for the burning process. It seems counterproductive to spend that kind
of money just to get a burning program. : ( Maybe Microsoft will
update MM for WinXP to include the last part of the package.

dlm

 

[John Inzer]

That is a full-blown capture / editing / burning program though. I
don't know for sure but was led to believe that the earlier versions
of MyDVD were just for the burning process. It seems
counterproductive to spend that kind of money just to get a burning
program. : (

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Sorry, I thought you wanted info about it.
==============================

Maybe Microsoft will update MM for WinXP to
include the last part of the package.
dlm

==============================
I would be quite surprised if WinXP Movie
Maker was updated, however the Vista
version does have DVD options.

Have a look at the following article:

Windows Vista -
Publish a movie in Windows Movie Maker
http://tinyurl.com/2lo4gp

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

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

 

[Wojo]

FYI Most DVD Authoring packages also include video editing features but are
generally not as user friendly as Movie Maker is. If you want to burn your
DVD but don't plan on continuing the hobby too much then maybe downloading a
demo of Ulead Movie Factory is the way to go. Their demo works perfectly but
is only good for I believe 60 days. But you can use it to make your DVD and
if you like the program, as I am fairly certain you will, and decide to
continue making DVD's then you can purchase it. Check out the DVD Creation
section of my website for downloading as well as some How-To's on this
packages as well as some others.